Daily Answers

1-across – A hit in the financial district, or a disaster : CALAMITY

5-across – Take a double role in part of play : ACTTWO

9-across – Constantly varying complaint by badly cut worker : FLUCTUANT

11-across – For high-rise accommodation look around the Royal Institution : EYRIE

12-across – Rough notes on army’s type of manual labour : STONEMASONRY

15-across – Hostelries popular with Poles : INNS

16-across – Liberal with nothing to hide? : OPENHANDED

18-across – Does an environmentalist gorge on cabbages? : GREENSTUFF

19-across – One’s back among the motorists from the Continent : ASIA

21-across – Trippers’ coin can be changed according to written direction : PRESCRIPTION

24-across – Terry’s predecessor, the Spanish student, is taking the French in : ELLEN

25-across – Valley with stream and fish on line – cap that! : GLENGARRY

26-across – In old Amsterdam, self-contained old-fashioned girl : DAMSEL

27-across – Grantees required to be set apart : ESTRANGE

1-down – Four notes tendered by diner : CAFE

2-down – Behold the old city glare : LOUR

3-down – Space traveller with a stomach upset will undergo change : MUTATE

4-down – Indulging a collector’s hobby with Spooner’s Iberian running : TRAINSPOTTING

6-down – A piece McShane’s arranged : CHESSMAN

7-down – Sad song writer has detailed trio to incline the head one way : THRENODIST

8-down – Which adventure book character wore the monocle? : ONEEYEDMAN

10-down – A month is often attributed to this Shakespearean : TIMONOFATHENS

13-down – The breadth of a footballer at the feast! : WINGSPREAD

14-down – Advance payment, a measure hobo circumvented before the war : ANTEBELLUM

17-down – Three quarters against taking Common Entrance settle comfortably : ENSCONCE

20-down – Short man, the doctor: about to become an old eccentric, perhaps : CODGER

22-down – You find this smoother coming up? Me neither! : IRON

23-down – Live to claim your little cowshed : BYRE

1-across – Might one get into a lather in traffic? : BUBBLECAR

6-across – Forever sinful there: level zero possible? : UNTIL

9-across – : HELLFREEZESOVER

10-across – A right shower! : RAIN

11-across – Apprentice pirate following Red Queen, I see : FREDERIC

14-across – Steps taken by Mao to achieve extended boundary : LUNGMARCH

15-across – Tough lawman could stand nothing eccentric : DRACO

16-across – Disapproval shown for tumbling down : FROWN

18-across – Auden, a singular talent outside the game : SOLOWHIST

20-across – Highland route with free entry? Get away! No thanks! : RIDGEWAY

21-across – Quarrel and turn lights out! : SPAT

25-across – One cooks with aid of vents and North Sea’s combustible : FANASSISTEDOVEN

26-across – Mariner dropped one in fixing sails : SILAS

27-across – One can’t wait to reach the finishing line : ENDREADER

1-down – Indian state brings in half Asia’s rice initially : BIHAR

2-down – So Simenon was enabling numberless characters : BELGIAN

3-down – Free trip winning the thumbs up? On the contrary! : LIFT

4-down – School of fish out East : COED

5-down – Neptune’s beard trimmer? : RAZORSHELL

6-down – Head over heels in love, we’d sup with many another : UPSIDEDOWN

7-down – Where Shirley Valentine worked for the Greek state in a National Trust building : TAVERNA

8-down – Polite cry emanating from one such as Catullus : LYRICPOET

12-down – As Fenby to Delius, a servant diverse in uses : AMANUENSIS

13-down – Disdain? That’s absurd – is he crazy? : BRUSHASIDE

14-down – Delivery vehicles dispelling fear in 3s : LIFERAFTS

17-down – It describes first word in a letter containing it : ORDINAL

19-down – I’m paid to swallow a few – and I’m not scared : IMPAVID

22-down – Take one-time opera singer making a comeback… : TENOR

23-down – …as Don Giovanni? That’s neglecting his duties, perhaps : STUD

24-down – On which tense? : EDGE

1-across – Sent a goody-goody inside – so wise! : SAPIENT

5-across – Favour changing over to trees : ROSETTE

9-across – A single Greek character in drink required a ventilator : AIRHOLE

10-across – Overweight girl’s parents : FATHERS

11-across – Has to step out quite quickly : POSTHASTE

12-across – A large stretch of water where birds can raise their young : AERIE

13-across – Means of measuring a sovereign : RULER

15-across – By backing those flying, they’ll get some improvements made : REPAIRMEN

17-across – What prompts one to go without a rest : REMAINDER

19-across – Called for some caution in a medical procedure : NAMED

22-across – Indifferent article written by retired clown : ALOOF

23-across – Accident due to mechanic’s carelessness : MISCHANCE

25-across – Really disagreeable when unwell – right to stay in bed : ILLBRED

26-across – Try at one point with a will : TESTATE

27-across – Moving unpredictably like the salvage collectors? : TOTTERY

28-across – Most jaded relations cut a virtuous individual : STALEST

1-down – Camera operator in a foul mood? : SNAPPER

2-down – South American woman studying : PERUSAL

3-down – Optimism returns around a hundred – it’s a great age! : EPOCH

4-down – Walkabout certain to be much appreciated : TREASURED

5-down – Strip firing mechanism : RIFLE

6-down – Place where no one tense is put up : SITUATION

7-down – The more obscure proposition : THEOREM

8-down – Oriental egghead getting behind : EASTERN

14-down – Check press support : REINFORCE

16-down – Parties arranged housing for hangers-on : PARASITES

17-down – He faces facts concerning a heel : REALIST

18-down – Illuminated at night – naturally : MOONLIT

20-down – The authority to give a fellow time : MANDATE

21-down – Most extreme letter written with some irritation : DEEPEST

23-down – Making five hundred pounds in a month in an offbeat way : MADLY

24-down – Old prophet – a shoemaker : HOSEA

1-across – Hipster staggered after a capital clergyman : PARISH

4-across – See 1 : PRIEST

9-across – Hides tube behind leaves : GOESUNDERGROUND

10-across – After half five turning back without the boat? : VESSEL

11-across – Took advantage of you, saying I let Sid off : UTILISED

12-across – Furtive drink with lieutenant in modest surroundings : STEALTHY

14-across – Get Brown’s retirement accepted by governing body : SENATE

15-across – Corsair made very good speed : PIRATE

18-across – Where cost is about to come down : SCOTLAND

21-across – Vie with Carla, awfully offhand : CAVALIER

22-across – Small tiff – it’s with sweetheart : PETITE

24-across – Imagined job having car in view of resort? : PICTUREPOSTCARD

25-across – Quiet and oddly prim little child : SHRIMP

26-across – Cruel routine in Bali I overlooked : BRUTAL

1-down – Having proof of missing trial, raise objections : PROTEST

2-down – Lies about the streets : RESTS

3-down – Not married on time, needing something to wear : SINGLET

5-down – Recovers in the showers, say : REGAINS

6-down – Moving back, book an oil change : EMOTIONAL

7-down – In one trial externally the smallest : TINIEST

8-down – Buy tea blended for excellence in looks : BEAUTY

13-down – Steal Arab’s unusual stone : ALABASTER

16-down – The type inclined to emphasise something? : ITALICS

17-down – Witty saying about very good butter substitute turning up : EPIGRAM

18-down – Writing lines : SCRIPT

19-down – One against work with a model : OPPOSER

20-down – Instruction to cancel flat? : NATURAL

23-down – Implied spiteful woman is upset by sex appeal : TACIT

4-across – Nasty skin complaint through sprawling outside : BITCHY

6-across – US barman serves awkward customer – a Yank : SODAJERK

9-across – Horse to take you for a ride? : RINGER

10-across – Barrister has a day to digest case in brief : ADVOCATE

11-across – Family group, mean and furtive : CLANDESTINE

15-across – Catching Hague out, Lib Dem tee-heed : LAUGHED

17-across – Waste time after game swings back : GARBAGE

18-across – Enter finally into agreement in spite of underhand dealings : MALPRACTICE

22-across – Cat with another injury : WHIPLASH

23-across – One may smoke over a packet : FUNNEL

24-across – Mutilated carcases, with initial number up 900, reveal the slaughter : MASSACRE

25-across – Back in bed, sick and wan : PALLID

1-down – Fateful lifeline? : THREAD

2-down – Vamp to make good dilapidated JCB : GOLDDIGGER

3-down – Wreck bears out type of destroyer : SABOTEUR

4-down – Prison term for quack, say : BIRDCALL

5-down – Treat as skin and bone old king denied sustenance : TANTALUS

7-down – Test for PM? : EXAM

8-down – Look up an’ doon : KEEK

12-down – Rode southern dales – badly chafed : SADDLESORE

13-down – Paper-chase? : NATIONAL

14-down – Beauty wearing red rose : REBELLED

16-down – House accommodation? : HOMELOAN

19-down – Leg’s game – in car crash with learner : CRURAL

20-down – Reeled from second stomach upset : SWAM

21-down – Likes making nasty remarks : DIGS