Daily Answers

1-across – Golden Ass diary is kept by passionate guy with interest in 7 and 21, and parts of 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 17, 23, 24 and 26 : ORNITHOLOGIST

10-across – American singer or ruminant : ORBISON

11-across – Splendid achievements in learning keeping one in grammar school : GLORIES

12-across – A fool to try to get money from church : DUNCE

13-across – Genuine class article needed in opposing Conservative : AUTHENTIC

14-across – Providers of music for ’omeless vagrants : OBOES

16-across – Number playing football here is 8 : TWENTYTWO

18-across – Reschedule an overdue attempt : ENDEAVOUR

19-across – Russian scrum half’s job? : PUTIN

20-across – Draw a line at entering diplomatic move without aspiration : DEMARCATE

23-across – Take a little, waste a lot : STEAL

24-across – Squint shows salmon with new leader : COCKEYE

25-across – God gives green light for capital punishment? : GALLOWS

26-across – Entertaining follower, ate like a kite : SWALLOWTAILED

2-down – Dressin’ gown’s partner was outlawed : ROBINHOOD

3-down – The baby is a girl : ISSUE

4-down – Mrs Shakespeare opening up plant : HENNA

5-down – A long way from a girl they produced : LIGHTYEAR

6-down – Leave work without much money in Rome and don’t bend the knee : GOOSESTEP

7-down – Satirist’s riddle about Whitehead : SWIFT

8-down – Provider of cricketing scene, 0-1-0, provokes old-fashioned exclamation : LORDLOVEADUCK

9-down – Shan’t play with cosy arrangement — mind my own business : PSYCHOANALYST

15-down – Street by a river at end of flight? : STAIRWELL

16-down – Time for old rebel to go in ferry to restaurant : TROCADERO

17-down – Othello, say, drunk, will sway, say : TITLEROLE

21-down – Bird : MACAW

22-down – Pieces in a row? : EIGHT

23-down – Conductor of notes : SOLTI

1-across – Popular evidence of frown? : LOWBROW

5-across – Worry meeting ’arsh official : STEWARD

9-across – Being enraged, irk terribly angry letter writers : GREEN

10-across – Mark, in writing, rejecting charity one reviews : DIACRITIC

11-across – As scissors used before, awaiting punishment : FORTHEHIGH

12-across – See 11 : JUMP

14-across – Paper once used to the single European question : TOILETTISSUE

18-across – Runner on track tiring father out : FREIGHTTRAIN

21-across – Swimmer fine, though not hunky : DORY

22-across – See 9 : INKBRIGADE

25-across – Find one Siam without borders — or south of there? : INDONESIA

26-across – Sweet singer bringing fit male around : MELBA

27-across – As mind on Ecstasy, heroin’s first dropped here? : EASTEND

28-across – Pasquale has job — let’s not talk about it! : DONTASK

1-down – M-mug up about gravitational constant, then stop using computer : LOGOFF

2-down – Question about blunder in boat : WHERRY

3-down – Practise — have a stab? : RUNTHROUGH

4-down – Reach daughter in clutches of joiner : WIDTH

5-down – Close to nefarious evidence of joy in killing : SLAUGHTER

6-down – Head removed from shoulders, as brain between these : EARS

7-down – Philanthropy Gore delivered with platitude : ALTRUISM

8-down – Ground rich with deep crack : DECIPHER

13-down – Citizen fighting old war, faultless ’til this writer’s uprising : MILITIAMAN

15-down – Part written up includes in it a language to be translated : LATINISED

16-down – Batsman’s rotten ambition? : OFFDRIVE

17-down – Lewis one of these hermaphroditic unionists? : HEBRIDES

19-down – Bound to be upset over US state dish : PAELLA

20-down – McDonald’s entering behind king, say : REMARK

23-down – Denounce trade name : BRAND

24-down – Appropriate to dispense with kiss for queen : ANNE

1-across – Call about female killer, rough work of 1 down : CHERRY

4-across – See 25 : SISTERS

9-across – Hype’s terrible, breaking novel — not enough puff with it : EMPHYSEMA

10-across – Welsh boy enveloped in extraordinary lunacy in 1 down’s work : UNCLE

11-across – The Greek, northern English and Spanish pub : HOTEL

12-across – Lozenge makes Spooner divest himself of whip : COUGHDROP

13-across – Are you said to be split into live and computer generated? : VIRTUAL

15-across – Grade sign after letters as book of 25 4 across : LITTLE

17-across – Exactly what Kipling wrote : JUSTSO

19-across – Domain of 15 medicine, if regulated : FIEFDOM

22-across – Shepherdess takes boy and clingy girl back on wheels : LADYVICAR

24-across – 1 down has footballer topped and tailed : ANTON

26-across – See 15 : WOMEN

27-across – Light grey stuff used in perfumery : AMBERGRIS

28-across – Parliament, centre of dirty dogs, keeping back grass : TYNWALD

29-across – Yes, when posted : ASSENT

1-down – Russian money sent when uttered? : CHEKHOV

2-down – Emigrant to be corrosive about value of silver coin : EXPAT

3-down – What : ROYALHUNT

4-down – Dispose of complaint, missing drug when inside 1 down’s work : SEAGULL

5-down – Sort of fund opening to subsidise drinker : SLUSH

6-down – Set about cleric wrongly put in goal : ENCIRCLED

7-down – Agent general coming in, ready for bed : SLEEPY

8-down – Coppers, nearly one pound, in drawer : PENCIL

14-down – Fellow with float, maybe German and south Italian circulating : ROUNDSMAN

16-down – Wordbook found on the Lizard? : THESAURUS

18-down – See 1 across : ORCHARD

19-down – Comedian with a record? Not far off : FORMBY

20-down – How I think to take care of my teeth? : MINDSET

21-down – Wasted opportunity with almost complete mushroom : BLEWIT

23-down – See 10 : VANYA

25-down – 1 down’s work gives very little change to the Maquis : THREE

1-across – Way for everyone doing gymnastics to botch up a flip : PUBLICFOOTPATH

9-across – Spoil 5’s launch when dropping in : VITIATE

10-across – Closing stage with cast of aged men : ENDGAME

11-across – Repeated note’s carbon copy : MIMIC

12-across – Snatched at joke with a fluffed finish : KIDNAPPED

13-across – Problem with hooter that’s been sold off as energy saver : NOSEBLEED

14-across – Group that takes drug off them : CLEAN

15-across – Enough drink to shut representative up : AMPLE

17-across – … a great fit of the colic, as Pepys said? : DYSPEPSIA

20-across – The grip to put out as support for top act? : TIGHTROPE

22-across – Bit wet to have second first : MOIST

23-across – GB’s born brave? : SHAWNEE

24-across – Dull reasons for spies switching sides : PROSAIC

25-across – Some rigging of events in US football? : BLOCKANDTACKLE

1-down – One that illuminates flags on triumphant day soldiers open pie with one that’s been around : PAVEMENTARTIST

2-down – Point of retirement’s no day soon : BETIMES

3-down – Island with rocky crab isle that’s very crabby : IRASCIBLE

4-down – Spot where French city raised big deer : FRECKLE

5-down – Exaggerated oriental way that old poet’s taken to heart : OVERDID

6-down – Platforms help work to get set up : PODIA

7-down – Tread on vehicle’s applied evenly : TRAMPLE

8-down – Where all editing is managed with care? : LEADINGARTICLE

14-down – Lots of paper involved with fish and a drink : CREAMSODA

16-down – Queue for animal story to be read out : PIGTAIL

17-down – Pair study with a load of guts : DUODENA

18-down – Deposed by resorting to productive case : SEEDPOD

19-down – Superficially read request for sports item : SKIMASK

21-down – Stimulus of being 100-1 to get caught : TONIC

1-across – Town of fortune for royal family? : HAPSBURG

5-across – One week with gross imbalance made by 38s : SIEGEWORKS

13-across – Student groups seize firm amid loud applause — they’re up to the neck in revolution : ROLLCOLLARS

14-across – Copper meets prosecutor on Scots island to fish : BARRACUDA

15-across – God’s longing to return to Fenland abbey : THORNEY

16-across – Western peak : HIGHNOON

17-across – See 24 : DALI

19-across – Made fun of authority in Scots burgh : JOKED

21-across – A knight at the opera, said bogus Welshman : FALSTAFF

23-across – Twisting the devil’s tail about article on mutiny, I’m off : LUCIAN

25-across – Former 18 member, missing on distinctive quality in it, has died: namely the black hole? : CAMERAOBSCURA

28-across – Permitted to be audible, if so : ALLOWED

31-across – See 36 down : SUTHERLAND

32-across – Jackal’s job: beware replacing setter in voice production : SCAVENGING

34-across – Fools in the soup : NOODLES

35-across – Versatility of 42 raving in lunacy : MANYSIDEDNESS

36-across – Replacing in 32’s clue is one corresponding to Eng. and : GERUND

38-across – Where church robes are — almost nothing in it — I have taken stock : INVESTOR

40-across – Pratchett’s Cecil Wormsborough St John, born into the aristocracy : NOBBS

43-across – With jihad, putting its break at the end : ANDY

44-across – Minimal amount of gold getting in through queen : VICTORIA

46-across – Benedict quiet about quarrel? : PONTIFF

50-across – 24 from 52’s country keeps mum in dance movement : ALLEMANDE

51-across – Put a real egg to be cooked before a capital fire : GREATPLAGUE

52-across – House marshal with country beloved in America : HONEYCHILE

53-across – A boy’s a boy to be flown from : STANSTED

1-down – See 12 : HIRST

2-down – See 19 : POLLOCK

3-down – See 22 : BACON

4-down – See 41 : RILEY

6-down – Flushing it makes one psychologically aware : INSIGHTFUL

7-down – Keep talking about Freetown in French : GABON

8-down – See 43 : WARHOL

9-down – See 11 : READ

10-down – Florence worked here for diminution in dress : SCUTARI

11-down – Pain in both hands a little bit before commercial : RACHEL

12-down – Vagrant in hard times : DAMIEN

18-down – That Oxford club where national government’s democratic leaders are covered in solid gold : BULLINGDON

19-down – Fish, boy, fish! : JACKSON

20-down – Sweetheart takes over 4×4 without parking for tea : DARJEELING

21-down – Trifles with society like a snake : FOOTLESS

22-down – Between money and food there lives the philosopher : FRANCIS

24-down – Girl to nurse during war, otherwise boy gets back first : SALVADOR

26-down – Underground network pursued by the polis? : METRO

27-down – The soporific fairy of the South Bengali islands losing heart : SANDMAN

29-down – See 11 : WHITE

30-down – Summaries set out in lodgings : DIGESTS

33-down – Like the Field of the Cloth of Gold in the land of France for non-U Frenchman : INTERREGAL

36-down – £1,000 covers joints for old British king at US city : GRAHAM

37-down – Disaster for swimmer, both in short one ready for Red Nose Day? : RUDOLPH

39-down – Detective, in a measure, among followers : TRACEY

41-down – Game attempt to hide awful lie : BRIDGET

42-down – Could he be left in? Yes and no : SIDNEY

45-down – Set of effective powers : TEETH

46-down – Indulge Italian maybe with 4 or pain : PETIT

47-down – See 42 : NOLAN

48-down – See 23 : FREUD

49-down – See 39 : EMIN