Daily Answers

9-across – The final demand in dispute : ULTIMATUM

10-across – Run away to marry East European on the rebound : ELOPE

11-across – English queen, one Lear got confused with : ELEANOR

12-across – A recent reform put through again : REENACT

13-across – A small number sail out in vessels : VIALS

14-across – Polite inclination to support royalty : CIVILLIST

16-across – Seen as a regular fool, he continues on the same course : STEADYASSHEGOES

19-across – Sappers twice raised the stakes in bridge : REDOUBLED

21-across – Shine as a beginner in a new game : GLEAM

22-across – Mother takes a long time to get compensation : DAMAGES

23-across – Partners who dance up in close formation : COUPLES

24-across – Translation of prose is a problem : POSER

25-across – Very cold spot discovered by Pooh : NORTHPOLE

1-down – Extra face-saving feature for a manager : SUPERVISOR

2-down – See great changes in economy travel : STEERAGE

3-down – Changes which should be made by wrongdoers : AMENDS

4-down – Wake up in prison : STIR

5-down – Is outwardly better when spontaneous : IMPROVISED

6-down – The militant’s first summons : REVEILLE

7-down – I’m also involved with East African : SOMALI

8-down – Paper match : TEST

14-down – Early form of rock music? : CRADLESONG

15-down – Teacher after job for a demanding employer : TASKMASTER

17-down – Barnaby put in uninteresting and tedious work : DRUDGERY

18-down – Fail to notice what 1 down will do : OVERLOOK

20-down – Check demand for material : DAMASK

21-down – It’s awkward being left in France : GAUCHE

22-down – Drug quietly injected into a rabbit : DOPE

23-down – Dog left to play with stones on the ice : CURL

9-across – Vagrant I entertain out East? : ITINERANT

10-across – Part of flag – one among many : HOIST

11-across – Records of air-conditioning in sideshow : DIARIES

12-across – Time to dress in worthless stuff? : GARBAGE

13-across – Note always turning into another note : BREVE

14-across – Fine imposed on fictitious tale is indescribable : INEFFABLE

16-across – To one Pope, it spelt danger : ALITTLELEARNING

19-across – Coped with some awful rot : DECOMPOSE

21-across – Light soldier on animal’s back : KLEIG

22-across – Unusual poem about air in shops : EMPORIA

23-across – Mixture the French found in turning over molten rock : AMALGAM

24-across – Locations where things worth seeing are reported : SITES

25-across – Bookkeeper’s sign for rainstorm : LIBRARIAN

1-down – Workman holding broken bridle for Pope Gregory : HILDEBRAND

2-down – Middle East country filling pies cooked by Italian painter : PIRANESI

3-down – Emblem of French depravity : DEVICE

4-down – Fishes’ fingerprints? : DABS

5-down – Poem composed in even stages, perhaps : STAGNESEVE

6-down – Acolyte badly hurt by firework : THURIFER

7-down – Article taken from Barbican turns out to be antacid : BICARB

8-down – Ugly finish in untidy set is an eyesore : STYE

14-down – Certain line a boxer takes? : INEXORABLE

15-down – Promise of employment : ENGAGEMENT

17-down – Shrub found at river ski resort : TAMARISK

18-down – Lupine character with fixed semi-grin : ISENGRIM

20-down – Writer’s cloak : CAPOTE

21-down – Bears getting final put-down, unfortunately : KOALAS

22-down – Some other Semitic language : ERSE

23-down – Sailor wanted to be an ecclesiastic : ABBE

1-across – Beer is a big hit : WALLOP

5-across – Computer designs Viagra by way of missing chips out : GRAPHICS

9-across – Round number : EIGHTEEN

10-across – Some elephant in call for salad vegetable : CELERY

11-across – True-to-life representation of acts in ritual : NATURALISTIC

13-across – Hairy beast’s stomach : BEAR

14-across – Digs for diamonds with spirit in the wood : LODGINGS

17-across – Cabaret actress – literally, little girl in short dress : MINNELLI

18-across – See 25 : DEAD

20-across – Mum’s the word? : MOTHERTONGUE

23-across – Foxes protected by bats : STUMPS

24-across – That woman keeps single to threaten family values? : HEIRLOOM

25-across – Disease carried by sea and road due to spread, calling for plague victims on the street? : BRINGOUT

26-across – Slips when heading off naughty children : ERRORS

2-down – Dictator in exile, but might he get out after noon? : AMIN

3-down – Wagner’s Ring? No – not all hell let loose : LOHENGRIN

4-down – Quick pasta sauce keeps the runs in : PRESTO

5-down – Atrocious Chilean, go repent! : GENERALPINOCHET

6-down – What makes lemon fizzy receives the cold fizzy drink award : ACCOLADE

7-down – See 9 : HOLES

8-down – Chaotic drama with corgi and ticker tape : CARDIOGRAM

12-down – Corruption of the police right subject for Fergie’s children’s books? : HELICOPTER

15-down – Being kind, we’ll erect a section for the occupier : INDWELLER

16-down – Orc with fleas should be put out, not in the house : ALFRESCO

19-down – Strike a light, council meeting isn’t getting held up : IGNITE

21-down – Being most advanced? : HUMAN

22-down – See 25 : YOUR

1-across – Cocky’s got his own cover, it seems : SELFASSURED

9-across – Brazilian diplomacy may be taken as read when there’s trouble : RIOTACT

10-across – Figure 0 on electronic device held by prisoner : OCTAGON

11-across – Kind to fairy that’s out and fairy will be kind when I’m out! : MILKTOOTH

12-across – See 14 : INTHE

13-across – See 19 : SHED

14-across – Let initiative she’d held slip, as always at the 26 21 : THEDEVILIS

16-across – Operator to gain entry for alternative worker in benefit : DOORHANDLE

19-across – Bowl dropped where Ada Doom saw something nasty : WOOD

21-across – See 26 : TABLE

22-across – Drink dispenser left pub – that’s prison : BARLINNIE

24-across – Slight gradient in cliff-top railway : INCLINE

25-across – Circus artist that can hold his drink? : TUMBLER

26-across – Tyneside acquired one, with a feeling of excitement about the price: is it make of deal? : NEGOTIATING

1-down – Ought Queen Elizabeth to love Francis B.? Cut! : SHOULDEROFBACON

2-down – It’s said to precede the quickest repair : LEAST

3-down – Opposition to the round church is somewhere in the Bible : ANTIOCH

4-down – Take a second to see 13, being tight : SLOSHED

5-down – Recover like a dog from the bulk of the River Tees : RETRIEVE

6-down – Computer reversion: like it to voice articles on 19? : DIGITALTOANALOG

7-down – The first proper American stove : PRIMUS

8-down – A second off being clouded over: adverse condition to follow : UNLESS

15-down – Scottish shepherd’s hut is an improved English one : SHIELING

16-down – See 14 : DETAIL

17-down – Absence of saints among the upper aristocracy? : NOBLEST

18-down – Young actress turning role model before Thanksgiving : LORETTA

20-down – Under Prohibition, without an audience, it’s very boring : DREARY

23-down – William : IAMBI

8-across – Officer and soldier have thank you note to ponder : COGITATE

9-across – See 4 : CLOCK

10-across – Sort of a metal rock singer : MEAT

11-across – It may stop chaps getting pudding to eat : AFTERSHAVE

12-across – One wading in with incomplete follow-up for idol? : GODWIT

14-across – Cuts involving Japanese funding backing traditional cabs : HACKNEYS

15-across – See 2 : AFINGER

17-across – Call US city back, butting in to talk, and start gushing? : SPRINGA

20-across – They help 12s emerge and urge effectiveness : EGGTEETH

22-across – Small publication became fly at an early stage : MAGGOT

23-across – Attractive endgame – it’s needing analysis : MAGNETISED

24-across – See 10 : LOAF

25-across – Settle who has write-up in review? : STEAL

26-across – One may hold up dated short story about to be included : OBSTACLE

1-down – Over half of followers raving about modern solo performer? : LONEWOLF

2-down – Set up a digital process to do a little work : LIFT

3-down – Briefly leave worker unoccupied : VACANT

4-down – Meet deadline with article probing two strikes : BEATTHE

5-down – Seating for the Oaks in preparation? : ACORNCUP

6-down – Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies : POTHUNTING

7-down – Heavens! For accepting 5-4 on, servant being abused? : SKIVVY

13-down – Means to study how models react to the atmosphere in the fast lane : WINDTUNNEL

16-down – Looks at speech giving support for hermit’s vision? : EYESTALK

18-down – Argue, entering part of roof? That could be raised! : GROWABLE

19-down – See 25 : THESHOW

21-down – Girl replaces lining in pink, appearing abstracted : GLASSY

22-down – Fashionable second course : MODISH

24-down – See 17 : LEAK