Daily Answers

9-across – No force in spin doctor’s art: New York finds it mesmerising : HYPNOGENY

10-across – See 1 : CLOSE

11-across – His barber was 25, he noted … : ROSSINI

12-across – … and his doctor had lawyers to see! : BARTOLO

13-across – Fly-killer was making time : SWAT

14-across – Thick German plate smash-ed into dead pieces : ADDLEPATED

16-across – Unwaged? Don’t spend so much! : PAYLESS

17-across – Sibelius was without a local angle : FINNISH

19-across – Hood and train for success donned here! : ROBINGROOM

22-across – An eminent figure in the history of the postal service : HILL

24-across – Gold prospector’s instrument absorbing a man of music : ORPHEAN

25-across – For such an omelette, pan is hot and square initially : SPANISH

26-across – Foreign masher married in Kent : SWEDE

27-across – Popular song in Waterfoot refreshed : TEAFORTWO

1-down – O snail, I beseech, speed or spurt! Oh calamity! Why? Do I hear 3 23? : THERESAPORPOISE

2-down – Desertion from a job, say? Possibly : APOSTASY

3-down – He commissioned Corelli in Les Bourrées, I gathered : LOUIS

4-down – See 1 : BEHINDUS

5-down – Clash with St Paul’s uncharitable tinkler : CYMBAL

6-down – Stockholders raising a bargain, not a fracas : SCARFPINS

7-down – Legionaries blowing hot or cold : COHORT

8-down – Seventh Age to support the minority : SECONDCHILDHOOD

15-down – See 3 : BERNIERES

17-down – Feste’s international dimension? : FOOLSCAP

18-down – Show one the ropes in it and knot a tie : INITIATE

20-down – Rural guardian, unable to raise charges, is out of work: page her! : BOPEEP

21-down – Fraulein’s in the arena! Terrific! : RENATE

23-down – Waits to sing this : CAROL

1-across – Chap going to kiss girl modelling art wear gets the bird : MANXSHEARWATER

8-across – Having taken on cargo at lake port… : LADEN

9-across – …dirty child on platform is even more dirty : GRUBBIER

11-across – Characteristic of Persian cat in the distance? : FURLONG

12-across – Unfathomable element in baby’s maltreatment : ABYSMAL

13-across – Account not rendered by historian : ACTON

15-across – Society girl meeting poet in tube, perhaps : DEBUTANTE

17-across – Dispense with outdoor party? : DOWITHOUT

20-across – Country where, for example, youth leader takes little part : EGYPT

21-across – Seldom met with portion of food : RAREBIT

23-across – He tries to give confidence to underwriter : ASSURER

25-across – Fearful of being socially acceptable in island circles : TIMOROUS

26-across – Waxed enthusiastic about figure in a red jacket : RAVED

27-across – Fruit to place round kitchen fireplace : BLENHEIMORANGE

1-down – Mary familiar with battlefield in book : MOLLFLANDERS

2-down – Partly train a director to cope with bottom of recession, perhaps : NADIR

3-down – Poem about bun involved a summer hat : SUNBONNET

4-down – Promised to become enmeshed : ENGAGED

5-down – Right hand turn Jag takes in garden : RHUBARB

6-down – Sailor takes governor to church : ABBEY

7-down – It’s a fair bet doctor takes old French soldier to flat : EVENMONEY

10-down – Boy game to help people across the Thames : ALBERTBRIDGE

14-down – Drag Wendy Hiller to place of execution : TOWERHILL

16-down – Club official sure in re art anyway : TREASURER

18-down – Lasted longer than couple embraced by roué, perhaps : OUTWORE

19-down – Managed to take back outside most of the crosspiece : TRANSOM

22-down – Tired after stroke to point : BLOWN

24-down – Sailors holding girl up to see bird : RAVEN

5-across – The front way to Nottingham? : FOREST

6-across – It isn’t played in school : TRUANT

9-across – Cutting short a geneticist is fine and probably honorable : AMENDE

10-across – Immaculate, which is an advantage on the field : UNMARKED

11-across – What’s afoot? A 23 : MULE

12-across – Little one, the one on the right, he’s asking for it : PETITIONER

13-across – A minister’s a trained servant of the state on this view : ERASTIANISM

18-across – Bible stories of a very bad little boy : CHRONICLES

21-across – Turn of speed? That’s as may be : UMPH

22-across – The original 20 about sunburn was used as a pregnancy test : PLATANNA

23-across – Hear a call for some bridges to cross : HYBRID

24-across – Girl in test for radio : TRANNY

25-across – Tile with no T, vocal quality unknown : IMBREX

1-down – American river and Babylonian city, that was Rome : GRANDEUR

2-down – Wordsworth’s birth was dead to the world : ASLEEP

3-down – He created the 14 11 and she 8 : CROMPTON

4-down – Musical note on top of soprano? : HAIRDO

5-down – … of note: one was a dog, in lieu of a mouse : FAMOUS

7-down – Model waitresses harassed by 17 : THEBES

8-down – Fair morning: do I intend to enter 18 of the 19s? : JUSTWILLIAM

14-down – Top job in politics? : SPINNING

15-down – Butt originating with the head of a pig? : STUBBORN

16-down – Whereas there’s a sort of drive for a learner to enter : WHILST

17-down – Enigmatist jumping ship at New Cross? : SPHINX

19-down – Opposite of spouse’s relation living in 5 across? : OUTLAW

20-down – Things are said to have one, namely a male setter : SCHEME

1-across – Throw oneself into exercises without a breather : PLUNGE

4-across – Still used as a name for a US lake : PLACID

9-across – Member of the opposition in Victorian times : ANTI

10-across – Envious reaction not worth pressing? : SOURGRAPES

11-across – Old Christmas present 45 inches long : NOWELL

12-across – Extra fashionable line in trousers : INCREASE

13-across – Feed a pet sugar, perhaps : PASTURAGE

15-across – She lives in Los Angeles : LISA

16-across – Question a cause of inflation : PUMP

17-across – Delivery secures wicket before end of the game : BAGATELLE

21-across – Wild Etruscan horsemen : CENTAURS

22-across – Pardon and release : EXCUSE

24-across – Split tongue, perhaps… : SERBOCROAT

25-across – Novel timepiece : ITEM

26-across – It’s evenly distributed as a name for either sex : EVELYN

27-across – Sayings of modern times : ADAGES

1-down – Criticise girl for releasing the evils of the world? : PANDORA

2-down – Marry a French female without sex appeal : UNITE

3-down – Tell-tale governor : GESSLER

5-down – Willingly left member with account to pay finally : LEGACY

6-down – Potentially fierce sea battle avoided by this : CEASEFIRE

7-down – Strangely, when there’s more than one they become high : DEEPSEA

8-down – Predominant desire of a despot? : RULINGPASSION

14-down – Schedule means item is thrown overboard : TIMETABLE

16-down – Quietly withdraw and go before the others : PRECEDE

18-down – Broken treadle had a warning notice : ALERTED

19-down – Declines to give oral classes : LESSENS

20-down – Call for resignation causes uproar : OUTCRY

23-down – Many fish act like limpets : CLING

1-across – See 10 : TOMORROW

5-across – Right on time? No! Later, you ass! : ONAGER

9-across – Flashers or gnashers : GOLDTEETH

11-across – Nora Batty to disembowel an ape? : ORANG

12-across – Parry’s motivation: Blame their failure on corruption! : RAPIERTHRUST

15-across – Tumult raised at abattoir’s closure : RIOT

16-across – Executed, having attempted the murder of Eos : SHOTATDAWN

18-across – Singin’ a song ____, in concert : SIDEBYSIDE

19-across – Any Bront? sister roped into service? : BELL

21-across – Some time since Julian Clary neared a disaster : CALENDARYEAR

24-across – Here Caruso arrived at work on time : OPERA

25-across – Preparation against the offensive : DEODORANT

26-across – Austerity city lets one knock back a gin on Sunday : SPARTA

27-across – He’s paid to make bank transfers : FERRYMAN

1-down – Takeaway republic? : TOGO

2-down – Slippery type of drug-runner : MULE

3-down – Rotter with the Pied Piper’s haul : RATBAG

4-down – A 10 1across affair? : ONENIGHTSTAND

6-down – Hot type one cast into new type : NEOPHYTE

7-down – A lunar force returned to spread grass with gritty bits : GRANULATED

8-down – Tory spin doctor’s aim: a quarter of the revolution : RIGHTANGLE

10-down – Right! One, two, three – go! Or may do otherwise, but not for long : HERETODAYGONE

13-down – Wren, familiarly say, angry when hatched : CRISSCROSS

14-down – Range rider, callow out West, shot! : CORDILLERA

17-down – Rich worker attached to a German union : ABUNDANT

20-down – Party colours worn with grace? : FAVOUR

22-down – Oil producer a friend to many : PALM

23-down – See 11 : UTAN