Daily Answers

1-across – Make some 14, say… : MULTIPLE

5-across – …with heartless 22 15… : CHOICE

9-across – …and 20 for self-reversal? – ???… : QUESTION

10-across – …Tally – is it A, B, C or D? Not B, C : ACCORD

11-across – Dine out, entertaining three kings in a dream : IMAGINED

12-across – Answer: cancel resignation? : REJOIN

14-across – Hot drink for Northumbrian king held by German 26 endlessly : MULLEDWINE

18-across – Fellow sailors on boat, chiropodist and harvester? : CORNCUTTER

22-across – Tucked in to fish, partly dressed : COATED

23-across – Refrain about English ancestor : FOREBEAR

24-across – Swear at light’s flowing out : EFFLUX

25-across – Prison for Miss Philips, back holding head of loved pet : ALCATRAZ

26-across – Runner, about 50, could use a stone : MILLER

27-across – German girl with information about attempt to throw up : GRETCHEN

1-down – Titled gentleman losing right to go underground : MAQUIS

2-down – Shelter on the road to be made up? : LEEWAY

3-down – Know at once that resident of 21 land keeps time : INTUIT

4-down – Privy page follows new duke to be respected : LOOKEDUPTO

6-down – Ranch house had a nice aspect : HACIENDA

7-down – I like this theme; it’s concerned with what might be radioactive : ISOTOPIC

8-down – Risk bad feeling after conclusion : ENDANGER

13-down – Unskilled group circulating changed locale : BLUECOLLAR

15-down – Diamonds for the elite that’s sweet and 21 : ICECREAM

16-down – Doctor with feudal manner – appalling! : DREADFUL

17-down – Plan for audience you’ll shed when the order’s changed : SCHEDULE

19-down – Permit includes transport to Near East : LEVANT

20-down – Try to find and brand the church : SEARCH

21-down – Away with Buddhism! It’s very cold : FROZEN

9-across – Glimmer of understanding of semivowel sound : HALFANEYE

10-across – Fellow drinks no hock : HOUGH

11-across – Tall and slender – not overweight : LONGTON

12-across – Second game in court to be slotted in : SUPPORT

13-across – Blow a kiss : SMACK

14-across – Doctors date nurse foolishly : DENATURES

16-across – Speech impediment? : LANGUAGEBARRIER

19-across – Restore order – that’s the bottom line : REARRANGE

21-across – Flat found in high-rise on returning home : PLAIN

22-across – Clothes drier – horse under another name, say : WRINGER

23-across – Scream a warning : CAUTION

24-across – Assume fusspot overlooking nothing : ADOPT

25-across – She lost to possible champ? Such couldn’t! : TOOTHLESS

1-down – Merchant seaman reported sound ahead : WHOLESALER

2-down – Sow area in fruit : PLANTAIN

3-down – Wood comes round to composer : BARTOK

4-down – Tacked, choosing directions in sequence : SEWN

5-down – Newborn asleep, so appealing : PERSONABLE

6-down – Capital in Pie chart’s wrong : CHAPITER

7-down – Bizarre Guardian’s report : RUMOUR

8-down – Teatime conversation : CHAT

14-down – Deny turning, through time, into corrupt being : DEGENERATE

15-down – Quality of King and Queen recognised in very many quarters : SERENENESS

17-down – Claims to have originally raised standards : UPRIGHTS

18-down – Fancies butterflies, say : IMAGINES

20-down – Too protective of one new girl : ALISON

21-down – Rich, self-assertive, grasping Liberal : PLUSHY

22-down – River sport : WEAR

23-down – Produce for stock : CROP

1-across – Somewhere in 16 down for Shed to chew over : MUNICH

4-across – Fool around in Defence or Intelligence : MOSSAD

9-across – Worker with the right to be bitter : BEER

10-across – Born loser in labyrinth in the grip of fevered chills : SCHLIMAZEL

11-across – Smooth little bricks flanking a square : LEGATO

12-across – What the winning jockey has to straddle? : BESTRIDE

13-across – Ex-winger’s exercises taking sex god to a city of yore : PTEROSAUR

15-across – French man or woman’s trouser? : JEAN

16-across – Remove balls of money in 16 down : GELD

17-across – M & S in 16 down enters port with explorer : ADMUNDSEN

21-across – Hot drink first put into cereal — you were supposed to blow on it : CRUMHORN

22-across – Confuse lager with bitter, initially : GARBLE

24-across – Story about academic with an excuse : PARDONABLE

25-across – Yawn at the end of King Kong, for instance : GAPE

26-across – Joined together to secure plate containing nutrient : YOLKED

27-across – On reflection, say spots result from an unhealthy diet : STODGE

1-down – Actress’s sheep tucked into the pigfeed : MAEWEST

2-down – Neither parent’s a woman : NORMA

3-down – Traditions gone through between nations : CUSTOMS

5-down – Headless bird admitting note is redundant : OTIOSE

6-down – Landing good man with bimbo : STAIRHEAD

7-down – Inept character holds editors up somewhere in 16 down : DRESDEN

8-down – Water music man and two sportsmen entering the Underground : THEBLUEDANUBE

14-down – Good example of oriental-style bread coating : ROLEMODEL

16-down – Source of disease : GERMANY

18-down – Beast raised on funny tune : UNGUENT

19-down – Repeated point about excerpts leading to obscurity : ECLIPSE

20-down – Surprise attack sending immoral earner round the bend : POUNCE

23-down – Falsify personal documents, though anything but bent : RIGID

7-across – My US car number on the front shows independence! : AUTONOMY

9-across – Volunteers to return sombre tunic : TABARD

10-across – Endlessly asking to see film : SKIN

11-across – Someone doing a balancing act? : ACCOUNTANT

12-across – Taking a little time, seek to be modest : CHASTE

14-across – Decorate a raced vessel : TRIMARAN

15-across – Admits one may be punched on a train : TICKET

17-across – Excellent couple of fellows quitting church office : CHOICE

20-across – Hurts Les badly, lacking pity : RUTHLESS

22-across – When Sister Elizabeth goes to find help : ASSIST

23-across – Treasury supply Head Office with employment : STOREHOUSE

24-across – Final artiste in strip show : BEAR

25-across – Write name on flag : PENNON

26-across – Old and feeble pet cried to be put out : DECREPIT

1-down – Pellets obtained with US money, stolen : BUCKSHUT

2-down – Blue drink : DOWN

3-down – A good place to live without showing respect : HOMAGE

4-down – Fatty alcoholic drink is hard to get : STOUTISH

5-down – The things people say about you when you’re late! : OBITUARIES

6-down – US agency managed to split skulls! : CRANIA

8-down – Stop raising putting central heating in boats! : YACHTS

13-down – Extremely sweet arsenic concoction with tea in it : SACCHARINE

16-down – Then leap out of jumbo? : ELEPHANT

18-down – Engineer stands still, enraptured : ECSTATIC

19-down – Susie opened front door and emerged : ISSUED

21-down – No longer bound to take auntie dancing in it : UNTIED

22-down – Means business : AGENCY

24-down – Raised by Black, looking angry : BRED

1-across – Declare girl has put weight on : ANNOUNCE

5-across – Author holding leading post at university : CAMPUS

9-across – It is stirred into barbiturate in parts : SECTIONAL

11-across – Queen having to keep silent about American president : SHEBA

12-across – Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network : RETICULATION

15-across – Travel back to Georgia in eager excitement : AGOG

16-across – Offspring of central figure in Dante”s Inferno? : DESCENDANT

18-across – It may be tactful to take degree with small movement : DIPLOMATIC

19-across – Queen accepted by no emperor : NERO

21-across – Weapon that would be deplored by the RSPCA : BATTERINGRAM

24-across – Girl : LINDA

25-across – What players often hear from wings sounds bad : NOISESOFF

26-across – Staggered by Spanish article about grass : REELED

27-across – He is there to protect back, for example : DEFENDER

1-down – Recess found among cheap seats : APSE

2-down – Fastidious resort : NICE

3-down – Made one of the team : UNITED

4-down – Taking into account motive : CONSIDERATION

6-down – Refrains from making sailors accept taint of guilt : ABSTAINS

7-down – Foretold about one that made affirmation : PREDICATED

8-down – State of inertia in country without females? : STAGNATION

10-down – One having meal out at spot where nuclear attack might start : LAUNCHINGSITE

13-down – Relating to the jaw featured in bird manual : MANDIBULAR

14-down – Enough to live on comfortably, given fitness : COMPETENCE

17-down – A hundred too old to get press write-up? : COVERAGE

20-down – Fellow, for example, getting early start in art of horsemanship : MANEGE

22-down – Band requiring agent : BOND

23-down – One seeing flyers return from a good way off : AFAR