Daily Answers

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

1-across – Don’t talk about the assembly and it will be free from problems : SMOOTH

5-across – Well bound? : SPRING

8-across – Girl coming to higher education late in the day? : COLLEEN

9-across – Funny sort … funny sort of soapbox? : ROSTRUM

11-across – British race largely in turmoil in 20 : NATIONALGALLERY

12-across – Long run winding setter before respirator appears : IRON

13-across – People undertaking vocal request for extension of the 11’s 5 across 17? : MORTICIANS

17-across – Display of scholarship? : EXHIBITION

18-across – See 12 : LUNG

20-across – Fliers find seaweed in new quarters of high admiral? : TRAFALGARSQUARE

23-across – Demand for freedom for Scottish highlands backed by calming agent : LIBRIUM

24-across – Pound, say, at 1/3 Kingsway? : IMAGIST

25-across – Queen at home to boy … : ERNEST

26-across – … otherwise called Laurence : STERNE

2-down – Flier going around, kind to one of one’s first set : MILKTOOTH

3-down – Cat in love with church group : OCELOT

4-down – Don’t go and suspend a fight : HANGABOUT

5-down – Shoot 5 across – point taken : SPRIG

6-down – Give your MP another chance, right, without upsetting Cleese : RESELECT

7-down – I feel for the keener veterans : NERVE

8-down – Drift onto shelf with little breakfast? : CONTINENTAL

10-down – Words introducing idea showing game is gutsy : MAYISUGGEST

14-down – Nickname for Mr Willetts’s twins keeping wild boar : TWOBRAINS

15-down – Mature individual’s absorbing article on flattery : ADULATION

16-down – Cad’s magical attendants setter’s found roughly making 1 : ABRASIVE

19-down – Identify English that’s just so refained : EQUATE

21-down – Traffic light on the beam – turn right : AMBER

22-down – Morning in the canal goes all the way : GAMUT

9-across – Lehar composition, one of five for him, On With The Motley! : COLUMBINE

10-across – Fire the clergy with the stuff of remorse [8] : ASHES

11-across – Bank’s route to the deposits : INCLINE

12-across – No time to undress in strip joints [5] : LAZARUS

13-across – Running water can corrode : EATIN

14-across – What makes Burgundy religious? No! Not frenzied Irish! : PINOTNOIR

16-across – He had a profitable opening spell [3,4] : THEFORTYTHIEVES

19-across – Extended school term in Derbyshire : LONGEATON

21-across – Chambers abbreviating hard word for spice [4] : BECKS

22-across – Car’s way to get into accident : HARDTOP

23-across – Noted role-player, say? : PIANOLA

24-across – One element in conflict with another : FLOUR

25-across – No kipper in masonic cookery : INSOMNIAC

1-down – Note I’d stress without a line : ACCIDENTAL

2-down – What’s with the DJ? Flip side tackle, I gather : BLACKTIE

3-down – Condemn not the daughter! No! I rise as protector of her unborn child : AMNION

4-down – Sprinklers and what they sprinkle? [5] : WINE

5-down – Dogfish packaged by pallet weight : BEDLINGTON

6-down – Occasional rejection of some executed agitator [5] : VANZETTI

7-down – Ben’s into Scottish port : THURSO

8-down – Circuit teacher is underworld boss [6] : ISIS

14-down – Shelled helping its loveless opposite, perhaps : PETITSPOIS

15-down – Bearing canisters to explode first underground : RESISTANCE

17-down – Lucky novitiates? [9] : OVERTURE

18-down – All there is surrounding British lion’s victim [6] : VICTORIA

20-down – Unlaced heterosexual [8] : NARROW

21-down – Composer unknown in catalogue [5] : BRAHMS

22-down – Tobacco advertisement? : HUFF

23-down – Hand over here! [7] : PAST