Daily Answers

1-across – O _______ : BRAVENEWWORLD

10-across – King Charles splitting union with King James’s supporter : UNICORN

11-across – See 1 : THATHAS

12-across – One laughs only if spotted : HYENA

13-across – Where Parisians stake their cash? T’ heavenly barmaid’s holding ours : THEBOURSE

14-across – Cutbacks writing the end of education? : EXAMS

16-across – Free entry to good clubs’ football fields : GRIDIRONS

18-across – In pain? Miss Trent’s g-going up the wall with this! : PANELLING

19-across – The way the Italian book displays some brightness : STILB

20-across – Basic as stewed eel with bananas : ELEMENTAL

23-across – Dufy, painter or French Liberal : RAOUL

24-across – Salt of the Black Mass, say? : NITRITE

25-across – What doest Shakespeare’s stand-in amanuensis: this work? : TEMPEST

26-across – Creator of 1 : ALDOUSLHUXLEY

2-down – Wild canaries? I produce more than a pet! : RAISECAIN

3-down – Does she take a bow for her Cesario? : VIOKA

4-down – Opus of the blase aerialist? : NONET

5-down – Pendragon in flight from such literary heights : WUTHERING

6-down – Elijah and Jeptha are as Brutus is, so one reflected : ORATORIOS

7-down – Composer-king capturing hearts : LEHAR

8-down – See 1 : SUCHPEOPLEINT

9-down – The presumption to speak of Jane’s skill? : OSTENSIBILITY

15-down – Battle for Nile so desperate : SOLFERINO

16-down – Innocent suspect left ’til wounded internally : GUILTLESS

17-down – Eastern logic failing in one epoch : OLIGOCENE

21-down – Hymn for the next Olympiad : EXTOL

22-down – Not locked on this : LATCH

23-down – Improved recording from recorders in King’s Cross? : REMIX

5-across – Core, we hear, by going round fruit : BLIMEY

6-across – Wolves should be bats, such as 21 : VOWELS

9-across – Exciting moment produced a hundred times capital investment : CLIMAX

10-across – Heading off for Egyptian town, one on endless river, with the wife : UXORIOUS

11-across – 13 between two of them at Towcester : MATT

12-across – Wasp swallows unusual gem that’s to be eaten crystallized : STEMGINGER

13-across – Evidence of exciting race stolen from home is in pub : PHOTOFINISH

18-across – Tell Hebrew about the leader of the flock : BELLWETHER

21-across – 5 across thrice before… : ISAY

22-across – … there was this car, and two redheads got out – that’s the joke! : BOOMBOOM

23-across – Parade a personal design : TATTOO

24-across – Choke from … : STIFLE

25-across – … from choke? : ITSELF

1-down – See some dynamism at Chelsea, when playing Rochdale Reserves, say? : MISMATCH

2-down – Persian king offering himself after fornication in lift? : XERXES

3-down – Transport to horse’s mouth pulled up : TOBOGGAN

4-down – African country accepting godhead is harmless : BENIGN

5-down – Tolkien character embraces a Spanish city : BILBAO

7-down – Drunk, so taken advantage of : SOUSED

8-down – Working principle under King Tom? : RULEOFTHUMB

14-down – Leaves by 25, or in a different way : TREFOILS

15-down – Dress essential for capital gains? : SHIFTKEY

16-down – Singers producing notes for the audience : TENORS

17-down – Portuguese resort to be blasted beyond the horizon : FAROFF

19-down – Little devil appears in top that’s transparent : LIMPID

20-down – Tripe consumed in turn : ROTATE

1-across – Indirect speech? You gab and leg twitches! : BODYLANGUAGE

8-across – So the vixen is with child: and us! He must be a demon in bed! : INCUBUS

9-across – Climbing mountain road, books a pacemaker for one : IMPLANT

11-across – Grant society two conclusions : STIPEND

12-across – Was he a dreadful king, this winged predator? : SEAHAWK

13-across – One Grand Master unknown in Shelley’s paradise of exiles : ITALY

14-across – Bush’s former chief chronicler died from it : TOPIARIST

16-across – Retire to take revenge on pollenosis? : HITTHEHAY

19-across – Magwich appearing at East End : ABELE

21-across – Where nuclear subs are losing time in the outside track : FASLANE

23-across – Hello, hello! There’s a lot of bacon in the barbecue : HIBACHI

24-across – Solvers resolving Nero’s thumbs up! : YOUREON

25-across – Impervious to the fading light : SUNFAST

26-across – Irritation expressed on behalf of… Who – Mr Townshend? : FORPETESSAKE

1-down – But incomplete chapters in a blast from the past from this? : BUCCINA

2-down – Beauty I’d despoiled without a doubt : DUBIETY

3-down – Ha-ha! Is this the final attempt? : LASTDITCH

4-down – NCOs with a different skin cover : NAIKS

5-down – Where Linnaeus graduated, engendering endless applause : UPPSALA

6-down – Indians seeking guarantee: no support for it, one concludes : GUARANI

7-down – Never? But plods do – in helicopters! : PIGSMIGHTFLY

10-down – Consider Catherine Howard’s position and refuse to testify : TAKETHEFIFTH

15-down – Breakdown of Norman Bates’s sibling? : PSYCHOSIS

17-down – Try, I hear you do, this ancient air raid shelter : TESTUDO

18-down – Gag Eva, eh?! : HEAVEUP

19-down – Her Grace posed naked, in a sorry state : ALBANIA

20-down – Some corner of a foreign field that is for ever… France’s in being left without warning : ENCLAVE

22-down – Modern style expression of Dadaist : ERNST

1-across – Set in line of battle, perhaps: so 5 down consulted higher authority? : RANGED

5-across – Quality perfumed with 48 : WATER

8-across – Outstanding : SIGNAL

13-across – Old city, with it, to get a degree on 1st of June or plough : URSAMAJOR

14-across – Many at start of play will bloom in the desert : CACTI

15-across – Red Robin : ADAIR

16-across – Dancer from the fen dancing with Tony : FONTEYN

17-across – From Cameroon there comes a camel : OONT

18-across – Financier’s complaint about marshal being given his head : MONEYMAN

20-across – Follower of the shuttle : COCK

21-across – Alternative following for Princess Christian : DIOR

22-across – Grant for potter’s percolator? : LEACH

23-across – Bowler at sea : DRAKE

25-across – Streamers for knights errant on red slab : BANDEROLS

26-across – Becomes busy with a ring? : GETSENGAGED

30-across – Interfering old woman to make love and to draw fish : TROUTSPOON

32-across – 0 per cent finance for Peter Pan? : NEVERNEVER

34-across – Dead twice? He left off, being mentally confused : ADDLEHEADED

35-across – One that fought with Old Pretender for more than a sonnet? : FIFTEENER

38-across – It isn’t extra for a skin transplant : INTRA

41-across – Weight increasing with speed? : TONUP

42-across – Bill concerning land : ACRE

43-across – A right to travel by ship : ARGO

45-across – Look for meat : BUTCHERS

46-across – See 2 : LACE

47-across – Arranged with a view? : INORDER

50-across – Congratulations to assassin : BRAVO

51-across – Summons about bone of antelope : ORIBI

52-across – The staff of an organisation are among the dregs — they produce heavy stuff : LEADMINES

53-across – [Variations: 5ac, 7, 30dn, 48; and/or 44] : GARDEN

54-across – Model keen on half Venetian painter : TINTO

55-across – [Variations: 8ac, both parts of 18, 49; and this 24] : DANGER

2-down – A candle or candles I need to play : ARSENICANDOLD

3-down – Ex-minister to make things stick : GUMMER

4-down – Girl in frenzied ride for love : DEJANEIRO

5-down – Bad prose among trite stuff in the Guardian, with little time for our man at the front? : WARCORRESPONDENT

6-down – The only cog to work the machines? : TECHNOLOGY

7-down – Stick or move? : ROCK

8-down – Deer drinking 30 down in spite of bacterium : SPIROCHAETE

9-down – Progressive leader for Indian state : GOAHEAD

10-down – I intend rising in the motoring organisation – bloodlessly? : ANAEMIA

11-down – Choirboy gets it in the neck : RUFF

12-down – [Variations: 4, 36, 50, 54; and, before all, 37] : GRANDE

19-down – Kipling’s 13 devours teetotal son of Blair, following 5 across to a Boney conclusion : BATTLEOFWATERLOO

20-down – Horse chestnut without the chest : COB

24-down – Catcher let off : NETTLE

27-down – [Variations: 11, 20ac, 20dn, 23; and 44-ly 45] : GANDER

28-down – Evening recce’d unfortunately got swallowed : GIVENCREDENCE

29-down – Beetle following French 20 : DOR

30-down – Sound of letter swallowed : TEA

31-down – Colleague of Blair : PRESTERJOHN

33-down – A fellow receiving a point at first, as is fitting : ADAPTATION

36-down – The footballer of Aragon? : FERDINAND

37-down – 5 across found variously in 4, 8 down and 51 : RIO

38-down – Take liquid in clouds that don’t begin to exist : IMBIBE

39-down – Russian girl with tales of French comedian? : TATIANA

40-down – Daisy of Kent : ASHFORD

44-down – Shared : COMMON

48-down – The 30 down one is one, the 7 one isn’t : ROSE

49-down – Table not horizontal? : LIST

1-across – See clues page : JINXES

5-across – See clues page : QUACKING

9-across – See clues page : YOURLIFE

10-across – See clues page : MOZART

11-across – See clues page : DEMONSTRATOR

13-across – See clues page : VAIR

14-across – See clues page : FRESHMEN

17-across – See clues page : RAMALLAH

18-across – See clues page : LAST

20-across – See clues page : WATERMONKEYS

23-across – See clues page : BITTEN

24-across – See clues page : GIOVANNI

25-across – See clues page : TEACHEST

26-across – See clues page : OLDBOY

2-down – See clues page : IRON

3-down – See clues page : XERODERMA

4-down – See clues page : SHIMMY

5-down – See clues page : QUEENOFTHENIGHT

6-down – See clues page : ADMITTED

7-down – See clues page : KEZIA

8-down – See clues page : NARCOLEPSY

12-down – See clues page : PALATALISE

15-down – See clues page : HALLSTAND

16-down – See clues page : CLEMENCE

19-down – See clues page : ZELOSO

21-down – See clues page : ESTOC

22-down – See clues page : UNDO