Daily Answers

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

1-across – Plant with a sting stuck in the chimney : LABURNUM

5-across – Jack on the way to distant climes? : ABROAD

9-across – Five small English bays suitable for tiny vessels : VEINLETS

10-across – Stuck with History Man : PASTED

12-across – Dexter changing sides develops a delicate touch : LIGHTHANDED

15-across – Catches the blows : HOOKS

17-across – My love, for the record, is starting training as a muscleman : MYOLOGIST

18-across – Measure topless girl by sight : OPTICALLY

19-across – Alien following cat around with hymnal music : MOTET

20-across – Fetch Ron the rum after that : THENCEFORTH

24-across – Pander to wit : HUMOUR

25-across – Small insect, one in a pudding in Chile : SANTIAGO

26-across – Remains of drug in fertilizer : POTASH

27-across – Mechanical writing found to be lacking in diversity : TYPECAST

1-down – Reportedly bright criminal devised means of support : LIVELIHOOD

2-down – Fabulous thornbird holds key to Shropshire town : BRIDGNORTH

3-down – Slater turned up, having been fired again : RELIT

4-down – Free upstanding girl: two students have turned clumsily around : UNTRAMMELLED

6-down – Meeting place with offer of food and lodging : BOARDROOM

7-down – Curse that’s old hat, possibly : OATH

8-down – At Carthage she saw the sights for nothing : DIDO

11-down – Noisy cry said to be caused by a personality trait : IDIOSYNCRASY

13-down – Old curiosities cross to the New World : VICTORIANA

14-down – Two chits – right? – required for the plant : STITCHWORT

16-down – Garden tool Tiger hauled into the Bishop’s office, pursued by Bear? Almost! : SECATEURS

21-down – Archaic song, loud yet madly out of tune : FYTTE

22-down – Buy such talk? : SHOP

23-down – Bellies up! Bit of rudeness : SMUT

1-across – Blue swallow found on shed : DOWNCAST

5-across – Managed to cheat millions by chance : RANDOM

9-across – Scold great man touring the West End : TERMAGANT

11-across – Spike is to pop back round : PITON

12-across – Somewhere between flights, bar which pilots use? : LANDINGSTRIP

15-across – Some pianoforte chords reverberate : ECHO

16-across – Running water experiment for use in manufacturing : INDUSTRIAL

18-across – Where, on sea-battered point, you get back trouble? : EASTANGLIA

19-across – Kiss a number, coming back round after that : NEXT

21-across – Sensuous performance, gut reaction to good news? : BELLYDANCING

24-across – Can return in American groups : UNITS

25-across – Imagine going to dig being fantastic? : DREAMLIKE

26-across – The most sensible sink is French : SAGEST

27-across – Bones and leeks cooked by weight : SKELETON

1-down – Tax office : DUTY

2-down – Caution if climbing pole and inexperienced : WARN

3-down – Credit note with tax on is for neckwear : CRAVAT

4-down – Rule about GI with gun, trained and acting as a sentry : STANDINGGUARD

6-down – Pop up and put it in fitting : APPOSITE

7-down – Decide you need time at home when caught in the act? : DETERMINED

8-down – Manage to improve upon lap a minute : MANIPULATE

10-down – Insincere language invol-ved with insolence : TONGUEINCHEEK

13-down – In this area theres a house Bert rebuilt : HEREABOUTS

14-down – Cheating companion, one taking money : CHISELLING

17-down – Songs about plays in Greek island : CALYPSOS

20-down – Brutal for a short time? Thats up to Capone : ANIMAL

22-down – Student first to reach table : LIST

23-down – Japanese buyer about a quarter interviewed : SEEN

1-across – Prove right, merely by changing book to Kipling poem : JUSTIFY

5-across – One disposing of irritations following Labour Party round : FLYTRAP

9-across – Express boarded by Latin Society : WORLD

10-across – Magistrate’s conflicting votes left America in recession : PROCONSUL

11-across – Big, big band in organ rendition : BROBDINGNAGIAN

13-across – Serviceable fellow rejected northern banker : OUSE

14-across – War and Peace personified: not I – the king’s old gamekeeper : WARRENER

17-across – Round the twist or up the pole? : DUENORTH

18-across – The Animals may initially make a persistent noise! : ZOOM

21-across – Besotted, they pop without introduction up chapel! : THEHAPPYCOUPLE

23-across – Great conqueror’s kiss collected by a beautiful youth : ALEXANDER

24-across – Essential part finally bottled? : VITAL

25-across – Clear drama enacted on court? : NETPLAY

26-across – Fool’s eating bitter plant off the wall! : BERSERK

1-down – Two little women with start of lock jaw : JOWL

2-down – The lead for which one was unprepared? : SURPRISEELEMENT

3-down – Badly behind, missing third payment, ultimately still owing : INDEBT

4-down – Young professional lady’s ending up tart? : YUPPIE

5-down – In terror, disorderly go to pumps? : FOOTGEAR

6-down – Volunteers of yore, with many suffering : YEOMANRY

7-down – Chambers won’t have an entry here, if you’re lucky! : RUSSIANROULETTE

8-down – One retiring medic follows another back into queue behind Dad – or Mum, for example : PALINDROME

12-down – Commercial transport showing considerable stress : GOODSTRAIN

15-down – Number 50 secures bye to last place in quarter-final – my pleasure! : NOTATALL

16-down – Like a fool, puts up with way layabout behaves : STUPIDLY

19-down – That is a horse beetle : SCARAB

20-down – Show fear – this is a case for Robin Hood : QUIVER

22-down – Adverse criticism almost to the end of the scale : FLAK