Daily Answers

1-across – See 33 down : RICHARDS

5-across – *It’s wrong of virgin to follow doctor to church : DRIVINGFORCE

13-across – *Rendering of drink – it should settle : DECIDER

14-across – Topless serf must hold finger, not point, at La Belle Dame Sans Merci’s place : ELFINGROT

15-across – The craft of war? : TUG

16-across – Any Verdi work will require dressers : VINEYARD

17-across – Follow it away from private bathroom : ENSUE

18-across – Stop one of great bulk : AVAST

20-across – *Tainted cuts of meat, we hear : HIGHSTAKES

22-across – Fantasise, being also a child? : KIDONESELF

26-across – 33 down 1 across character finds means of cooking cake over half-term : BILLYBUNTER

29-across – *Article on 38 variously translated by Teagarden : THEDANGER

32-across – Guide to scam on channel : CONDUCT

33-across – See 23 : FRAME

34-across – Range for December, *following odds : AGAINST

35-across – After a little time on Donne’s island I get an obsession : MONOMANIA

36-across – Frighten by sound a person with a book, C.S.Lewis’s voyager : DAWNTREADER

39-across – Little Tom alters course to put things on board : THUMBTACKS

42-across – *Lord wishes development for cowboys to 41 : WILDHORSES

46-across – Eat a lot of Cheddar? : GORGE

47-across – Dotty dance? : POLKA

49-across – *Poor Tom is surrounded by expression of love : HOTMONEY

52-across – Princess’s mount : IDA

53-across – *Irish airport and county : KNOCKDOWN

54-across – Trailer depicting return to court : RETRIAL

55-across – *Swimmers in the air outside home : FLYINGFINISH

56-across – *Have two goes at the coconuts? : TWICESHY

1-down – See 51 : RIDE

2-down – Means of travel – hold on! See why sounds come first : CYCLING

3-down – Talk to someone at home? : ADDRESS

4-down – Spiderman’s portion of kishke : DERMA

6-down – *Law supporting whistle-blower : REFLEX

7-down – Love for the nouveaux riches, if below par? : VENUS

8-down – *It never changes : NERVE

9-down – Broadly countenanced Fellows for Kings in… : FATFACE

10-down – *… the Academy, what’s left of it? : RATRACE

11-down – Get shirty, if wrong ordinal is produced : EIGHTYFIRST

12-down – *Out of this world requirement from registrar? : DEADCERT

19-down – Fish with tail eaten by little beast : CHUB

21-down – Unusual work of art used among volunteers after weedkiller, if below par : AQUATINIA

23-down – *Where’s the picture? : INTHE

24-down – Went too far on boards to avert code being used : OVERACTED

25-down – Lover in forest or country finds love : ORLANDO

27-down – Material row over name : LINEN

28-down – My turn to circulate some questions for 16 : YQUEM

30-down – Saying of the present time? : ADAGE

31-down – Finished unfinished commercial for reproductive organ : GONAD

32-down – *Heavenly body, a giant, sustaining one frequency : COMETOGRIEF

33-down – Writer of the Franciscan school, open with three kings : FRANK

37-down – *Dessert for worker : WHIPHAND

38-down – * : RISK

40-down – The Saxon king clearly wasn’t a scout : UNREADY

41-down – *King coming in to be related : BREAKIN

43-down – Refrain from infiltrating reactionary American unions dealing with choppers : ODONTIC

44-down – Type that’s in glasses : SPECIES

45-down – Like four children and a dog and part of a mouse : FAMOUS

47-down – *Demonstration in favour of… of… : PROOF

48-down – Compare what one hears grows on trees? : LIKEN

50-down – What you must do to die is worth work : THROW

51-down – Transparency about Scottish town : SLAY

7-across – Coins found in US stations : QUARTERS

9-across – Road builder in command : ORDAIN

10-across – Cut captain : SKIP

11-across – Draw round second-class fellow : STABLEMATE

12-across – Hendrix takes Giuliani’s place for cricket : JIMINY

14-across – Thatcher, for example, one’s taken into pubs : BARONESS

15-across – Great apes eat stolen fruit : GRAPES

17-across – God willing, energy is found in worker at this season : ADVENT

20-across – Climber, we see, apt to come a cropper : SWEETPEA

22-across – French town house vacated in the Borders : RHEIMS

23-across – Fish with bleeding heart was at sea : FLOUNDERED

24-across – Stewart with head of pig in a poke : PROD

25-across – Old flier gets bird to buzz off : BEATIT

26-across – New Labour type embracing rail problem with incisiveness : BLAIRITE

1-down – Poet found drinking milk? : SUCKLING

2-down – Hidden danger for Tory leader taking blame : TRAP

3-down – A woolly cow? : JERSEY

4-down – Caught cold, with real shiver : COLLARED

5-down – Believe in original people : ADAMANDEVE

6-down – Prospects for traveller starting without travel permits : VISTAS

8-down – Throw outside a couple of bishops? That’s contemptible! : SHABBY

13-down – A quiet dean, sadly lacking : INADEQUATE

16-down – Hasten from river, bridging quietly rising flood : EXPEDITE

18-down – Work that turned in Staffordshire : TAMWORTH

19-down – Zebra roaming around Griqualand’s first city : ZAGREB

21-down – Playwright’s right to be a playwright : WILDER

22-down – MP gets the bird : REDCAP

24-down – Fresh ingredient for supper time : PERT

1-across – Be lustful in iron spire : FLECHE

5-across – A villain’s leavings, perhaps : SVENGALI

9-across – Live right by peninsula, almost in disorder : BERIBERI

10-across – Even Seb retires in old age : EOCENE

11-across – Where to admit fuel muffling neo-Nazis’ noises off : CONFESSIONAL

13-across – Wicked woman interrupting strumpet : BAWD

14-across – Compiler’s carrying on with affected type of government : MONARCHY

17-across – Toughest stag gives up the ghost inside : HARDIEST

18-across – Leave a bit : PART

20-across – A political craftsman? : CABINETMAKER

23-across – Book size for old firm to put tax returns in : OCTAVO

24-across – Newt with young inhaling oxygen at once, once : EFTSOONS

25-across – Wessex girl clutching cylinder, missing the greenwood : TREELESS

26-across – Tough little lady’s alter ego admitting nothing new : HOYDEN

2-down – Boy brought up to property right : LIEN

3-down – Detectives stamped around and met one another : COINCIDED

4-down – They walk out of the next European Union assembly : EXEUNT

5-down – Very British memsahib, half drunk, gives vent to salty oath : SHIVERMYTIMBERS

6-down – Service boy in retribution, topped and tailed : EVENSONG

7-down – Reptile shooting coke by the gram : GECKO

8-down – County in real trouble accepting money : LANCASHIRE

12-down – Notice silver in a lot of make-up on the island : MADAGASCAR

15-down – Concerning each politician and what one can perform : REPERTORY

16-down – Swan to make off with Molly Bloom’s original : PENELOPE

19-down – Amusing scene involving a basket chair : SKETCH

21-down – Grandma entered? That’s fatuous! : INANE

22-down – What to bend after a monarch is born? : KNEE

1-across – Country supplying lubrication for the speaker : GREECE

4-across – In the outset, a load of French food : ESCARGOT

9-across – Half of me yet confused : MOIETY

10-across – Like a hellfire sermon given by a candidate? : ASPIRANT

11-across – Forges ahead with old revolutionary to fight for lost cause : FLOGADEADHORSE

13-across – Dispute French story about a bird? : CONTRAVENE

14-across – Traitor causing disturbance at old Caerleon : ISCA

16-across – See 14 : RIOT

18-across – Irresponsible fellow’s tip to avoid turbulence? : FLYBYNIGHT

21-across – Man keeping recipe revised by writers in spite of set purpose : MALICEPRESENSE

23-across – Drier up with bottle top to have 1 pound debt : TEATOWEL

24-across – Criticise a model piece of sailing : ATTACK

25-across – Record made by group in class : CASSETTE

26-across – Bust of Comrade Livingstone? : BROKEN

1-down – Willing victim? : GAME

2-down – To lie in effect means something yellow : ETIOLIN

3-down – Class for pet with personality on line : CATEGORY

5-down – How to cope with the world’s growing pains – eventual best model? : SUSTAINABLE

6-down – Smoker wants to get off the bus : ALIGHT

7-down – George’s first and second man in a boat in transports : GHARRIS

8-down – Cobbler to stick as long as it takes : TOTHELAST

12-down – See 5 : DEVELOPMENT

13-down – Coloured companion for travellers on half ticket : CHROMATIC

15-down – Father, a wise old Greek, catches cold : ANCESTOR

17-down – City of gold is like Pisa’s tower : ORLEANS

19-down – Good heavens! One week and I was on a wild goose chase : GOSHAWK

20-down – Play starts with nail polish remover, which is pointless : ACTONE

22-down – Hide from second family? : SKIN

1-across – Resistance leader put gallon into family car, minutes before coppers arrived! : KINGCARACTACUS

9-across – Legends of Barham’s body sling manoeuvres : INGOLDSBY

10-across – Malaysian state banning telecom operators from Sunday : SABAH

11-across – See 8 : HAREM

12-across – Some tack, lead and play for time : HEADSTALL

13-across – Like 1 across, she resisted a gamble in fine feathers : BOADICEA

14-across – Stayed in the arms of Morpheus, enfolding Psyche : ABIDED

17-across – A dog? According to him it is! : COCKER

19-across – English and American cities adopt secure backing of union : ALLIANCE

22-across – How one competes with lousy mule spinning : EMULOUSLY

24-across – Tommy’s done for, Bonaparte’s half-cut: nothing for it! : NAPOO

25-across – Just sober chamber ensemble? : OCTET

26-across – Panic on isthmus, some worshipper abjuring images : ANICONIST

27-across – Postwar regulars get fat, unfortunately : AFTERASTRUGGLE

1-down – Surcingle, say, with arms? : KNIGHTBACHELOR

2-down – Land of song, say, in uprising : NIGERIA

3-down – Heart of glum reaper, going out with pantomime dame : COLUMBINE

4-down – The poet’s sanguine horse, due for grooming : ROSEHUED

5-down – Conservative yes-man representing these islands : CAYMAN

6-down – A rider is below the apogee for one : APSIS

7-down – You, say, lead attack on lecture : UPBRAID

8-down – Odalisques from The Dames’ Outing : THELADIESOFTHE

15-down – No rabbi cooked game for this Irish icon : BRIANBORU

16-down – John Peel’s portfolio? Or the folio? : PLAYLIST

18-down – See 8 : COURTOF

20-down – How kippers are caught? : NAPPING

21-down – Capital! When mother ran off with knight : ASMARA

23-down – See 8 : OFTHE