Daily Answers

8-across – Bit of adultery? The man’s reason for going red : ERYTHEMA

9-across – Read Help — iPad needs original leads only for charger : RHINO

10-across – Sweet thing, female round JFK? : FLAP

11-across – Padding reply out, she doesn’t end break up : UPHOLSTERY

12-across – Difficult to control increase with compassion : UPPITY

14-across – Part of body found in … : ACHILLES

16-across – Speak from text on the radio — temporary defence : REDOUBT

18-across – Be faithful to start of Block-Heads cutting Laurel and Hardy’s final pieces : STANDBY

21-across – Launcher of old institute, within Ed’s charge, having lost vote : BALLISTA

23-across – See 14 : TENDON

24-across – It might be used when picking up it girl? Work on love first : OOPSADAISY

26-across – See 10 : JACK

27-across – European measurements written round collar : SEIZE

28-across – Exposed in Which? — Oil of Olay eau conclusively invented without signs of aging : YOUTHFUL

1-down – Slip out of place for endless sex after drink : PROLAPSE

2-down – See 17 : STOP

3-down – Don’t judge a book by its cover — Playboy seeks it in nude spread : BEAUTY

4-down – One stops slips — bowled at helmet taking maiden : BATHMAT

5-down – Spoken occasionally within four walls : ORAL

6-down – Intimate Secrets blue movie, at last — left pub to provide case : DIRTYLINEN

7-down – See 20 : MONROE

13-down – See 3 : ISONLYSKIN

15-down – Sexy entertainer’s no saint : HOT

17-down – Picture small cleavage for breast augmentation … : BUS

19-down – … its members might get a reduced volume in breast, admitting bad luck : BOOKCLUB

20-down – My minor role playing with an actress : MARILYN

22-down – Animate musical without limits : AROUSE

23-down – Test score — dismissed : TRYOUT

25-down – See 3 : DEEP

26-down – Furnish my lover’s toilet : JOHN

8-across – Working hours critical for one of those depressed in the office? : SHIFTKEY

9-across – Lines shot past author : POETRY

10-across – Hot hole, painting walls : ARDENT

11-across – Capital city finally being rebuilt, unlike others : ATYPICAL

12-across – He wrote for the keyboard, by the way : BYRD

13-across – Top gun, one nodding furiously? : HEADBANGER

15-across – Index finger in dog : POINTER

16-across – Bound to accommodate a lodger : BOARDER

18-across – Moving flat? : PEDESTRIAN

19-across – Tease the fool : TWIT

20-across – Organisation where one gains notoriety moving towards the sinister? That just about encapsulates it : THEMAFIA

22-across – Tabour playing with a flexible tempo : RUBATO

23-across – Bird from the East concealing no alias : ANONYM

24-across – State finally cutting parental counselling service? That’s the limit! : DEADLINE

1-down – In theory this might, oddly, upset a youngish adult : THIRTYSOMETHING

2-down – Positionally, 22 characters are private and virgin is sweet : AFTERDINNERMINT

3-down – Sailing boat passing through the rest of the Balearics dropping stern, as most rough : SKETCHIEST

4-down – Riser rising around end of day, then trouble set for the night? : PYJAMAS

5-down – Fix top of shin, then foot : SPAY

6-down – Rough stuff faced, jagged edges in the way among remnants of building : DESIGNERSTUBBLE

7-down – Since tears twice patched up, clothes so low maintenance? : CREASERESISTANT

14-down – Stiff source of fibre : BROWNBREAD

17-down – Satellite with a moon : MIRANDA

21-down – For starters flipping unnecessary, muttering expletives in rage : FUME

1-across – Fletcher’s cellmate stole 50 German variations : GNEWBERG

5-across – Poet translates Lorna Doone’s first letter : ARNNEW

9-across – Drain Scotch? Feel benefit mostly : ENFEEBLE

10-across – Stop early during strike : HNEWIT

11-across – Weathermen occupy steelworks : ELEMENTS

12-across – Up out of bed but not here, so I’m told : AWEIGH

14-across – Actor can these days cram in the worst parts : JOHNCLEESE

18-across – Wealthy comic holds deposit back for The King’s Speech feature : THEROYALWE

22-across – Northwest town’s clapped-out transmitter : NEWHAM

23-across – Maidenhead exports English cask to East Jerusalem, say : HYMNTUNE

24-across – Refurbish room with centre of column in gilt : ORMOLU

25-across – Motorway load diverted through former European principality : MNEWAVIA

26-across – Carpets Sunday school instals without warning : SCNEWS

27-across – Watch man that goes into orbit : EYEPIECE

1-down – Turn left to study appearance of 24 : GNEWEN

2-down – Hug lovelorn idiot in close : ENFNEW

3-down – Picked up rock, a comparatively heavy type : BNEWER

4-down – Both sides take ecstasy first of all, showing kinship : RELATIONAL

6-down – Extensions to do with north Wales ground : RENEWALS

7-down – Harry told his granny: I’m boring grandad : NEWTIMER

8-down – Stop city centre hotels blocking upland : WITHHNEW

13-down – Sign for forward exclusively — Wayne Loony, perhaps? : ONEWAYONLY

15-down – Tinny PA’s last to be scrapped in South America : STANNOUS

16-down – Actor Gary goes round without granny : NEWWOMAN

17-down – Argue about Manchester City’s old rules : ROMANLAW

19-down – Loud start, awfully loud middle, quiet close : FNEWUP

20-down – Philosopher accepts 5 euros for Joe’s 4WD : HUMVEE

21-down – Odzooks! Look up for the last time : NEWAGE

1-across – Small town clamour : BORODIN

5-across – Modern contacts from Sliema : EMAILS

8-across – Got rid of Times boss? : ERASED

13-across – Freedom that’s tolerated to excess : LICENCE

14-across – Criminal’s vehicle? I don’t believe it : GETAWAY

15-across – Island work out — Georgia goes missing : ARRAN

16-across – He puts down corded material by sideboard with no top : REPRESSER

17-across – Leading industrialist books house exchange on Thursday : INTHESOUTH

19-across – Killed — left missing out east by partners : SAINTSAENS

21-across – Cruel fellow, sober first : SADIST

25-across – Fruit and nuts topped : ANANAS

26-across – I performed outside Orcadian brae : MASKARADE

28-across – Snack counter spoken of at ski lift : TBAR

32-across – Foreign articles — new shoe and new trousers : LEDERHOSEN

33-across – Countryman going west taking in most of Athens, touring : EGDONHEATH

35-across – Fishing area could be Dover? : SOLE

36-across – Keeps poor Roy inside around start of year : HARYJANOS

37-across – Large male kangaroo born just after WW2? : BOOMER

39-across – Appeal Ms Black left out, reverting to type : ITALIC

41-across – Cover a hawk broke to cause damage : WREAKHAVOC

46-across – Puritan pocketing popular church gold : PRINCEIGOR

47-across – Island with volume ten : CAPRICCIO

49-across – Otterden is going out on Sunday : HOLST

50-across – Enright edited : THERING

51-across – Coppers in capital, detailed : SMETANA

52-across – Baltic Queen? : ESTHER

53-across – Old charioteer lost heart : WAGNER

54-across – Ruin half of Rhodes and Ilium : DESTROY

1-down – Could be Anderson without a wicket, starting over : BOLERO

2-down – Astronaut turns up and covers the ground again : RECAPS

3-down – 24’s patriarch came up, cleaving sword : DANSEMACABRE

4-down – Dogs spring off to heart of Kent : NIELSEN

5-down – Break galley up — bit by bit : ELGAR

6-down – A parody — 49 composed : ALTO

7-down – Sounds from the herd reach into the wood : LOWINGS

9-down – See 6 : RHAPSODY

10-down – Former captain will find out about abstract art : STRAUSS

11-down – Fishtail in shabby boat : DINGHY

12-down – Next to his body, feet moved : BYTHESIDEOF

18-down – Footballer’s streams : BECKS

20-down – Dignified introductions to services taken in cathedral : STATELY

22-down – Song thrush is off, finally : MAVLAST

23-down – Solo was first up : HANDEL

24-down – Country folk now living in Grantchester : ARCHERS

27-down – Toddler’s bedtime story of a good baron in castle : RAGBOOK

29-down – Lines from M*A*S*H : BRAHMS

30-down – No Christmas away for supporters : MONARCHISTS

31-down – Thinkers rebuilding 52 igloos : THEOLOGISERS

34-down – Tailless bird left : RAVEL

38-down – Boycott’s obligation with a DJ? : BLACKTIE

40-down – Short journey apparently on bike : TRIPLET

41-down – Launch site with low take-up period : WOOMERA

42-down – Spenser’s examined and sealed a document : APPOSED

43-down – Cavalryman’s well-heeled — not half! : SPAHEE

44-down – It’s short in duration and made from real ice, out east : ECLAIR

45-down – It’s certainly up with actress who played Lacey : KODALY

47-down – Some tragically going up in smoke : CIGAR

48-down – Sign on, with light infantry first : LION

1-across – Sound warning to fly-tippers in central strip : WAISTBAND

6-across – A shoe back to front, unacceptable : TABOO

9-across – Pointless northern river : NOUSE

10-across – See 26 : TOCONJURE

11-across – Was implausibly perfect individual wearing underwear backwards charged? : AIRBRUSHED

12-across – Change, as turner turns : EDIT

14-across – Stop the music : REFRAIN

15-across – Space rock — sensible to pass round it : STORAGE

17-across – Crazy lovers? : BONKERS

19-across – Variety of techniques allowed in head : PALETTE

20-across – One’s overlooked one’s ground : NOSE

22-across – People are rude about nothing — you can bet on it! : RACECOURSE

25-across – Start cycling to Nigeria : ORIGINATE

26-across – Tommy Cooper? : ANAME

27-across – Desert channel : DITCH

28-across – Plant drug effectively : SPEEDWELL

1-down – Moneylender protected by law on gambling : WONGA

2-down – Hangover cure, medicine for pub, if somewhat contrary? : IBUPROFEN

3-down – Final point speaks of wave crashing on a Phuket beach? : TIEBREAKER

4-down – Someone initially abducted by alien, heading off to see the master : ARTISAN

5-down – Noblewoman expected short game : DUCHESS

6-down – 252 gallons for a fish : TUNA

7-down – Sure to jump : BOUND

8-down – Open present where I’m pointing? : OVERTHERE

13-down – Author, a turkey playing chicken? : NOELCOWARD

14-down – Thug overcome by bird, his men drunk? : ROBINHOOD

16-down – Take turns to make neat? : ALTERNATE

18-down – Great Olympian catching leader in aquatics, American behind swimmer : SEABASS

19-down – Come before partner only starting to withdraw : PRECEDE

21-down – Author like Usain Bolt? : SWIFT

23-down – Top author in part of Surrey : EWELL

24-down – See 26 : WITH