Daily Answers

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

4-across – See 25 : BOPEEP

6-across – Number making saint’s detailed numbers include practical method for transport round curves … : THERESNO

9-across – … with capital responsible for it : BERLIN

10-across – See 6 : BUSINESS

11-across – Polish ring round ’ead and beak to be a showman : BUFFALOBILL

15-across – Ingenuity missing in Guantanamo: watch out! Shooting doesn’t work : YOUCANT

17-across – See 15 : GETAMAN

18-across – Stick with these gentleman-like pupils : TOFFYAPPLES

22-across – See 6 : LIKESHOW

23-across – Playwright has gap without a model : BRECHT

24-across – See 15 : WITHAGUN

25-across – Shepherdess getting letters to be involved with Pole — and letter : LITTLE

1-down – Idiot losing head gets one in the eye : RETINA

2-down – With lots of pebbles around, striking in a loud aggressive way : SHOUTINGLY

3-down – Flutter I make with a bit of a blackberry, say : FRUITLET

4-down – Candidates for ASBO by and by? : BABYBOYS

5-down – Standard round of journeys around French capital Henry VI didn’t reach : PARTFOUR

7-down – Look to do what a cat may? : SEEK

8-down – Fall into this and you’ll be t___ : OAST

12-down – Blurred Oxford gent has nothing on coppers : OUTOFFOCUS

13-down – Single member allowed? It doesn’t say : IMPLICIT

14-down – Drink for girl 24 and group, say : ANISETTE

16-down – Topless sort of philosophy? Well! : ARTESIAN

19-down – Leave car at home with cake : PARKIN

20-down – Disappointment? Puff needed : BLOW

21-down – Satirical presentation of St Christopher : SKIT

9-across – Hebrew puts one king back in place : ISRAELITE

10-across – Shot illegally taken in outskirts of Palermo : PHOTO

11-across – Bend in front of bird, one tied up : BOWKNOT

12-across – Riding feat by infant, really pronounced? : WHEELIE

13-across – Those spotted keeping king happy losing heart, seeing saucy chap : DICK

14-across – Yellow eggs retrieved, left in canteen, not far off : MOREORLESS

16-across – May author Stephen be his name? : HAWKING

17-across – Kelly, seeing sex appeal in the mirror, covered initially in one’s make-up? : GENETIC

19-across – Used to support, help : SECONDHAND

22-across – See 3 : HILL

24-across – Beef and carrots may be hot and bothered : INASTEW

25-across – Good novelist getting better? : GAMBLER

26-across – Animal decapitating rat : OTTER

27-across – Two seconds after we enrol, surprisingly free from proprietor : OWNERLESS

1-down – Adventurer’s truism on vice? He’s in fashion : SINBADTHESAILOR

2-down – See 21 : BROWNCOW

3-down – Saucy chap in a state between mounts : BENNY

4-down – Revolutionary army fight a hundred in friendly location, missing conclusion : VIETCONG

5-down – Instance of relief taking two minutes? : WEEWEE

6-down – Drug deeper in, unfortunately, having injected heroin : EPHEDRINE

7-down – See 17 : GOOLIE

8-down – Sweetheart having to feed baby, lovely thing for old song : HONEYSUCKLEROSE

15-down – Use rating to work out mark : SIGNATURE

17-down – Camp tune with which naughty leader in concert band having a ball? : GINGGANG

18-down – Attempted to gather everyone to be tested : TRIALLED

20-down – Decent hospital dividing class : CHASTE

21-down – Slightly absurd greeting our leader, ­having broken vow after re­peat­ed inconsistency in leadership? : HOWNOW

23-down – See 13 : EMERY