Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Darling, did you hear the disgraced cricketer’s defence? A Welsh address produced all the starred items : JOHANNSEBASTIANBACH

11-across – ‘As to be gloss, then: display enthusiasm about it : SAINTMATTHEWPASSION

13-across – Have valedictions the power to give vegetables to insect, … : PEASANT

14-across – … a flower to the English … : EASTER

15-across – … and beans for the drinker? : COFFEE

17-across – Fibre for mats is a luxury : SISAL

19-across – To cry uncertainly, perhaps, may be judicious : SOBER

20-across – Like the little ball pusher supplied to Home Guard? : SPHERULAR

22-across – Always a sweater for father? Yes, as long as the pea-green boat was at sea : AYEARANDADAY

24-across – One who speaks 10 at this time : ORATORIO

26-across – The typical fool on the British road : BMINORMASS

27-across – Dispute about aristocrat and aristocratic? : ARTOFFUGUE

30-across – Boggled about recipe with varying variations : GOLDBERG

31-across – One with child – pregnant – lies sick : SINGLEPARENT

32-across – Invalid objects, sick at international body’s backing for restraints : NULLITIES

35-across – Shoot bird in bed : LAYER

36-across – Economist, if professional, would be one who takes the pledge : MISER

38-across – Someone of importance at home to the Queen : ERNEST

40-across – Seasonal pudding could be meat in an alien faith : FLAMBE

41-across – Have chips with it? It sounds a foolish trick : SILICON

44-across – A gate the Communist leader formerly had a right to : BRANDENBURGCONCERTO

45-across – Water supply at beauty spot: Communist has one in Dundee’s house : WELLTEMPEREDCLAVIER

1-down – Riding habits from English public house in the sticks? : JOSEPHS

2-down – Town in Israel twinned with Luton, say? : HAIFA

3-down – Object of the beautiful game is one for the girls : NETBALL

4-down – Silence at the back! It’s sunk : SHAFT

5-down – Speak live, breaking embargoes, something like French in the kitchen-garden? : BUTTERBEANS

6-down – S-Scotsman about to think in French like the Fairy Queen? : SPENSERIAN

7-down – Mark, the journalist, announces himself : IMPRESS

8-down – Channel of exorbitant payment for bouquet : NOSE

9-down – Do I have permission to proceed, buddy? : AMIGO

10-down – As much of a trouble as I can get a grip on? : HANDFUL

12-down – Released upwards: nothing remains for the chase : DEERFOREST

16-down – Driver gets encouragement to contain a disturbance : CHARIOTEER

18-down – One posing as police? O no! : SPECIAL

19-down – Clever about addition at home and home is a bank : SANDMARTIN

21-down – Biscuit cooked at a fair : RATAFIA

22-down – Advocates of catharsis first of importance in glasses : ALBIGENSES

23-down – Figures in tomboy’s rhyme : RHOMBOI

25-down – Russian boy raised among scientific researchers is putting the clock back : REGRESS

28-down – Game astronomer swallowing nasty bug gets the shakes : RUGBYLEAGUE

29-down – Range of force for computer operator, a country dweller : FIELDMOUSE

33-down – Protracted acknowledgment of medieval weaponry : LONGBOW

34-down – An umbrella not altogether necessary under the sun – hence belladonna and chips? : SOLANUM

36-down – Mother, reportedly a deprived person, gets some stick : MALACCA

37-down – Ill-feeling was current, partly so, without love : RANCOUR

39-down – Poles suffer from exponent of go-slow : SNAIL

41-down – Someone who turns to ice and grits his teeth? : STOIC

42-down – Welsh friend’s expressed surprise at soldier : CORGI

43-down – Alter the ebb? : EDIT

1-across – Grace-and-favour water tower offered with ice bath : FORWHATWE

6-across – One propelling through the prison system? : SCREW

9-across – Old Bill, the past and former king : ONCER

10-across – Hazel’s assailant, a madman we find despicable : NUTWEEVIL

11-across – See 1 : AREABOUTTO

12-across – Neat how it adds up : STOT

14-across – See 1 : RECEIVE

15-across – Palindromist’s punt? : EACHWAY

17-across – At which point, wife confronts her age : WHEREON

19-across – No amateur supporter, ‘e would find it insulting : PROFANE

20-across – This depends on the listener : LOBE

22-across – ____, 17 the 8 21 : IKNOWABANK

25-across – Ordain him, for example, at church : PRONOUNCE

26-across – Stalk the prince and the baker’s daughter : PROWL

27-across – Cultist seeking return of an emperor : RASTA

28-across – Inspire once to have me bear the disruption : EMBREATHE

1-down – Did she grow to support the Young Pretender? : FLORA

2-down – A la what, Marcel? Bit over the top, isn’t it? : RECHERCHE

3-down – Add herb oil, mixed and seasoned : HARDBOILED

4-down – Distress you, brother? Bit over the top, isn’t it? : TONSURE

5-down – Otorhinolaryngologists here let one out on licence : ENTITLE

6-down – Slant society put on the royal bloomers : SKEW

7-down – Take top off evergreen with hammer : RIVET

8-down – Something of the 1 down’s rave-up, say? : WILDTHYME

13-down – The fruit of smelted copper slag : SCROGAPPLE

14-down – It goads horses to take up slower jumping! : ROWELSPUR

16-down – How do you fancy women? That could be tabu, love! Put a lid on it! : WHATABOUT

18-down – Refusnik’s Nietzschean input means nothing at all in Natal : NIKSNIE

19-down – Saw something of Solomon : PROVERB

21-down – Forces out air disasters : BLOWS

23-down – Minogue’s missile one found in a Scottish strait : KYLIE

24-down – Mrs Copperfield’s war-time confinement measure : DORA

1-across – They aren’t given to hide, say, in transports : VEGANS

4-across – See 6 : BARRETT

9-across – Cones indicate use of dak, sorrow resulting : ROADWORKS

10-across – Place for food and a smoke : JOINT

11-across – Happy scene provided by do-it-yourself students : IDYLL

12-across – Coming into range, a demon drink : ORANGEADE

13-across – Endless impertinence got up to mortify : NECROSE

15-across – Sikh will say what is to follow : SEQUEL

17-across – Don’t allow Scots lad a weight : BANTAM

19-across – Chap involved with girl left out of the picture : GRAPHIC

22-across – Rustic takes tea with western philosopher : CHAWBACON

24-across – Mount with drum : TABOR

26-across – Speak without reservation : UTTER

27-across – Dissolving a beer in it to get drunk : INEBRIATE

28-across – Visualise deposits in money? : FORESEE

29-across – Dress right for B and 23 : ROBERT

1-down – B of play in play : VERSION

2-down – Associate of B in train or boat : GRAVY

3-down – Innovative railway station at centre of spiral : NEWELPOST

4-down – Ticket to ride? A kiss – well in! : BUSPASS

5-down – Change arrangements relating to dance : REJIG

6-down – B, English, with revolutionary rabble at the Ritz : ELIZABETH

7-down – Reel in the summer when up? : TOTTER

8-down – Bird has to be about doubly kin to B : BROOKE

14-down – Bill is indeed a peculiar person : CHARACTER

16-down – Thrice prefixed in size of paper, ending in 45 minutes? : QUARTERTO

18-down – User of B with feature, for example, of the aristocracy in a way : MACHINE

19-down – See 18 : GUNNER

20-down – What householder pays for a dog at present? : CURRENT

21-down – Bit of neck, namely what may go round it : SCRUFF

23-down – 8’s said to be doubly kin to B : BURNS

25-down – One of the second water, doubly kin to B : BLAKE

1-across – Essential to beat retreat in opposite direction : MATERIAL

5-across – Flower rented 1 across : CAMLET

9-across – 1 across : DUNGAREE

10-across – A renegade like Turner’s 1 across : SATARA

11-across – 1 across quickly drapes large room : SHALLOON

12-across – 1 across student interrupts visit : POPLIN

14-across – One spotting gull’s 1 across : SEERSUCKER

18-across – Beauty surrounds fabulous creature at 1 across : BROCATELLE

22-across – Nothing to add about 1 across : MUSLIN

23-across – Election results in 1 across : COTELINE

24-across – Postman’s 1 across : SENDAL

25-across – 1 across made in Belize : ZIBELINE

26-across – Extra points for 1 across : MOREEN

27-across – Hellenic-styled 1 across : CHENILLE

1-down – Instant food is fashionable : MODISH

2-down – Helmet that takes in : TINHAT

3-down – Join again in truth : REALLY

4-down – Wind up and it turns : ANEMOMETER

6-down – Something very similar to behold in a fever : ANALOGUE

7-down – Thin as marijuana : LEAFLIKE

8-down – Mostly concise about wet footwear : TRAINERS

13-down – Slatternly one cut up in short pieces : TROLLOPISH

15-down – A crowd hoisted a whole cow’s stomach : ABOMASUM

16-down – Killer is jail-bird with love for right : POISONER

17-down – A penny damages – jolly steep : MARINADE

19-down – Cut new river : SEVERN

20-down – Stuff including top-notch circulation of issue : FILIAL

21-down – A wise renegade keeps quiet : SERENE

1-across – Copper is inserted in a drain in church : PISCINA

5-across – Excavation into unusual heap in the cemetery : EPITAPH

9-across – Show pain about number in favour measured by Beaufort : WINDFORCE

10-across – Possible sequel to extra painting : MURAL

11-across – One that has got into corruption causes disturbance : RIOT

12-across – Charge a supporter opposed to a holiday area : COSTABRAVA

14-across – Far off assistance, I’m sorry to say : AFRAID

15-across – Some pictures are : ILLUSED

16-across – Fellow-worker is compelling without one : COAGENT

18-across – No.1 sage is in point : WISEST

20-across – Dogfish : NURSEHOUND

21-across – Very considerable backing for a stone : MEGA

24-across – Confederate : REBUS

25-across – Is different on a line where summers are similar : ISOTHERAL

26-across – See 16 down : LOCKING

27-across – When my prince will come in the form of a samoyed : SOMEDAY

1-down – The captive monarch: she’s kept in a mount : POWER

2-down – Number 4’s out of order : SUNROOF

3-down – Unreliable for a brief moment when leaderless : IFFY

4-down – State in exposure : AIRCONDITIONING

5-down – Choose endlessly well-to-do former partners without name : EEECTRICWINDOWS

6-down – Stop the crowd within roughly two miles : IMMOBILISE

7-down – The atmosphere is captivating : AIRBAGS

8-down – It’s two thirds empty and lies low : HOLLAND

13-down – Premier musician keeps one ward diverted : PADEREWSKI

16-down – Little money to get hold of when backing a sovereign : CENTRAL

17-down – People of intelligence about to hole up for a way of keeping fit : AEROBIC

19-down – See 1 : STEERED

22-down – Love in a friend isn’t pure : ALLOY

23-down – A friend much wronged? : CHUM