Daily Answers

1-across – L to point to an act : SATURN

4-across – L’s sacking constricts relation, a radical : JUPITER

9-across – Gk one has a source of absinthe : ARTEMISIA

10-across – Put top to bottom and head to tail to be hung in Paris : UPEND

11-across – US state not in L : DIANA

12-across – Gk 24 has one Romano drinking hot tea endlessly : APHRODITE

13-across – L travelling in the tube? : MERCURY

15-across – A thousand people opposed to prayer? : MANTIS

17-across – Gk article subsequently repeated : ATHENA

19-across – With a face like a guru in a recording : VISAGED

22-across – Back Gk 4 across to preserve : SUEZCANAL

24-across – L from heaven, usquebaugh : VENUS

26-across – Call of French politician to make one’s hair curl? : CRIMP

27-across – California artist turned composer : SCARLATTI

28-across – Chained, sadly, being without teeth : ECHIDNA

29-across – Gk 13 from another mess : HERMES

1-down – Celebrity backed by doctor with mild expletives : STARDOM

2-down – Treat – cooked : TETRA

3-down – Engineering unit, one certain to check surveyor’s calculations : REMEASURE

4-down – Mary’s father takes the part of John, a tailless ape : JOACHIM

5-down – Gk submarine supplier : PLUTO

6-down – Summertime, and ___ – vicar’s got a sinecure! : THELIVING

7-down – Means of going straight to the right milk supply : RUDDER

8-down – See 6 : ISEASY

14-down – Slightly preferable to skin problem outside the smallest state : RATHERISH

16-down – Pole : NASHVILLE

18-down – Sick men are incontinent, which doesn’t happen to elephants : AMNESIA

19-down – L shows love, commonly got up, has the ability to follow : VULCAN

20-down – Push a girl’s girl : DISMISS

21-down – Further words to solvers about church by Gk : PSYCHE

23-down – … detectives holding top L : CUPID

25-down – The back of the chest? On the contrary, the stomach : NOTUM

9-across – Complete dependency when rescue’s very far westward? : VASSALAGE

10-across – In verse, the frog’s women could be interpreted in a naughty way! : WOOER

11-across – Accomplish 4 increase without the brewing of ale : REALISE

12-across – Fish sign mentioned in exam : TELEOST

13-across – In a hurry, as Billy Connolly in Wells : HYING

14-across – See 16 : WRITESAND

16-across – A certain emotional pointer’s an author and, once summonsed, puts setback behind him : THEMOVINGFINGER

19-across – 1960s’ comedy disputes stand-up turn : PLEASESIR

21-across – Belief in whatever God made is Man’s to apprehend : DEISM

22-across – See 16 : MOVESON

23-across – Winter travel time reduced with cunning : SLEIGHT

24-across – Left like Crusoe, producing long yarn : LISLE

25-across – Restless hick to live outside Jerusalem? : ARTICHOKE

1-down – Excessive work previously in the public eye raised temperature : OVERTHETOP

2-down – Single element in a set, reactive : ASTATINE

3-down – See 16 : HAVING

4-down – Carry on with payment : WAGE

5-down – Socialist experienced endlessly rising pain on his wrong side? : LEFTWINGER

6-down – Gwynedd resort will help with repairs : PWLLHELI

7-down – Do one in possession of gold crown : CORONA

8-down – See 16 : WRIT

14-down – Pentecost’s the reason for holding its United Nations poster up : WHITSUNDAY

15-down – Sinister affair that carries much weight universally? : DARKMATTER

17-down – Preoccupied bosses unsettled leader-writer : OBSESSED

18-down – Suspicious behaviour? Enter and get fantastic snog! : GOINGSON

20-down – Mishchievoush shinger? : ELVISH

21-down – Thoroughly wet Cleese character absorbed by M in new Bond films? : DRENCH

22-down – Gently acting plant disease you and I turned off : MILD

23-down – Glut of marinated meat on skewers : SATE

1-across – Warning protest against wearing fewer clothes : OBJECT

5-across – See 1 : LESSON

8-across – Was the pact here to look at the registration number? : LOCARNO

9-across – Polish capital : RUBADUB

11-across – Basque bank blued allowance from vegetable dish : BUBBLEANDSQUEAK

12-across – The girl Verity goes topless : RUTH

13-across – Backwoodsman with jalopy keeping American time : BUSHRANGER

17-across – See 10 : IRREGULARS

18-across – The other half from 9 is a nuisance : PEST

20-across – Virtually the same mess began in the clear : INTERCHANGEABLE

23-across – Busy with a date? : ENGAGED

24-across – Insert transport for underling : SERVANT

25-across – Refrain from food and take in lines of music : STARVE

26-across – Square-dance figure is turning into a dead thing : DOSIDO

2-down – Ill-natured gossip with piece mounted by angel : BACKBITER

3-down – Lyre that is played in weird style : EERILY

4-down – Virtual piece about female with great and swell : TWOMANUAL

5-down – Ghastly old city in cover : LURID

6-down – Slightly less than blues composer, as entered : SUBEQUAL

7-down – In place of petrol, diesel seems somewhat dated : OLDIE

8-down – Enslavement, perhaps, in classical book, Bond circumvents detectives : LIBERTICIDE

10-down – Greek art: terrible I from Russia perplexed detective’s assistants : BAKERSTREET

14-down – Watered around forest – no point in it? Tough! : HARDNOSED

15-down – Water bird around yard, with the rest of it for 7 : GREYBEARD

16-down – A place for a car, pointless when one has no topping or jelly : AGARAGAR

19-down – Wheel for unEnglish boats? : FERRIS

21-down – Only just 8 [plus] 1? [See special instructions above] : TIGHT

22-down – Barrier on the hard side : HEDGE

4-across – See 13 : TURECK

6-across – Desert life support to hold a well-reasoned argument? : WATERBAG

9-across – With artists’ supermodel dropping ‘er latest 87 2 19-er : ANDRAS

10-across – Layman conclusively inspired Scott : MINSTREL

11-across – 24 introduction to Peter’s galaxy, perhaps? Kiss off! : PEARLYGATES

15-across – Erstwhile single issue rejected : ONETIME

17-across – Daughter abandoning music played so sadly for a drink in a tapas bar : OLOROSO

18-across – Surf, you might say, with one hand tied to another : BONDSERVANT

22-across – A redcap with it in the red sand hopper, say : AMPHIPOD

23-across – See 9 : SCHIFF

24-across – As delightful as Leda’s twins? : HEAVENLY

25-across – Sounds like rain on the wedding : BRIDAL

1-down – Bends over with left hand’s scratch : SCRAWL

2-down – See 8 : VARIATIONS

3-down – See Cato’s Metamorphoses: it never ____ amaze me! : CEASESTO

4-down – The measure of Tony Benn’s addiction? : TEASPOON

5-down – Rivaldo at right back? Ecstasy for one Australian player : RODLAVER

7-down – See 8 : BERG

8-down – Work of 20 or composer with ovaritis an alternative : GOLD

12-down – Prime orbiter and good old Irish 19-er of the 87 2 : GLENNGOULD

13-down – She 19-ed the 87 2 wildly and – er – struck oil : ROSALIND

14-down – One shouldn’t, they say, talk with this much spleen : MOUTHFUL

16-down – Doctor Basmati is out on the tiles! : IMBRICES

19-down – Post on line : RECORD

20-down – A congenial address in Llanelli : BACH

21-down – Measure the level of acidity in running water : EPHA

10-across – Daddy, I’m a lion asking for a boat : PAIROAR

11-across – Would you like an answer, if you grasp fields of telepathy? : YESPLEASE

13-across – Say you start on the answer, will this keep you clean? : EUSOL

15-across – Musically famous : NOTED

16-across – Laureate Robert holding church service in the Cotswolds : SOUTHCERNEY

17-across – Misplaced paintwork : INAPT

18-across – Suit one when it’s gone home by commercial backing inside : SUNDAYBEST

19-across – T? Insert extra one into small jumper for new opening : ROADJUNCTION

20-across – Yesterday’s French containing anything less modest? : HAUGHTIER

22-across – Prescribed list for The Times? : TABLETS

24-across – American city to hawk African one? : LAGOS

25-across – Sovereign part of 10 in riverside structure: dairymaid can take it : MILKINGPAIL

26-across – Bird out of temper with Cathy’s grange : THRUSHCROSS

29-across – Historian not speaking American? : TACITUS

31-across – Soldiers carrying pounds of baggage : TROLLOP

33-across – Greek is tough! : SPARTAN

34-across – Report of watchman getting affectionate greeting, trying to go in? : CENTRIPETAL

37-across – Tetchy characters from Austria boil : ATRABILIOUS

39-across – Light associate obtained from Samson’s lion : SWEET

41-across – City female’s diminutive female with lots of transport : FLORRIE

42-across – It’s piping with half a pipe for almost vinegary setter : PEACETIME

43-across – Dark Blues to be afraid the gun will not be audible : OUTOFEARSHOT

45-across – Chemist such as Gauguin sets New York this test : SYNTHESIST

48-across – Dealing in the wind : TRADE

49-across – Inescapable order to go quickly dispatched again : OMNIPRESENT

50-across – Very good money : GRAND

52-across – A means of saving conceals the end of Michael Craig : AILSA

53-across – Having no object I’ve got lost on the way : INTRANSIT

54-across – Beat in the air, giving a woeful exhibition grabbing a shirt? : OUTFLEW

1-down – Squat writer at opening of Jersey enclosure : JPEN

2-down – Somerset House supplies colour in Kingston town : TINTINHULL

3-down – An ode I translated in complete ignorance : NOIDEA

4-down – Annoyed with laureate Robert? Wait till you reach them! : CROSSBRIDGES

5-down – Game that sounds obscene in company : CLUEDO

6-down – Is it possible for Edward to succeed to the throne? It will need a widget : CANNEDBEER

7-down – Help yourselves to old medal before crazy guy sets out : BEMYGUESTS

8-down – Solar put right outside 51 across : HELIACAL

9-down – Casts without a note produce groovy sounds : FLUTINGS

11-down – On introduction I may turn to the Treasury, No 5 : YOURSERVANT

12-down – Like this house off the Charing Cross Road? : SOHO

14-down – Male in place of mail, formerly the way for a stopover : STAGINGPOST

18-down – Desirable semi, catch for the methodical : SCHEMATIC

21-down – Robber girl, the first to be put inside : HEISTER

22-down – A pretty good pupil to the Queen in Iolanthe : TOLLOLLER

23-down – Black Labour leader broken by a vote for the Iron Lady : BATTLEAXE

27-down – Fool wants cleaner situation : CHARLIE

28-down – Bearings subtending a right angle have the smell of ageing : SENESCENT

30-down – Play scene gives Lancelot Christian conversion : CONCERTHALL

32-down – Earnest author admitting my appropriate retraction : PARTPAYMENT

33-down – Sale of hot article in place of electrical conversion : SUBHASTATION

35-down – Italian girl drinking a bottle in Giglio’s kingdom : PAFLAGONIA

36-down – Ordinal for solvers with some theology? : THOUSANDTH

38-down – First, the first drink to go in by the mouth : ORIGINALLY

39-down – S-scratcher holds out with demand for good turns : SCOUTLAW

40-down – Welshman said thanks for silks : TAFFETAS

44-down – The golden spirit has missed Tom, unfortunate child : ORPHAN

46-down – Number of importance first off : EIGHTY

47-down – See 39 across : NESS

51-down – Fresh as the morning librarian’s report? : DEWY