Daily Answers

1-across – Duet formed by man in post’s to get better : JUDETHEOBSCURE

8-across – A number in a vehicle counter : ABACUS

13-across – Pioneering message: batterer turned against soldier turned batterer : MARCONIGRAM

14-across – Duchy at 10 with smothered daughter : BRABINTIO

15-across – Ride to far country by a philosopher : SPINOZA

16-across – Rich man heard to make us laugh? : CROESUS

17-across – Tough kisser? : HARDY

18-across – Our tender ego we rented out to go round hospital : UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE

21-across – Bar worker from street when there’s light outside : TAPSTER

24-across – See 28 : MADDINGCROWD

28-across – It’s bad for the farm being a summer bird, doctor holds : FARFROMTHE

29-across – Playing footy with 19, one who will throw game : THEMAYOROF

31-across – See 29 : CASTERBRIDGE

34-across – Flirts at dance in playground? : TOYSHOP

37-across – Humorous writer is without editor after backing little ditch for towns across the water : TESSOFTHEDURBERVILLES

42-across – Changing Blair to Brown needed central intelligence : BRAIN

43-across – A little paper on holiday : WHITSUN

44-across – Sulky start of reporter’s request? : PETTISH

45-across – Apple once given to queen at a dogs’ home : POMERANIA

46-across – Philosophy of a moralist in trouble : RATIONALISM

47-across – Make fun of foreign journey : DERIDE

48-across – Ambassador in 2 has nothing left among passions : THEWOODLANDERS

1-down – Driver’s get-together during excursion : JAMESHUNT

2-down – Princess and queen got together and got fouled : DIRTIED

3-down – Firsts of the worst of our time : TWOFOUR

4-down – Another 17 11 : EVITA

5-down – Walk in London taking time at prison : BIRDCAGE

6-down – No royal article these days : COMMONERA

7-down – Singer formally attired? : ROBESON

9-down – By keeping right with slightly painful foot, nails are nearer to hand in such a case : BRICHYDACTYLY

10-down – I provide time before getting into 30 : CATERER

11-down – See 20 : STORY

12-down – Ship’s party needing redemption to give to posterity : PASSDOWN

19-down – All those women – run a mile! : HAREM

20-down – 40’s done wrong: there’s no more to be said : ENDOF

22-down – The county is below standard : PARIS

23-down – Pirate’s hat is possibly there with no chance of escape : THREECORNERED

25-down – Writer gave name to flower : DAHL

26-down – Marx turns up with Lady Chat : OPRAH

27-down – Language spoken in marriage? : THAI

28-down – Appearance of champion in pink paper : FACET

30-down – Dr Hill’s vehicle : MOTOR

32-down – Something like an umbrella needed to hit a six : BATSWING

33-down – Food and wages can be driven below surface : GRUBSCREW

35-down – Shakespearean’s letters sound American : POSTHUMUS

36-down – From the first I love to follow article and then throw it away : ABINITIO

38-down – A manner of speaking in which I speak of myself in body : STAMMER

39-down – Suitable words on grave in untidy heap : EPITAPH

40-down – Passenger : INTRAIN

41-down – Alice is upset – remove frock? : LAICISE

42-down – People’s tips are in order: like one of them? : BIPED

44-down – Predatory start for predator’s predatory movement : PROWL

1-across – Have meal with : SUPERB

4-across – Ships’ painter securing bananas : ARMADA

9-across – 5 hit : BELT

10-across – See 24 : AMONGWHICH

11-across – Seth Mk 4’s back : VIKRAM

12-across – Rice portions after generous starter with 10 16 15 : GIOCONDA

13-across – Exotic fruit provides Scotsman with a weapon outside : ASIANPEAA

15-across – See 16 : LISA

16-across – African country’s holding on to a work of art : MONA

17-across – A depression’s enveloped her followers : ADHERENTS

21-across – School run returns with nasty noise : WOLFNOTE

22-across – African 25 makes 500 of 25 : DURBAN

24-across – Leonardo’s work – his highest – matches Hitchens’s extravaganza : SHEISOLDER

25-across – Place after long story for intelligence : CITY

26-across – Horatio’s hold on African hero : NELSON

27-across – Name used by S-Shelley : BYSSHE

1-down – See 24 : SHESITS

2-down – Head for tail, Dad? : PATER

3-down – Gypsies quietly secure publicity for peace plan : ROADMAP

5-down – Ignore devastated area : REGION

6-down – Love divine if Oprah tied knot? : APHRODITE

7-down – Ideal country for bounder to enter song : ARCADIA

8-down – Not finished your problem about African country? Not finished – trepidation : ROUGHANDREADY

14-down – Actor’s part in The Tempest keeps new fan exalted : ANNAFRIEL

16-down – Wife of grouse, low with her funny name : MOORHEN

18-down – Stomach, not head, keeps the German from getting on : ELDERLY

19-down – See 24 : THANTHE

20-down – End fight for pound by love of country : KOSOVO

23-down – See 24 : ROCKS

7-across – Disorder new to sibling : NEUROSIS

9-across – Message from the Queen : ERRAND

10-across – P for plate? : SOUP

11-across – Always the same game : CHANGELESS

12-across – Reel where rubbish goes : BOBBIN

14-across – Leave rights to writer from South Africa : GORDIMER

15-across – Church breakfast? : CEREAL

17-across – Foot whose son had weak heel : PELEUS

20-across – Funny page by story-teller : PECULIAR

22-across – Where to play with forged coin : CASINO

23-across – Portion of French cheese in order to give compensation : QUIDPROQUO

24-across – Use teeth with energy : BITE

25-across – Stories for students : ANNALS

26-across – Turn deer to teacher : EDUCATOR

1-down – Good time for reptiles and mice with zoos destroyed : MESOZOIC

2-down – Go up with catch : TRAP

3-down – Grateful recipient does half dance under tree : ASHCAN

4-down – More than half-baked actor called Richard ‘e’s a dish : KEDGEREE

5-down – French complaint about one’s superfluous ornamentation : FRILLINESS

6-down – Maroon in place of green is legitimate : ENISLE

8-down – Like cormorant or fabulous dog? : SHAGGY

13-down – Great leader in African country with article from wine region : BURGUNDIAN

16-down – A capital model including first person with honey : APIARIST

18-down – Permit refusal to trade? : SANCTION

19-down – Second left from Welch painter : BRAQUE

21-down – Ends off spangled quadruped : EQUINE

22-down – Reptile with American flower : CROCUS

24-down – Put up with beast : BEAR

1-across – My love put worm in drink as oxygenator : MYOGLOBIN

6-across – Check front of boat : STEM

10-across – Pipsqueak dropping article somewhere in Belgium : TWERP

11-across – God brandishing net is most problematic : THORNIEST

12-across – Change style of defenders in dance : REMODEL

13-across – Make spray of potato, miserably late : ATOMISE

14-across – Changing the subject, an expert’s a great lake among poor ponds : APROPOSDERIEN

17-across – Second and final quarter preceding return of big noise : GHETTOBLASTER

21-across – Setter’s having a drink and a drug: think of that! : IMAGINE

22-across – Brown in Paris retaining English weapon : BRENGUN

24-across – Pompey’s mostly in hospital, a good loser : SPORTSMAN

25-across – See 8 : OFALL

26-across – Primate at the cross going as far as he could … : APEX

27-across – … did well and came later : SUCCEEDED

1-down – A bird takes in complaint of 8 : MATERNAL

2-down – Report of dislike for old theatre : ODEUM

3-down – Slippers tied to rock by 8s? : LEPIDOPTERISTS

4-down – See 8 : BATTLES

5-down – Gaslight swallowed little baby : NEONATE

7-down – Article on little bird said to have writers : THESIGNET

8-down – Test hero to go down with club lest beaten in fight with Saddam : MOTHER

9-down – Backing gamble from the heart, perhaps, to keep local from one part of skeleton : INNOMINATEBONE

15-down – Dress for 8’s part in a tedious performance : RIGMAROLE

16-down – One little boy caught one in ship : IRONCLAD

18-down – 8’s turn to heat retainer : THERMOS

19-down – Good to get in American car when reduced by such plague : BUBONIC

20-down – Bad atmosphere where I get embraced by 1down 8 : MIASMA

23-down – Money, good money too : GRAND

1-across – : THEJOKEISONME

10-across – : PALMIST

11-across – : VEDETTE

12-across – : UNCUT

13-across – : WENTAFTER

14-across – : YUSUF

16-across – : CHOPLOGIC

18-across – : QUEERNESS

19-across – : RODEO

20-across – : ABBEYROAD

23-across – : NAILS

24-across – : SCOTIST

25-across – : LAMPERN

26-across – : EXPERTWITNESS

2-down – : HALFCASTE

3-down – : JOINT

4-down – : KOTOW

5-down – : INVENTORS

6-down – : OLDSAILOR

7-down – : MOTET

8-down – : XPLUSYEQUALSZ

9-down – : ZEBRACROSSING

15-down – : FORTYNINE

16-down – : CHEMOSTAT

17-down – : GODLINESS

21-down – : BRONX

22-down – : DELHI

23-down – : NOMEN