Daily Answers

1-across – Fawley’s touring capital, coming back and not forgetting : MEMORY

4-across – Large stone lion, possibly circled by winged creature : MONOLITH

9-across – Current unemployment benefit received by European? : DANUBE

10-across – Tune for broadcasting as some planes are refuelled : AIRTOAIR

11-across – Hair restorer? : FRINGEMEDICINE

13-across – Sometimes she misses getting registered : SCHOOLGIRL

14-across – Laze about without this? : ZEAL

16-across – Seeing to a few mates on a binge? : ORGY

18-across – Hear about a new type of pen without getting excited : TRANQUILLY

21-across – Refuse to be upset by a wigging? : KEEPONESHAIRON

23-across – Just started to use car in a strike, perhaps : OFFDRIVE

24-across – I’m back to cover some legislation somewhere in Africa : MALAWI

25-across – Tip given police HQ where charges were involved? : TILTYARD

26-across – For example, Dorothy’s rejected heavy meal : STODGE

1-down – Way cut could be announced? : MODE

2-down – Demonstration about possible head of state : MONARCH

3-down – Jack suggested making statement very quickly : ROBINSON

5-down – It’s nasty being stifled by pong up on a farm – apology offered? : OLIVEBRANCH

6-down – The last bit of beef soup : OXTAIL

7-down – One wise person has kept popular original Lennon LP : IMAGINE

8-down – Acts in support of maybe favourite type of fun : HORSEPLAY

12-down – Agree to differ over a pint, hosting a very, very zealous individual : EAGERBEAVER

13-down – Keep wine for sale in Cheshire location : STOCKPORT

15-down – Cut short excuse held up by military clique, almost over the moon! : JUBILANT

17-down – Very happy to drag round suspect being set up : GLEEFUL

19-down – Ladies, at first wobbly, dare to wear this for aerobics? : LEOTARD

20-down – A cheer for Henry, being extrovert : HOORAY

22-down – Another half for bloke on the way home? : WIFE

1-across – £500 calling for mischief : MONKEYBUSINESS

9-across – Law enforcers at Sunday school in control : POSSESS

10-across – Myopic coloratura uses a flute : PICCOLO

11-across – I am to be covering uncleês head in dye : IMBUE

12-across – Mistake in supervision : OVERSIGHT

13-across – Mean fool, one hears, but well organised : TIGHTKNIT

14-across – The first of the Greeks : ALPHA

15-across – Gem quietly given to nobleman : PEARL

17-across – Sudden overthrow, so pact due to change : COUPDETAT

20-across – Animated but lined, even wrinkly : ENLIVENED

22-across – Mistake when retired bishop tucked into deer : ERROR

23-across – Lose control at breakfast? Have a drink! : EGGFLIP

24-across – Revoke scientific name held by revolutionary : RESCIND

25-across – Letters showing similarity : CORRESPONDENCE

1-down – This devil will shatter the simple hopes : MEPHISTOPHELES

2-down – Gift for discovering grip for feeding horses : NOSEBAG

3-down – Primitive men let ale ferment : ELEMENTAL

4-down – Musical instrument turns a poet’s head : BASSOON

5-down – Wise Father Christmas nearly eating a pie : SAPIENT

6-down – Cuts make more than one cooler : NICKS

7-down – Hole behind station needs a fill-in : STOPGAP

8-down – Betrothal needs new wife to absorb good game : CONTRACTBRIDGE

14-down – Greeted a daughter having put on clothes : ADDRESSED

16-down – King consumed by entirely personal pride briskly : ALLEGRO

17-down – Appetizers in tin given to ugly people : CANAPES

18-down – Cook inadequately for likely loser not finishing : UNDERDO

19-down – It’s twisting or is not twisting : TORSION

21-down – About 54 turned up more depraved : VILER

8-across – Goes and has veins treated : VANISHES

9-across – The favoured way to cover the ground is on foot : INSTEP

10-across – Not at all happy about cold fish : SCAD

11-across – Supplying these with water could be dear : SWEETHEART

12-across – Split about holidays : CLEAVE

14-across – Sort of protection for a strikebreaker going back far from cheerful : SCABBARD

15-across – A quarter went about getting built up : STACKED

17-across – Strives for discipline in sea-going craft : STRAINS

20-across – He’ll prove to be wrong concerning dairy farm produce : REBUTTER

22-across – Songs, the content of which rallied Erik the Red’s men : LIEDER

23-across – Tale-tellers’ objective : CANTERBURY

24-across – There’s little money – iniquitous but that has to be swallowed : PILL

25-across – Pressure the French and a French denial will result : LEANON

26-across – Put off deals – she is without capital : HEADLESS

1-down – Make a hole in fortune as a knight : LANCELOT

2-down – Object to the judgment : MIND

3-down – Tea set, unusually without embellishment : CHASTE

4-down – Abuse makes a point in itself : ASPERSE

5-down – Many is the brochure written to beguile : DISTRACT

6-down – Sages blame bad company : ASSEMBLAGE

7-down – Taking offence after causal shirt causes consternation : TERROR

13-down – Short article cannot include European aristocracy, one figures : ACCOUNTANT

16-down – Install as the ruling chairman : ENTHRONE

18-down – Rouses sleepy-head when it’s not really called for : NEEDLESS

19-down – Shortage the debtor has a duty to make up : DROUGHT

21-down – The remover takes ages over royal insignia : ERASER

22-down – A manly revolutionary, but not a professional : LAYMAN

24-down – Soft drink for the colourless : PALE

1-across – Liverpool FC’s American winger : REDSHANK

5-across – Student delves into a rapid growth in flower : ABLOOM

9-across – Army headquarters frames occupation of an Asian island : BALINESE

10-across – Bishop’s perfectly happy : BRIGHT

11-across – Writer is to wallow in drink : TROLLOPE

12-across – Soldier has begun nervously, giving himself away : GUNNER

14-across – A help to the aim of explorer filling university posts : CROSSHAIRS

18-across – Security for sovereign overdue when in the pink : COLLATERAL

22-across – Invalid pleads insanity : LAPSED

23-across – Exchange rate certain to provide wealth : TREASURE

24-across – Scot toured unhealthy African city : IBADAN

25-across – Forgiving towards Italian composer : CLEMENTI

26-across – Spice in container rejected by Margaret : NUTMEG

27-across – Reptile park in the area : TERRAPIN

1-down – Money given back for a beret needing repair : REBATE

2-down – Boy lifted heavy weight for scientist : DALTON

3-down – Name of composer is heard : HANDLE

4-down – Busybody’s spoken nastily with ‘Arry : NOSYPARKER

6-down – It is simple stifling cry of pain in the carriage : BAROUCHE

7-down – Material for publication on random number generator : ORGANDIE

8-down – Driver to perish, overturning in damp environment : MOTORIST

13-down – Shoe is European with spiralled design : ESPADRILLE

15-down – A shoot embodies the whole vegetable : SCALLION

16-down – Drink over wheeze that’s cheeky : FLIPPANT

17-down – Cut fabric’s cost : LACERATE

19-down – Poor performer has value, but loses it in strike : HAMMER

20-down – Vegetable in pot found in rubbish dump : TURNIP

21-down – African republic welcomes the great and good : BENIGN

1-across – She finds English university pleasant : EUNICE

4-across – Soul mate of Eros : PSYCHE

9-across – Shape for a hairstyle : AFRO

10-across – Rocket designer : STEPHENSON

11-across – No rice pudding for Caruso, for instance : ENRICO

12-across – Growing area, one with a shrub : GARDENIA

13-across – In a difficult situation, use hose on grass : TIGHTSPOT

15-across – Heads turn in shock : STUN

16-across – Monkshood, a cure for smoking? : COWL

17-across – Can’t hear notes fade away : STONEDEAF

21-across – He has a telling part in play : NARRATOR

22-across – No one scores with this girl : MAIDEN

24-across – Over matey? : POLYGAMOUS

25-across – Some light or heavy timber : BEAM

26-across – Cup-bearer? : SAUCER

27-across – Get up for wild dances : ASCEND

1-down – Old address of Turkish civil service : EFFENDI

2-down – No, I am wrong, she was Ruth’s mother-in-law : NAOMI

3-down – Regular habits and duties : CUSTOMS

5-down – Burning waste on a huge scale : SAHARA

6-down – Called without once becoming stuck-up : CONCEITED

7-down – Noise or disturbance can be wearing : EROSION

8-down – It was frightful, as a rule : REIGNOFTERROR

14-down – Questionable greeting : HOWAREYOU

16-down – Sure-footed window-cleaner : CHAMOIS

18-down – Retribution seems in order : NEMESIS

19-down – Lover gives Biblical character away : ABELARD

20-down – Macbeth, for example, goes after final piece of fuel : ETHANE

23-down – Initially it may be uphill, even steep : IMBUE