Daily Answers

1-across – Lawrence had dinner between setbacks with private conversations : TETESATETES

9-across – Nonsense some celebrated with return of person with pick : ELECTOR

10-across – Occupy with achievement of bowler and batsman : OVERRUN

11-across – Rodent and bird without enclosure : GUINEAPIG

12-across – Big band music on second side : SWING

13-across – Flower of the 15-a-side game on time : RUHR

14-across – Speculate on limit to hospital department’s raising of standard : BETTERMENT

16-across – Animal Behaviour is a title by composer : BESTIALITY

19-across – Actor in boot? : TREE

20-across – Large quantities : LOADS

21-across – Motorist’s eccentric stream : CARDRIVER

23-across – More than 50% of English tortoises are rank : ECHELON

24-across – Parliamentarian, one in hell with the wrong polarity : HAMPDEN

25-across – King Edward cut down amid rebel riot by little bird : REEDWARBLER

1-down – Optimism on Matthew’s part: is his obese female child male, even if model? : THEWISHISFATHER

2-down – See 1 : TOTHE

3-down – Fight that is a danger to sheep : SCRAPIE

4-down – See 1 : THOUGHT

5-down – Brown field in Surrey at disposal : TREASURY

6-down – Church or garage with link to the web : SERVICEPROVIDER

7-down – The creed of the Mendicants? : BEGGERSBELIEF

8-down – King has clue to things from chivalrous figures : KNIGHTSERRANT

15-down – It’s hell to do crosswords – get lost : DISSOLVE

17-down – Indian city won back by chance : LUCKNOW

18-down – Report of infliction of pain on arsonist? : TORCHER

22-down – Relating to a branch that causes alarm : RAMAL

1-across – Compile faulty argument : POLEMIC

5-across – Some mix in nut and meat product : PEMICAN

9-across – Voice intent : TENOR

10-across – Willing to accept daughter can be changed : AMENDABLE

11-across – Make tyres differently, giving improved access : MASTERKEY

12-across – ‘ound the Italian to the point where … : UNTIL

13-across – … eccentric eats hot vegetable : CHARD

15-across – Is priest getting immoral capital? : ISLAMABAD

18-across – New gaffer initially interrupts foremost film director : PREMINGER

19-across – Sailor stays in corrupt place to sleep : ROOST

21-across – A king picked up the vernacular : ARGOT

23-across – One makes a claim before getting emotional : PRETENDER

25-across – Associate depression with class : COLLEAGUE

26-across – Detective recovers stolen loincloth : DHOTI

27-across – Rushed round a cross fast : RAMADAN

28-across – Navigate round America in old ship : STEAMER

1-down – Mop coat spoilt in river : POTOMAC

2-down – Picture shows lights on the promontory : LANDSCAPE

3-down – Detective in scrap throws a left : MORSE

4-down – Student tucks into excellent pork accompaniment : CRACKLING

5-down – Ruth embraces oriental devotion : PIETY

6-down – Abigail does without a calculator for a period : MIDSUMMER

7-down – Explorer and sailor in bed : CABOT

8-down – Required to restrain a Liberal made angry : NEEDLED

14-down – Tangle and quarrel with in action : DRIFTWEED

16-down – Immensity of philanthropy shown around the northeast : LARGENESS

17-down – Carpet the street in blossom : BROADLOOM

18-down – Rushed Charlie in by lively horse : PRANCER

20-down – Soldier to slip up in bank : TERRIER

22-down – Artificial life form discovered by Mongol emperor : GOLEM

23-down – Show silver in dish to unbeliever : PAGAN

24-down – Invest in experience without resistance : ENDUE

1-across – This car’s just pressure in a new form : JESUSCHRISTSUPERSTAR

12-across – Moslem’s local American reverse : SUNNI

13-across – See 9 : EXPRESS

14-across – Setter’s a friend in maybe 12 office : IMAMATE

15-across – What do you want for Christmas : PREZZIE

16-across – Two points each, one short of wanting to drink the lot : THIRTYALL

17-across – Not 44 to deface : MAR

18-across – Singlestick operator supports logophile : BACKSWORDMAN

20-across – Spies a loo : AGENTS

24-across – Aged relative of Katharina until tamed : NAUNT

25-across – Airborne seeds, first changed, end with dispersal : WHISTLE

27-across – Perform better than gold in the open : OUTDOOR

28-across – Cure, say, of 32, say : HEEL

29-across – Lies low, and did so in later writing I can put unto Latin : PLAYSPOSSUM

31-across – See 25 : DOWN

33-across – Don’t interfere in readiness : STANDBY

35-across – Father embraced by flower girl : DESIREE

36-across – Losing head is pure lack of patience : HASTE

37-across – Average sort of go-between : MEDIUM

38-across – See 1 down : TECHNICOLOUR

42-across – Code of practice begins after the last one : ZIP

44-across – Communist achievement postponing fools’ day? : LONGMARCH

46-across – Headless flower is trouble to back : LUMBAGO

48-across – 24 turns to a king – sledgers beware! : NUNATAK

49-across – Time lost by Italian city firm taking water from Venezuela : ORINOCO

50-across – Turn up another card trick : TWIST

51-across – Gunn, who has written poems about a lot of big beasts many times, has expectation about English painters : THEPHANTOMOFTHEOPERA

1-down – Sweetheart’s letter writing a greeting to Samuel with a verve: Sherlock : JOSEPH

2-down – At the end of the day a singular French game’s very difficult, as they say : SUNSETBOULEVARD

3-down – Dog exactly like the last : SPITZ

4-down – Some big beasts swallowed by fish with no colour : HUELESS

5-down – Sticker left off, take a pew during solver’s return with 36 : IMPETUOSITY

6-down – See 25 across : THEWIND

7-down – Still hungry? Attain and use organisation : UNSATIATE

8-down – She rises in 21 : EVITA

9-down – Nameless bird with the odd numbered papers : STARLIGHT

10-down – Having wings – a thousand on the clock : ALARM

11-down – Odd man out here, being potty – barking? : JERRYSPRINGER

19-down – Universities now : CATS

21-down – Right wing today gives veterans no voice : NEOCONSERVATIVE

22-down – See 1 : ANDHISAMAZING

23-down – How big is the book? : VOLUME

25-down – Reportedly on good terms with urban horticulturalists? : WELWYN

26-down – Exponent of spin as curate in play : TOPAS

30-down – Errant aristocrat called immediately : STRAIGHTOFF

32-down – Go away from London district with change of heart : SHOO

34-down – Score of 40 to make historic garment work : DOUBLETOP

35-down – See 1 : DREAMCOAT

39-down – In channel island love signifies great courage : HEROISM

40-down – A fly-by-night or two – or two thousand with holiday arranged : OWLMOTH

41-down – Shakespearean part : PORTIA

43-down – Did Pecksniff employ him to steal? : PINCH

45-down – Mobile number partly in Greek I assume : NOKIA

47-down – Monsieur the Archduke’s statement of intent? : MOTTO

1-across – Asian shot, in the wars endlessly : PUNJABI

5-across – Pork faked in bed for swingers : HAMMOCK

10-across – US president in 22 : FORD

11-across – One insignificant, no good unqualified : INELIGIBLE

12-across – Bearing that is most extensive : WIDEST

13-across – Could be no stopping adoring fans ultimately going mad : ROADSIGN

14-across – Unsuitable quality rejected in Spain, unfortunately : INAPTNESS

16-across – Foreman’s dog? : BOXER

17-across – XX rating : SCORE

19-across – Church involved in issue on location in New Jersey : PRINCETON

23-across – Reformer’s follower reforming Hun later : LUTHERAN

24-across – Lips licked very strong cigarette : SPLIFF

26-across – Spike pierced by worst sort of spikes, perhaps : SPORTSWEAR

27-across – Highland town where women’s 22 going topless : WICK

28-across – My job is turning to jelly : SETTING

29-across – Finish clues, or rewrite : CLOSURE

2-down – More ideal thus : UTOPIAN

3-down – Hear legend captured by obscure character : JUDGE

4-down – Islander’s written about the sign of an illiterate 22 : BRIXTON

6-down – Dictator in Los Angeles brought up to be a brute : ANIMAL

7-down – Time in order in state 22 : MAIDSTONE

8-down – Feature of motorway about to enter European city : COLOGNE

9-down – German dog show? : JERRYSPRINGER

15-down – Stop suffering about skinhead in 22 : PARKHURST

18-down – Beginning to crease, crease and crease : CRUMPLE

20-down – Opening numbers to sing, unfinished : NOSTRIL

21-down – See 22 : OFFICER

22-down – Inside job : PRISON

25-down – 22 where art critic almost hauled up : LEWES

1-across – Crush a dignitary : PASHA

4-across – Mowlam on horseback – turncoat and rabble-rouser : MOBOCRAT

8-across – How plants grow flowers? Keeping warm, new doctoral research reveals : PHOTOSYNTHESIS

10-across – Fabric layer in poor health in church : CHENILLE

11-across – Coming out elliptical : GNOMIC

12-across – Keep maintaining peak condition and seize the reins : TAKEPOWER

15-across – Singer’s personal problem involving fool : BASSO

17-across – Remuneration Poles received for being anything but macho : PANSY

18-across – Terrorists I subsequently sent back come back : RETALIATE

19-across – Very bad habit, taking tabloid : TRAGIC

21-across – Drier item for sale aboard train : TEACLOTH

24-across – Sanctimonious author in Hamburg’s top hotel gets thrown out : HOLIERTHANTHOU

25-across – It’s true love! Given the stomach, I’ll do anything! : FACTOTUM

26-across – Take to Sky, receiving line from the Sun? : SOLAR

1-down – Overworks animal – tame one burrowing into the Spanish mountain : POPOCATEPETL

2-down – Smutty stuff on the royal family’s fabulous afterbirth : SOOTERKIN

3-down – Ex-boxer catches Zeus’s lover dressing : AIOLI

4-down – Transport for emigrants is a potential bloomer : MAYFLOWER

5-down – Rugby team’s memory : BYTE

6-down – Woman torn apart by aristocrat’s disaster : CHERNOBYL

7-down – A truth universally acknowledged at 10.10 in the morning : AXIOM

9-down – Philosopher – to wit, Hungary’s first player taking gold after end of match : SCHOPENHAUER

13-down – A scientific figure – pity his science is flawed : PHYSICIST

14-down – May her swine’s flesh putrefy in Yorkshire! : ROTHERHAM

16-down – Cricket ground’s turned small boy into fan of central Europe : SLAVOPHIL

20-down – Eros reflected on a smell : AROMA

22-down – Dog food containers I opened : CANIS

23-down – Summons jester to entertain the king : WRIT