Daily Answers

1-across – Standard English, presumably, after the 13 17 : QUEENS

4-across – Counters first and second charges, removing their opening : ABACUSES

9-across – Rep can’t be female then? : AGENT

10-across – Maybe the last day to get the hitter hit : THIRTIETH

11-across – Marriage to the listener would be easily broken up : MATCHWOOD

12-across – Substitute to see with : LOCUM

13-across – Say P to end recess : STATEOPENING

17-across – See 13 : OFPARLIAMENT

20-across – What’s left when some are licensed : RELIC

21-across – Sorry the river bird’s 50% fulmar : REGRETFUL

23-across – Fault cured fast with a lot of gas : FLATULENT

24-across – Dog caught by golden soldier : CORGI

25-across – Going on for ever like bare American wheels : TIRELESS

26-across – Provide with information for this at home : CLUEIN

1-down – With misgiving, disallow acceptance of learner on motorway : QUALMISH

2-down – Crushed nut in English meat coming in due course : EVENTUAL

3-down – Score century in another part : NOTCH

5-down – Sudden revelation of dip not being used? : BLINDINGLIGHT

6-down – Region where schizophrenia has change of heart : CATALONIA

7-down – See 1 across : SPEECH

8-down – Plan to understand pronouns? : SCHEME

10-down – Transports scorer with airport organised : TROOPCARRIERS

14-down – Working to replace archdeacon in 2 with very noisy city : EFFECTUAL

15-down – Make holes mostly in church, having no choice : PERFORCE

16-down – Horse’s last chance with cat : STALLION

18-down – Chairperson gets it with advantage : PROFIT

19-down – Island nation topped by Irish star : ALTAIR

22-down – Be more than 40, reportedly : EXCEL

8-across – Hood fortress, we gathered? : SHERWOOD

9-across – Eagle, perhaps, has to crack rock : RAPTOR

10-across – See 24 : RACE

11-across – See 14 : THEFAIRIES

12-across – Frame, almost nothing to carry round a very short distance : ZIMMER

14-across – On holiday in an enchanted garden, say, easily distracted : AWAYWITH

15-across – Occasion for early kicking creating hysteria with child : CHARITY

17-across – Number like itself written in pen : SEVENTY

20-across – Canadian province with idiot president, degree going to head : MANITOBA

22-across – Revolutionary colours invisible for the bloody right-wing politician : SILVIO

23-across – See 22 : BERLUSCONI

24-across – Juvenile competition hurrying along unemployment figures? : SACK

25-across – Unable to conceive aristo getting heard : BARREN

26-across – Herb, reversing into US school, crashed : COLLIDED

1-down – Fairly reasonable collection is taken in church : CHEAPISH

2-down – Figure quoted in Hackney, £ 0.00? : FREE

3-down – See 24 : DOCTOR

4-down – A couple of ways to rise from a gland : ADRENAL

5-down – Animal having to munch through fruit : GREATAPE

6-down – Rep was beaten up with scoundrel, one getting booted : SPAREWHEEL

7-down – See 8 : FOREST

13-down – Singing, one taking transport uphill to see capoeira, say : MARTIALART

16-down – Kinky full S & M : THOUSAND

18-down – Fool, singer and birdwatcher : TWITCHER

19-down – Two Conservative leaders overseeing a holiday destination : MAJORCA

21-down – A celebrity unknown, not written down, becoming killer : AXEMAN

22-down – See 15 : SHIELD

24-down – Rubbish swimmer rushes up to see PR man : SPIN

1-across – Under a captain’s vessel, vary nitrogen : SUBALTERN

6-across – Break horny musician’s back : SNAP

8-across – People treated broadcast as a theatrical work : PATIENCE

9-across – Radium-enriched, inclusive of spirit : WRAITH

10-across – Link broadcast just started before watershed : BRIDGE

11-across – Hold molten lead in wine : HEADLOCK

12-across – Elf, back to front, showing liveliness : ESPRIT

15-across – Prepare sticky mess date to give compensation : MAKEGOOD

16-across – Leader getting to sleep over, initially, with Trotsky? : NAPOLEON

19-across – Philosophy of communist doctrine switching left and right wings : TAOISM

21-across – Difficult answer — bird toiling : HARDATIT

22-across – Attempt to remove government lay school : PUTSCH

24-across – Boundary-less help-a-son city : ELPASO

25-across – Rolls producers using kinetic energy, initially located in Serbia, maybe : BAKERIES

26-across – Heartlessly admitted hadn’t repaid debt : OWED

27-across – So, no problem regarding military command? : EYESRIGHT

1-down – Part of flight with Brummie in lead : STAIR

2-down – Even less able to view outstanding performance : BLINDER

3-down – Push end of toboggan into toboggan : LUNGE

4-down – Days before theatrical Midlands town : EVESHAM

5-down – Meetings here offering up-to-the-minute commercial opportunity : NEWMARKET

6-down – Mollusc in eg summer? Not on tug : SEASLUG

7-down – Racing ace forced out — angry : AUTOCROSS

13-down – Natural harbour dem­ands sun hat on a swimming fowl : SCAPAFLOW

14-down – Retired at end of day in mood for a significant age : TWENTYONE

17-down – Over-fussy type getting on potty holds one : OLDMAID

18-down – Only dining chairs worthy of comment? : NOTABLE

20-down – Show off more old hat, black, worn material : OUTBRAG

22-down – Authorisation put in for each rude attention-seeker? : POKER

23-down – TNT found in Cat and Fiddle : CHEAT

1-across – : MALPLAQUET

6-across – Rose from dessert with cheese recipe : SWEETBRIER

13-across – : GLADSTONE

14-across – : MENDELSSOHN

15-across – : CHARLESDARWIN

16-across – Well bred Pole coming in to obtain fish : GENTEEL

17-across – Philosopher’s right to a cupboard : LOCKER

19-across – : HENRYTHEEIGHTH

23-across – : PROUDHON

25-across – : KWAMENKRUMAH

31-across – : ISAMBARDKINGDOMBRUNEL

32-across – European dog gets on its hind legs without colouring in war time : HUNDREDYEARS

33-across – : TENNYSON

35-across – Society’s answer to copper — gambles cut short by extreme republicanism : SANSCULOTTERIE

39-across – Opposition held during broadcast : SHADOW

43-across – : HOUSMAN

45-across – : EDGARALLANPOE

48-across – Current record made by cool girls next morning : OSCILLOGRAM

49-across – Special sort of care supplied by 5 90s : INTENSIVE

50-across – : METTERNICH

51-across – Look back from secret port : RETROSPECT

1-down – Spelling mistakes in claim about silver : MAGICAL

2-down – Beast climbing the whole morning? : LLAMA

3-down – French explorer in the room : LASALLE

4-down – Scottish ringdove has rings to throw, changing ends : QUOIST

5-down – Leave wandering boy in state of exaltation : ELEVATED

7-down – Player on the side, crazy one that’s soon turned : WINGNUT

8-down – Table decoration from Nigeria raised and protected by sword : EPERGNE

9-down – Dog that doesn’t bark when Franklin’s heard to be about : BASENJI

10-down – Setter’s nobody? Got it straight away! : INONE

11-down – Explorer of the moon turns up at pub : RANULPH

12-down – Bird with smoggy sound? : SMEW

18-down – Sing about great start for early man : CROMAGNON

20-down – Mountain dweller turned gold to poverty in the matter of a drug : ROWANTREE

21-down – Given heart minus head, possibly : HUMANISED

22-down – Muck-up going round or very hot : TORRID

23-down – Rock band in Memphis has heard swimmer send bogus emails? : PHISH

24-down – Prevent distribution of bread : DEBAR

26-down – Married poet’s work in fashion : MODE

27-down – Count with less feeling : NUMBER

28-down – Leaderless country besieged by fleet must have another race : RERUN

29-down – Fleet launcher 5 into bird : HELEN

30-down – Heaven and ecstasy now linked with the mainland : SKYE

34-down – Debilitating pain for poet on aircraft : MIGRAINE

35-down – Silent companion during rising of assemblies : SCHTOOM

36-down – Dumas heroine appeared badly introduced : CAMILLE

37-down – : LINCOLN

38-down – The Greek : THEORIC

40-down – 5 plant from 21 said to be on Cape Cod : HYANNIS

41-down – Which is the situation in bad weather : WHEREAT

42-down – Playwright’s play opening presently : PLATER

44-down – Complete time to replace end of hook : UNCUT

46-down – Handicapped but willing to play : GAME

47-down – : PAINE

7-across – Chinese river carrying cold conveyance to Hades? : HANDCART

9-across – What you shouldn’t do to a part of Ukraine : CRIMEA

10-across – Vegetable’s all right by artist : OKRA

11-across – Dispute with religious recruit swallowing ridiculous rot : CONTROVERT

12-across – What to say when knocking back some pastis or Pernod? : PROSIT

14-across – Result of showing 6 to a time-wasting motorist? : ROADRAGE

15-across – Do one in to get equal status : PARITY

17-across – Male strode around outside, given leave : DECAMP

20-across – Muse pursues rocker’s foe at a steady pace : MODERATO

22-across – Brain-teaser — one among thousands — gains non-English currency : KAKURO

23-across – Demoralise stunner with 10 on organ : DISHEARTEN

24-across – Fuel pipe’s opening provides sudden inspiration : GASP

25-across – Large hole containing backward little bird : PEEWIT

26-across – Poem unfinished in class — lower class : RELEGATE

1-down – Scenery causing medic to interrupt spinal surgery? : BACKDROP

2-down – Woman’s short-range elevation : EDNA

3-down – Instrument of state cutting duck up : LANCET

4-down – Mobster and neckwear supremo : SCARFACE

5-down – Senior primate’s bag containing French pronoun and another part of speech : SILVERBACK

6-down – What to do before re-dropping provocation? : REDRAG

8-down – Academic’s dream of ancient letter turning up in note : TENURE

13-down – Bird that is stifling Native American cry : SCREECHOWL

16-down – Ape going ape during sluttish social event : TEAPARTY

18-down – One taking advantage of a below-average location : PARASITE

19-down – Material for building missile launcher : MORTAR

21-down – Cook goose’s heart and another edible organ : OLIVER

22-down – Family led astray by light : KINDLE

24-down – Musical soldiers : GIGI