Daily Answers

1-across – Cheers beginning in Pennsylvania, America saw British in retreat : BOTTOMSUP

6-across – Land between mountains with northern adventurer : GLENN

9-across – Potential Mount Everest, primarily for adventurer : FOALE

10-across – Adventurer who packs a punch? : ARMSTRONG

11-across – Spooner’s dance with 10, rational figure : REALNUMBER

12-across – Note success after first from Cambridge : CHIT

14-across – In spirit, the stuff feeding culture for an adventurer : GAGARIN

15-across – Fizzy diet drinks cold, each a cold drink : ICEDTEA

17-across – Possible source of wind resistance in jets : SPROUTS

19-across – Change round Lithuanian and Latvian capitals, as adventurer : COLLINS

20-across – Travel adventurer : RIDE

22-across – Adventurer here, OK with vast ground : TERESHKOVA

25-across – A 20 needing no cab? : PIGGYBACK

26-across – Not moving yet : STILL

27-across – Two prepare for impact : BRACE

28-across – Writer indeed struggling with books, financially needing others : DEPENDENT

1-down – Very much cake, case of forty or fifty eaten up : BYFAR

2-down – Sailor welcomes artillery and flag waving in battle : TRAFALGAR

3-down – Our cinema’s about to screen a display of marine life : OCEANARIUM

4-down – Priest about right as adventurer : SHARMAN

5-down – Couple after Macedonian leader in Alexander, say, finding buried treasure in Italy? : POMPEII

6-down – Sound way to walk in door : GATE

7-down – Biblical character, one turning on the house of God : ENOCH

8-down – Bedtime drinks for birds : NIGHTJARS

13-down – Spring chicken’s top and stockings new, carefully selected : WELLCHOSEN

14-down – Eatery, however briefly, left sink upside down : GASTROPUB

16-down – Ingesting tail of pterodactyl, three taste a fossilised arthropod : TRILOBITE

18-down – Normal to jettison sandwiches as adventurer : SHEPARD

19-down – Reportedly, European happy to provide dental appointment : CHECKUP

21-down – Belief in female setter, perhaps? : DOGMA

23-down – Very much to say is set aside : ALLOT

24-down – Pumped-up Lebanese port? : TYRE

1-across – Fighting with knights’ page, as bad dream fades at last : PASDARMES

6-across – See 9 : CONS

8-across – Fish beat up a lobster : BLOATERS

9-across – Cold salmon prepared at home: commonplace now : ALLMOD

10-across – Excitement from the person that announced defrosted fish : HOOPLA

11-across – First mate’s boat in legend was used to get wife : ADAMSRIB

12-across – Some fish in need of bigger boats? : SHARKS

15-across – Vision of Boatman: a plot, they say : EYESIGHT

16-across – An apostle in Rome alone, cut by a spear, even : SAOPAOLO

19-across – Smell fish on seafront : STENCH

21-across – Sporting fish roe from theoretical hybrid : ATHLETIC

22-across – Bigger fish eaten by little fish with no resistance : FREELY

24-across – Raw cod, flounders and yellow fish : COWARD

25-across – Fish definitely returning to land in the Irish Sea : ANGLESEY

26-across – Report to reveal one may be in the soup : LEEK

27-across – Fishy substitute for universal part of theories of Flora, Fauna etc : GODDESSES

1-down – Proclaim on eradicating even this disorder : POLIO

2-down – Fish for small kipper? : SNAPPER

3-down – Team loses a point, falling short at Wembley, perhaps : ARENA

4-down – The fish that got away, you say? It’s a mix-up : MISTAKE

5-down – Boatman & crew: visionaries covering a great distance : SEAFARERS

6-down – More than one heavyweight is alone, pulled up after initial concussion : COLOSSI

7-down – Part of old civilisation moving into Chile : NEOLITHIC

13-down – Very sad indication for our planet : HEARTSORE

14-down – Head of state crazy to execute guerrilla leader, one of 101? : SPOTTYDOG

17-down – Fish shortage following cutback : POLLACK

18-down – Goldfish with starter of dory and crab perhaps found here : ORCHARD

20-down – Teams rely : ELEVENS

22-down – Japanese fish: ultimate in sole music : FUGUE

23-down – Looks suggestively at au pair’s bottom in the grounds : LEERS

10-across – Clan’s rodent making no noise. God! : MACDERMOT

12-across – See 10 : ODIN

13-across – Orator’s reserve during some of croquet game, imprisoned by one Greek king : CICERO

15-across – See 13 : AGAMEMNON

16-across – Piano pieces bring endless pain to young girl’s condition, say : GYMNOPEDIES

17-across – See 16 : STATE

18-across – Supplements men on strike backing silver tree fern : PIECESOUT

19-across – See 18 : PONGA

20-across – ’70s US comedy show with two French articles about Yale’s farm manager : LAUGHIN

21-across – See 20 : ALFRAMSEY

26-across – Gangster in America evades the masses and boasts about derring-do, for starters : CAPONE

28-across – See 26 : CROWDS

30-across – Censures US porters having poison at police station docked : REDCAPS

32-across – See 30 : TANGHIN

34-across – Reserve copper in Germany, half-cut, takes lid off cylinders damaging Spenser’s coffer : BACKUP

36-across – See 34 : SCRYNE

39-across – Tory Lord, wildly errant, having sets of 12 Ford models : TREFGARNE

41-across – See 39 : ZODIACS

47-across – Foreign pupil’s name left off team falling asleep on channel : ELEVE

48-across – See 47 : SOMNOLENT

49-across – Counterfeit note at college having US summer review of European gallery : FALSE

50-across – See 49 : RIJKSMUSEUM

51-across – Out at night, cannot lure out top escapee leaving swindler in gaol : NOCTURNAL

52-across – See 51 : CONMAN

53-across – End of autumn shock — leaves unfold on 60% of roses, fenced off : STUN

54-across – See 53 : FRONDESCE

1-down – My admission to being out of date causes stalemate around a neat ancient Iranian city : IMPASSE

2-down – See 1 : ECBATANA

3-down – Tops of elms growing in vivid green high Austrian alpine valley dwarfed 10 dead, swaying : DEFEREGGEN

4-down – See 3 : STUNTED

5-down – Poet’s lines about being only cut on poor ’40s/’50s movies — could be Rififi and not If … : LONGFELLOW

6-down – See 5 : FILMNOIR

7-down – Extra drapes ordered across a broad area by truculent single worker : WIDESPREAD

8-down – See 7 : DEFIANT

9-down – Institution with bad smell upset the French doctor and farceur — it’s a French retail chain : BORSTAL

11-down – See 9 : MONOPRIX

14-down – Fashion merchants are those who show promise having sculpted tails : COSTUMERS

22-down – See 14 : SCUTS

23-down – Dismal Eisteddfod winner turned up uncertain at end of speech : DRAB

24-down – See 23 : HAZY

25-down – Flower having a virtually unrelenting smell. Good! : ASTER

27-down – See 25 : PONG

29-down – Black butt extinguishes powdered tobacco like this, note : STUB

31-down – See 29 : SNUFFSOUT

33-down – Store has in frilly hydrangeas but is unable to arrange 10 in temporary quarters : HORTENSIAS

35-down – See 33 : CANTONMENT

37-down – Valerie Le Vaillant has to scold independent union leader, having entered the Co-ops drunk for unwanted effect : CHIEFGUIDE

38-down – See 37 : POSTECHO

40-down – Supports male during stoppages with quiet cuddle. That’s not right! : ARMRESTS

42-down – See 40 : CALMNESS

43-down – To remove a priest is an obstacle to one judge living around capital : DEFROCK

44-down – See 43 : BEIJING

45-down – Waved goodbye, having repelled an intruder nourished at spa : SEENOFF

46-down – See 45 : WELLFED

1-across – Quick easy victory, something precious about it : PROMPT

4-across – Creative mind taking an age to orbit Pluto : EDISON

9-across – See 3 : EGGS

10-across – Golden fur is a euro — that’s fake? : AURIFEROUS

11-across – Bum soaked, last of water going in with both taps : WRETCH

12-across – Growth of many branches as US retailer backs Scandinavian currency : SYCAMORE

13-across – Threw good 9s like this? Some initially getting caught : UNSADDLED

15-across – Pastry dish for lunch about noon, originally : FLAN

16-across – Where tools may be dropped : SHED

17-across – Hearing nothing, notes fade badly : STONEDEAF

21-across – Weapon — but isn’t Jerry a pacifist? : TOMAHAWK

22-across – Pure way to cut meat : VESTAL

24-across – Cold as 9? : HARDBOILED

25-across – Deep fried successor for Nietzsche? : RICH

26-across – Not entirely leporine animal, an equine badger! : HARASS

27-across – Smart putting waste collector behind skip for a start : SNAPPY

1-down – Secure banking payment, crude stuff : PIGIRON

2-down – Start acting? : ONSET

3-down – Slovakia and Jamaica : POACHED

5-down – Bored, it’s suggested, with one in ruin : DEFACE

6-down – Run off and drained like 9? : SCRAMBLED

7-down – News about diversion of route — no charge for it : NEUTRON

8-down – Smart as a cyanide-laced salad? : DRESSEDTOKILL

14-down – A law together with sovereign pontiff : ALEXANDER

16-down – Bear most upset over a chimp, no little monkey : STOMACH

18-down – Nothing very exciting nearby, both heading northward from Reno, say? : NEVADAN

19-down – Some boxing leading to riot : ANARCHY

20-down – Little time in short tragedy, it’s noted : FAMOUS

23-down – Bind bits up : STRAP

1-across – Very keen to stay around conference venue : POTSDAM

5-across – Hacked Off, with film star involved : ANGERED

9-across – Violently attacks stationer after a fracas : TEARSINTO

10-across – What can be played by men on horseback : ORGAN

11-across – That bloke’s southern German : HESS

12-across – Spirit audience’s not picked up — it’s insubstantial : SCOTCHMIST

14-across – One-time female’s a divine creature : ATHENA

15-across – Support government resigning — claims they want out : LEAVERS

16-across – See 5 down : OFPAPER

18-across – Comic routine about height in bad taste : SHTICK

20-across – Done with PM’s backing — Sun perhaps fails to respond to alarm : OVERSLEEPS

21-across – Put down before Indiana city : LAIN

24-across – Jobs lost everywhere? Not entirely : STEVE

25-across – Awful from City playing b***** Real : EXECRABLE

26-across – Attitudes accepted by detective in force : MINDSET

27-across – Royal officer completely losing head over queens : EQUERRY

1-down – Spurs No 2 has long throw : PITCH

2-down – Start in winding passage : TRANSIT

3-down – Henry’s climbing down over style : DASH

4-down – Genuine? Hmm! React to settlement : MUNICHAGREEMENT

5-down – … that’s in force? Please, it’s a whopper — scrap! : AWORTHLESSPIECE

6-down – Don’t stop upsetting party! — PM receiving one side’s cheers : GOODHEALTH

7-down – Musical genre infuriated man : RAGTIME

8-down – Shows up group : DENOTES

13-down – Jail those selling drugs to clerical people : PENPUSHERS

16-down – Making love shortly after wrestling — animal! : OPOSSUM

17-down – Child’s cut not real — point taken : PRETEEN

19-down – House cleaner receives award : CHAMBER

22-down – Wanting help, joint letter said : NEEDY

23-down – Married woman’s cheating husband finally kicked out : FRAU