Daily Answers

1-across – One’s wooden and stuck up and no longer orating! : OFFSTUMP

5-across – Wind from American prairie? : FLATUS

9-across – Examined fashionable drug seen round odd parts of city : INSPECTED

11-across – Stop sideshow : STALL

12-across – Cowardly island shows leadership in sport : YELLOWJERSEY

15-across – Work displayed in shop usually : OPUS

16-across – It’s calculated to enslave, so to speak : DELIBERATE

18-across – Ancient monument gets ruined when one bird nests in it : STONEHENGE

19-across – Fifty old books by one French novelist : LOTI

21-across – Pro a town site being redeveloped for electricity establishment : POWERSTATION

24-across – Eclipse brings alfresco party? : OUTDO

25-across – You’re hated, without love, tormented? Look back with regret : RUETHEDAY

26-across – County clique after return of corporal punishment : DORSET

27-across – Good person to encourage 2 : STURGEON

1-down – Miss showing sex appeal undermining honour : OMIT

2-down – Unhappy type that’s got hooked? : FISH

3-down – Beautiful goddess in street upset ancient city : THEBES

4-down – Trot around with me – lead etc may be found with this : METALDETECTOR

6-down – Magazine no longer available, one hears : LISTENER

7-down – Official at international meeting’s the person who moves a bishop, say? : TRANSLATOR

8-down – Stupidly irresponsible person lived like this? : SILLYDEVIL

10-down – The way in which political journalists sometimes speak publicly? : DOWNINGSTREET

13-down – Our shop due for renovation – to be made very tidy : HOUSEPROUD

14-down – See 2 : OUTOFWATER

17-down – Appalling little female, 6, taking part : FEARSOME

20-down – Important person and lady making a disturbance : POTHER

22-down – Tool acts as a calculator, they say : ADZE

23-down – Colour that could be fancy but not loud : CYAN

7-across – These MDs enter insane crises of conflict! : MEDECINS

9-across – Snake worshipper losing hope about it : OPHITE

10-across – See 7 : SANS

11-across – See 7 : FRONTIERES

12-across – Aviators losing time going East: that’s hairy! : PILOSE

14-across – Superior to Tommy’s tin helmet? : BRASSHAT

15-across – Code of the English and this involves many : ETHICS

17-across – What the economy needs: get-up-and-go! : UPTURN

20-across – Stop that Cartier-Bresson set! : APERTURE

22-across – Where the Normans stitched up the Saxons? : BAYEUX

23-across – Raise handlebar with force and quarrel at the pain of it : GROWATACHE

24-across – A spot of air-traffic control: b– cheek! : BLIP

25-across – I, Romulus Caesar, could for universal love become Emperor : MARCUS

26-across – : AURELIUS

1-down – Feel a git? Change! Join the race! : GETALIFE

2-down – 16 of 5 had four husbands with brass. Oh! Wicked female! … : BESS

3-down – … and only two farthings in a fortune: These things are as ______ in the wind : PIFFLE

4-down – US Marines train here by Potomac. B– awful! : BOOTCAMP

5-down – City where Kate’s put six feet under : SHREWSBURY

6-down – Wisdom, therefore, in articles : ATHENA

8-down – Boorish attempt to influence the mighty with society leader : SLOBBY

13-down – See 2 : OFHARDWICK

16-down – Left from incalculable role in The Marriage of Figaro : COUNTESS

18-down – Nuclear sub built from tin with usual reaction : NAUTILUS

19-down – Offer, say, his kingdom : MERCIA

21-down – River rat slaughtered and left at the gate : PORTAL

22-down – Exhausted by capturing a king : BLEARY

24-down – Papal demand for spit and polish : BULL

7-across – Deep in the past, for example : INTENSE

8-across – One filly in two hundred backed such a hob : CERAMIC

10-across – Ariel goes off with first-class fare : ECLAIR

11-across – After you, semi-literate becomes la creme de la creme : THEELITE

12-across – Zhivago’s girl looked over the shrinking sea : ARAL

13-across – Any player shown a couple of these will see red : YELLOWCARD

14-across – Silly fool : FOLLOWSHOME

19-across – Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly! : CORRUGATED

22-across – Some leave morosely for the airport : ORLY

23-across – Dim clue reset by compiler finally for cimbalom : DULCIMER

24-across – Some cauliflower from cholesterol-free lunch left over : FLORET

25-across – You French scoff back some dishes! : TUREENS

26-across – Little feller’s creatin’ about Ulster : MANIKIN

1-down – Murdoch’s work is a turn-off – Cronin : UNICORN

2-down – The odd one ogles, introducing painter to the harem : SERAGLIO

3-down – Smokers dump less heroin off the beaten track : ASTRAY

4-down – The monster! Is he dropping the Queen Mother? : BEHEMOTH

5-down – Lochnagar licensees supply bloodsucker repellent : GARLIC

6-down – Speed up in home improvement regimen : DIETARY

9-down – These aren’t flowers? Not on the surface, proverbially : STILLWATERS

15-down – Bond fast embraces rising kings : LIGAMENT

16-down – So taken aback by possessive regretful Miss making a bloomer : MYOSOTIS

17-down – Our slum development made capital founder : ROMULUS

18-down – A country tune, say, part of Lark Ascending : ALGERIA

20-down – It’s used to serve a dodgy business : RACKET

21-down – Deft, say, to conquer? : DEFEAT

4-across – A daily glass : MIRROR

6-across – Serpent’s head creates stir – it’s horned! : CERASTES

9-across – Back seat? : SADDLE

10-across – Diplomatic move relates to frontier river crossing : DEMARCHE

11-across – Fail to shear off with cutting blade : PLOUGHSHARE

15-across – One cracked shell : NUTCASE

17-across – Just off Land’s End? : INSHORE

18-across – Inset phrase, maybe : PARENTHESIS

22-across – One was revolutionary and with clear designs : CALENDAR

23-across – Funny : MURMUR

24-across – Needs rig-out bearing trendy label : DESIGNER

25-across – Fellow-traveller back with booze : PERNOD

1-down – Curved member made of wood, say : BOWLEG

2-down – Opening a book : REVELATION

3-down – Mare’s nobbled – poor horse included in runners : MANAGERS

4-down – Dissipated girl in confinement : MISSPENT

5-down – Bloody films featuring old soldiers : REDCOATS

7-down – Instant credit : TICK

8-down – Rose’s mainstay is staunch : STEM

12-down – Cuckoo … wheatears … rook … petrel … : SHEARWATER

13-down – He’s taken aback – by centaur? : HORSEMAN

14-down – Having free time, perhaps idle about? Yup! : LEISURED

16-down – Perk up, dad – face life’s later years! : APPANAGE

19-down – Expression of surprise over habits seen in eg priories : HOUSES

20-down – Missile fleet : SCUD

21-down – Extra-rich husband’s taken off : PLUS

1-across – Interest taken in making effortless profit? : UNEARNEDINCOME

9-across – First uses of wood – yew, cedar, hickory, elder, larch and maple tree : WYCHELM

10-across – Previous state of party, originally backed by old Soviet leader : PRUSSIA

11-across – Original plan to contain noisy type of lager lout going ahead : ROUGH

12-across – Italian dish gone, the table gossip becomes animated : SPAGHETTI

13-across – Trail, after getting behindhand, becoming less visible : LATESCENT

14-across – Congregated, introducing a northern painter : MANET

15-across – Coming from op, eyes appearing listless : MOPEY

17-across – Prince almost finished eating outrageous pudding : CHARLOTTE

20-across – See 12 : BOLOGNESE

22-across – See 11 : DRAFT

23-across – Greek character goes about a sexy dance : LAMBADA

24-across – Embarrassing situation about a league starting with unequal sides : SCALENE

25-across – One may be floored in EU HQ, facing reprimand : BRUSSELSCARPET

1-down – Going for success in first stage of lunar mission? : UPWARDLYMOBILE

2-down – Put hard surface on counters, with nothing going wrong : ENCRUST

3-down – Why risk getting tiddly, drinking the old booze… : RYEWHISKY

4-down – …with everyone involved speaking French? : ENMASSE

5-down – One may exaggerate boob for which surgeonÍs responsible : IMPLANT

6-down – Shopper pursuing express requirement for growth in some fields : COUCH

7-down – Sits worriedly among soldiers offering meal from this? : MESSTIN

8-down – Is he waiting for a bus to Clapham? : MANINTHESTREET

14-down – Play about indulging in OTT sentimentality : MELODRAMA

16-down – The first sign old circuitÍs cocked up in famous observatory : PALOMAR

17-down – Make a fuss about new type of leaf : CRENATE

18-down – When sister keeps record showing lack of infection? : ASEPSIS

19-down – Catch about restyling due to improve oneÍs property? : TRADEUP

21-down – See 6 : GRASS