Daily Answers

1-across – Stop for a time, having finished the development : BREAKTHROUGH

8-across – Retired friend of Pythias in charge of travelling : NOMADIC

9-across – NT liar nearly declared grandmother to be backward : ANANIAS

11-across – Newspapermen could be so tired : EDITORS

12-across – Education will switch it in and out : TUITION

13-across – Petty cash needed but none in a bedsitter : FLOAT

14-across – Russian port calls for chief backer : ARCHANGEL

16-across – Desperate for telephone system, one held by fastening : LASTDITCH

19-across – Farm operated by church : RANCH

21-across – Athlete in cellar, turning again : VAULTER

23-across – Urn is as translated into this language : RUSSIAN

24-across – Much alcohol puts king in wrong : SKINFUL

25-across – American tree goes headlong : NUTPINE

26-across – Churchman turns dry ready-mix in church festival? : REDLETTERDAY

1-down – Graduate takes a moment to keep particular wine for child : BAMBINO

2-down – Most distant destruction reaches the majority : ENDMOST

3-down – Gives up pastry as initial impetus : KICKSTART

4-down – Find out time from ticker : HEART

5-down – Wind instrument uplifts company using aria without a name : OCARINA

6-down – Not losing when batting twice in silence : GAINING

7-down – Henry’s fourth wife, plainly! : ANNEOFCLEVES

10-down – Char passed round lake without help : SINGLEHANDED

15-down – Carbon once put outside this place for sticking together : COHERENCE

17-down – Bess needs IOU to get change for onion sauce : SOUBISE

18-down – Beautiful rhyme like Your Obedient Servant! : DUTIFUL

19-down – Broken reed about to pose when moved : RESITED

20-down – Lion’s tail is wrapped in fat with a deafening roar : NOISILY

22-down – What’s kindled again in obscure literature? : RELIT

9-across – Entertainer going through the newspaper for meronyms : PERFORMER

10-across – The language of the City – money : LATIN

11-across – Girl calls for a large beer : ABIGAIL

12-across – Moi gets construed as conceit : EGOTISM

13-across – Duck noise, by god! : ODIN

14-across – Methodical distribution of city’s steam : SYSTEMATIC

16-across – Early reading-desk found in back furrow with drum : TAMBOUR

17-across – Trick hard to verify : CONFIRM

19-across – Growing red during brute scene in play : ERUBESCENT

22-across – Companion I begin to cherish has style : CHIC

24-across – Speechless about a bishop taken aback by misprint : ERRATUM

25-across – Sound transmitter with whiskers doesn’t start? That’s odd! : EARDRUM

26-across – Bit of a wimp, Elmer; you’ve got to push forward : IMPEL

27-across – Dry sort of person to place marker at the back of a book : ABSTAINER

1-down – Invocation to Beelzebub : SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL

2-down – In Celtic practices Idris gets mud-spattered : DRUIDISM

3-down – To keep changing channels should come up with a gem : TOPAZ

4-down – One whose hands are gainfully occupied : EMPLOYER

5-down – Minister can be a nuisance about the teaching of scripture : PRIEST

6-down – A good deal signified, they say, by a piece of ground : ALLOTMENT

7-down – Rigorous way to limit endless fiddle : STRICT

8-down – Commercial enticement for the acquisitive : ANDMUCHMUCHMORE

15-down – Anticipate everyone’s after lots of trees : FORESTALL

17-down – Paddler on his own may be an independent type? : CANOEIST

18-down – Native to this place entering local, the Turk’s Head : INHERENT

20-down – Green, straggly juniper must be lopped : UNRIPE

21-down – Search for volunteers to turn up and fight : COMBAT

23-down – Chance to split : BREAK

5-across – Labourer’s time with tanker : TOILER

6-across – Fixed look by old boy recalled in pavilion : GAZEBO

9-across – A contribution to what chief is calculating about revenue : FISCAL

10-across – Settle directions to get cake with currants initially inside : ENSCONCE

11-across – Move aimlessly when vehicle’s cut dead : MOPE

12-across – Not exactly in round numbers : MOREORLESS

13-across – Damage from use of two water sources : WEARANDTEAR

18-across – The farm building’s a main element in Devon : BARNSTAPLE

21-across – Angler’s equipment is authentic, we hear : REEL

22-across – Inflator? Hardly! : FLATIRON

23-across – Jock’s official, providing security that is : BAILIE

24-across – The city fighting’s cut off endlessly : WARSAW

25-across – Severe trial or pact? : ORDEAL

1-down – Separate? That sounds tactful : DISCRETE

2-down – Empty deal secured by Ray produces pandemonium : BEDLAM

3-down – Fool turning up at game could need it for entry : PASSPORT

4-down – Collier left off, possibly to start back : RECOIL

5-down – Stumble at old style exam : TRIPOS

7-down – Overhead expenses of serviceman in big time : ONCOST

8-down – Atlantic c-call, having phoned around outside : HERRINGPOND

14-down – Club member doing a good turn? : ROTARIAN

15-down – An uplifting craft for many : AIRLINER

16-down – Pale-coloured metal in road sign? : SALLOW

17-down – Servant with endless ailment upset : MENIAL

19-down – Mother’s essential character? : NATURE

20-down – Take on board complaint arising – a cough? : EMBARK

8-across – Beef and butter dunked in gently sparkling wine : PASTRAMI

9-across – A viewer’s jolly when the leader’s taken off : OCULAR

10-across – Ruin brings the reverse of humour : DOOM

11-across – One composer chosen for new orchestration ahead of another : SCHOENBERG

12-across – See 13 : DEVICE

14-across – Indignant, but better prepared for war? : UPINARMS

15-across – University official favouring Conservative to the Right : PROCTOR

17-across – Performer : EROTICA

20-across – Mournful-sounding bloke is behind the scheme : PLANGENT

22-across – Supernatural being disturbed priest : SPRITE

23-across – Succession of individuals providing documentation on a country? : INDIANFILE

24-across – One wanting to protect a vixen could be nuts about her : HUNT

25-across – Command issued in successive notes to tribe : DECREE

26-across – Corruption with criminal bunch ne’er reforming : GANGRENE

1-down – See 24 across : SABOTEUR

2-down – Check support : STEM

3-down – Prolonged trouble when the man grabs lass naughtily : HASSLE

4-down – The old-fashioned you, in humour lacking : WITHOUT

5-down – More attractive invitation – that is received by both sides : COMELIER

6-down – Lift a table in the restaurant : DUMBWAITER

7-down – Grass shoots up? That’s grass for you : MARRAM

13-down – In icy cavern Eddie explodes bomb : INCENDIARY

16-down – The first words from 24 down for the shrub? : OLEANDER

18-down – Agreement a letter changed for one of the lessees : COTENANT

19-down – Street jewellery – pearls and more pearls? : STRINGS

21-down – The French fabric for covering cold window : LANCET

22-down – Lustre on a lady : SHEENA

24-down – Celebrated man is all but a tyrant : HERO

1-across – Repeat sound set elsewhere… : RECITE

4-across – … in Greece, or some in South Africa : SPARTA

9-across – Unrestricted use of cane may cause skin inflammation : ACNE

10-across – Stiffly formal, or laid back from the start : PRIMORDIAL

11-across – Place for the preacher – and what he can do with his sermon! : PULPIT

12-across – Threatened to have done with the devil : IMPENDED

13-across – Like Dan Dare, steep tumble down : DESPERATE

15-across – This has cut smoking : NAVY

16-across – Habit won’t let one drop the apostrophe : WONT

17-across – The chief has Jag – early model : ARCHETYPE

21-across – Sat Latin translation in a lost realm of fancy : ATLANTIS

22-across – Old city feature may be seen in the gutter : URCHIN

24-across – Brea : SHORTBREAD

25-across – The way to take in the broadest spectrum : ROAD

26-across – Doctor in row over possible deal : TIMBER

27-across – A dunderhead in place of intelligence : ADVICE

1-down – Engineer cryptic clues one doesn’t want to be seen : RECLUSE

2-down – He wears a hat, which is reasonable : CHEAP

3-down – Model priest – false prophet, of course : TIPSTER

5-down – Vigorous frolic in jerks to strict time : PROMPT

6-down – Strangely under and over time, which is superfluous : REDUNDANT

7-down – Currently a scholar at Magdalen, or other place of learning : ACADEMY

8-down – Dig up frisky steed without prejudice : DISINTERESTED

14-down – A number in Kent town find parking turns on a magic device : PENTAGRAM

16-down – Cautionary cry in Somerset : WATCHET

18-down – Dogged? : HOUNDED

19-down – Religious teaching many found in head : PRIMATE

20-down – Upset tables are not easily upset : STABLE

23-down – Dog chewed cigar, having got nothing for one : CORGI