Daily Answers

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

1-across – Male, after a dry end in surgery, coming after very delicate operation : VASECTOMY

6-across – Study from which independent politician bars women and men : MUGUP

9-across – US city where fiddle sounded : TAMPA

10-across – What’s said, as starts to venture overseas in the Napoleonic era? : BONVOYAGE

11-across – Hopeful traveller right to go after problem with price increase : HITCHHIKER

12-across – Low as a clear sky? : BLUE

14-across – Bleriot’s plane circling the centre of designated French city : AVIGNON

15-across – Inside complex, first of excavations unscheduled : SINEDIE

17-across – Catwoman given new lead, as stray : DIGRESS

19-across – Capacity of bowler to catch England’s opener, loathsome : HATEFUL

20-across – Piece of holy ground turned over where many bodies exposed : ORGY

22-across – See 14 down : COMPLETELY

25-across – Sudden and violent malfunction, lacking carbon and oxygen, perhaps : FULMINANT

26-across – Fat boobs easier to view with odd bits hidden : OBESE

27-across – Go round back of leg, which is raised : RIDGE

28-across – Variable parking in centre that’s chaotic, half of roundabout having confusing signs? : ENCRYPTED

1-down – Character with a fork has to dig deep to find plant : VETCH

2-down – See 14 : SOMETHING

3-down – One’s reforming inhaling grass? One’s hooked! : COATHANGER

4-down – See 24 : OFBRIAN

5-down – From the bottom, look for no Americans : YANKEES

6-down – Calypso’s daydream? : MOON

7-down – See 13 : GRAIL

8-down – Gradually calm when discussed over time at the table : PIECEMEAL

13-down – Curry really hot, Gandhi … led by MP? : ANDTHEHOLY

14-down – MP’s Downing St melancholy too free, PM suggested? : ANDNOWFOR

16-down – See 14 : DIFFERENT

18-down – One’s highly inclined to fill knowledgeable space : STORAGE

19-down – Standing on head, I record through church organ, so? : HEPATIC

21-down – Make infertile to keep one cold : GELID

23-down – Hand over produce : YIELD

24-down – This from MP, having provided upstanding rival with barrister, gutted during arrest, hauled up : LIFE

1-across – One right in the head, but a bad sailor? : PIRATE

4-across – 6 act cut in two — hospital for one week : THEWHO

9-across – See 19 : FARM

10-across – Like emails chosen by guy in charge : ELECTRONIC

11-across – Varying of tempo in first half of a troubadour’s playing : RUBATO

12-across – I forget faceless names, including name at 1 across : AMNESIAC

13-across – Mental disorders causing tenor to quit film sets : PSYCHOSES

15-across – Jimi Hendrix’s first cello tune, oddly arranged for 6’s writer : JONI

16-across – Young person getting 10 out of 10 : TEEN

17-across – They’ll switch cases, so one may arrive at Skye : SHIFTKEYS

21-across – See 15 : MITCHELL

22-across – Pole dancing grips a southern city : ELPASO

24-across – Crazed stick man of 4 hit : MOONSTRUCK

25-across – One of 4 born together died lacking water : AQUA

26-across – Reportedly like a prior friend of 6 : SNOOPY

27-across – Directors not right for dairy outlets? : UDDERS

1-down – Strip for 6 set — a pun’s involved : PEANUTS

2-down – Odd beat regularly used for dance : RUMBA

3-down – Rock band coming in to look for guitar effect : TREMOLO

5-down – Surely not a 6 theme? That ingratitude’s showing! : HATING

6-down – Bird drawn on top of family trees? : WOODSTOCK

7-down – Increasing paperwork when producing the Animals and the Byrds, say : ORIGAMI

8-down – Big-headed girl — expert on the penis, we hear : MEGACEPHALOUS

14-down – Soccer game about to finish as Italian added to score? : CRESCENDO

16-down – Stands model right on top of 10 music players : TRIPODS

18-down – Man eating cake — losing head, went crazy : FREAKED

19-down – Badly written, sugary type of writing at a jolly 6 venue : YASGURS

20-down – Repressed writer overturned set : PENTUP

23-down – Exercise to serve as one theme of 6 : PEACE

1-across – Top of the pile holds good: mind what they say! : THEGAP

5-across – See who it is and take his side? : IDENTIFY

9-across – Roman farmer with a lot of money in Madrid in silver and note : AGRICOLA

10-across – Spot politician in big money : PIMPLE

11-across – Responsibility toward paper craft : GUARDIANSHIP

13-across – Sculptor, one that employs wassailer : CARO

14-across – If bu is bus, ___ : TRISTRAM

17-across – Be charitable to soldier with meat at hand : GIVEALMS

18-across – See 13 : USER

20-across – Would-be adventurers not 3? : OUTWARDBOUND

23-across – Persecute artists in holds : HARASS

24-across – Leading Conservative service or boss? : GOVERNOR

25-across – Partners’ bloom reversed by mutant : WEREWOLF

26-across – Animal at home among rubbish : RODENT

2-down – Film among the top twelve? : HIGH

3-down – Making an impression on the way back : GOINGHOME

4-down – Australia goes in somewhat out of practice: antidepressant needed : PROZAC

5-down – In the unlikely event that I cool it in 60% of handicap with 75% present : IFANDITISABIGIF

6-down – I met chap suffering with stress : EMPHATIC

7-down – Multiplied by triple or quadruple, say : TIMES

8-down – Destined to keep German city in association with 15? : FULMINATED

12-down – Spin number with stake holding single currency in Africa : MANIPULATE

15-down – Edoverth! : THUNDERED

16-down – King of England, not Germany, and part of Scotland, not at home : ALFRESCO

19-down – Archer’s flutter : QUIVER

21-down – Prophet’s host gives bard’s friend a drink : WHALE

22-down – See 2 : NOON