Daily Answers

1-across – Ran away with the Spanish [This needs work – ed.] : ELOPED

5-across – Comes into home with heartless, reclusive people : INHERITS

9-across – Mythical hunter from America, in American capital : ATALANTA

10-across – Latin song? [Needs rewriting, along with 1 Down] : LOSING

11-across – French composer and wife getting into more hackneyed, factual author : TRAVELWRITER

13-across – Barrack and Michelle ultimately getting huge backing : GIBE

14-across – Bird, one repeatedly around Lake : TITICACA

17-across – Safe king avoids appearance in massacre : PETERLOO

18-across – Expression of understanding [A bit imprecise – ed.] : ISEE

20-across – Energy emission stopped by east German broadcaster : RADIOSTATION

23-across – Conservative, gutless Tory, hosts Posh and Berks? : COUNTY

24-across – Pig covered in fat left for sailors : LARBOARD

25-across – Rule out / what spin doctors do [Faulty clue – ed.] : PRECLUDE

26-across – Prance Harry blog probed by American : GAMBOL

2-down – Departed After the scheduled time : LATE

3-down – Rogue openly wrapping article in packaging material : POLYTHENE

4-down – Scottish king is able to follow horse : DUNCAN

5-down – : IHAVENTGOTACLUE

6-down – Tailor Swift led by prince and idiots : HALFWITS

7-down – Tory Blair finally is given greeting : RISHI

8-down – Trends of new boring scene [Fixed with edit] : TENDENCIES

12-down – At intervals, action seems a viable plan for film buff : CINEMAGOER

15-down – Scottish mountain accountant’s climbing on amazing mornirg : CAIRNGORM

16-down – Oddly bluesy cover of Satchmo giving good wish : BLESSYOU

19-down – Where we get crude lass turning up after cry for attention : OILRIG

21-down – I love mostly pleasant; architectural style : IONIC

22-down – Navy party clothes for a Bond villain : DRNO

8-across – Dealing with awful peril, Scotland’s first responders : REPLIERS

9-across – Car part gets very hot? That’s about right : BRAKES

10-across – Cashback for item in all other across answers here : TOOL

11-across – Maybe one flying header from Silva, as well as Haaland : SANDERLING

12-across – Subsequently catching start of Hollyoaks or frothy soap : LATHER

14-across – Improperly picks up girl, stopped by judge : MISHEARS

15-across – Finale of Platters hit – The Great Pretender? : SHAMMER

17-across – Formal notifications of commercial failings : ADVICES

20-across – This may keep a loafer in shape, or these supply energy : SHOETREE

22-across – What accountant has mishandled – German banks : LEDGER

23-across – Fighters, say, in arena thrashed with poles : AEROPLANES

24-across – Jump on ice in lake to the east of ditch : AXEL

25-across – Pollute Cheshire river with a lot of stuff in it : DEFILE

26-across – Small bird with red bird’s tail getting yanked : WRENCHED

1-down – Note chap going around memorial : CENOTAPH

2-down – Paris Match articles about travel company : ELAL

3-down – Tough puzzle – a stunner inspiring ecstasy : TEASER

4-down – Main event – it’s possibly holding football team back : TSUNAMI

5-down – See boss working last in shipyard, intensely focused : OBSESSED

6-down – Biden, half-intoxicated, gulping large drop back : FALLBEHIND

7-down – Note what e.g. Gloucester manufacturer uses up : TENNER

13-down – Greek writer pocketing ring for the ear, creating excitement on Lesbos? : HOMOEROTIC

16-down – Enlisted soldiers turned up, extremely loyal in dire need : ENROLLED

18-down – Interpreters for one film screened by lovers once : EXEGETES

19-down – Familiar Scottish eminence hosting king currently : BEKNOWN

21-down – Attended to clothing of Hermione Edwards : HEEDED

22-down – Taking time off, I suggest we wait to find out who rents a property : LESSEE

24-down – Bowing is required during Elgar concerto : ARCO

1-across – Almost entirely indifferent about hot drink : ALCOHOL

5-across – Feature of space station bearing feature of door? : AIRLOCK

9-across – Wear down recent royal elegy? : ERODE

10-across – Hesitation entering a US city after smart tricks : CHICANERY

11-across – Wrong engaging in vehicular sex in green belt? : CARBONSINK

12-across – Good spirits from writer having change of heart : BRIO

14-across – Historic Impressionist version of exile in Italy? : OLDPRETENDER

18-across – First concern of slalom contestant? : POLEPOSITION

21-across – Fresh energy after indication of demise? : RIPE

22-across – Finally blue-pencil i.e. b_____, d__ and worse, possibly : BOWDLERISE

25-across – Studies, having ignored one bog, requiring return around a part of South Africa : TRANSVAAL

26-across – Small force blocking river in retreat : ELFIN

27-across – Wonderful start to analysis – our team then associated with mass and energy : AWESOME

28-across – Shakespearean heroine, one failing to complete sea voyage, mostly – Miranda, ultimately? : TITANIA

1-down – Brief comment from person apprehended by a copper : APERCU

2-down – A lot of anger among most of selected singers : CHOIRS

3-down – Running glory in race starts to please healthy character : HIEROGLYPH

4-down – Spot threat to crops – time to get away : LOCUS

5-down – Lamenting perverse political stance : ALIGNMENT

6-down – Ramble a bit – article in memory or nothing in memory? : ROAM

7-down – Give later instructions about deliveries on journey : OVERRIDE

8-down – Important management group is a source of notes? : KEYBOARD

13-down – Study exposed with English blokes in bondage to achieve climax : DENOUEMENT

15-down – Musical piece in examination? Stick around : PASTORALE

16-down – Musical piece to repeat in revised version : OPERETTA

17-down – Investigation after error where books are kept : SLIPCASE

19-down – Appropriate to turn up before end of French colonial meal : TIFFIN

20-down – Breach area in climbing in pursuit of that woman : HERNIA

23-down – Line taken in skilful porcelain : DELFT

24-down – Unaccompanied, but very much upset in this city : OSLO

7-across – Government department taking soldiers to meeting-place : REVENUE

8-across – From the start, roubles usable all round here : BELARUS

9-across – A medic’s a prophet : AMOS

10-across – Easy situation of a criminal catching disease : AFFLUENCE

12-across – One ridden may be brought to shore : HORSE

13-across – Pessimistic, say, in local : NEGATIVE

15-across – Greedy Biblical king losing his head : AVID

16-across – It’s for you once to enter : FOYER

17-across – Yob in school finally excluded : LOUT

18-across – Cabbage or turnip as carbs? I must need correcting : BRASSICA

20-across – Grab bottle to offer head of house : ABBOT

21-across – Exclusive vote that may be taken between the reds : BLACKBALL

22-across – Right at the back in small ferry : RAFT

24-across – The reverse of support? : BACKING

25-across – Motivation of troublemaker at university, a London one : IMPULSE

1-down – A broad smile from Ray : BEAM

2-down – Relaxed – idle? Sure : LEISURED

3-down – Clergyman is to organise an exhibition : CURATE

4-down – Stupidly begrudge person fixing some code : DEBUGGER

5-down – Turning up, keep complaining over trap for seabird : GANNET

6-down – Project to end in multiple sacking, potentially : JUTE

11-down – Amusing : FUNNYHAHA

12-down – Hesitate: it’s hard to be positive : HAVER

14-down – Boast by very close relative : VAUNT

16-down – Female gambling or gambolling? : FRISKING

17-down – Poisonous tree left active? Set fire to ‘em, I say : LABURNUM

19-down – Son has no trousers : SLACKS

20-down – Looking very embarrassed, being licked by tongues? : AFLAME

21-down – Show off black cloth : BRAG

23-down – Don’t eat so quickly : FAST

8-across – Defensive work from a side playing China at first : PALISADE

9-across – It may keep one warm, although one’s not cool : ANORAK

10-across – Awful cakes left with nothing on top : BALD

11-across – Cocktail of lime – men add extra designation : MIDDLENAME

12-across – Cheap old whiskey drunk by Grant : LOWEND

14-across – Artist periodically seeing red frames shows anger : IRRITATE

15-across – Palace of Versailles excursion not finishing soon : TRIANON

17-across – Fish lie low, oddly, in Hants river : TELEOST

20-across – Enormity from rogue seen stopping loving gestures : HUGENESS

22-across – Lots disheartened about novel maths theorems : LEMMAS

23-across – Person who has issue receiving letters about diet : PARLIAMENT

24-across – Republican Party without energy for overhaul : REDO

25-across – Figure Jade knocked back is a greedy so-and-so : GANNET

26-across – Handle thief following specific way of working : MONICKER

1-down – A horny male caught in rain, perhaps Romeo : PARAMOUR

2-down – E.g. part of Leicester thoroughfare sheltering home : RIND

3-down – What musicians perhaps did in heavy traffic at the seaside? : JAMMED

4-down – Rock star’s curse about broken 2 : HENDRIX

5-down – Shopping centre periodically evicted a grimier poet : MALLARME

6-down – With the current drink, master gets hammered : DOWNSTREAM

7-down – Make a mess of French word for rodent : MARMOT

13-down – Nigella mixing with men doing some decorating : ENAMELLING

16-down – Is very theatrical account welcomed by public school’s head? : OVERACTS

18-down – Son walked awkwardly dressed like a baby : SWADDLED

19-down – Thinks a lot of rising stars meet security guards : ESTEEMS

21-down – Statesperson, you heard, thanks Chinese people : UTAHAN

22-down – Shakira, perhaps, or half-cut Lana Turner : LATINA

24-down – Cedric Kane’s 11 : RICK