Daily Answers

1-across – Wise man conceals women’s article in Dorset : SWANAGE

5-across – Tries round about 0.001 in this sort of graph : SEMILOG

9-across – Properly arranged so as not to … : INORDER

10-across – … disconcert goalie with universal encomia : EULOGIA

11-across – Delicate, small and up-to-date navigational warning : LIGHTSHIP

12-across – Dull house has bad smell : HOHUM

13-across – Colossus represented by half-hearted artist : TITAN

15-across – People of the highest stand-ing execute artist : TOPDRAWER

17-across – People coming to Silver Lake for a show of animals : MENAGERIE

19-across – Park in former elevated railway and drive out : EXPEL

22-across – Land punt after it’s come back : TIBET

23-across – Frenchman injured Estonian in America : MINNESOTA

25-across – Everybody returned to interrupt noble heretic : LOLLARD

26-across – Redhead in store gets popular cut of meat : SIRLOIN

27-across – Jailer and knight tucking into Christmas fare : TURNKEY

28-across – Horse rider always covers slit in jacket : EVENTER

1-down – Cooking utensil for butcher in film scene : SKILLET

2-down – Doctor gripped by dread in the middle of … : AMONGST

3-down – … inspection of car : AUDIT

4-down – A couple of space travellers discover fungus : EARTHSTAR

5-down – Expensive marinade : STEEP

6-down – Man sheltering god’s draught animal : MALTHORSE

7-down – On a low hill, stages entertainment : LEGSHOW

8-down – Lightweight’s hurt in this sort of school : GAAMMAR

14-down – What H. King designed for flier : NIGHTHAWK

16-down – Mineral disturbed antelopes : PLEONASTE

17-down – Sailor gives lashings in support of ship’s officer : MATELOT

18-down – Lauren Bacall’s initial broadcast concerning a group of stars : NEBULAR

20-down – F1 champion entertained very old college head : PROVOST

21-down – Many a breadwinner is an apprentice : LEARNER

23-down – Starts to make all disciples look yonder with ardour : MADLY

24-down – Type of nest that’s unknown in lake : EYRIE

1-across – Work out how to effect seizure of donjon? : KEEPFIT

5-across – Plain cake saw? : NOTICED

9-across – A month without choral work, he’d like the mob to rule : OCHLOCRAT

10-across – Snowman, as it were, in the French fashion, to work the other way : LEWIS

11-across – Pieces of second-hand quartz? : SAND

12-across – Novelist wrote bad things before residence in Tyneside : NEVILSHUTE

14-across – Bible translator, the first person in French and Latin city : JEROME

15-across – 19 or 11 and 24 : GEORGES

16-across – I get a drink when back to fighting Japanese : SAMURAI

18-across – Frail insect eating a single document : FLIMSY

20-across – She was Hectored, with memory suffering : ANDROMACHE

21-across – In the bathroom I try to skip : OMIT

24-across – See 10 : ELIOT

25-across – Seminarians from Breton town dividing gold and diamonds : ORDINANDS

26-across – Approval of archbishop being in hell? : PLAUDIT

27-across – What could possibly go with West London sky? I’ve no idea! : GODONLY

1-down – See 27 : KNOWS

2-down – Improve and ruin English Channel, nearly : ENHANCE

3-down – Sweet and silly? : FOOL

4-down – 14, one of the 15, and 10’s other half were a menace, with me a bonnie mess inside … : THREEMENINABOAT

5-down – … see 22 : NOTHINGOFTHEDOG

6-down – In a supermarket the French film is invisible to the naked eye : TELESCOPIC

7-down – Pat’s constituent reportedly intimidated and suspended? : COWDUNG

8-down – They sleep rough, so dress is a problem : DOSSERS

13-down – Quadruped’s need of food: true? False : FOURFOOTED

16-down – Have a meal, eating fish, causing a disturbance : SHAKEUP

17-down – Island produced a change of air : MADEIRA

19-down – Writer of detective stories puts people in heaven : SIMENON

22-down – … not to mention their friend, awful fogy in hat, honest to God! : TOSAY

23-down – Eat up, girl! : ENID

7-across – Unsteady on one’s feet when hallucinating? : TRIPPING

9-across – Glasses mopped up by half-torn sponge : LOOFAH

10-across – Knocks over box : SPAR

11-across – Looking up at the black stuff amidst swirling gas with enthusiasm : STARGAZING

12-across – Deity, old style deity : OSIRIS

14-across – Lord about to be over-effusive about charging prospectors? : GOLDRUSH

15-across – A lake follows an endless river from the nose : RHINAL

17-across – See : WALLIS

20-across – In which to immerse the beasts of Spooner’s ocean liner? : SHEEPDIP

22-across – Very strong supporter wants to laze around : ZEALOT

23-across – Chatted carelessly about people parting : DETACHMENT

24-across – Chest, or above it exhibited? : BUST

25-across – Mythical feat, or foot? : LEGEND

26-across – Deciding game by having kipper for elevenses, perhaps? : TIEBREAK

1-down – One moving for one sitting : PROPOSER

2-down – Incentive might be painful to hide? : SPUR

3-down – Fails to shoot the wife, we hear : MISSES

4-down – Shoots lass held up by bloke : FLAGELLA

5-down – Italian food lasts in Roma when prepared by a girl : MOZZARELLA

6-down – Wartime inventor is after exploding answer in spherical form : BARNES

8-down – Managed raising farm produce around the farmhouse : GRANGE

13-down – Repeats diabolical Easter rite : REITERATES

16-down – Alcoholic compound with lead altered alter ego : ALDEHYDE

18-down – Intent look most represented in Mac : SCOTSMAN

19-down – Cheerful and optimistic as bar closes? : UPBEAT

21-down – Listed as a shoe? : HEELED

22-down – Man in Ritz cheekily played on knee? : ZITHER

24-down – Tedious drill? : BORE

7-across – A really quiet rest can bring calm : APPEASE

8-across – A butcher may use it to cut credit without permission : CLEAVER

10-across – Code word for ‘S’ is rare in use : SIERRA

11-across – It means raising the subject at the Palace : ACCOLADE

12-across – A natural hanger-on, in a manner of speaking : BURR

13-across – Tender name, perhaps : ENDEARMENT

14-across – Taking such action will not be offensive or illegal : SELFDEFENCE

19-across – Yet such ads are seen by the public : CLASSIFIED

22-across – General’s remains : LEES

23-across – Follow and observe for a two-hour period : DOGWATCH

24-across – Stay and check mother in : REMAIN

25-across – Keep track of warship : MONITOR

26-across – Examining body to many a doctor : ANATOMY

1-down – Best that it be raised with mother after work : OPTIMUM

2-down – Present home of the partridge : PEARTREE

3-down – Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it : ESCAPE

4-down – City investment? : BLOCKADE

5-down – Part of New York Mahler variation : HARLEM

6-down – Title for a chapter in a football manual? : HEADING

9-down – Something wicked and frivolous helps dispel the gloom : CANDLELIGHT

15-down – False story about ringleader can produce bad feeling : FRICTION

16-down – A strike in UK’s financial centre would be a catastrophe : CALAMITY

17-down – Where is this sold? Oh, in the local, perhaps : ALCOHOL

18-down – They may raise people’s spirits : MEDIUMS

20-down – A swift turnaround was considered proper : SAWFIT

21-down – Bold prosecutor takes on a cartel : DARING

1-across – Musical instrument said to be an emblem : CYMBAL

4-across – Talisman for many at race meeting : MASCOT

9-across – Worry about ornamental work : FRET

10-across – One with divine wisdom others hope to confute : THEOSOPHER

11-across – See 5 : FABLES

12-across – Passed on knowledge to child about trade : IMPARTED

13-across – Makes accusations about study on weights : DENOUNCES

15-across – Plans to bring back wartime dish : MAPS

16-across – Old Palestine district back in fashion : MODE

17-across – Frugality in standard ecclesiastical offence : PARSIMONY

21-across – Toast drunk in Italian port : BRINDISI

22-across – Take for granted amount taken on board in rough sea : ASSUME

24-across – Help one man to become uniquely remarkable : PHENOMENAL

25-across – Actor of pedigree : TREE

26-across – Girl is turning colour : SIENNA

27-across – Untypical examples of games : SPORTS

1-down – Body in vehicle trunk? : CARCASE

2-down – Where to find accommodation let out by doctor : MOTEL

3-down – Trains a foreign mechanic : ARTISAN

5-down – Moralistic relations from the Ancient World : AESOPS

6-down – Biblical town where manure-spreading follows Common Agricultural Policy : CAPERNAUM

7-down – Article put to strange uses by Greek hero : THESEUS

8-down – Debates about composer receiving fair share : DELIBERATIONS

14-down – Regulation One in the Artillery : ORDINANCE

16-down – Walks resolutely along the borders : MARCHES

18-down – Store that contains everything for a small boat : SHALLOP

19-down – Biblical pain-killers? : NUMBERS

20-down – Hired assassin a success on island : HITMAN

23-down – Woodland god has a tyrannical component : SATYR