Daily Answers

1-across – The same egg consumption applied to school spread? I suspect not : DONTBETONIT

9-across – Taunt Frenchman about some living matter : ENERGID

10-across – Get in a muddle and name one to activate the defences : ANTIGEN

11-across – A letter may result from this operation relating to my depression : KEYSTROKE

12-across – See 1 down : ONTHE

13-across – Common sense? Not America! : NOUS

14-across – See 1 down : ITSFLAVOUR

16-across – Strong-scented plant chopped up by German cook : MOCKORANGE

19-across – Canteen hash : MESS

21-across – All energy given to light : EVERY

22-across – Property periodically inhabited by bodysnatcher : TIMESHARE

24-across – It’s expansive swapping cards — and silly : ASININE

25-across – In which no liquid is measured out in kilos : OILSKIN

26-across – Vegetable a go-go taking precedence? : GREENPEPPER

1-down – A question of note? Dreadful fuss over Old Glory White House budget compensation … : DOESYOURCHEWING

2-down – … over this darned thing! : NIGHT

3-down – See 1 : BEDPOST

4-down – I’ll help to tell your fortune for a nicker : TEALEAF

5-down – Someone else’s loan negotiation, in theory? : NOTIONAL

6-down – Highly-strung pedestrian : TIGHTROPEWALKER

7-down – Someone 24 wearing jacket : JERKIN

8-down – Dressed and ready to move : INGEAR

15-down – One led on by convoluted strategy for attack : BODYLINE

16-down – Woman frenzied describes? : MAENAD

17-down – Stag do’s on time : ACTAEON

18-down – See 1 : GUMLOSE

20-down – Vision producing order at Wimbledon departs from Centre : SEEING

23-down – Society’s fashionable line in drag : SHLEP

1-across – 9 that was, according to 5 — a musical sound : GREECE

4-across – Game heard to be in prospect, according to poet : TENNYSON

9-across – Singular 20 on beginning of Georgie Fame : GLORY

10-across – Without much of a dance, breaks the ice perhaps with lots and lots of potential : MEGAVOLTS

11-across – I’ll see if there are chemicals in Boris — one’s uncertain : BIOSENSOR

12-across – Bird used to be very hungry : RAVEN

13-across – Kite flown in place of golf ball after I get a pound inside : TRIALBALLOON

17-across – Old coin, Indian and Burmese, in a novel : ANNAKARENINA

20-across – Prison’s what rejects are for : BIRDS

21-across – Second sight where French girl’s wedding’s in the past : ESPOUSALS

23-across – African gives Spanish shouts during French leave : CONGOLESE

24-across – 5’s 22 fell — Bingo! : HOUSE

25-across – Some lines in mental health show the opposite of freshness : SALINITY

26-across – Enthusiastic model following Forest : ARDENT

1-down – Good one for oratory, yet maybe takes up a lot of space : GIGABYTE

2-down – Point for joker holding on to what will pay : ECONOMIC

3-down – Outlaw celebrated by Georgie Fame with carthorses around? : CLYDE

5-down – Poet on parade with legal characters : EDGARALLANPOE

6-down – No painter of Delft could tell what 5’s 12 said : NEVERMORE

7-down – Girl and boy not finally down in the mouth : SALIVA

8-down – Being a detective suggests silence with entry of 20 from Keats : NOSING

10-down – Does Deceived by magnetism mean a mess is being made of it? : MISMANAGEMENT

14-down – Pine for old golf club for use at diabolical table : LONGSPOON

15-down – To remove wrong ideas of God is a bus exposé : DISABUSE

16-down – Spare the criminal with a record : RAPSHEET

18-down – Counter beginners’ account at the Guardian : ABACUS

19-down – University kingdom? : BRUNEL

22-down – Personal pronouns of the old school : USHER

1-across – Altercation: then to meet : RUNINTO

5-across – Gun sure to grab attention : FIREARM

9-across – Phone people about vessel like the Cutty Sark, sadly : BURNT

10-across – Inside out, sounded an animal : ORANGUTAN

11-across – All furious about trade union leaders involved in criminal’s unfortunate release : FLATULENCE

12-across – Listen, taking a couple of seconds during exercise : PSST

14-across – Isolates hip in order to admit for treatment : HOSPITALISE

18-across – Naughty child, six, feeding rat, gets rash : IMPROVIDENT

21-across – Wrong to run backwards : TORT

22-across – Is subversive group infiltrating a lot of different things? : MISCELLANY

25-across – Single woman of peace I class as dressed for battle, perhaps? : INUNIFORM

26-across – Duck left in rain, baby bird : OWLET

27-across – Adverb present among rubbish : THEREAT

28-across – Jack’s off work to attend to clock : OBSERVE

1-down – Brush off and polish again? : REBUFF

2-down – As an author, did he deliver for William the Conqueror? : NORMAN

3-down – Midget PC’s rank? : NOTMUCHCOP

4-down – Milton’s time-consuming instrument : OBOTE

5-down – Is business contract his, having crossed the Channel? : FRANCHISE

6-down – Jelly served up, music to Indian ears? : RAGA

7-down – Lorry passing round one way, being creative : ARTISTIC

8-down – Partners in joint heading for lavatory, entertaining itinerant : MINSTREL

13-down – Old bags criticise love in the grip of birds? : PANTALOONS

15-down – Just tell me what to do when wine tasting? : SPITITOUT

16-down – Temple on this austere policy, following princess : DISTRICT

17-down – Endless worry in Accident & Emergency’s opening : APERTURE

19-down – See 2 : MAILER

20-down – Attempt to cut tree, climbing plant : MYRTLE

23-down – Item of jewellery making brief appearance : CAMEO

24-down – See 16 : LINE

1-across – Leading article absorbed by red carpet : REPRIMAND

6-across – Chives divided with charm in default of a new system : CAPITALISM

11-across – Tired way for youth to go : WEST

12-across – I supply resin and wood at scholarship time : BURSERA

13-across – Conspicuous dwelling without store of food : FLAGRANT

14-across – Eye corners with songster nearly this : CANTHI

15-across – Quality of a lot of books in church : CALIBRE

17-across – Boy with sigh of affection for me, right way up : LADDER

18-across – Cages in select version of how things are : CEST

20-across – Stories about camel having saved galaxy : ANDROMEDA

22-across – Calculator in gas plant : CACTUS

24-across – See 18 : LAVIE

25-across – Get moving with book featuring animals and Spaniard returning with spirit : BESTIRONESELF

26-across – The Californian port’s official rite, maybe the last : THESACRAMENTOFUNCTION

31-across – Serpentine grower, taking a number by bus, misread wordbook : VIPERSBUGLOSS

35-across – Religious addict as linchpin? : PIVOT

36-across – First of first sort of English with first of second Roman governor : FESTUS

37-across – Honesty and church’s enemy at one? : LUNCHTIME

38-across – Knockabout girl gets the hump : RAMP

40-across – Frightening drinks, a sign united with 11 : SCALES

43-across – Frivolous account of English journey : ETOURDI

45-across – Enter change inside and that is changed : INVADE

47-across – Dilemma with pollarded bong tree in Australia : QUANDONG

48-across – Leading light in Alcoholics Anonymous going for the hard stuff : ALUMINA

50-across – Pay time for sailor : SALT

51-across – Religious house never going to perish on its own : FRIENDLESS

52-across – Finished without stuttering nonconformist being used in anatomy lesson? : DISSECTED

1-down – Whisky — end of — and chaser in North Yorkshire : RYEDALE

2-down – Piece of crumpet I try to eat with 4s : PETIT

3-down – Setter’s got a lot of bricks at a point overlapping : IMBRICATE

4-down – Tricky word for a couple cut short by an expert artist : ABRACADABRA

5-down – Go straight? : DIE

6-down – Frogman caught burrower — it escaped : CRABB

7-down – Piper from Forfar that is drunk under piano : PIFFERARO

8-down – Be losing way : TRAIL

9-down – Film actor Peter absorbing divine account by historian Hugh : LORDDACRE

10-down – Because of something wrong with the church : SINCE

16-down – English name for French city with pride, say : LYONS

19-down – About five digits for creatures that nest under sundials and live on cheese : TOVES

21-down – Correct round number of decree : EDICT

22-down – Not carrying weapons like a whistle : CLEAN

23-down – Paid in advance a little old money in the course of cooking our books : UPFRONT

24-down – I couldn’t hear what you said in the loo about port : LEHAVRE

27-down – Giving it ecstasy would be fatal to this body : CORPS

28-down – The Spanish drink in Scotland : ELGIN

29-down – Playing five sets without it starting to interfere with celebrations : FESTIVITIES

30-down – Thank you very much: Scots scrap name from pub : TAVER

32-down – Use surgical instrument after domestic animal’s turn to peevishness : PETULANCE

33-down – American bird sees bad lad eaten by dog : BALDEAGLE

34-down – Additional article covered in gold : OTHER

35-down – Not the subject of talk about 21 losing time : PREDICATE

39-down – Giving bad name to Democrat: was leader confused? : MUDDLED

41-down – Caught and some mighty blows — the sound of cricket : CHURR

42-down – The cutter that completes the puzzle : SWORD

44-down – Shapes formed by exploding salvo : OVALS

46-down – Call girl to take pew : VISIT

49-down – Indian plant taking turn from Pakistani? : URD

1-across – Pirate gets second prize : SILVER

4-across – A new Irish president’s first subject to inflation : AIRSHIP

9-across – Salad vegetable for choir with acid effect : RADICCHIO

10-across – How much food goes on top of plate? : PRICE

11-across – Toxic element in ravening wolves : VENIN

12-across – King’s depressed shade : ROYALBLUE

13-across – Presumption OK in this hall? : LIBERTY

15-across – Get along mostly with spectroscopic device : ETALON

17-across – Girl who would have a good start around Santiago de Compostela : ALICIA

19-across – Diffusion of liquid is consequent upon the world blowing its top : OSMOSIS

22-across – Skipper, formerly Roman Catholic, embraced by Harriet who’s lapsed : TRIERARCH

24-across – Right about dog? : ROVER

26-across – Pedigree for fully paid 10 of 16, according to Kipling : BLOOD

27-across – Cable holds monster that needs watching : VIGILANCE

28-across – Bird first in line to show this 27 the 10 of 13 : ETERNAL

29-across – Little hole for : EYELET

1-down – Make no comment on stream nearly left to dry up : SHRIVEL

2-down – Bearing much from terrorist : LADEN

3-down – Odd boy accepting one-dollar entry : ECCENTRIC

4-down – A circle with some power is soothing : ANODYNE

5-down – Put off sick person getting up : REPEL

6-down – Audible breeze is threatening things in the family : HEIRLOOMS

7-down – See 8 : PIECES

8-down – Nearly enough for two chess sets, the 10 of 26 if 1 across : THIRTY

14-down – Second helping of Indian food with American port : BALTIMORE

16-down – Day off during which space station’s key to board : ADMIRALTY

18-down – One of three in song heard who has come : ARRIVAL

19-down – Oxygen and hydrogen in close to heaven? : ONHIGH

20-down – Singer and painter second to 1 across : SARGENT

21-down – Holding one’s own and the horses? : STABLE

23-down – Gas attack being made audibly : RADON

25-down – Records of some village outside US city : VINYL