Daily Answers

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

1-across – Southside plant : SEDGE

4-across – Dance, one involving sailors, before one exercises : HORNPIPE

8-across – Sign one’s on the hook is, perhaps, sign one’s off the hook : ENGAGEMENTRING

10-across – Put trust before a tie between mother and child : PLACENTA

11-across – Fasten case that’s not closed : ATTACH

12-across – Leaderless team citing poor form is perplexing : ENIGMATIC

15-across – Rising riffraff, including upper-class slime : MUCUS

17-across – Damp smell badly gets one down initially : HUMID

18-across – Back strain comes over bearing obstacle : HINDRANCE

19-across – Virtually only one comfort : SOLACE

21-across – Who’s boss? Bond’s answer could cause trouble : MISCHIEF

24-across – Precaution found in drapers? : COUNTERMEASURE

25-across – Spring roll sounds civilised : WELLBRED

26-across – Provided by top firm : SOLID

1-down – See chapel and set off? : STEEPLECHASE

2-down – Assertion of opinion over divinity degree dispelled mist : DOGMATISM

3-down – Bird dog slips lead : EAGLE

4-down – Embroider problem surrounding nightmare place that student quits : HEMSTITCH

5-down – Let rip : RENT

6-down – This worker has scope to catch up : PARTTIMER

7-down – Beast said to indulge? : PANDA

9-down – Seat in Parliament? : CHESTERFIELD

13-down – Here in France, new award covers healing : MEDICINAL

14-down – Fraud business reporter verified : CONFIRMED

16-down – Always going on functional assignment without woman : CONTINUAL

20-down – Be mated without love to relax : LOOSE

22-down – Credit fool with being stupid : CRASS

23-down – Composer’s peculiar day off : WEIR

8-across – Thematically I’m buttonless, as there wasn’t ____ : MUSHROOM

9-across – 8 eaten by carnivore? No kidding! : ENOKI

10-across – Sensible letters read out : WISE

11-across – 8 food and its source, a quarter in blue : CHAMPIGNON

12-across – See 21 : INKCAP

14-across – Cover chastity, not head, after brief moment : SECURITY

15-across – Police set about invading Watford area : GESTAPO

17-across – Dalai Lama, for instance, finds Greek character canned? : TIBETAN

20-across – To stagger is not to crash into tree : ASTONISH

22-across – Eatery with inventive Hungarian stew half eaten : BISTRO

23-across – Little house on estate I’m developing : MAISONETTE

24-across – Rascal beheaded one in cathedral … : NAVE

25-across – … when I entered, Lincoln? : GREEN

26-across – Exclamation of contempt for burglars sounded : KNICKERS

1-down – Bewildered Euclidean left to go like the clappers? : AUDIENCE

2-down – Perhaps Oxford bags inch too wide, the ends of which required … : SHOE

3-down – … and the end of which required to walk up : TOECAP

4-down – Official residence making a packet? : EMBASSY

5-down – Navigator capsized vessels indulging in kinky vice : VESPUCCI

6-down – Creatures which may have gone slippery in fishermen’s traps? : CONGEREELS

7-down – Briefly visit shops perhaps from home, returning to get purse : NIPOUT

13-down – Source of oil – raise river bed first by lots : COTTONSEED

16-down – Touching and panting when writhing, embracing love : POIGNANT

18-down – First creature on an opening leaf looked up? : AARDVARK

19-down – 8 providing benefit without success : SHITAKE

21-down – 8 giving sea bird severe pain circling old South American rock, finally swallowed : SHAGGY

22-down – 8 missed the opportunity? : BLEWIT

24-down – Bomb : NUKE

8-across – As 1, 2 and 6 are unable to bear one of the French 5 : CIDEVANT

9-across – Ornithograph that’s showing presence of thrush : APHTHA

10-across – Old slag fell out of old scripture : SCORIA

11-across – Sleepy royal butter provider might, perhaps, deny Lear : ALDERNEY

12-across – Artistic licence? : FREE

13-across – She interpreted Weill, yet not all ‘e composed : LOTTELENYA

15-across – One makes things compatible, fitting between a daughter and the common woman : ADAPTER

16-across – Concerning Kate’s float? : READIES

18-across – My crime sat unsettled and out of order : ASYMMETRIC

19-across – Wonder at disparity in trade with East : GAPE

20-across – Hard on a pieceworker’s liver : HABITANT

22-across – One of Putin’s 16 : ROUBLE

23-across – Sally! One’s not out to get it! : INJOKE

24-across – Mustard to singe one’s hair? : CHARLOCK

1-down – 8 20 of 7 delivering gigantic address : GISCARDDESTAING

2-down – 8 20 of 7 from the centre of Paris : GEORGESPOMPIDOU

3-down – Vichy leader with story about Louis XIV’s mistress : LAVALLIERE

4-down – Castle where Walpole ran into Bismark? : OTRANTO

5-down – See 12 : HAND

6-down – 8 20 of 7 turned out to be a legal scheduler : CHARLESDEGAULLE

7-down – Where 1, 2 and 6 all appeared in The Bill, see? Look mate, ‘e’s finished! : THEELYSEEPALACE

14-down – Philip II’s complex putting off callers? That is nothing! : ELESCORIAL

17-down – Works of Blue Period with aural insert : EROTICA

21-down – Charge card not for a gringo? : AMEX