Daily Answers

11-across – Inform on cybercrime, which nobody wants to hear : HACKINGCOUGH

12-across – Assessment of invitation to speak about slowing down the brain? : CRITIQUE

13-across – Terrible thing when City’s lost deal – it’s poison : ATROPINE

14-across – Theatre cover brings adverse comment : REPROOF

15-across – English agent gives notice : ESPY

16-across – Dressed up in Queer Street, which causes bias : VESTEDINTEREST

18-across – Distiller’s answer : RETORT

20-across – Bits of wood for intoxicated investors? : SHAVINGS

23-across – Jolly good field for Spooner’s exercise toy : SKIPPINGROPE

25-across – Like Joseph’s coat, said parrot painter : POLYCHROME

27-across – Baby in company at sea? : CABINBOY

29-across – Particulate painters with lung problem : GRANULAR

30-across – Hairdo idle canal boat operators do? : DREADLOCKS

33-across – Vicar’s job starts this month with slightly twisted teachings : INSTITUTIONS

34-across – Scotsman, if embraced by girl – treat with spirits of hartshorn : AMMONIFY

36-across – Highball producing big smile? : BEAMER

38-across – Detailed : CIRCUMSTANTIAL

41-across – Second course to go with the one before? : SPUD

43-across – A weight carried by cattle as a weapon : HALBERD

45-across – Rude about leaving flower in church : CHURLISH

46-across – Quantity and area of slaughter : MASSACRE

47-across – A Frenchman with one daughter pursuing monarch on her own? : UNCHAPERONED

1-down – This table is used to provide initiation for craft : BATTLESHIP

2-down – Make last as well in the open : EKEOUT

3-down – Spontaneous turn – note who you are and retreat : UNBIDDEN

4-down – Partition at the movies? : SCREEN

5-down – Arrows on the ‘ouse : QUARRELSOME

6-down – Success interrupted by joint amount of peril to dog manager : WHIPPERIN

7-down – Repetition of the chorus : ECHO

8-down – It is cherished by the better paid and subservient, if giving place to drug : DIFFERENTIAL

9-down – Scandal envelops the City as the crow flies : DIRECT

10-down – Prepare to drop a point : QUIP

17-down – Big chief to lead a dog in play : TOPBANANA

19-down – Sequel to draw without a response : REPLY

21-down – Don’t hesitate to give tranquilliser to worker : VALIANT

22-down – Cutting edge of sector, a sparkler with special outside : SARCASTIC

24-down – Polish picture of flower border? : RUBICON

26-down – Sales pitch for squares? : COUNTERCHECK

28-down – Flower : IRISMURDOCH

29-down – Hereditary determinant circumscribing individual thaumaturge : GENIE

31-down – Agricultural worker keeping newspaper articles that will avert anger : SOFTANSWER

32-down – I’m surprised about – what could be true – American being polite : COURTEOUS

35-down – Deliberate without doubt when in drink : MEASURED

37-down – Unassuming ways : MODEST

39-down – Party maybe followed by Democrats : SOCIAL

40-down – Unbelievable cry of pain from candle : TALLOW

42-down – The thing before the game : PLAY

44-down – Fitzgerald’s rest rests : LIES

1-across – Perhaps automatic cleaning work in the capital not on – reach out : WASHINGTHECAR

10-across – Not the same thing as an alternative Scottish tourist attraction : OTHERNESS

11-across – Ace champ : TIBIA

12-across – Chap into home improvement lacking lead ribbing : IRONY

13-across – A low-down bit of craft has pro locked out : ORLOPDECK

14-across – Actor’s guile exploited in Guys and Dolls leads : GIELGUD

16-across – Drink workers producing Scandinavian port : DRAMMEN

18-across – Holbein, artist, rejected Duke of Westminster’s reports : HANSARD

20-across – Cologne’s good stuck on Devon resort’s pot : BEERGUT

21-across – Nothing’s on the level for an American romance : LOVESTORY

23-across – Game not initially before the watershed : RIDGE

24-across – Ewe in loch: OK but oddly lacking radio compliance : WILCO

25-across – Show ring declaration : MANIFESTO

26-across – Having intention of getting trendy in Bath – possible reward for 1,8 or 9? : GOINGTOTHEPUB

2-down – Museum’s quiet spot between two articles : ASHMOLEAN

3-down – Grasping female in the grass without BBC English? : HARPY

4-down – As a mole is not available, he’s last to cancel : NAEVOID

5-down – Fought the man off the American Arctic transporter? : TUSSLED

6-down – Drugs head with side is hindrance to a lawyer : ESTOPPAGE

7-down – Switched central characters of competent English dramatist : ALBEE

8-down – Regular summer routine of loose night owl women getting one for nothing : MOWINGTHELAWN

9-down – An outing with best friend with you taking the lead? : WALKINGTHEDOG

15-down – Prepares to drive uphill in poor grade snow? : GEARSDOWN

17-down – City cat put on gold-plated salver : MOGADISHU

19-down – A welcome from this put-upon type? : DOORMAT

20-down – Horse and one time weapon : BAYONET

22-down – Nothing against sweetheart getting end away, overturning car : VOLVO

23-down – Upset composure of large abandoned freshwater fish : RUFFE

1-across – : QUIGHT

5-across – : WONDER

8-across – : CHAPATI

9-across – : MINTOFF

11-across – : OLDAGEPENSIONER

12-across – : HIVE

13-across – : JACKRABBIT

17-across – : SERVICEMEN

18-across – : YOYO

20-across – : REVOLVINGCREDIT

23-across – : PARLOUS

24-across – : ANTBEAR

25-across – : LESSON

26-across – : DEDANS

2-down – : UPANDOVER

3-down – : GRANGE

4-down – : TAILPLANE

5-down – : WOMAN

6-down – : NUNDINAL

7-down – : ELOIN

8-down – : CLOTHESPROP

10-down – : FIRSTFOOTER

14-down – : KEEPGUARD

15-down – : BROADBEAN

16-down – : ZILLIONS

19-down – : XRATED

21-down – : VERGE

22-down – : IBSEN

1-across – One-time network’s extracts helping to make rubber : LATICES

5-across – Hippy cup-bearer’s after brother with a force before lunch : BROADIN

9-across – See 8 : QUEEN

10-across – Evidence in book of ducks’ feathers signals the end of the show : RINGSDOWN

11-across – Wind caught by misdirected craft? For certain I’ll be responsible : AIRTRAFFIC

12-across – Call from lookout to get off a boat : LAND

14-across – Imps left in depression by citation in New York : LINCOLNCITY

18-across – For starters, romantics want a bottle of fizz here? : TABLEFORTWO

21-across – See 12 : AHOY

22-across – Unitary connection involving us either side of single item of newsflash? : CONTINUITY

25-across – What’s presented by the treacherous SOB carrying weight condition : GREEKGIFT

26-across – See 16 : EDGES

27-across – See 5 : THEBEAM

28-across – Some slap mum, who bears single result of injury : MASCARA

1-down – OT character going around as an ornamental tree : LOQUAT

2-down – Unproven explanation of the Circle Line? : THEORY

3-down – See 11 : CONTROLLER

4-down – Dismisses antipodean type? : SERIF

5-down – I’m surprised outlaw’s eaten rat : BANDICOOT

6-down – Tributary to furious European river : OUSE

7-down – Having restricted view, say, one in road snarled up M1 north of Coventry : DIORAMIC

8-down – It’s said Mnemosyne’s daughters stun Mercury and others who had limited influence in the past? : NINEDAYS

13-down – See 22 : ANNOUNCERS

15-down – Fresh coinage of some lingo : NEOLOGISM

16-down – Hand-held tools staggered this loony : STRAIGHT

17-down – Invalid only replaces love in Milton’s heart : OBSOLETE

19-down – Way bits of groping react advantageously? : VIAGRA

20-down – She, indeed, has modelled : AYESHA

23-down – It’s to be respected and spymaster bears the burden : TOTEM

24-down – Island cooler after drug drop? : SKYE

1-across – Judge in speculation having suffered loss : BEREFT

4-across – Judge is well and truly scuppered : WELLAND

9-across – Explorer, at a pinch, captivated by royal bird? : FROBISHER

10-across – Wind usually from the west here : INDUS

11-across – Real ignoramus, but we educated him : TWEED

12-across – No byway, they say, where City used to play : MAINEROAD

13-across – Daddy’s legs for Mary : POPPINS

15-across – Pagan gestures disconcerting congregation : GANGES

17-across – Novel hero, the romantic type of course : ROTHER

19-across – Rover to display satisfaction with bird : WAGTAIL

22-across – Remaining few having suffered loss, thirty docked : SHORTLIST

24-across – Get a mark for honest endeavour : TAMAR

26-across – Suffering from catarrh in early life : RHINE

27-across – Arch emperor – not second in rank, thanks! : GRATITUDE

28-across – Very small number put on record : MINUTED

29-across – Was this ever noticed by anybody affected? : SEVERN

1-down – Polish money given to fly-by-night? : BUFFTIP

2-down – Get a mark for honest endeavour : RHONE

3-down – German suggestion of high cholesterol diet? : FRIEDRICH

4-down – Notice sailors at home entertained by clown : WARNING

5-down – Hoi polloi relish such nonsense : LOIRE

6-down – Galaxy with capital gets backing of publicity : ANDROMEDA

7-down – Old bird, about half size, to figure in square dance : DOSIDO

8-down – Arrival with a message from the emperor : THAMES

14-down – Raise for supporting subject for debate : PROMOTION

16-down – Clubbing not far off, I felt : NIGHTLIFE

18-down – Gordian knot for Jupiter Pluvius? : RAINGOD

19-down – Arrival with a message from the emperor : WITHAM

20-down – The Hydra was a bird : LERNEAN

21-down – Tree creature in retreat : ASHRAM

23-down – Property that is owner-occupied, not rented : TRENT

25-down – Some useful hints on property management : MEUSE