Daily Answers

1-across – Utter failure : DEBACLE

8-across – Anchorage Ñ or charge for using it! : MOORAGE

9-across – Include Ñ pen : ENCLOSE

10-across – Ludicrous : RISIBLE

11-across – Less : MINUS

13-across – Ergo : THEREFORE

15-across – Principle church of diocese : CATHEDRAL

18-across – First Greek letter : ALPHA

21-across – Foreboding : OMINOUS

22-across – Belief : OPINION

23-across – Table game : SNOOKER

24-across – Plant attachment for climbing Ñ wisp of hair : TENDRIL

1-down – Vision : DREAM

2-down – Pig meat Ñ essayist : BACON

3-down – Falsifies one’s accounts : COOKSTHEBOOKS

4-down – Emanate : EMERGE

5-down – Group of stars : CONSTELLATION

6-down – Treelike grass : BAMBOO

7-down – Strict : SEVERE

12-down – Thought : IDEA

14-down – Wealthy : RICH

15-down – Select : CHOOSE

16-down – Suit maker : TAILOR

17-down – Rearrange Ñ a holiday place : RESORT

19-down – Coming before Ñ a superior : PRIOR

20-down – Abolish : ANNUL

1-across – Draft – recruit : CONSCRIPT

8-across – New Zealand bird : KIWI

9-across – Tropic – Zodiac sign : CAPRICORN

10-across – Unhappy – university sportsman : BLUE

13-across – Postpone : DELAY

15-across – Refreshment – strike : BUFFET

16-across – Danger : HAZARD

17-across – Required : NEEDED

19-across – Sort of boxer – dog : SHADOW

20-across – Refute : REBUT

21-across – Promise – curse : OATH

24-across – Playwright : DRAMATIST

25-across – Cupid : EROS

26-across – 100th anniversary : CENTENARY

2-down – Spoken : ORAL

3-down – Certain : SURE

4-down – Swindle – uncovered in the courts : RACKET

5-down – Social outcast : PARIAH

6-down – Table game at which Mary Queen of Scots excelled : BILLIARDS

7-down – Quilt : EIDERDOWN

11-down – Completely irresponsible – left : ABANDONED

12-down – Fond attachment : AFFECTION

13-down – Dissuade : DETER

14-down – Sailing boat : YACHT

18-down – Edict : DECREE

19-down – Yield : SUBMIT

22-down – Stupefy : STUN

23-down – Employer : USER

1-across – Direction a compass needle points : MAGNETICNORTH

8-across – Sailor – laid on road : TAR

9-across – Tenure : OCCUPANCY

10-across – Withdraw from : EVACUATE

11-across – Greek portico : STOA

13-across – Protected – unaffected : IMMUNE

14-across – Japanese military dictator : SHOGUN

16-across – Scope – entertainment : PLAY

17-across – Person employed for all kinds of work : FACTOTUM

20-across – Converses about one’s own job : TALKSSHOP

21-across – Was bound to be – caught : HAD

22-across – Vatican building with Michelangelo frescoes : SISTINECHAPEL

1-down – Bishop’s headgear : MITRE

2-down – Rubella : GERMANMEASLES

3-down – Articulate : ELOQUENT

4-down – Provoke : INCITE

5-down – Back of the neck : NAPE

6-down – Be in control of an efficient organisation : RUNATIGHTSHIP

7-down – Farm wagon, subject of Constable painting : HAYWAIN

12-down – Shameless audacity : CHUTZPAH

13-down – Momentum : IMPETUS

15-down – Laurel – girl’s name : DAPHNE

18-down – Fashion – prototype : MODEL

19-down – Italian town producing sparkling wine : ASTI

1-across – Graveyard : BURIALGROUND

9-across – Intended : MEANT

10-across – North American reindeer : CARIBOU

11-across – Partly open : AJAR

12-across – Concluding game in FA competition : CUPFINAL

14-across – Cigarette containing cannabis – jacket : REEFER

15-across – Ask – what the public wants : DEMAND

18-across – Honest – direct : STRAIGHT

20-across – Record : DISC

22-across – Beginning – a letter : INITIAL

23-across – Supple : LITHE

24-across – Person adept at growing plants : GREENFINGERS

2-down – Ignorant : UNAWARE

3-down – Jot : IOTA

4-down – Shop without living quarters : LOCKUP

5-down – Lofty – thin : RAREFIED

6-down – Of town : URBAN

7-down – Bus or sandwich with two levels : DOUBLEDECKER

8-down – Blush-making : EMBARRASSING

13-down – Circle of longitude : MERIDIAN

16-down – Airman : AVIATOR

17-down – Hot-tasting pod : CHILLI

19-down – Collect – more pay : RAISE

21-down – Stop – advertising : PLUG

1-across – Steep – surge : SEETHE

4-across – Accelerate – promotion : STEPUP

9-across – Savings – book : RESERVE

10-across – White heron : EGRET

11-across – Ballroom dance : WALTZ

12-across – Strip – caricature : TAKEOFF

13-across – Newspaper advice feature : AGONYCOLUMN

18-across – Loss of memory : AMNESIA

20-across – Maiden – larva : NYMPH

22-across – Big : LARGE

23-across – Brief look : GLIMPSE

24-across – Petty – base : PALTRY

25-across – Concurred : AGREED

1-down – Scribble : SCRAWL

2-down – Artist’s stand : EASEL

3-down – Where sea meets sky : HORIZON

5-down – Nip : TWEAK

6-down – Do – accomplish – act : PERFORM

7-down – Don’t encourage – delay : PUTOFF

8-down – Anti-submarine bomb : DEPTHCHARGE

14-down – Common – army officer : GENERAL

15-down – End of a flight : LANDING

16-down – Recollect – telephone : CALLUP

17-down – Astute : SHREWD

19-down – Cattle – guide : STEER

21-down – Tree with syrupy sap : MAPLE