Daily Answers

9-across – Funny Girl, where woman in film worried by prowler : CATHERINE

10-across – A doctor screening individual for the pest : APHID

11-across – Fashion starts to ease off using this gradual loss of sound : FADEOUT

12-across – Still quality in sovereign, relative overseas : INERTIA

13-across – Round hole not exactly round? : OVOID

14-across – Port’s staff open port with this? : CORKSCREW

16-across – See 20 : DISRESPECTINGME

19-across – All I acted out is in a peculiar language : DIALECTAL

21-across – Floral pattern designer’s heading off to find flower : ORRIS

22-across – Digital part that’s new put back in the end : TOENAIL

23-across – See 3 : THEPALE

24-across – Supernatural being finding power, finally, in ring : TROLL

25-across – See 7 : THANWHITE

1-down – With support for building gone up, damaged by heat externally : SCAFFOLDED

2-down – Thoughtful boss over the moon with us : STUDIOUS

3-down – Unacceptable, though 7 25? : BEYOND

4-down – A lot of money is sweet : MINT

5-down – Half-erased record, one supporting the state, given in return : RECIPROCAL

6-down – Skim the surface with a short, short, short nap : WATERSKI

7-down – Irreproachable, what with neither being corruptible : WHITER

8-down – Don’t start to disguise a plan : IDEA

14-down – Cave in a mine covered by copper no more : CAPITULATE

15-down – Any time now, he veers out of control : WHENSOEVER

17-down – Loudly, I pluck these from their sockets? : EYEBALLS

18-down – Idle, perhaps, about piece inferior to good number of languages : GERMANIC

20-down – 9 22 down’s query recognises rude type with Am I bovvered? : AREYOU

21-down – Passing exchange through radio network : ONETWO

22-down – See 9 : TATE

23-down – Mouth needing bit pulled up : TRAP

12-across – : VULTURE

13-across – How bulls express anger at charge for barge? : MOORAGE

14-across – Pullman’s greeting : HEAVE

15-across – Mothball vehicle in which speedo doesn’t register? : CAMPHOR

16-across – Intensifier of red : RUDDY

17-across – A series was first backed by a Sussex town : ARUNDEL

18-across – Physio etc directed towards setter in river : TREATMENT

19-across – : EGRET

22-across – : HERON

23-across – He said what another said about the Pope : QUOTHHE

25-across – Spitz has hulk done over : ELKHOUND

26-across – : IBIS

30-across – Developments for three : ESTATES

33-across – Cause of disease : GERMANOPHILIA

34-across – : ZEBRAPARAKEET

36-across – : REDPOLL

37-across – : LARK

38-across – : BARNACLE

40-across – : JACKDAW

43-across – Characteristic of the alphabet reported from Brideshead : FLYTE

45-across – Short time may be binding : SPELL

46-across – : PARTRIDGE

49-across – I can give new floor to newspaper in capital : LIFTMAN

51-across – Bit of a hill for Charles and Cromwell? : KNOLL

52-across – Partners keeping large beast in cattle shed? : SHIPPON

53-across – : OWLET

54-across – Sketch for departing train : OUTLINE

55-across – Figures of speech, for example, held back by single girl : IMAGERY

1-down – : AVOCET

2-down – Meat covered with iron and served with fire : FLAMBE

3-down – : NUTHATCH

4-down – Partner to ruff holding two of trumps – I have to recover : RETRIEVE

5-down – : UMBRETTE

6-down – : WOODPECKER

7-down – Service in the shade : NAVY

8-down – : XEMA

9-down – Introduction to concession with time for consideration : THOUGHT

10-down – : GANDER

11-down – : MERLIN

20-down – Read me to promote peace for South American diplomacy : RIOTACT

21-down – Bark at entrance to oven : TANDOOR

23-down – : QUETZAL

24-down – Future commander has right time : OCTOBER

27-down – County town with duke left for dead on Great North Road : BELFORD

28-down – : SWALLOW

29-down – Country saint that’s been punched : CHAD

31-down – : TEAL

32-down – Fish formed base for fool : SEABASS

33-down – Relative vagrant in range : GRANNIE

35-down – Visit in Rhodesia, part 2: a saxifrage : ESCALLONIA

39-down – Branch arrangement simpler without a friend coming in : ESPALIER

40-down – Scottish island’s just like that at an early age : JURASSIC

41-down – : CARDINAL

42-down – Hill dweller – call it Ecstasy : TERMITE

43-down – : FALCON

44-down – : YAFFLE

47-down – : DIPPER

48-down – Bored with tennis centre, turn into spectator : ENNUYE

50-down – Unauthorised recess? : NOOK

51-down – : KITE

1-across – Clothes are covered with no end of fruit : APPAREL

5-across – Back for a couple of drinks : SUPPORT

9-across – 16 sections : STRAP

10-across – Anxiously await arrest : APPREHEND

11-across – Chuck senior from tree? : ELDERBERRY

12-across – Dam with a cut in power : STEM

14-across – Bloke reduced travelling by bus : DOUBLEDECKER

18-across – One initially makes money admitting about chemical in sauce : IMPERTINENCE

21-across – Swim across river to get wet : DRIP

22-across – Taking on restrictions as retailer did at 6, perhaps? : CLOSEDSHOP

25-across – 5’s point is clear : VINDICATE

26-across – Integral part is flipping generous : LARGE

27-across – Name involved in retail banking : RELIANT

28-across – Irregular behaviour of creature having nothing for one year : ANOMALY

1-down – Complete directions for entering a right response : ANSWER

2-down – Take off staff’s wages as extraneous : PARODY

3-down – Whole range runs through to Ireland’s housing : REPERTOIRE

4-down – Agreement to let live with freedom from disturbance : LEASE

5-down – Take place of undressed kid eating cored pears : SUPERSEDE

6-down – Look to make a little noise anyway : PEEP

7-down – Pass clear water after losing head : OVERTAKE

8-down – It’s raised by country with nitrogen extracted from what the sea leaves : TIDEMARK

13-down – Pill-popping city slicker’s old foible : PECCADILLO

15-down – Sparkling fish with an admittedly desirable quality : BRILLIANT

16-down – Constrain by law to discard port : BINDOVER

17-down – Crude oil on tap is not compulsory : OPTIONAL

19-down – It’s tedious to deal with a complaint : CHOREA

20-down – Unseemly when chap’s bottom is held fast : SPEEDY

23-down – Female sailor set up ancient kingdom : SHEBA

24-down – Bread rises with a little help : PITA

1-across – Funny stick of the Bailey : RUMPOLE

5-across – See 29 : HAVEIT

9-across – Painfully loud way to mount books : STRIDENT

10-across – Dockwra’s service supplies fish : WRASSE

12-across – Writer for whom the pale horse would be suitable? : RIDERHAGGARD

15-across – Winning team gets feathers inverted : UPSIDEDOWN

17-across – Deity of Norse underworld less than ours? : HEL

19-across – Digit applied to transcendental number : TOE

20-across – Unable to stand? : INTOLERANT

22-across – See 11 : MUSTBEOBEYED

26-across – Sharpen note during controlled return : DEBLUR

27-across – Creator of 1 across has medium-sized gold watch : MORTIMER

28-across – 12’s 11 22 in … : AYESHA

29-across – … t-temperature in which you take a razor to one with motion carried : THEAYES

1-down – Hurry faster for presidential features : RUSH

2-down – See 1 : MORE

3-down – Dodos may be canny folk : OLDBIRDS

4-down – Wise computer? : ERNIE

6-down – Constellation of gold on capital : AURIGA

7-down – A Greek islander on a London station not on the tube : EUSTACHIAN

8-down – The less familiar illumination said to be a means of measuring angles : THEODOLITE

11-down – Mrs 1 across and 12’s lady display bed – you both seem abashed : SHEWHO

13-down – Greek character to get badly limited by a means of education? By all means : MULTIMEDIA

14-down – Ungulates, one of them being subject to tax? : ASSESSABLE

16-down – Secure unit for philanderer, might one say? : DONJON

18-down – Find a new place for street destroyed by the French : RESETTLE

21-down – Sailor, alcoholic, is pink : ABLUSH

23-down – Constructed to be a torpedo carrier : EBOAT

24-down – Award for decapitating crowbar : EMMY

25-down – Almost national flag : IRIS

5-across – Museum left to antiaesthete : VANDAL

6-across – Helping with what happens at toy hospital? : DOLLOP

9-across – Actor’s graffiti in the gents, perhaps? : BOGART

10-across – Top brand of cigarette, capturing heart of 11, goes west : PULLOVER

11-across – The available alternatives to United going to pieces : MENU

12-across – Royal road lined with royal hypocrisy concerning trade : MERCANTILE

13-across – Global teams treated defective cell : MEGALOBLAST

18-across – It’s a flowering plant – two girls said so : POLYANTHUS

21-across – Gladly f-fib first : LIEF

22-across – Nail securing unattributed church rules : CANONLAW

23-across – Managed to break spooks’ skulls : CRANIA

24-across – Odds on bum being anything but thick : SPARSE

25-across – Bright little thing starting to sing of horse : SEQUIN

1-down – Cruelty to insects that’s supposed to help with rehab : ANTABUSE

2-down – What you put mouse on to catch up with chicken, perhaps : BANTAM

3-down – Register phone with higher pitch : ROLLCALL

4-down – Charity collecting nothing on time? Not quite : ALMOST

5-down – Nameless wild flower : VIOLET

7-down – Bound over the foreign dish : PAELLA

8-down – Rapacious bird, in flash, devouring rank fruit : SPARROWHAWK

14-down – Recorder’s catalogue of old foreign coins : ANNALIST

15-down – Black friend aboard public transport brought up creamy confection : SYLLABUB

16-down – Model straddling artist in first half of 9 : MORASS

17-down – Auspicious force invades country : BENIGN

19-down – Solvers once chased by country farmer : YEOMAN

20-down – Dupe’s audible relief : SUCKER