Daily Answers

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

7-across – Vegetable Eric and Alec cultivated : CELERIAC

9-across – Single out for breaking ground in advance : PICKON

10-across – Part of car for sale? : BOOT

11-across – A time, a period in jail, if really necessary : ATASTRETCH

12-across – Mother to question the material : DAMASK

14-across – Mastermind drops book in fight : BRAINBOX

15-across – One’s missing on a flower. Is that so? : REALLY

17-across – Discussion about the French holiday place : CHALET

20-across – Sleepy old English mascot, perhaps? : COMATOSE

22-across – Acceptable time for 23s? : PAYDAY

23-across – Sack, possibly, for one with the job : POSTHOLDER

24-across – Manage officer’s exercises : COPE

25-across – Fly? A second half of instruction*s needed : ASTUTE

26-across – Seen in dark room: size of print by unusual glare. Right? : ENLARGER

1-down – Carefree young lady broadcasting : DEBONAIR

2-down – Part of 10: some little wader coming up : WELT

3-down – Call sailor to seize control : HIJACK

4-down – Notice change : SPOTCASH

5-down – Cover freedom of movement in film script : SCREENPLAY

6-down – Cape in South America : PONCHO

8-down – Word game: first clue’s a brute! : CRAMBO

13-down – Plant a tattered sun-hat after a break : AGAPANTHUS

16-down – Disregard switching parts to make an inspection : LOOKOVER

18-down – Phoney art spied, having made a tedious journey : TRAIPSED

19-down – An official position portrayed in OT : BEADLE

21-down – A player, 10, is changed : OBOIST

22-down – To some extent is left in the political group : PARTLY

24-down – A crop of trite material? : CORN

9-across – Tune Polly played in luxury : OPULENTLY

10-across – In search for a teapot spout : ORATE

11-across – Self-centredness: somehow it goes to my head : EGOTISM

12-across – Pull fish back to where the wind blows : LEEWARD

13-across – Vicious hooker, member of the Eagles : TALON

14-across – Second floor behind the scenes : BACKSTAGE

16-across – The station for Penny Lane? : LIVERPOOLSTREET

19-across – Learned student emptied library : SCHOLARLY

21-across – A successful doctor is also a smoker : CURER

22-across – Express without punctuation : NONSTOP

23-across – Peter, the King Cat! : PANTHER

24-across – A dance very lacking in invention : DISCO

25-across – Bring about spasm once tormented : ENCOMPASS

1-down – Everyone inhabiting trees is getting there first : FORESTALLS

2-down – State musicians stay up for European : YUGOSLAV

3-down – Many on charge : LEGION

4-down – Stop a police forces rising : STEM

5-down – How the Tour de France comes round? : CYCLICALLY

6-down – County put under strange mores : SOMERSET

7-down – Country with superior border! : CANADA

8-down – Shortage of nitrogen up-river : NEED

14-down – One whose life is in books : BIOGRAPHER

15-down – Daring printers experimenting with two Es : ENTERPRISE

17-down – Daughter, perhaps, at the end of her Ecstasy : RELATION

18-down – Heart-broken fellow visited by ET? : EARTHMAN

20-down – Some telephones transmit direct : HONEST

21-down – Where the projectionist came in reeling? : CINEMA

22-down – Send awa hooligans : NEDS

23-down – Press forwards : PACK

1-across – Useless comment about a free lunch? : GOODFORNOTHING

9-across – Cavity with opening left inside grain : VENTRICLE

10-across – Loathe tales involving character abroad : THETA

11-across – Protection casting 45 degree shadow : UMBRA

12-across – One’s not aware when on this : AUTOPILOT

13-across – But dates can make a bit of sense : TASTEBUD

14-across – Follower of spirit? : CHASER

17-across – Rouse up and go east, taking cash initially : EXCITE

19-across – Capital to hear tom-tom act : KATMANDU

22-across – Par hole by playing for curve : HYPERBOLA

24-across – Gun or rot can finish soldier : TOMMY

25-across – Runs out of thread – that’s smart : STING

26-across – Whence workers’ heroes died in polluted environment : TOLPUDDLE

27-across – Try to see eggs turn in change of climate : METEOROLOGICAL

1-down – Surrender or die? : GIVEUPTHEGHOST

2-down – The volume of traffic? : OMNIBUS

3-down – The heavens stabilise one mentally deficient : FIRMAMENT

4-down – Most of westerly isle has … wait for it … mineral : ROCKALUM

5-down – The bar that doesn’t allow singing : OMERTA

6-down – Male sheep is excited : HETUP

7-down – Paradoxically, almost pointless landmark : NEEDLES

8-down – What to do with dead ringer? Go easy at first, blossom : CANTERBURYBELL

15-down – Hogtied : HAMSTRUNG

16-down – Not meeting the standard on whole railway : PARALLEL

18-down – Best food is fancy : CAPRICE

20-down – Roaming around Dominica without one : NOMADIC

21-down – Cook up rubbish fish : DOCTOR

23-down – Wayward parachute doesn’t open : ROGUE