Daily Answers

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

8-across – Poisonous plant disposes of servant and Sir Francis : MANDRAKE

9-across – Follows storyteller in street going westwards : TRAILS

10-across – Stake where Italian poet lost his head : ANTE

11-across – Literary group flourishes next to sink : BLOOMSBURY

12-across – Dimwit absorbs Stock Exchange secret : CLOSET

14-across – Shut up shed and flat : DROPDEAD

15-across – Making endless noise about rubbish, backing Victoria? : STATION

17-across – One attracted to card game shows how to cut : ABRIDGE

20-across – Slug with tail squashed by French politician : GAULLIST

22-across – Deposit secures little back room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY

23-across – Fix up my sandal for this religious festival : PALMSUNDAY

24-across – The pain borne by Rachel : ACHE

25-across – Polish king – Old Black Eye : SHINER

26-across – Turn round headlong in new wooden rescue boat : NOAHSARK

1-down – The challenge of accommodating Aunt Letitia : GAUNTLET

2-down – Newspaperman gets half inch : EDGE

3-down – Doctor in middle of walk makes sacrifice : GAMBIT

4-down – Extra food for boxers’ helpers : SECONDS

5-down – Scrap a lot of money? That makes a big bang : ATOMBOMB

6-down – Counter-plot calls for telegram security equipment : BARBEDWIRE

7-down – Swanson impregnates rag with oil : GLORIA

13-down – It resolves difficulties in an isolated village : SETTLEMENT

16-down – Death sentences? : OBITUARY

18-down – Keeper of hardy animals is an unlikely dog-hater : GOATHERD

19-down – Apprentice journalist caught up in dangerous feat : STUDENT

21-down – Coldness of a course unknown : APATHY

22-down – Untrained person writing short poem on staff : LAYMAN

24-down – Processed peas found in church : APSE

5-across – About fifty always present smart appearance : CLEVER

6-across – Romans required money to get free : RANSOM

9-across – A little Bach and Elgar maybe – or some other composer : HANDEL

10-across – Superior woman to crush and escort to the door : USHEROUT

11-across – Bring up the right to a listening device : REAR

12-across – Dealing with urgent checking : REPRESSING

13-across – Youngsters like receiving handout – small change : ADOLESCENTS

18-across – Businessman set against a player losing his head : CONTRACTOR

21-across – The tiresome person parking badly : PILL

22-across – Flighty creature in the pink and burning with love : FLAMINGO

23-across – Filmed first in the Mediterranean : MISTED

24-across – Object to being ordered to go again : RESENT

25-across – Late transport here’s a problem : HEARSE

1-down – Plastered, so gave up : RENDERED

2-down – Store a vehicle’s outside measurement : CELLAR

3-down – Stuff obtainable for ready money only : CASHMERE

4-down – Very large bloom once highly esteemed by Egyptians : OSIRIS

5-down – Appalling cad – and he’s run after! : CHASED

7-down – Deplores doctors hanging around the tea maker : MOURNS

8-down – Place to get drink? That’s an idea! : SUPPOSITION

14-down – The student meriting education : LEARNING

15-down – Take a revolutionary step in attempt to procure material : TAPESTRY

16-down – Derby cricket team member : BOWLER

17-down – Say there’s point to everything, for example : ALLEGE

19-down – A large number entering the examination appear extremely dull : TAMEST

20-down – Stranger calling for a big glass : RUMMER