Daily Answers

1-across – Horse seller, perhaps : CHARGER

5-across – Article in court newspaper : COURANT

9-across – Old currency provided by financial backer : ANGEL

10-across – One feeling qualified to play Lawrence? : CANDIDATE

11-across – Lights on the Headland – a painting by Constable? : LANDSCAPE

12-across – Result of putting uniform on model : EVENT

13-across – Bound, it is said, to have confidence : TRUST

15-across – Though unwilling, took sustenance during examination : INTESTATE

18-across – Trial meant to upset will : TESTAMENT

19-across – Object to a novice going over poem : LAMIA

21-across – Outcome of point in dispute : ISSUE

23-across – The German double weapon : DERRINGER

25-across – It’s a cable running to the east of Sweden : BALTICSEA

26-across – Poor fool to start diving on a rising tide : FLOOD

27-across – Reveals former attitudes : EXPOSES

28-across – Moral impediment of little weight : SCRUPLE

1-down – Capital adornment for head porter in holiday home : CHAPLET

2-down – Greek sailors finding tuna dish in store : ARGONAUTS

3-down – Safe investment for pigs? : GILTS

4-down – A beer chit destroyed by teetotaller : RECHABITE

5-down – Boat needing a once-over : CANOE

6-down – Useful kind of tool in film classification : UNIVERSAL

7-down – Saw an American lawyer, for example, taken aback : ADAGE

8-down – Letters providing support for board? : TRESTLE

14-down – Essays about old people in some Shakespearean plays : TRAGEDIES

16-down – Learning processes tried out, perhaps, in tests : TUTORIALS

17-down – Octopodes in military formation? : ARMYGROUP

18-down – Belt thrown round border by Irish politician : TRIMBLE

20-down – A game cut short : ABRIDGE

22-down – County girl at work : SALOP

23-down – Records with strong backing support? : DISCS

24-down – Draw conclusion from fashionable referee’s rise : INFER

1-across – See 18 : DEVILLEWELLS

8-across – Spirit appears after Jack’s topped off stage : ROSTRUM

9-across – Her thanks somewhat hard to accept? : TABITHA

11-across – Citadel’s grand opening denied agent of mischief when £1,000 is put forward : KREMLIN

12-across – Inverted arrival is integral to dumb mistake : ERRATUM

13-across – Formal attire covers shirt on this chap’s back : TITUS

14-across – Select retreats in French grounds – such will do for deserters? : RATPOISON

16-across – Ordered chiefs of Taxes, Customs and Excise to dry up! : EXSICCATE

19-across – Black can opener is mislaid : SABLE

21-across – Excitedly taking notes : AGITATO

23-across – Mixed aromas embellish love for full-bodied Spanish female : AMOROSA

24-across – Maybe Edward VI’s knight holds fire : KINGLET

25-across – Cry about a great flier : WAGTAIL

26-across – About to waste credit, get caught short : CLOSECROPPED

1-down – Take aroma off line : DESCENT

2-down – A rock film that’s not especially big on the lens : VERGLAS

3-down – This is On the Beach – long song about dictator : LAMINARIA

4-down – Instructions for Alice helping with : EATME

5-down – Ban doctor boarding ship carrying drug : EMBARGO

6-down – T.S. Eliot’s randomly assigned figure of speech : LITOTES

7-down – See 15 : BROKETHEBANK

10-down – See 15 : ATMONTECARLO

15-down – Break or make: he bet more than that on black and won : THEMANWHO

17-down – Tinned pork’s taken by elevated railroad to mountain plant : SPIGNEL

18-down – 15 7 10 almost cooked thoroughly without a daily to do the rounds : CHARLES

19-down – Round v-vessels containing silver substitute : STOPGAP

20-down – Shakespeare wants fabulous bird in principle! : BROCARD

22-down – Shot in the eye! : OPTIC

5-across – Bird seen on migration in Tresco? : SCOTER

6-across – Birds presented with bill for geranium : CRANES

9-across – Bird with belly-ache : GROUSE

10-across – Giddy dove circling another bird in the air : OVERHEAD

11-across – A bird – or, to put it another way, birds : SKUA

12-across – An eccentric breeds rats for birds : REDBREASTS

13-across – Wrong note in port for seabird : HERRINGGULL

18-across – Bird in town centre going round to cinema providing animal shelter : WOODPIGEON

21-across – Kill two birds with one stone – that includes birds’ birthplace : NEST

22-across – Bird seen on street in pushchair : STROLLER

23-across – A bird has to mount it : TOMTIT

24-across – Wine for a bird : CANARY

25-across – Ruth or Rachel’s first bird : REGRET

1-down – Couple at work have sex : COPULATE

2-down – Space traveller revealed by start of oscillation in measuring instrument : METEOR

3-down – 25 of knitted jumper : TREEFROG

4-down – Girl’s three articles : ANTHEA

5-down – Bird may be hitch for hikers : SHRIKE

7-down – Hare-brained puss in pigpen : SCATTY

8-down – What Elvis sang about – and where, too : WOODENHEART

14-down – Mockingbird with lyre-shaped tail : RAILLERY

15-down – Outstanding feature of scenery – as well as mountain-top circled by bird : LANDMARK

16-down – It’s characteristic of a twitcher to follow the author of The Raven describing The Raven : POETIC

17-down – A beast of burden is the first to help : ASSIST

19-down – River in southern highlands floods : DROWNS

20-down – Spice Girls’ debut, having first met UN Assembly : NUTMEG

7-across – Report of pachyderms in pass with peculiar feature : WRYNOSE

8-across – From river to river back to river : POTOMAC

10-across – Having got my ape movies muddled, I say I’m king of the river : MEKONG

11-across – On All Fools’ Day the bird gets old fruit : APRICOCK

12-across – Accommodation like 6 : FLAT

13-across – The president finds something explosive in The King and I … : THABOMBEKI

14-across – … in his place – enough to give one a fit – a chorus … : SOUTHAFRICA

19-across – … at last the balladist admits his identity : ZIMBABWEAN

22-across – A couple of Scots cut off and shut off: no change here! : TWAS

23-across – : EVERTHUS

24-across – : NELSON

25-across – Hold our Peter’s father, perhaps – one before 13 : MANDELA

26-across – Where the flytrap was you can see little bits mangled inside : WEBSITE

1-down – Well-regulated trolley pusher? : ORDERLY

2-down – A few of the foregoing with this alternative : ONEORTWO

3-down – Both the dials go wrong: this you must see! : ASIGHT

4-down – … This suffice, or do you want the usual saloon? : FOURDOOR

5-down – Keeper of the watch, an unknown copper, coming in: he’s earthborn : FOXCUB

6-down – It’s made of batter clumsily ground : PANCAKE

9-down – The birds are over the pond : CANADAGEESE

15-down – See 3 : TOBEHOLD

16-down – Pet on a table set to change and not to change : CATALYST

17-down – Roman bridge : MILVIAN

18-down – Collusion with accountant is a big laugh : CAHOOTS

20-down – What the sheep said about punishment under the Gaekwar : BARODA

21-down – Poles in their customary order in a French city : NANTES

9-across – One nurse can become unsettled, maybe for life : INSURANCE

10-across – A temple ornament? : TIARA

11-across – Worker admits fruit gives sustenance : ALIMENT

12-across – Shocking in respect to certain individuals : AWESOME

13-across – I knock back about a couple : PAIR

14-across – Side given drink for morale : TEAMSPIRIT

16-across – A sheer fabrication : ORGANZA

17-across – Poet is reserved about French female : SHELLEY

19-across – Held in check, fell behind the others : RESTRAINED

22-across – It’s flat and square : EVEN

24-across – A driver went astray, but completed the course : ARRIVED

25-across – Measured fruit and garden plot : PLUMBED

26-across – Duck down : EIDER

27-across – Means to get at the drink : CORKSCREW

1-down – Steals fitting in error : MISAPPROPRIATES

2-down – Here’s hoping I spring a surprise : ASPIRING

3-down – Increase the strain : BREED

4-down – It can make a man hate what is repellent to him : ANATHEMA

5-down – Still good advice to the excited : BECALM

6-down – Tried to make potted meat – nothing less : ATTEMPTED

7-down – Left work : LABOUR

8-down – How a hospital patient might have to accept medication without protest? : TAKEITLYINGDOWN

15-down – Dog entered in favoured races is withdrawn : INTROVERT

17-down – Retired train-bearers? : SLEEPERS

18-down – Budgerigar to delight in being caged? : LOVEBIRD

20-down – Leader of the squad tried to change step : STRIDE

21-down – Prompt delivery : INDUCE

23-down – Think of America : GUESS