Daily Answers

1-across – Function or equation : QUADRATIC

8-across – Unfastened : LOOSE

9-across – Offence : UMBRAGE

10-across – Railway toy : TRAINSET

11-across – Garment behind sporran : KILT

13-across – West Country city : EXETER

14-across – Old bloke : CODGER

16-across – Shipwreck – ungainly clod : HULK

17-across – Meaty Greek fast food dish on a skewer or in pita bread : SOUVLAKI

19-across – Reproduction : REPLICA

20-across – Fish basket : CREEL

21-across – Rodgers and Hammerstein ‘floral’ song : EDELWEISS

1-down – Sovereign among stingers? : QUEENBEE

2-down – Talisman : AMULET

3-down – Red : RUBY

4-down – Translucent sheets on which one draws : TRACINGPAPER

5-down – Seat – late Labour MP’s seat : CHESTERFIELD

6-down – Supermodel? : CLOTHESHORSE

7-down – Event temporarily bringing night,seemingly,to day : SOLARECLIPSE

12-down – Sentences : CONVICTS

15-down – Native of Mogadishu? : SOMALI

18-down – Prospect : VIEW

1-across – Neat : ANTE

3-across – Browned,with a crust of breadcrumbs and cheese : AUGRATIN

9-across – Ship setting sail from Southampton on Apr 10,1912 : TITANIC

10-across – Aura : VIBES

11-across – Fleeting : BRIEF

12-across – Risk : MENACE

14-across – California amphitheatre at which the Beatles played : HOLLYWOODBOWL

17-across – Illuminated at dusk : TWILIT

19-across – Tenth Greek letter : KAPPA

22-across – Supposedly responsible person : ADULT

23-across – Worker in brass : BRAZIER

24-across – US lawyer : ATTORNEY

25-across – Internal combustion engine pioneer : BENZ

1-down – German highway system : AUTOBAHN

2-down – Ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region : TUTSI

4-down – Toe-curling – cramped : UNCOMFORTABLE

5-down – Tower of London resident bird : RAVEN

6-down – Quid : TOBACCO

7-down – Something that smells : NOSE

8-down – Disdainful : SNIFFY

13-down – Prison off San Francisco : ALCATRAZ

15-down – Case : LAWSUIT

16-down – Harsh penalty imposed upon defeated party : DIKTAT

18-down – Alert : LATER

20-down – First : PRIME

21-down – Infatuated – ‘Lady’ of pop? : GAGA

1-across – Undergarment with narrow shoulder straps : CAMISOLE

5-across – Coalition : BLOC

9-across – Pause mark : COMMA

10-across – Southeast European republic : CROATIA

11-across – Micromanager : CONTROLFREAK

13-across – Out of the sea,onto the beach : ASHORE

14-across – Fruit vendor : GROCER

17-across – Bundesliga giants : BAYERNMUNICH

20-across – Suspicion : INKLING

21-across – Small wood – one of Academe’s? : GROVE

22-across – Essence : GIST

23-across – Discard overboard : JETTISON

1-down – Crowing chap of the roost? : COCK

2-down – Gargantuan : MAMMOTH

3-down – Dizzy type : SCATTERBRAIN

4-down – Speaker : LECTOR

6-down – Steamed milk coffee : LATTE

7-down – Nuts – biscuits : CRACKERS

8-down – 05/11 : BONFIRENIGHT

12-down – Vegas activity : GAMBLING

15-down – One-eyed giant – Marvel Comics mutant superhero : CYCLOPS

16-down – Deportee,for example : EMIGRE

18-down – Heavens to Betsy! : YIKES

19-down – Broad or mung seed? : BEAN

1-across – Balancing,backflipping and other athletic trickery : ACROBATICS

7-across – Painter’s workshop : ATELIER

8-across – B-bake : KEBAB

10-across – Whirlpool : EDDY

11-across – Handle : DOORKNOB

13-across – Gold bit : NUGGET

15-across – Human being : MORTAL

17-across – At the double – double cuts of meat? : CHOPCHOP

18-across – Vomit : SPEW

21-across – Felon once : EXCON

22-across – Commensurately : PRORATA

23-across – Up to snuff : TICKETYBOO

1-down – Up : AHEAD

2-down – Strap : REIN

3-down – Greyhound-like dog,with silky hair : BORZOI

4-down – Become established : TAKEROOT

5-down – Policy-making group : CABINET

6-down – Portable shrine – box for reserved Eucharist sacrament : TABERNACLE

9-down – Packing substance : BUBBLEWRAP

12-down – Protesting dove? : PEACENIK

14-down – Italian food : GNOCCHI

16-down – Lancashire food : HOTPOT

19-down – Instrument with pedals,keys and hammers : PIANO

20-down – Sepulchre : TOMB

1-across – Fish in Indian cuisine : BOMBAYDUCK

7-across – Painter’s shade? : MAGNOLIA

8-across – Support – actor’s thing : PROP

9-across – Pay attention : HEED

10-across – Medicinal sweet : LOZENGE

12-across – American folk music event with ‘head’ and ‘side’ couples : SQUAREDANCE

14-across – Harmonium or organ keyboard : CLAVIER

16-across – Repeated passage : RIFF

19-across – Short informal message : MEMO

20-across – Describing sports drinks with similar concentration of salt and sugar to the body : ISOTONIC

21-across – Serviette holder : NAPKINRING

1-down – Showy : BRASH

2-down – Cloak : MANTEAU

3-down – Confederate : ALLY

4-down – <span>Red cards – they’re </span><i>Forever</i><span>?</span> : DIAMONDS

5-down – Area where woodland cut back : COPSE

6-down – Online searcher? : GOOGLE

11-down – Result of foul? : FREEKICK

12-down – Morose : SULLEN

13-down – Kenyan capital : NAIROBI

15-down – String quartet member : VIOLA

17-down – Chuck : FLING

18-down – Welsh artist Augustus – US loo : JOHN