Daily Answers

9-across – Getting the better of times after flying officer’s interrupted trip : OUTFOXING

10-across – How Frost might be said to show poetic device : RHYME

11-across – Heads of schools undecided generally about results produced by cane? : SUGAR

12-across – Dotty insisted on securing medium quality of chicken : TIMIDNESS

13-across – Well advanced range of rocks : FARGONE

14-across – Growing concern about reruns on telly, ultimately : NURSERY

17-across – Maybe that of satellite ring needs reverse particle : ORBIT

19-across – They’ve been found by experienced sailors, say, in waterproofs? : SEA

20-across – Man possibly after large thread : LISLE

21-across – Clears out line of white of the eye : SCLERAL

22-across – Tennis player bottom — potential for show of bloomers : SEEDBED

24-across – Hear radio broadcast runs : DIARRHOEA

26-across – : GIRLS

28-across – To jazz up monster tales, switch start and finish : SPICE

29-across – Second-rate, in the manner of French space dog’s instrument : BALALAIKA

1-down – : BOYS

2-down – Time to get in wiser old hand : STAGER

3-down – Redeploying of troupers, a fancy version of the sack? : FOURPOSTER

4-down – : LITTLE

5-down – Amin’s complaint? Amin’s disrespected in East Indian state : EGOMANIA

6-down – Energy-deficient oil is gloop : CRUD

7-down – Cremation material observed up mountains : PYRENEES

8-down – See 19 across : LEGS

13-down – Sword-holders out for at least $2,000 : FROGS

15-down – Turned good and mature — which is only superficially noble : ROLLEDGOLD

16-down – Give back garland in short measure : YIELD

18-down – Like some vinegar from wood, Mike? : BALSAMIC

19-down – Cheshire town secures groom for Devon resort : SALCOMBE

22-down – Slow movers, having sharp thing wedged in smalls : SNAILS

23-down – Rail links with South American city’s Spanish quarter : BARRIO

24-down – See 27 : DUST

25-down – Bar: right price, but going up : REEF

27-down – Deserters raised, on dry earth, Carmichael’s standard : STAR

1-across – Avoid supplementary measure : SIDESTEP

5-across – Throws out first of couples in Cornish town, not quite retired : EVICTS

9-across – Tree and flower died, protected by second-rate lifesaver, perhaps? : CRASHTEST

11-across – Tyson’s no longer one to bite : CHAMP

12-across – You might bet this model, male model, wearing swine : BOTTOMDOLLAR

15-across – Figure not opening flat : EVEN

16-across – Animal holding breath after one’s flipped over rattlesnake : SIDEWINDER

18-across – Honing work is in the secret of great comedy? : OPTIMISING

19-across – God knocking back port : ZEUS

21-across – Recorder of rainbows, perhaps, got extremes of colour blurred : SPECTROGRAPH

24-across – See 9 : DUMMY

25-across – Plant torn apart in skirmish : MELONTREE

26-across – Read aloud Nameless Seducer from the end : RECITE

27-across – On the contrary, can writer say it’s the source of all our characteristics? : GENEPOOL

1-down – Plunder with the axe? : SACK

2-down – Leonardo assembled wood boxes on the box, no questions asked : DEAL

3-down – Swimming classes? : SCHOOL

4-down – Choose state marines to underline ludicrous cost, which is flashy and highly charged : ELECTRICSTORM

6-down – What was removed by the old Queen’s ablutions? Last of grime, so sweet : VICTORIA

7-down – Domestics, result of prince getting to grips with a princess : CHARLADIES

8-down – Informer revealing the Queen’s into drink and drugs : SUPERGRASS

10-down – 2 with virtual geek before short doze, as web designer : TIMBERNERSLEE

13-down – Somewhat ignored, is no certainty for promotion? Think again : RECONSIDER

14-down – The rig has come loose from the earth’s heat : GEOTHERMIC

17-down – A setter covering your stone — a purple one? : AMETHYST

20-down – See 6 : SPONGE

22-down – See 2 : ORNO

23-down – See 2 : DEAL

1-across – Woman of substance getting spliced twice : BIGAMY

4-across – Bum infiltrating boozer’s district : PARISH

9-across – Knowing about a strip : FLAY

10-across – Great quantities of snow having fallen, goes with the flow : DRIFTSDOWN

11-across – Jester embracing smackhead embracing everything : COSMIC

12-across – Recalling bill to re-route Orinoco to Germany? : CORONOID

13-across – Like ancient city, keeping record of divinatory method : ASTROLOGY

15-across – Newton banged up by psychiatrist : JUNG

16-across – Vile 4 changing hands : FOUL

17-across – Exhausted king turning Tin Man over : KNACKERED

21-across – After being redeployed, take steps to get something made : ARTEFACT

22-across – New song about new realm of fantasy : NARNIA

24-across – Fakes left out of bounds : IMITATIONS

25-across – Den gets cashback : LAIR

26-across – Downy surface for every light sleeper : NAPPER

27-across – Close of play in round valley : CANYON

1-down – Wind machine roars : BELLOWS

2-down – Artist dropping a note about infidels : GOYIM

3-down – Yours truly cutting up laptop for examination : MEDICAL

5-down – Channel with cultural pretensions carrying programme about hospital : ARTERY

6-down – Harden, retaining impression of document : INDENTURE

7-down – Offering to sell fruit to monarch : HAWKING

8-down – Might it result in Omani’s genetic mix-up? : MISCEGENATION

14-down – Agent adopting least repressed style of marching? : ROUTESTEP

16-down – Supervisor’s old enemy bearing right : FOREMAN

18-down – Players absorbing article on a game : CANASTA

19-down – Cutting short commotion raised about Long Island : ELISION

20-down – Man from Chigwell finally penetrating social stratum : CASTLE

23-down – Perk up at demo : RALLY

11-across – Being a parson, I leave 10’s travels — dangerous crack : REVOLVERSHOT

13-across – Grade 0 in 24 to 500 — that’s the lot : WHOLEWORLD

14-across – 10’s naval body to traffic at the new rate — 2 : HULLTRUCKTHEATRECOMPANY

15-across – See 53 : OFTHEBLONDE

18-across – Dangerous beasts — hard to believe food can be bought here : HOTDOGSTALL

22-across – What James turned, say, with very little vetting : SCRUTINY

24-across – Doctor both sides of fingerprint pattern : WHORL

25-across – Part of the sultana is temporarily subordinate to the taoiseach : TANAISTE

26-across – A bit like this catcall on tile? : SOME

27-across – Put ’im underground for the moment : INTERIM

29-across – Good girl’s working brief from light material : GLASSFIBRE

30-across – 10’s look back — heat’s off — Edith eating dirt’s wildly untrue : KEEPTHEASPIDISTRAFLYING

35-across – See 53 : BOMBSHELLS

39-across – I’m on a horse at a point with flags : IRIDEAE

40-across – 10’s Fosdyke has to droop first : SAGA

41-across – Sad case, girl of Veronese family : SCALIGER

42-across – A tax on bikini? : ATOLL

43-across – Chanel had one daughter protected : COCOONED

44-across – 10’s musician to be keeping duck on stream : BEIDERBECKE

46-across – Sort beasts of 18 etc to be print people : TYPESETTERS

49-across – 10’s first nevertheless hit back at listener with audacity, suppressing unbridled lust : ITHOUGHTIHEARDARUSTLING

54-across – 10’s fellow takes 10’s round : MISTERIOSO

55-across – Irreverent — one occasion tender loving care is needed : ICONOCLASTIC

1-down – Snub concerning polish : REBUFF

2-down – 10’s musical to 23, breaking the endless Carousel hoodoo : COAL

3-down – 10’s courage, start to finish: it is the last words of 11 and 14 briefly exalted : AVERYBRITISH

4-down – See 26 : WHAT

5-down – Complete remove then from 10’s work : UTTER

6-down – Tease a donkey : TWIT

7-down – One of 10’s reject’s, maybe at the 18? : DOGEND

8-down – 10’s recent drama’s the goods : BELONGINGS

9-down – See 3 : COUP

10-down – A change of plan in change of playwright : ALANPLATER

12-down – Disaster proclaimed to Conservative in place of parson : RECTORY

16-down – See 2 : HOUSE

17-down – A little water deposited initially in mixed powder : DEWDROP

19-down – POW camp, nothing to what could be expected in 30 : OFLAG

20-down – 10’s tales are in it and attempt to get round it : TRINITY

21-down – 10’s man of war, first of men captured by essayist familiarly : JOEMADDISON

23-down – Capello’s first to be defeated? Not far off : CLOSE

25-down – Horse leaves play scene : TEATREE

28-down – What goes before comes after : TRAILER

31-down – Shakespeare’s shore was at the heart of Cape Bon, somewhere in Slovenia : PEBBLED

32-down – Novel request for silence before breakfast, say? : SHIRLEY

33-down – What you never see in 10’s concept is the 44 people who make arrows move through the air : FLETCHERSFLY

34-down – Even letters of undue grace are trifles : NUGAE

36-down – Almost all of the trick of the lights refers to music or dance : ORCHESTRIC

37-down – Look up what such as 10 are held in : HIGHREGARD

38-down – Muriel’s ignition : SPARK

40-down – See 47 : SCOTT

43-down – Farewell with applause for 10 : CHEERIO

45-down – Object here won’t be subject, as the saying goes — except at 18? : EATDOG

47-down – 10’s second home maker makes 9’s new bed amid rubbish : RONNIE

48-down – Soldier wearing Burberry : MAGIC

50-down – Language of goatherds? : OATH

51-down – Bear up with roller : HOOP

52-down – See 2 : DOOR

53-down – 10’s fair shockers’ model foot : LAST

9-across – Uncomfortable wear, deerskin, for Irish vagrant : HAIRSHIRT

10-across – House with sound of activity that’s boring : HOHUM

11-across – He had no rest, a w-watcher at play : THEHEAD

12-across – Fit man, a model one, without handicap : ATHLETE

13-across – The wrong way to be : EVIL

14-across – Homes for Chinese in Yellow Pages : ORPHANAGES

15-across – Answer to where engineers keep fish? : RESPOND

17-across – One demonstrating to get number on sign in English : MARCHER

19-across – Entry to a ball holding hand : ADMITTANCE

22-across – Rebuff turned up : SNUB

23-across – German decapitated by neighbour : RUSSIAN

24-across – Risk of empire losing article : IMPERIL

26-across – Original question that led model couple of men to Pole, for example with repeated letters : WHICH

27-across – See 26 : CAMEFIRST

1-down – See 11 : THATWEARSACROWN

2-down – Composer’s brother, another with no daughter : SIBELIUS

3-down – Uneasy lies Britain, perhaps : ISLE

4-down – Stopped wild deer chasing mate : HINDERED

5-down – Fix one to race with a companion : ATTACH

6-down – See 26 : THEHENOR

7-down – See 26 : THEEGG

8-down – Vast your skill, reportedly being beyond our reckoning : IMMENSURABILITY

16-down – Umpire’s finger correctly raised? Absolutely : OUTRIGHT

17-down – Characteristic of tough guy, son of his doctor? : MACHISMO

18-down – As a volunteer and not in white? : HONORARY

20-down – Sufi, say, suffers setter’s endless criticism : MYSTIC

21-down – Herbal remedy of Carian origin : ARNICA

25-down – Advertisement for half steam train : PUFF