Daily Answers

5-across – Insignificant river in 2 : TINPOT

6-across – Strong river in 2 : ROBUST

9-across – Country setter has 2 briefly after 11 : MEXICO

10-across – Repercussions from breaking bow in 2 : BLOWBACK

11-across – Tremendous acceleration in 2 : HUGE

12-across – Controlled strictly, say : REGIMENTED

13-across – Fundamentalist belief of Zionist, sadly beheaded in 2 : CREATIONISM

18-across – Bullied by French beast holding one in 2 : BROWBEATEN

21-across – Vocalisation of friendship, when separated : BARK

22-across – Minor annoyance demands slight reduction of cost in 2 : PINPRICK

23-across – Wanting too much from edition in 2 : GREEDY

24-across – Cover over books of empty talk maybe from 10 : HOTAIR

25-across – Humbug puts silver in 2 : BLAGUE

1-down – Contrive to energise with change of polarity : ENGINEER

2-down – After poisonous gas, look black and go red : COLOUR

3-down – Driver to test the golden isle : MOTORMAN

4-down – South African city bar renovated in 2 : DURBAN

5-down – Bound to be busy : TIEDUP

7-down – Just the thing to let one travel : TICKET

8-down – Married criminal’s misplaced article: take leader off for disastrous decision : ABIGMISTAKE

14-down – Primate’s go slow providing appetiser : APERITIF

15-down – Drown in beer mugs, possibly : SUBMERGE

16-down – Spirit of anger enveloping one : WRAITH

17-down – Crossing game : BRIDGE

19-down – American deer to hand back for Italian one : WAPITI

20-down – Slight problem for horse, say, in river : NIGGLE

1-across – Desire to hold member quite close? : WARMISH

5-across – Crossed lines in hospital department after the best tool : PICKAXE

9-across – Cricketer’s ending with an item of his as capital : RABAT

10-across – See 27 : STOPSHERE

11-across – Crook lied and inmate murdered : ELIMINATED

12-across – Black and white monster caught about half way across zebra crossing, knocked over : ORCA

14-across – Bank part of this 2 1, perhaps? : UNDERGROUND

18-across – Great floods possibly dispersing — about time! : SPRINGTIDES

21-across – See 6 : AWAY

22-across – One in a suit after a short cut, a banker no more : BOBDIAMOND

25-across – Raw egg I flipped onto granny’s back — that being the plan! : ITINERARY

26-across – One’s served time as a political defector, perhaps? : EXCON

27-across – County requiring supreme woman to get in there — reminder on president’s desk? : THEBUCK

28-across – See 14 : NETWORK

1-down – See 2 : WARREN

2-down – Teacher fighting for accommodation in rent review — 27 10 : RABBIT

3-down – Two grunting bonkers — that’s worth a look : INTRIGUING

4-down – Underwear on a prophet : HOSEA

5-down – One, before entering upcoming depression, was enterprising : PIONEERED

6-down – No players available then, but a solitary person? : CAST

7-down – Those of similar maturity go and argue about pedantries, primarily : AGEGROUP

8-down – Looker that’s sweet? : EYECANDY

13-down – Drop in here to see publicist : PRESSAGENT

15-down – Same symbol, man underlining it in black : DITTOMARK

16-down – Writer, for example, is inset, surprisingly : ESSAYIST

17-down – I earn : URBANITE

19-down – Boss hot on composer, unpinned? : HONCHO

20-down – Good, unpleasantly wet, small bottled port : GDANSK

23-down – Make money as senior master? : DOYEN

24-down – Lover’s front talked about : BEAU

1-across – Thrower thrown into former heaven : OTHERWORLD

6-across – Indefinite number repeated — about £1000 — for amateur sport centre : TWICKENHAM

13-across – Motorist’s message with flower : CARDRIVER

14-across – Sunday opening with French pontiff and cardinal smoothed over : SANDPAPERED

15-across – Make a face and be sick — over here best? : LEERAIL

16-across – Unoriginal opening to short story : STALE

17-across – Sadly I 38 with 35 Sicilian raised as 27 : PERDITA

18-across – Beast : OXUS

19-across – Girl keeping grannie in Malaysia : PENANG

20-across – Kept being precipitated, holding space traveller : RETAINED

23-across – I’m sure there were plots to be formed to cover up stealing the gold : CONSPIRACYTHEORIST

29-across – See 38 : PADDINGTON

30-across – Cocktail mixer like this during another day : WHISKYSODA

31-across – Direction of the 7 16 with one extra variant, including nearly clean baby dressed in leather : EXITPURSUEDBYABEAR

35-across – Nothing for one in preliminary selection — haven’t had it for ages! : LONGLOST

38-across – 31: leave London for the West Country : DEPART

40-across – Member without water supply due? Well I’m blowed! : LIMB

43-across – Cat for newspaper girl, a cheap toy : RAGDOLL

44-across – Just arrived in store — hopeless situation : NOWIN

45-across – Retiring for good, pupil leaves English school for African capital : YAOUNDE

46-across – Blitz ending, the wise talked about witticism on one visit in relation to infectious disease : ZYMOTICALLY

47-across – Most science fiction with coarse, slightly twisted cover is given a terrible time : CRUCIFIED

48-across – Greek play, sly one, exposed layers of feminism : LYSISTRATA

49-across – Indulgence in unsuitable liquor — note, it didn’t shorten his life! : METHUSELAH

1-down – Colossi left floundering manage with electronic test instrument : OSCILLOSCOPE

2-down – Columbine’s setting with 60% of aquilegias — harden off : HARLEQUINADE

3-down – Study again before entering the cooler : REREAD

4-down – Pioneer in the air or 6.50 Grade correct : ORVILLEWRIGHT

5-down – Novel heroine goes topless in Greek city : LARISSA

7-down – When beginning to bury time? : WINTER

8-down – Competent to have return of one penny rather than pound fully covered : CAPAPIE

9-down – Sovereign dropping sovereign : EMPORIA

10-down – Queen of 7 16, being solitary, didn’t finish one : HERMIONE

11-down – Heart of the country cares about dead American city : MIDLANDS

12-down – Householder is French, carrying load : ESCARGOT

21-down – Quizmaster doctoring around hospital unknown : SPHINX

22-down – One with the skill to break the ice : TECHIE

24-down – Reptile taking first persons’ flower : CROCUS

25-down – Disapproval shown to ex-president should bear fruit : RASPBERRYBUSH

26-down – Cross between husky and Labrador in space? : SKYLAB

27-down – Opera of the second class, hardly original, going over the edge : BOHEMIANGIRL

28-down – Very little space for food — I thrash wildly about : HAIRSBREADTH

32-down – Rules about fish in byroads? : SIDEWAYS

33-down – Match for 17 flourished at last in the window : FLORIZEL

34-down – Almost loveless marriage within tribe — directions for closing stages : ENDGAMES

36-down – Put Christmas back for 10’s man : LEONTES

37-down – Sun on tree should cheer one up : SOLACER

39-down – God takes suffering with style : PANACHE

41-down – Low-down ornament showing insect eating up deer : ANKLET

42-down – Jug fully given to prejudice : TOBIAS

1-across – Tolerably recompensed men domiciled abroad : MIDDLEINCOME

8-across – Space in vehicle for the French man of the match? : LEGROOM

9-across – Justifiable apprehension of dandy taking possession of car I wrecked : FAIRCOP

11-across – Second one individually removed from buffoonery in disorder : ILLNESS

12-across – Familiar face : REGULAR

13-across – Capital I in item of furniture : SOFIA

14-across – Female rep actor reaped second harvest : AFTERCROP

16-across – Undiplomatic about monarch’s rash : IMPRUDENT

19-across – Trainee rebel given time : CADET

21-across – Win admiration of conscript : IMPRESS

23-across – Slate educated business person in terminal : LAMBAST

24-across – Picture house where everything’s in grey, funnily … : GALLERY

25-across – … a cinema having turned pale : ANAEMIC

26-across – Possible description of thinker, toff and priest in brown : ARISTOTELIAN

1-down – Holiday destination for a chick wearing hand-warmer? Not quite : MAGALUF

2-down – Rising, also, to introduce Eastern instrument with strings — and guts! : DUODENA

3-down – Deposit tale about spirit : LIMESCALE

4-down – Draw conclusion that’s right about far right, formerly : INFER

5-down – Hanger-on’s about to hang on : CLINGER

6-down – Spotted Mum adjusting a curl : MACULAR

7-down – Murdered fence — by Spooner’s account, a simple matter : PLAINSAILING

10-down – 26s about to reference proboscis-owner with elephant’s head in footnote : PERIPATETICS

15-down – Turn on poorly-fed bird first : TITILLATE

17-down – Extreme uprising internally democratic : POPULAR

18-down – Lousy tennis player previously entering America : USELESS

19-down – Apparently gay terrorists once raised drink : CAMPARI

20-down – Bearer of barrels of fragrant oil covering girl up : DRAYMAN

22-down – Authorisation expresses nothing : SAYSO

1-across – Large flat round burger — ultimately good North American food : CORNDOG

5-across – See 23 : CHICKEN

10-across – Danke translated almost as German vehicle : MERC

11-across – That which controls temperature by a few switches about right? : THERMOSTAT

12-across – Swan in prison, no finale for Shakespearean actor : JACOBI

13-across – Chinese food : MANDARIN

14-across – Cheap rope, funny in knots : FOURPENNY

16-across – See 23 : FRIED

17-across – Baby son on show : SPROG

19-across – Personnel not quite catching on, journalist incapable in the end, picking nothing up? : STONEDEAF

23-across – Here crunchiest kind of battered North American food : SOUTHERN

24-across – Writer munching food so unnatural? A North American food : BIGMAC

26-across – Rejecting dog, gourmet after milky mixture including eggs for a start, as North American food : KEYLIMEPIE

27-across – Nation formerly in my command? : IRAN

28-across – Revolutionary, for example, with report to carry : GESTATE

29-across – Virtuous type has a drop hidden away : STASHED

2-down – Herb taking North American food, gobbling horse up : OREGANO

3-down – North American food, bit chipped off? : NACHO

4-down – Cricketers back in the pavilion, or in the field, perhaps? : OUTSIDE

6-down – Hash is on my right, North American food : HOMINY

7-down – Island with something black, another colour featured prominently as well : COSTARRED

8-down – Cut up Paul’s check : EXAMINE

9-down – Many captivated by new image, plan for English town : LEAMINGTONSPA

15-down – Tenant wanted agent to include Turkish capital in search : ROOMTOLET

18-down – Language unit — I await your call? : PHONEME

20-down – Certainly not confirmed as most imperial : NOBLEST

21-down – Quickly found an expert like Fred Astaire? : ATAPACE

22-down – Frog’s uphill walk about 880 yards? : KERMIT

25-down – See 6 : GRITS