Daily Answers

1-across – Excited men on blown-up toys : BOUNCY

4-across – Dictator demanding endless oil : CASTRO

9-across – Member at dance short of love : LIMB

10-across – Peeling off art to discover woven tapestries : STRIPTEASE

11-across – A heavy burden to have a lock at first, but no key : ATONAL

12-across – Tool didn’t appear to be holding one back : TENONSAW

13-across – Suffering as a commuter : TRAINSICK

15-across – Commanders’ story rejected : AGAS

16-across – Press finds the Guardian in the pub : PUSH

17-across – Shabby article containing Irish oath : THIRDRATE

21-across – More short and broad : STUBBIER

22-across – See 27 : DREAMS

24-across – Kit with 19 to churn churned product : BUTTERMILK

25-across – Shaft appearing enormous in hospital department : AXLE

26-across – Maxim of Chinese philosophy in decline : SAYING

27-across – You should be so lucky when flying or appearing nude in public? : INYOUR

1-down – Those not invited to the top celeb parties to meet the Queen? That’s painful! : BLISTER

2-down – South African port, but not capital like Cape Town perhaps? : URBAN

3-down – See 1 across : CASTLES

5-down – One in Nepal, perhaps, from the mountains : ALPINE

6-down – Child of eleven or twelve : TWEENAGER

7-down – See 16 : ONSEATS

8-down – Design of king or heretic on London’s skyline? : EROTICGHERKIN

14-down – Pint-sized, single, loveless boys with toys struggling to maintain sex appeal : ITSYBITSY

16-down – Get the punters in, as pubs must – no dodgy food : PUTBUMS

18-down – Native American offensively risked being put off reservation, ultimately : REDSKIN

19-down – Dropping glass? : TUMBLER

20-down – Fruit – it’s swallowed by political chum, but not entirely : CITRON

23-down – Goddess hiding in refrigerator : ERATO

1-across – Unelected advisers holding pots and pans : KITCHENCABINET

9-across – 14 down’s too old to love when one has to lay it on thick : IMPASTO

10-across – Pretend muck needs a wash : SHAMPOO

11-across – Israel’s port invites lootin’ : HAIFA

12-across – Son of a bitch in Asia aroused from seeming death : ANABIOSIS

13-across – Crooked deal in salt brings quasi-poverty : BREADLINE

14-across – Drier rivers? : AIRER

15-across – Removed from herb in 20, perhaps : COMFY

17-across – Attempt at order in a nut case will be very expensive : COSTABOMB

20-across – Academic sinecure with terms of study in all exposures : EASYCHAIR

22-across – Cook Island included in the main : CHIEF

23-across – Headpiece of zero volume taking first place : OCCIPUT

24-across – Go : AIRLINE

25-across – Defy demand for coffee – tiny half given : FLYINTHEFACEOF

1-down – One entitled to be king near model with half the tortoises in a watering hole : KNIGHTBACHELOR

2-down – Leading players have alternative to 8 : TOPSIDE

3-down – Careful management initially has America teetotal without Prohibition : HUSBANDRY

4-down – Light on extremes, I become an extremist : NEONAZI

5-down – Soften silver when Susan’s about : ASSUAGE

6-down – Babylonian maybe barely audible in the hierarchy : IRAQI

7-down – Old problem for whistle-blower? : EXPOSER

8-down – Sunday lunch taken by robber Taffie so? Not exactly : ROASTRIBOFBEEF

14-down – Pine for song about golden vehicle : ARAUCARIA

16-down – Show what the cat said to the reaper, as reported : MUSICAL

17-down – Bird turning tail in bed : COALTIT

18-down – Champion on board to come to the top : SURFACE

19-down – Rust means most of 23 is perishing audibly : OXIDISE

21-down – Island for a hundred a month, fifty off : CAPRI

9-across – Back of something backed or put between stones : HORSETAIL

10-across – See you with Kate at the front, socially acceptable : ADIEU

11-across – Trebly oxymoronic politician? : RIGHT

12-across – Holiday kiss quick, but risky : BREAKNECK

13-across – See 16 : SERVICE

14-across – Gone to hospital, one part to show : EXHIBIT

17-across – Legal term gathered by softest option : ESTOP

19-across – Doctor How, certainly no Which Doctor! : WHO

20-across – Girl making Irish boy flip : NADIA

21-across – The meal journalist’s skipped, so becoming? : THINNER

22-across – Girl wanting bloke to embrace mush, non-starter : MAUREEN

24-across – Second choice, another one : SELECTION

26-across – Chinese people in space, round about one : ASIAN

28-across – What’s bad under animal hair, good inside it : MANGE

29-across – See 11 : GENTLEMAN

1-down – God, Lord of the Flies’s William Ing? : THOR

2-down – National Park where end of park game half-hearted : KRUGER

3-down – Writer seemed to think should get extra money, getting pound : FELTTIPPEN

4-down – Shower of rain not popular, black colour of sky misses turn : RABBLE

5-down – One beside oneself when singer accepts backing of Richard : ALTEREGO

6-down – Boy might reportedly follow 8, then 25 26 : MARK

7-down – One with something doing in sore, wet bottom : RIVERBED

8-down – Shocking colour, one for you, the Mohican man : PUNK

13-down – Film alieness? : SHEET

15-down – See 11 : HONOURABLE

16-down – Transport’s oxymoron, improbably nice, arrives on time : TRAIN

18-down – Frivolous menage a trois? : TRIFLING

19-down – Line up pieces for mechanism : WORKINGS

22-down – 1,003 articles for some other time? : MANANA

23-down – Puzzle of trap by English leader spun 180 degrees by another : ENIGMA

24-down – Couple getting to grips with problem, love : SUMO

25-down – Eat cold chop : CHEW

27-down – … a third of which from 10 in 8 : NINE

1-across – Since it’s 10 off, take it for champagne : ANTISPUMANTE

7-across – It’s incorrect to make the devil a cow-catcher : IMPROPER

13-across – Proverbial reversal of plan for 1 ac : PAROEMIAC

14-across – Top of star cast : SLING

15-across – Religious groups gas about November : CULTS

16-across – River water container : EWER

17-across – Scientist going forward : NEWTON

18-across – Turned out to be cut short : TRUNCATED

20-across – Disorderly crew making new growth : ASPROUT

23-across – Carver or composer, leader of society : GIBBONS

25-across – Pole has existed : BEEN

27-across – Taken heart with a boat : KAYAK

28-across – Alien painter : MANET

29-across – Where’er you walk, maybe, dancing on legs : SONGTITLE

30-across – Commercial for commercials: outside French Greenland Italian is English : ITPAYSTOADVERTISE

32-across – Protective armour for traditional post : SNAILMAIL

34-across – 1 – 0 for Welsh boy : IANTO

35-across – Commotion helps to make 43 50 : HOOHA

37-across – Skilled/unskilled? : DEFT

38-across – It sounds like a falcon, my poppet : ALANNAH

39-across – Examples attained after a time on board : SEALEGS

41-across – Brief article on old power station : BATTERSEA

42-across – School feature found by Alpine geologists : FLYSCH

45-across – Model car : TRAM

48-across – A king at sea is vertical : APEAK

49-across – First papal seal : BULLA

50-across – Transfers right into German boy : HANDOVERS

51-across – Dig up the dirt in the southeast, possibly : DISINTER

52-across – Girl with fellows has time for declaration : ANNOUNCEMENT

1-down – Pupil has fruit drink : APPLEJACK

2-down – Alloy of lead and tin means end of bronze : TERNE

3-down – Sea duck on seafront : SMEW

4-down – Get together with leaderless cue : UNITE

5-down – The racecourse is like a little house : ASCOT

6-down – Notoriety’s only part of the boxer : TYSON

8-down – The masterminder is his parent’s child : MAGNUSSON

9-down – Style of love and business : ROCOCO

10-down – Help out with let in some way? I don’t believe it! : PULLTHEOTHERONE

11-down – Screen devised for house : RESIDENCE

12-down – A day early in the month – second to ninth and tenth, including fifth : SIXTHORSEVENTH

19-down – Swallowed a tablet? Ring the bell : TOOKAPILL

21-down – Health comes from playing I spy – hit on the head : PHYSICALFITNESS

22-down – The setter’s private : TOMMY

23-down – In the fashion of horoscopy, coincidentally with the sun when energy’s lost : GENETHLIACALLY

24-down – Military unit for man serving officer : BATTALION

26-down – Sedate at top of flight : STAIRHEAD

31-down – Chambers before printing? : ROOMS

32-down – Two little boys in the dining room : SIDEBOARD

33-down – Thou lovest Latin that can be collected : AMASSABLE

36-down – Posh member to take his seat for action against contract breaker : ASSUMPSIT

40-down – Attain heaven : WELKIN

42-down – Heartless fun from playwright : FRAYN

43-down – Lout raising crop circles : YAHOO

44-down – More or less nameless standard : CANON

46-down – Old magistrate concerned with previous day : REEVE

47-down – Old magistrate, last of the line : DOGE

1-across – Not all the study of Scripture and the Church can show how the Pope is crowned : THRICE

4-across – Food science included hallucinogen : MESCAL

9-across – Oven not altogether unlikely to be overturned : KILN

10-across – Pulses from a sunbaked island : ADUKIBEANS

11-across – Making sense of the news in bed : COGENT

12-across – Need another 24 hours, alas! : LACKADAY

13-across – Kin to Sheffielder : FISHKNIFE

15-across – Twist and blow : WIND

16-across – Part of a leg of veal : CALF

17-across – Ground cummin seed endlessly promoting consensus : ECUMENISM

21-across – Vegetable or tree decomposing in sack : BEETROOT

22-across – Flash bang : REPORT

24-across – Is right-winger following others to the council? : CONSISTORY

25-across – Penny’s striking expression of discontent : POUT

26-across – A little struggle lets us loose : TUSSLE

27-across – Seaman taking Murdoch for God : OSIRIS

1-down – Portillo and I look out over the capital : TRIPOLI

2-down – The Artist Formerly Known As Princess : RANEE

3-down – Introduction of cane to speed up discipline : CHASTEN

5-down – Demonstrate oriental depravity without name : EVINCE

6-down – Burning 18’s leader, interrupting the work of God : CREMATION

7-down – Rope that’s hoisted beam in the country : LANYARD

8-down – Rider’s credential : QUALIFICATION

14-down – Emission of foul air? Painter is swamping it with oxygen : HALITOSIS

16-down – Bird inhaling woman’s smoke : CHEROOT

18-down – One god of war capturing another’s victims : MARTYRS

19-down – S-surgical appliance protecting a composer : STRAUSS

20-down – Inspector left a scrap : MORSEL

23-down – Indication of rank of Queen’s Musician : PIPER