Daily Answers

7-across – Story-teller daily keeping old money back : CHAUCER

8-across – 9’s mawkishness, black in colour : GOODBYE

10-across – Some rude letters about a stinker : TELEDU

11-across – Mimicker acquires oomph, if given stimulant : APERITIF

12-across – 9 – 0 to intelligence : CIAO

13-across – Bee and ant flit about, annoyed by one of their ilk : FLEABITTEN

14-across – Suddenly ceasing to nag biker cryptically? : BREAKINGOFF

19-across – Complaint of Queen Mother getting the bird in Hell : DERMATITIS

22-across – Mechanical man with no heart for the cause : ROOT

23-across – Also act about sign of 9 : TOODLEOO

24-across – Perhaps advocate putting river god outside : LAWYER

25-across – Whence holy calls are introduced to make money : MINARET

26-across – A record in unspecified parallel : ANALOGY

1-down – Officer swallows male anger, rising at 9 : CHEERIO

2-down – Bend and turn over in the manner of 9 : AUREVOIR

3-down – Put fresh shine on the riposte : REBUFF

4-down – Publication receives one by return – there could be dosh in it : MONEYBAG

5-down – Insecure at introducing top of designer range : ADRIFT

6-down – Compound ceremonies after missing the French play : PYRITES

9-down – Last word in lowland accent : VALEDICTION

15-down – Learned Mozart’s sixth Composition with Horn : ANTLERED

16-down – 9’s vessel capsized in autumn : FAREWELL

17-down – Guitarist discovered second self the Latin way : SEGOVIA

18-down – Sweet box containing religion : LOZENGE

20-down – Reckless plan to capture six hundred and one : MADCAP

21-down – Wise man takes note of 9 : SOLONG

4-across – George Gordon frequently intervened between male and female : COCKOF

6-across – See 4 : THENORTH

9-across – Front page held up for Roman governor? : PILATE

10-across – Authority in 11 10 performing a solo on FBI coat-tails : FOOTBALL

11-across – See 10 : ASSOCIATION

15-across – Beast eating artist for dessert? : CARAMEL

17-across – Perfectly prepared to die for one’s friend : IDEALLY

18-across – Game gets warmer through the French fever : RUGBYLEAGUE

22-across – Expose drug made by jet? : AIRSPEED

23-across – Too much Scotch, not at home capital : OTTAWA

24-across – Say nasty things about river container : EXECRATE

25-across – Little creature in Richard II’s speech? : DIKDIK

1-down – Licence to mix with epic : POETIC

2-down – It isn’t acuteness that discovers iron between church and town : CHRONICITY

3-down – Case of Paul holding Matthews : INSTANCE

4-down – Contest in the round with increased number in the bag : CUPMATCH

5-down – Sold out in centre of viral infection : COLDSORE

7-down – Unhappy motoring is a bore, interrupting the caviar? : ROAD

8-down – See 21 : HOLD

12-down – The complete bird gets to move quite briskly : ALLEGRETTO

13-down – Conservatives dug a lord out : OLDGUARD

14-down – Black and white listen to Spooner’s green space : HYDEPARK

16-down – Girl left on Cumbrian coast : MARYPORT

19-down – Involve keeping things in the family : ENTAIL

20-down – See 7 : RAGE

21-down – Release? Don’t release – they can’t take it from you : FREE

1-across – * Parisian ready on island : FRANCIS

5-across – * Dull Laurel : DUNSTAN

9-across – City in tomahawk attack : OMAHA

10-across – Wallow in fund’s finances : BANKROLLS

11-across – Gains made with popular lines : INCREASES

12-across – It gives fools their first chance : APRIL

13-across – River maiden died going after cobras : NAIAD

15-across – Little devil mixed tinder and left his mark : IMPRINTED

18-across – Adder’s counter! : ANTIVENIN

19-across – The sound of Alfred, the poet : NOISE

21-across – * The Italian graduates first : BASIL

23-across – * The US Dada movement : THADDAEUS

25-across – Expect too much of the customer : OVERPRICE

26-across – It could be a wide gash : EXTRA

27-across – Deft server first produces aces : EXPERTS

28-across – Drunk unable to see finally the contents of aerosols : NEBULAE

1-down – * One in the money : FLORIAN

2-down – One with no governing principle? : ANARCHIST

3-down – * A clear alternative : CLARE

4-down – * Wine poured into baked beans : SEBASTIAN

5-down – * Half-hidden island : DENIS

6-down – A bishop in country story : NARRATION

7-down – Craftsman taking a line from ploughman : TILER

8-down – Settled down like birds? : NESTLED

14-down – Builder of a dark room? : DEVELOPER

16-down – * Off on a planet : PANTALEON

17-down – Spear made with aluminium, having three prongs : TRIDENTAL

18-down – * A doctor stood up : AMBROSE

20-down – * Summon up silence : EUSTACE

22-down – Expensive soak : STEEP

23-down – Efforts made by unloved Conservatives : TRIES

24-down – Fool distillery head with small barrel : DWEEB

11-across – See special instructions : TIER

12-across – See special instructions : GERMANOCEAN

13-across – See special instructions : ARAN

14-across – See special instructions : ESOTERIC

15-across – See special instructions : TASSO

16-across – See special instructions : ERYNGO

17-across – See special instructions : EUTHANASIA

19-across – See special instructions : GREATHEART

21-across – See special instructions : FLAMBE

22-across – See special instructions : BASTINADO

24-across – See special instructions : POIS

25-across – See special instructions : SWEETCORN

28-across – See special instructions : WHALEBONE

30-across – See special instructions : INSTANTER

31-across – See special instructions : TEMPTABLE

34-across – See special instructions : HELM

36-across – See special instructions : EGLANTINE

37-across – See special instructions : SEAMEW

39-across – See special instructions : THISNETTLE

41-across – See special instructions : HUMANFLESH

43-across – See special instructions : ALARIC

45-across – See special instructions : BUYER

46-across – See special instructions : LASTRADA

48-across – See special instructions : EELS

49-across – See special instructions : OPERASCHOOL

50-across – See special instructions : LIFT

1-down – See special instructions : KISSCURL

2-down – See special instructions : ERST

3-down – See special instructions : AGERANGE

4-down – See special instructions : TRACKS

5-down – See special instructions : SALTMARSH

6-down – See special instructions : CONSIGNIA

7-down – See special instructions : OENONE

8-down – See special instructions : UNDE

9-down – See special instructions : LADYHELP

10-down – See special instructions : DANGERSIGNAL

18-down – See special instructions : HUMBERT

20-down – See special instructions : TROLLOP

22-down – See special instructions : BARDELL

23-down – See special instructions : ACHIEVE

26-down – See special instructions : WINTERHALTER

27-down – See special instructions : CONCEDE

29-down – See special instructions : BRADAWL

32-down – See special instructions : ONCEAYEAR

33-down – See special instructions : HIGHPRICE

35-down – See special instructions : MUSKROSE

37-down – See special instructions : SINGSOLO

38-down – See special instructions : EASEDOFF

40-down – See special instructions : TABLES

42-down – See special instructions : MELLOW

44-down – See special instructions : CROW

47-down – See special instructions : ROLL

8-across – I’m no dreadful politician offering warning : MONITORY

9-across – Religious retreat remains for sheep : ASHRAM

10-across – Space station stops short, having turned round about a year : SKYLAB

11-across – With which people will come back into a particular society? : REBIRTHS

12-across – Paul, but not me, gets the bird : MYNA

13-across – Complicated rune required in playing knightly pursuit : TOURNEYING

15-across – Possibly Barnum won with sham performance? : SHOWMAN

16-across – One cleans up proverbial losers, end first : SWEEPER

18-across – Fare from Manchester consists of half an OT book, plus cover : ECCLESCAKE

19-across – 14 bird demanding fruit : KIWI

20-across – Prepared to see a joker imbibing one can : AWAITING

22-across – Heather purchases fashionable piece of material : LINING

23-across – Woman’s with German person alone : HERMIT

24-across – Diversified engine part : MANIFOLD

1-down – Dickens character having to study clue for young wimp : CONKEYCHICKWEED

2-down – Dickens character – just one for Crompton and then some more : WILLIAMWILLIAMS

3-down – Blunders involving Conservatives, say, raised hidden dangers : BOOBYTRAPS

4-down – Dry rot in building endlessly retaining water : HYDROUS

5-down – The post in a pickle, reportedly : JAMB

6-down – Dickens character, one stoned by taste and smell : CHERRYPECKSNIFF

7-down – Dickens character cooking a lean, thin shellfish : NATHANIELWINKLE

14-down – Virgin spirit with two large islands : NEWZEALAND

17-down – Novelist reportedly willing to provide an exercise in action : WARGAME

21-down – Enthusiastic about working? Not I! : INTO