Daily Answers

1-across – See 14 : EATERS

4-across – Inclined to take Narnia lion to Tumnus, firstly : ASLANT

9-across – Device inside which awful if trapped? : LIFT

10-across – Women letting new boys go around with decapitated kippers : LANDLADIES

11-across – Toulouse-Lautrec’s filmed sex symbol virtually captures Miss Andrews’ heart with headless mammoth : MOULIN

12-across – Delinquent offered non-alcoholic drink’s bloody angry, extremely! : TEARAWAY

13-across – Paul’s about to compile, going back into business for very little money abroad : CENTESIMO

15-across – Slough residence for rakes? : SHED

16-across – Masticate, or repeat audibly for training? : CHEW

17-across – Fielder right in deep about to be beaten : SLIPPERED

21-across – Goya’s bereavement accommodated by homeless relative : COLOSSUS

22-across – Reni’s A Lion is Heard : AURORA

24-across – To understand about alcoholics having turned over notice outside hen party is a deep thing : SEAANEMONE

25-across – Guardian editor exploited : USED

26-across – Bernini’s Poland copied – a fake, and he too! : APOLLO

27-across – Seal of approval given on condition when delivered : ASSENT

1-down – Personification of English religious book : EPITOME

2-down – Something running from baby, a leak initially : TOTAL

3-down – Gives in Listener puzzle – one torn out : RELENTS

5-down – Ruler of African country losing heart to lieutenant : SULTAN

6-down – See 26 : ANDDAPHNE

7-down – Cezanne’s Labour Party searched for reshuffle? : THECARD

8-down – Rembrandt’s basic structure encapsulated by whatever, having fewer clothes : ANATOMYLESSON

14-down – Van Gogh’s hope shattered thanks to drug being absorbed by his subjects’ meal? : THEPOTATO

16-down – Line turning up around slum to acquire disease : CHOLERA

18-down – See 7 : PLAYERS

19-down – Resolute scorer in cricket match dismissing opener : EARNEST

20-down – A grand in addition : ASWELL

23-down – See 11 : ROUGE

1-across – : THINGSOFLIFE

8-across – : URETHRA

9-across – : ALIGNED

11-across – : ROOTLED

12-across – : YELLOWS

13-across – : ELDER

14-across – : MAKEWATER

16-across – : JAZZBANDS

19-across – : VAPID

21-across – : COMPLEX

23-across – : HARVEST

24-across – : SWEETEN

25-across – : NEUTRON

26-across – : WINDINGSHEET

1-down – : THEGOOD

2-down – : INHALER

3-down – : GUARDSMAN

4-down – : OVARY

5-down – : LAIDLOW

6-down – : FINDOUT

7-down – : QUARTERJACKS

10-down – : DISCREDITING

15-down – : KISSHANDS

17-down – : ZAMBEZI

18-down – : BELATED

19-down – : VERDURE

20-down – : PIERROT

22-down – : XENON

1-across – S, M, H, D, M, Y & X : TIMES

4-across – What might preserve queue, though not at the back : FORMALIN

8-across – Kiiiiiiiin : EXTENDEDFAMILY

10-across – A drink during a poem is a drink to whet the appetite : APERITIF

11-across – Magistrate’s temperature taken in capital city : AMTMAN

12-across – 1 across’s produced on this, a replacement for the 100 metres dash? : NEWSPRINT

15-across – Sanctions wielded by committee thus? : TEETH

17-across – Confirmed: five climbing plants : VITIS

18-across – Carved replica? I’m depending on experiment : EMPIRICAL

19-across – No-one, initially, should love : NOUGHT

21-across – The ultimate in the second dimension to have to expel : SENDDOWN

24-across – The other enquiry into the welfare of the main generator : HOWSYOURFATHER

25-across – Minor alteration to tents in street is most excessive : STEEPEST

26-across – Stage for cutting article : APRON

1-down – Unique State Opening? : THEMAINEVENT

2-down – Basic intelligence is an item other witnesses demonstrate : MOTHERWIT

3-down – Ulster tabloid running over branch of 7 : SUNNI

4-down – Arrangements for work leave fellow with a fruit dressing : FLEXITIME

5-down – Sandpiper’s required, especially if you’re listening to a Cockney : RUFF

6-down – My old university degrees change outwardly : ALMAMATER

7-down – One’s got to beat religion : ISLAM

9-down – Doing the marathon eventually : INTHELONGRUN

13-down – Immediate claim that’s unusual to put in : POSTHASTE

14-down – Classified widow’s right to detect rising : TOPSECRET

16-down – Twice he engages actor, swinging both ways : EACHOTHER

20-down – Vessel wobbling about : UBOAT

22-down – Theatre production sign poster’s written up about : DRAMA

23-down – Region the equivalent of the 26th one? : ZONE

12-across – : TAKECARE

13-across – : NOURISH

14-across – : OLIVER

15-across – : ESPARTOGRASS

16-across – Clue 37 : MIXED

17-across – Clue 11 : BESO

18-across – : KINETICS

19-across – : LEMUR

20-across – : ECTOSARC

22-across – : CHANGE

24-across – : ALLRIGHT

25-across – : CASSOCK

28-across – : UPPINGSTONE

31-across – Clue 6 : ANDEVERMORE

33-across – : BRASENOSE

34-across – : MARIENBAD

37-across – : ERGATOCRACY

38-across – : OSTEOLOGIST

40-across – : HERETIC

42-across – Clue 35 : METAPHOR

43-across – : SPEECH

46-across – : TAMPERER

48-across – Clue 50 : SHALL

49-across – Clue 43 : ONEISONE

51-across – : DODO

52-across – : ORDER

53-across – : AMPHICTYONIC

54-across – : EASIER

55-across – : CHEMIST

56-across – : SEIGNEUR

1-down – : TARSHISH

2-down – : HECATE

3-down – : EASTSIDE

4-down – : HEDGES

5-down – Clue 5 : ANDALLALONE

6-down – : NURSEMAID

7-down – : DIAMORPHINE

8-down – : THAXTED

9-down – : HOOD

10-down – : AIRBASES

11-down – : TEASER

21-down – : TRAPEZIAL

23-down – : NAILSEA

24-down – : ARTISTRY

26-down – : CARCASS

27-down – : SECATEUR

29-down – : PORTREE

30-down – : GONDOLIER

32-down – : MINOGUE

35-down – : ACCESSORIES

36-down – : ASPHALTPATH

39-down – : BARATARIA

41-down – : EUPHORIC

43-down – : SWEETOIL

44-down – : CONTINUA

45-down – : DRYDOCK

47-down – : ANORAK

49-down – : OTIOSE

50-down – : SWOUND

52-down – : OKRI

9-across – Labour, virtually last, holding a vote about ignoring Tony’s leadership : ENDEAVOUR

10-across – Style of distress signal reported : FLAIR

11-across – Most base me on a highly constructed fabrication : MEANEST

12-across – Seat of power for mischief-maker given head transplant : KREMLIN

13-across – Author tricked going left and left again : DAHL

14-across – 3 dart about with a further side on these : TETRAHEDRA

16-across – Twisting peaks of the southwest and Jerusalem : TORSION

17-across – Fantasy island for all to see accommodated old-timer : SUNDIAL

19-across – Fanciful situation of Welshman : IVORYTOWER

22-across – High cost of something dropped : BOMB

24-across – A pint? Absolutely! : NOTHALF

25-across – Dessert ingredient about to go wrong sbortly : PARFAIT

26-across – Misanthrope presents shark to the audience? : LONER

27-across – Fish eating sister : CONUNDRUM

1-down – Figure of mystery revealing insect swallowing admiral with grunt in a pickle : BERMUDATRIANGLE

2-down – Tom Waits’s preference was to resort to blotto – oh no to iffy brain removal : IDRATHER

3-down – See 2 : HAVEA

4-down – See 2 : BOTTLEIN

5-down – One dealing in securities is more skint? : BROKER

6-down – See 2 : OFMETHANA

7-down – Yul Brynner was holding note in song : BALLAD

8-down – See 2 : FRONTALLOBOTOMY

15-down – Insubstantial pixies, one topless : AIRYFAIRY

17-down – Comprehensive work of cleaner : SWEEPING

18-down – Worship single hunky partner, almost dead, embraced : IDOLATRY

20-down – Trip stupid person up in mid-thought : OUTING

21-down – Position of responsibility no longer pending? : OFFICE

23-down – See 2 : FRONT