Daily Answers

1-across – Chapman’s first translation shows this? : CRAFTSMANSHIP

10-across – Going back to base in spring : HOMEBOUND

11-across – Meat fit for Allah? : HALAL

12-across – In no uncertain terms … a little bit : OUNCE

13-across – PM behind No U-turns : AFTERNOON

14-across – Breathe fire : INSPIRE

16-across – Find new use for electricity without its effects : RECYCLE

18-across – Dregs go on legs : GREAVES

20-across – Crack nut that’s hollow but solid : SOLVENT

21-across – Time to get bigger stall : TEMPORISE

23-across – Mere show of approval interrupting number : TOKEN

24-across – Dance music on game shows : CONGA

25-across – Original state of militia after promotion : PRIMITIAL

26-across – For example, Götterdämmerung’s climax in the Ring : MOMENTOFTRUTH

2-down – Mentally recover about the meek taking up crime : REMINISCE

3-down – Light blue’s first involved stamina : FIBRE

4-down – Flipped since custom could introduce dog”s-meat : SAUSAGE

5-down – Inspector Morse’s dot with gold casing : AUDITOR

6-down – Roun-trip helps car round one : SPHERICAL

7-down – Whitehouse has one sticker, reportedly : IGLOO

8-down – Held seat in Hunts? : SHOOTINGSTICK

9-down – Group to end taking railway on the sly : CLANDESTINELY

15-down – Ask for ring the French held sacred : INVIOLATE

17-down – Pattern on heel is manifest : CHECKLIST

19-down – Peg’s about to huff piece : SNIPPET

20-down – Official woman repeated bit of music : SHERIFF

22-down – Fruit gives chap vitality : MANGO

23-down – Game player in court? : TRIER

5-across – Wine gives a sign of something lacking when litre is bottled : CLARET

6-across – Branch of army occupying city for a brief time : BREATH

9-across – ‘ave a yearning, we hear, for something secure : ANCHOR

10-across – Snag with ends of two cables knotted : OBSTACLE

11-across – Philosopher’s humbug listened to : KANT

12-across – Accepting applause, as a toxophilite? : TAKINGABOW

13-across – Anti-abortion judge to flourish : PROLIFERATE

18-across – Wine reduction process is grating : PORTCULLIS

21-across – Recess will accommodate limited number all right : NOOK

22-across – Unattached little girl’s holiday island : DISCRETE

23-across – Man initially occupying a corner in magnificent house : CASTLE

24-across – Title for important official with many slaves : HELOTS

25-across – Eager camper may settle here : INTENT

1-down – Provide food having inserted the medical tube : CATHETER

2-down – Private school includes curriculum subject : SECRET

3-down – May need irons released to participate in exercise, right? : PRISONER

4-down – Tomorrow fruit topping will be changed : MANANA

5-down – Repeated first half of American country dance : CANCAN

7-down – Impression made by house overlooking lake – unfavourable! : HOLLOW

8-down – US philanthropist is tower of strength taking English bloke in tow : ROCKEFELLER

14-down – Line that’s golden, befitting top poet : LAUREATE

15-down – Heavy metal cask gents manoeuvred : TUNGSTEN

16-down – Second attractive girl in the current fashion : MODISH

17-down – Spittle allowed to get into cup : GOBLET

19-down – Interception upends two quadrupeds : TACKLE

20-down – Temporarily relocate help : SECOND

8-across – Reporters besieging network for handouts : PRESENTS

9-across – Call for Sargent, say, before a sergeant, say, entered : ENCORE

10-across – Responsibility for extra payment not being introduced : ONUS

11-across – Ignorant about naval leader not being in mufti : UNINFORMED

12-across – Secure, resettled and free : RESCUE

14-across – College servant putting foreign currency in mug : BEDMAKER

15-across – £1,000 annually for a family member : GRANDPA

17-across – Elastic band held by agent : SPRINGY

20-across – Auditor brought into companies supplying weapons : FIREARMS

22-across – Santa Fe’s last article : CLAUSE

23-across – Stone coffins transported in a cargo ship : SARCOPHAGI

24-across – Small sweet potato : SPUD

25-across – Boat carrying empty Norse basket : PUNNET

26-across – Everlasting kiss inside or outside : EXTERNAL

1-down – The majesty of King George under a madness? : GRANDEUR

2-down – Snakes and serpents possess small heads : ASPS

3-down – Bear last seen by Yorkshire river : ENDURE

4-down – Flower left out when Bastille collapsed : ASTILBE

5-down – Busy worker getting disgruntled is given reinforcement : BEEFEDUP

6-down – Mark on tongue seen before a fever : SCARLATINA

7-down – French cheeses, so people say, produce slight wind : BREEZE

13-down – Glowing tin going down : CANDESCENT

16-down – Animal enclosed by some low walls : PARAPETS

18-down – Conveying rage and lust using sign language? : GESTURAL

19-down – Some colleges say education is tried : ESSAYED

21-down – Decapitated clergyman – American aviation casualty long ago : ICARUS

22-down – Letter from Greece to New Zealand about tiptop material : CHINTZ

24-down – Resentful god overthrown : SORE

1-across – Trendy expert attending a conference in Africa : INDABA

4-across – Keep mum quiet? That’s debatable on reflection! : SHTOOM

9-across – Usual procedure for dealing with complaints? : GENERALPRACTICE

10-across – Exclude number of Mozart’s works to put in another composer : BARTOK

11-across – Dramatic representation of year with poll involved : ROLEPLAY

12-across – Formal dress what’s needed – I bet casual is out : BLACKTIE

14-across – Main source of accommodation for retired people : MASTER

15-across – See 3 : STITCH

18-across – A US president joins king wearing graduate scarf : BABUSHKA

21-across – Sixes are significant – one seen at Lord’s? : VISCOUNT

22-across – Three consecutive letters with purpose to reduce tension? : DEFUSE

24-across – Angles straightened out in nurse’s bedside manner : HOSPITALCORNERS

25-across – In favour of international European currency : FORINT

26-across – Behaving unethically in morning exam : AMORAL

1-down – Face changing sides? Sick about that – it’s a slippery slope : ICEFALL

2-down – Was resident being rude turning up temperature? : DWELT

3-down – Clear space and test out long piece of needlework : BLANKET

5-down – Poor actor having real trouble in Dutch venue : HAARLEM

6-down – They’re in deep, taking month over English version of opera) : OCTOPUSES

7-down – Type of handicraft club adopting computer facility : MECRAME

8-down – Particularly thin boxes, extremely fragile : SPARSE

13-down – Race up and act friskily : CUTACAPER

16-down – Go into decline as a result of dock strike? : TAILOFF

17-down – American source of extraterrestrial transmissions : HOUSTON

18-down – Serious conflict caused by temper – time left to intervene? : BATTLE

19-down – See 14 : BEDROOM

20-down – One’s likely to hover over half-demolished street in part of Hull : KESTREL

23-down – Someone demanding penalty is not so thick : FINER

1-across – Get off for a match : ALIGHT

5-across – Growth of conciliation rejected by workers – a bad sign : EVILOMEN

9-across – He should know how to press a suit : ADVOCATE

10-across – Slip by the Spanish church feature : ELAPSE

11-across – What an MP stands for : CONSTITUENCY

13-across – List of courses for chaps at university : MENU

14-across – Blocking – the road? : INTHEWAY

17-across – Father returns with skiers out for social activity : APRESSKI

18-across – Change the course of a revolution : TURN

20-across – A staged production : ASSEMBLYLINE

23-across – Possibly meant to join number around the fire : MANTEL

24-across – Pat his arm in error : IRISHMAN

25-across – He’ll bear out it’s a drinking place : BEERHALL

26-across – It joins in operations : SUTURE

2-down – Swimming pool with nothing under cover : LIDO

3-down – A charity worth fighting for : GOODCAUSE

4-down – Coaches coaches : TRAINS

5-down – Current account : ELECTRICITYBILL

6-down – It may be put on disc : IDENTITY

7-down – Gold blend tea in spout : ORATE

8-down – Academic sinecures? : EASYCHAIRS

12-down – Main part of a book taken by travellers : SEAPASSAGE

15-down – Bound to be performed by the ballet dancer : ENTRECHAT

16-down – She is a beautiful Italian : ISABELLA

19-down – Understand it’s describing figures below ten : DIGITS

21-down – Record a stage direction : ENTER

22-down – Young fishwife who survived Henry VIII : PARR