Daily Answers

1-across – Hope it didn’t break when Tony Benn dropped it : WEDGWOOD

5-across – Nasty party backing bills : ODIOUS

9-across – Erred : SYNDROME

10-across – Trailing flower’s name : ASTERN

12-across – Dam’s dam, say, in pseudo horror film : MUMMYSCURSE

15-across – Stop 19 rising : LETUP

17-across – Truant sailor takes second turn right : ABSCONDER

18-across – Vehicle for high pressure container : CARTRIDGE

19-across – Don’t stop every cry of pain : ALLOW

20-across – Pain from stick? : FRENCHBREAD

24-across – Soprano Soprano Soprano : TREBLE

25-across – Missile to expose to music : AIRTOAIR

26-across – Pristine condition continuing like 1 across : MINTON

27-across – Shelter in another play? How obvious can you get? : PATENTLY

1-down – Confuse whelk with music accompanying farewell to setter : WISHMELUCK

2-down – Explosive character subverts : DYNAMITARD

3-down – Cautious about model being flawed : WARTY

4-down – Burns derived novel containing 11, they say : OFMICEANDMEN

6-down – Half 11 right away with island girl who was stifled : DESDEMONA

7-down – Have covered lines with plenty of stitching : OVER

8-down – Look round books and it reveals former email : SENT

11-down – Attractive figures of Judi dividing the odd sardine : DRESDENCHINA

13-down – Corrupter of insect : ADULTERANT

14-down – Ware of success for Queen’s horse? : CROWNDERBY

16-down – Left book in case : PORTFOLIO

21-down – First two to the dip? : BATHE

22-down – See 8 : ITEM

23-down – See 7 : SEWN

8-across – See 9 : ATHLETIC

9-across – Players here waiting the call, almost made it! : WIGAN

10-across – Noble utterance where 21’s 24 across ends in 9 : PIER

11-across – How to take it easy at home: work fast and play evenly : INDOLENTLY

12-across – 8 players here had left beaten, word of contemplation needed outside : OLDHAM

14-across – Indonesian holding with end of Kipling’s 24 across : MANDALAY

15-across – One dodging the issue with the East German plutocracy : OSTRICH

17-across – Conversely, what one does at the Portaloo, say, with some accuracy : PSANDQS

20-across – Jules et Jim’s Jeanne catching canine with some choice scraps : MORCEAUX

22-across – Guardian of the Guardian crossword was he? : CUSTOS

23-across – Precious muddle to sort out which twin? : TWEEDLEDUM

24-across – The ___ to 9 10 : ROAD

25-across – Pass out from colossal return of catch : LASSO

26-across – Bill one to syphon off some pollutant : ACIDRAIN

1-down – End of short and curlies twisting bladders : UTRICLES

2-down – Slight bending of rules out East : SLUR

3-down – Rat one slaughtered with some indecision in the forecourt : ATRIUM

4-down – A Kentish rebel, me? Where’s your scholarship? : ACADEME

5-down – With a heather on board one might get fires : SWALINGS

6-down – Counsellors getting letters from young Santa : AGONYAUNTS

7-down – Old car’s force leaving bundles of nerves : ANGLIA

13-down – O, woe indeed, Gloucester! : HARDCHEESE

16-down – 8 players here with sweeper not left standing : CHARLTON

18-down – Where to now?, said Spartacus. Another epic? : QUOVADIS

19-down – Old time dancing’s beginning inside English halls : EXEDRAE

21-down – River as alternative water supply : ORWELL

22-down – Welsh fancy man, I see, losing cool : CYMRIC

24-down – Galley master’s verbal instruction repeated on ferry : RORO

1-across – * Have pet dog outside : DOWN

3-across – * Witticism about revolutionary truck not so conservative? : MOCK

6-across – Drag picture a mile off to Waterhouse in the black stuff : SOME

8-across – New lamps for old song : PSALM

13-across – See 32 : CROQUETGROUND

14-across – See 24 : SENDSIN

15-across – See 3 : TURTLESSTORY

16-across – See 7 : TEAPARTY

18-across – * Political group for people with Saga : CAUCUSRACEANDLONGTALE

23-across – * A vermin with instincts in 7 at church : ALICESEVIDENCE

24-across – * Minister back home died with wrong a/c : RABBIT

27-across – A flower’s to give man an edge – it’s after flower : APOSTROPHE

29-across – See 24 : LITTLEBILL

32-across – * Club before Wimbledon? : QUEENS

33-across – Paying lavishly for second plan about bone disease with love : SPLASHINGOUTON

38-across – * Publicity for bad habit’s bad form on supply column : ADVICEFROMCATERPILLAR

40-across – Determined to get the crossword done again : RESOLVED

42-across – * Musician receives greeting from Mahatma with zest : PIGANDPEPPER

47-across – * Chucks the box about right as doctor’s one left : LOBSTER

48-across – * Flaws about houses to let : WHOSTOLETARTS

49-across – Muslim ruler comes in to give me errand : EMEER

50-across – Reverse of wrong not right? : TROT

51-across – See 6 and 48 down : LIKE

52-across – See 1 : HOLE

1-down – Money from the French beast : DUCAT

2-down – Courting person with cry of apprehension : WOOER

4-down – Food, say, for conspirator or explorer : OATES

5-down – How much gold? Chop-chop! : KARAT

6-down – Wise man collects paper from landed gentry : SQUIREAGE

7-down – * Return of still barrier separately included : MAD

8-down – Nip pic : PINUP

9-down – Land the Guardian in Chambers? : AUSTRIA

10-down – Stockbrokers’ homes increase liquidity, detaining one wandering by : MONEYBELT

11-down – Complete recovery from flu, cruel affliction : FULLCURE

12-down – Space traveller leaves a skeleton in Philistine city : ASKELON

17-down – Poetical requirement to dice with death : ODIC

18-down – Bow to c-cricketer : CLARA

19-down – It will take all sorts of characters to get head from 28 and base from 17 : UNICODE

20-down – Sporty beast has permission to knock back the booze : REEBOK

21-down – Half cathedral city for a gram : CHICH

22-down – It’s good to do nothing to cover the pot : GLAZE

25-down – Knocker in fashion : BRISTOL

26-down – I take pot for just one reason : STONER

28-down – Lighter garment for ulster in cutback : TUNIC

30-down – See 6 across : ITHOT

31-down – Ship for the dustbin : LINER

32-down – See 47 : QUADRILLE

34-down – * Peter who sang round – round and round the gallery : POOL

35-down – Vicar loth to construct a soffit : ARCHIVOLT

36-down – Typewriter to be found in excessively imaginary number : OLIVETTI

37-down – See 34 : OFTEARS

39-down – It’s horrible keeping close relation in sight : VISIBLE

41-down – When to see you producing … : LATER

43-down – … co-operative decapitation of monopolistic group : ARTEL

44-down – King of the valley, an inhuman creature : DALEK

45-down – Order sailors to have love for erotica : PORNO

46-down – Cider drinker got up about one : ROSIE

48-down – Open eyes about both sides – one is hostile : WAR

7-across – Incandescent satellite, commandeered by Rufus, reversed mostly : FURIOUS

8-across – Araucaria’s Life-force Bank: secure and electronic : CHILEAN

9-across – Smith’s predecessor to make Logodaedalus news : WORD

10-across – Appliance of mechanics principally associated with Brummie – old students beware getting out of line! : MICROWAVE

12-across – Wedge foreign article in scanning equipment : CLEAT

13-across – Like a drink offered by one having flutter in the Parrot : LIBATORY

15-across – Bent tibias – sex rejected and abandoned : BIAS

16-across – Pasquale’s hogging card partner and dance partner of Paul : JONES

17-across – See 8 : PINE

18-across – The very last in the queue despite expectations? : AFTERALL

20-across – Maybe Bunthorne’s in musical entertainment as an Irish saint? : BRIDE

21-across – Whipped round with pile to be laundered : PURLOINED

22-across – Vein on Latin lines : LODE

24-across – See 23 : PURPOSE

25-across – One ideally situated to muddle on with Taupi : UTOPIAN

1-down – Orlando tips uranium : OUZO

2-down – They separate the good from the bad, Enigmatist and his ilk : RIDDLERS

3-down – Something vulgarly dull after Quantum, not specific : SUMMAT

4-down – Clot, daft as brush, Tom : THROMBUS

5-down – Flexible machinery etc contains one : PLIANT

6-down – Discouraged? Shed/Gordius cooked fish : DACE

11-down – Chifonie clone, different league involved – an honorary title only : COLONELIN

12-down – : CHIEF

14-down – Move at will: Rover might follow in a vehicle : RANGE

16-down – Janus, teaming with Losey : JEALOUSY

17-down – Insert pike into seeds and sort of screw : PHILLIPS

19-down – Parent dealt in ecstasy : ENRAPT

20-down – Bathroom fixtures, dead expensive, finally in pieces : BIDETS

21-down – Maybe Auster’s other Guardian pseudonym : PAUL

23-down – Pop! Audreus rallied round Lendl’s lead, producing a double service : DUAL

1-across – Travel North to Edinburgh, Scotland, seeking work: redden with excitement finding this 24 there : THEREVEREND

9-across – English sailors clad in duck never changing : ETERNAL

10-across – Heavenly sound puts theology in lower place : THUNDER

11-across – See 1 : SKATINGON

12-across – Leave bed — it means more money : ARISE

13-across – Sound of instrument suitable for the blues? : SAXE

14-across – First time up — see if the stairs are OK? : TESTFLIGHT

16-across – Gunners surround African country unable to wait, as they say : RARINGTOGO

19-across – Anxiety for the return of liberal Tories? : STEW

21-across – Flier with explosive dip : BATHE

22-across – Passageway ahead: Reagan not having died, enter turncoat : ROOTCANAL

24-across – Sir Henry gets audience back on-stream : RAEBURN

25-across – Max gets worse, they say, rendering Samson’s weapon : JAWBONE

26-across – Argentine peeler has medal to flog : SILVERBIRCH

1-down – Cross-border article missing from Scottish port about unknown queen’s jesters : THEMARXBROTHERS

2-down – Genuine heart afflicted by languor : ENNUI

3-down – Pastoral defect in some clergy heading off villain : ECLOGUE

4-down – Message to home number, first to last, is no longer with us : EXTINCT

5-down – Ready for school with due reform being on message : EDUCABLE

6-down – See 1 across : DUDDINGSTONLOCH

7-down – Facilis descensus Averno – keeping count? : CENSUS

8-down – Description of Abraham going to press? : URGENT

15-down – Platonic nexus scattered – turn first left : UNSEXUAL

16-down – See 1 across : ROBERT

17-down – Old comedian demolishing Centrepoint? : TERENCE

18-down – Profitable employment is just as well : GOODJOB

20-down – See 1 across : WALKER

23-down – What Burns’s mouse did to homecoming beast? Not sure : COWER