Daily Answers

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

1-across – Making progress, as are friends? : GETTINGON

6-across – Hit power for light : LAMP

8-across – The Beatles, perhaps, playing for us: Ringo’s back with Paul : FOURSOME

9-across – See 26 : INMIND

10-across – A diminutive left back given yard as room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY

11-across – See 24 : THEMOUTH

12-across – Greek character catching on with a ton of speech sounds : PHONIC

15-across – See 2 : THETOWEL

16-across – Went I re hole? : ALLINALL

19-across – Ease decimal point to the front : SOFTEN

21-across – Dickensian character stretched, say, Elizabeth to become star : BIGTIMER

22-across – M — give it ten? : HANDIN

24-across – Go blue — B? : DOWNIN

25-across – Cut off gent’s ear in a frenzy : ESTRANGE

26-across – B — carry rain? : BEAR

27-across – Sovereign, dirty colour : ROYALBLUE

1-down – See 22 across : GLOVE

2-down – Dr Castier? : THROWIN

3-down – Cream like a Welshman? : IVORY

4-down – Gritty novel about English bird : GREYTIT

5-down – Unable to sniff, possibly, keeping one quiet : NOISELESS

6-down – African river burst through stretched wheels : LIMPOPO

7-down – Platypus, say, hides first of nuggets in low plant, eating McDonald’s : MONOTREME

13-down – Sing Crackle? : HOLEINONE

14-down – Digger, I’m clear, needing no ground : COALMINER

17-down – Extract from chaplain to nervous chanter : INTONER

18-down – Criminal nearly caught for theft of personal property : LARCENY

20-down – Flier takes soldier in crash : FANTAIL

22-down – Books into the infern­al place, though not quite Fawlty Towers, say? : HOTEL

23-down – Exposed to wind, not a place for fire : INGLE

1-across – Demand for many tissues finds selective process unwelcoming : STREAMINGCOLD

10-across – Insect seeking mate between 2 11s : CRICKET

11-across – One of 14 that is appearing soon : EARLYON

12-across – Present of iron from Paris : OFFER

13-across – St Peter, etymologically, to scrub the deck : HOLYSTONE

14-across – House of 9 10 4 : LORDS

16-across – Gets on bad with modifications for 9 10 4 : EDGBASTON

18-across – Start of play on island with flexible toy : ACTIONMAN

19-across – Assume there’s an order to take a pew : POSIT

20-across – Mesopotamian maybe disturbing Abraham’s right : MARSHARAB

23-across – Look to circle on floor : DECKO

24-across – Security device keeps prisoner from drug : SECONAL

25-across – Region of 9 qualification in type of opera : SIBERIA

26-across – Backing slave has always covered platform for the rejuven­ated : FRESHASADAISY

2-down – First-class student on trees races round backwards : TAILFIRST

3-down – English river — English river with gravelly deposit : ESKER

4-down – See 10 : MATCH

5-down – Want walker with 9 body to have Prussian weapon : NEEDLEGUN

6-down – Detective on wheels has instrument for cheat : CARDSHARP

7-down – Moor safely with some booty almost raised : LAYTO

8-down – A lot of fish, a lot of spread, to say nothing prim and old-fashioned : SCHOOLMARMISH

9-down – Confine, at island, Lenin’s first Communist organisation : INTERNATIONAL

15-down – Don’t talk about entering footwear for native Americans : SHOSHONES

16-down – Novel Gypsy damsel wandering outside period : ESMERALDA

17-down – 9 pack to show if TVs are OK : TESTCARDS

21-down – Come again about dog : RECUR

22-down – Nearly illegitimate enough? : BASTA

23-down – Buy wildly into lawyer for president : DUBYA

1-across – What about street in foreign capital providing special accommodation? : RESTHOME

5-across – In geographical circle what’s discussed includes river : TROPIC

9-across – Nun curtailed disturb­ance in crowd : PRIORESS

10-across – One of 4 I learn about : LANIER

12-across – Greeting anything that brings soothing : SALVE

13-across – Enamelware endlessly looked at containing various oils : CLOISONNE

14-across – So to slip cage is a possibility for him? : ESCAPOLOGIST

18-across – Unmistakable narratives may be seen in large American churches? : CLEARSTORIES

21-across – Like some fiction I start to read in French — no good : ALLEGORIC

23-across – Shrewd troublemaker skirting copper : ACUTE

24-across – Group of nine men, one mad — not a leader among them : ENNEAD

25-across – Information’s the thing I have in case : GENITIVE

26-across – Old Persian king with bone half bent back : DARIUS

27-across – Contributes forcibly to argument — makes audible entrances : WEIGHSIN

1-down – About to have something like macaroni? Not a meal! : REPAST

2-down – One of 4 offering protection : SHIELD

3-down – One may be working near horses wanting nothing to drop off : HARNESSER

4-down – Noted schoolteachers? : MUSICMASTERS

6-down – Ways Cecil articulated : ROADS

7-down – Cloakroom fixture securing one black foreign gown : PEIGNOIR

8-down – Spanish explorer stopping short — check inside vessel : CORVETTE

11-down – Navy may be involved in this plan : COLOURSCHEME

15-down – Where you might see aileron move? That can be frightening : OVERAWING

16-down – Get off eating cold scrap that the butcher may supply : SCRAGEND

17-down – German vessel sunk by block of ice almost : BERLINER

19-down – One of 4 loveless relat­ions : CUSINS

20-down – This person being embraced by cleric brings disgrace : DEMEAN

22-down – One of 4 given secure university : GRABU