1-across – Red with feelings stirred up about possessing wealth : FRIEDRICHENGELS

9-across – Cracking booze knocked back, very fine stuff : REGALIA

10-across – Utter fool’s ebbing interest : PASTIME

11-across – Report of outstanding au pair : DUO

12-across – It exposes bust company during depression, say, worried for turnover : DECOLLETAGE

13-across – This is a massive fiddle, 80% black market and extremely suspicious : CONTRABASS

15-across – Man joining Nazis : HESS

18-across – Pop has trouble with son about : SODA

20-across – Notion Tory created by egoistic fiddling : BIGSOCIETY

23-across – Jittery touring soldiers, with others retreating, getting a pick-me-up : RESTORATIVE

25-across – Japanese band love AC/DC : OBI

26-across – Some toast right-winger admitting defeat : CROUTON

27-across – Duck has 0.1cm tongue : IMMERSE

28-across – Chapter hots up in novel with man who’s a bit of a beast : PITHECANTHROPUS

1-down – Where you could find jacks — there should be sixteen of them here, by the sound of it : FOREDECKS

2-down – Queen enters wearing robe digging into flesh : INGROWN

3-down – Suppliers of humbug and fudge consumed by medics : DELUDERS

4-down – Place to save a designated victim : ISAAC

5-down – They keep drinks cool, with loud requests to swallow litre : HIPFLASKS

6-down – Scoffed in compiler’s absence? : NOSHED

7-down – Company offering record value in Dubai? : EMIRATE

8-down – Victory in Berlin with English military operation : SIEGE

14-down – Ruler at sea is in second class, travelling in a train : BRITANNIA

16-down – Broadcaster, rich man, grabbing right to show high level sportspeople : SKYDIVERS

17-down – Tasteless headline from Sun: Best woman’s going topless : SCREAMER

19-down – Hell! It’s the wrong colour : DISTORT

21-down – 22 down is cracking — Picaroon’s number one! : EGOTRIP

22-down – Try touching appeal at first — it may bring a lump to one’s throat : GOITRE

23-down – Go over the top after soldiers : RECAP

24-down – One needing computer technology to comprehend 500 + 10? : IDIOT

1-across – 17’s child leader gave East Enders’ money to journal … : PIEDPIPER

6-across – … what he does about father and sons in 17’s 7 : PIPPAPASSES

12-across – Toy for gadabout during revolution : RAGDOLL

13-across – See 34 : BARRETT

14-across – Island saint heard what 1 down’s lover did : KILDA

15-across – Such as 17’s cloistered soliloquy, a pet going back into possible 45 : HATE

16-across – Fellow of infinite jest, first century, in city : YORICK

17-across – See 5 : BROWNING

20-across – Food for one brought up in Sussex, say? : RYEBREAD

21-across – Food for secretive person holding excessive and alien creed : CLOTTEDCREAM

24-across – Gold and red fruit dropping round first unthinking actors : AUTOMATA

25-across – Roman drink containing usual mix with ices : JULIUSCAESAR

27-across – 17’s 45 35 in April of a woman : FROMABROAD

28-across – 17’s route of news from Jewish area about a Pole and a 9 : GHENTTOAIX

32-across – A brazen bribe corrupted 17’s ageing minister : RABBIBENEZRA

35-across – See 45 : THOUGHTS

37-across – Examples of baby talk by 45 supporter: sesame is at hand : INFANTILISMS

38-across – Halo for dumpin’ odds and ends? : GLORIOLE

40-across – Remove a large number of feathers from computer? : DOWNLOAD

42-across – Young lad embracing female angel : CHERUB

43-across – Norman girl goes on stag : HART

46-across – 3 little boy held by soldier : NEEDY

47-across – American writer has men crazy about wild rose : EMERSON

48-across – It’s poisonous in French, too much so in English : TROPINE

49-across – 17’s gaudy flower and fish pronounced to have a blue feeling : MELANCHOLIA

50-across – Top film star 5 keeping ancient city tailed where 5s are wanted? : ONTHEBEAT

1-down – 17’s girl that maddened King George? : PORPHYRIA

2-down – White gent : EIGHTEENTWO

3-down – Standard accompaniment to the Golden River : POOR

4-down – Parrot given knighthood for being in Llareggub : POLLYGARTER

5-down – Policeman fixing the gravy for maker of 7s : ROBERT

6-down – 17’s alchemist friends restricting contest to America? : PARACELSUS

7-down – See 15 : POEM

8-down – Lawyers reported visiting home of premium bonds selector : ATTORNEYS

9-down – Request partners to be bent? : ASKEW

10-down – Relative accepts half old school punishment for folly : SILLINESS

11-down – Second archbishop of the 1930s, in a manner of speaking : SLANG

18-down – Margaret’s half backed a maid buried by 17 : GRAMMARIAN

19-down – Mooring for atheist at sea : STAITHE

22-down – Offshore watch to carry on idly having a drug problem : COASTGUARD

23-down – Micro-king’s mollusc fished up by 17 : MUREX

26-down – Food and flower taken up in place of 1 across : HAMELIN

27-down – Distant signal partly in Iranian mouths : FARSI

29-down – Latin is both plainly and cryptically used with permission : NIHILOBSTAT

30-down – Take colour from gypsies: it’s found in suffering : ACHROMATISE

31-down – 17’s 45 35 shows Afro themes ending in Africa : FROMTHESEA

33-down – Enthusiast and friend of Shakespeare taking fish as polisher : BUFFWHEEL

34-down – Hazel, better rabbit when body starts to be left off, mated 5 17 : ELIZABETH

36-down – Courses in the wrong order for candy? : SWEETMEAT

39-down – English speaker to make a straight face? : GRINGO

40-down – Cloth with explosive laid up : DENIM

41-down – 7 about challenge to Macduff : LAYON

44-down – See 43 : NELL

45-down – Call to spirits accepting obligation of nostalgic 7s : HOME

8-across – Covering back, a politician given to stalling : DILATORY

9-across – I am changing plan, spiel being incomprehensible, as people asking for its clarity? : PLAIN

10-across – See 24 down : SAFE

11-across – Last of vile smell behind wind sensor disappearing : EVANESCENT

12-across – Party members needing permission to travel without limo, London’s conclusion: Olympic site not for backing : VICARS

14-across – See 12 : ANDTARTS

15-across – Put in meat processor, shame brought on old crone, as busybody : CURTAIN

17-across – Bishop, say, adding page to report : PRELATE

20-across – See 9 : CAMPAIGN

22-across – Old car drives, finding mystery man : AUSTIN

23-across – Film director provides the ultimate in comedy, then everyone’s lumbering about : WOODYALLEN

24-across – Farmer’s assistant, filthy gossipmonger? : MUCK

25-across – Step on people, passing first of stars — in this competitive exploration? : SPACE

26-across – Great Greek, Greek island recoiling at tax : SOCRATES

1-down – Sweet Irish author interrupting tour, regularly : TIRAMISU

2-down – See 25 : RACE

3-down – See 22 across : POWERS

4-down – Casual habits causing leader in police force to break state up : PYJAMAS

5-down – See 24 across : SPREADER

6-down – Cash rarely jazzy — his genre soul : RAYCHARLES

7-down – Heading off to bed, never once being loose : UNKNOT

13-down – An oceanic movement to screen Teletubby before an Australian, say? : ANTIPODEAN

16-down – Topless operatic heroine said to have no top taken off : IMITATED

18-down – See 15 : TWITCHER

19-down – See 9 : ENGLISH

21-down – Stimulate a ploy to ensnare love : AROUSE

22-down – Plant no cost to country importing necklaces, primarily : ARNICA

24-down – Mum eats a feast, eating store of food : MEAT

9-across – Raw soldier enrolled in French course : CHANTILLY

10-across – Climber may be obsessive about carrying one : LIANA

11-across – Poet’s rejected material : TOILE

12-across – Set fire to big banger : GELIGNITE

13-across – Army unit fails to complete the course : REGIMEN

14-across – Sustained fire from soldiers aboard boat : BARRAGE

17-across – They may be broken on pitch with odd soil : TARSI

19-across – Discharge rider holding certificate : PUS

20-across – Terror suspect remanded when dodgy men disappear : DREAD

21-across – Set a course, perhaps, with divine surroundings : SCENERY

22-across – Changing course on river is cathartic : SCOURER

24-across – Two sets of players embrace a discard : CASTASIDE

26-across – Adult leaves dance course : RHUMB

28-across – See 6 : STONE

29-across – Disliked hanging uniform in a foreign tree : UNPOPULAR

1-down – National course? Not at first : SCOT

2-down – Bird drops core when on the rise : WAXING

3-down – Provide efficiencies — just two courses : STREAMLINE

4-down – Catchphrase a big hit with Central Bank : SLOGAN

5-down – Dish has base changed for second course : SYLLABUS

6-down – Jack Ruby, say, on the slab : FLAG

7-down – Set course for a vintage trip : NAVIGATE

8-down – Set and course constituent? : GAME

13-down – Artist set up by judges : RATES

15-down – View inside set : RADIOGRAPH

16-down – Bird about to pass over : EIDER

18-down – Material for Thatcher’s first organ piece : REEDSTOP

19-down – Frame shy jockey consumed by resentment : PHYSIQUE

22-down – Set out on course for wide open space : STEPPE

23-down – Rake over tops of beds looking for money : ROUBLE

24-down – Patient horse taken from course : CASE

25-down – A union overturned cuts : AXES

27-down – A little climber manages narrow path : BERM

1-across – 4 effect of belt tightening? : SQUEEZEDMIDDLE

9-across – Duck with blue cover : EIDERDOWN

10-across – Name for explorer in canvas cover : VASCO

11-across – Steal and cook in some of 8 : POACH

12-across – Remove from power to score at cricket : OVERTHROW

13-across – Alternative to 8 for unruly teen with cricket ball : ELECTRIC

14-across – Lot is satisfied with £1,000 : KISMET

17-across – House for titled man in island capital : HOBART

19-across – One devoted to production of trees : FORESTER

22-across – Spooner’s defamation of dance is something of no importance : SMALLBEER

24-across – Cathedral city turned out Right Reverend : TRURO

25-across – 2-ed formed from German thank you : NAKED

26-across – Rose’s problem with accidents : BLACKSPOT

27-across – Street — shoot here repeatedly — same again in French, surprisingly : STRANGEBUTTRUE

1-down – Accelerated church crawling with sticks? : STEEPLECHASING

2-down – Leave bare, pure and complex : UNDRAPE

3-down – Arts she produced from planet : EARTHSTAR

4-down – Paying note to joker without number : ECONOMIC

5-down – £500 for a sovereign in cash : MONKEY

6-down – Cover of the continental surgeon : DUVET

7-down – Half a decade’s longing for liquor : LUSTRUM

8-down – When in trouble, courage will keep you warm : HOTWATERBOTTLE

15-down – VP topped with Polynesian charm and model of composite picture : IDENTIKIT

16-down – Support at entry — preserve during raising of children : DOORJAMB

18-down – See 13 : BLANKET

20-down – Disney’s rabbit’s big lie : THUMPER

21-down – Leaves holder to beat, unexpectedly getting silver : TEABAG

23-down – A pastoral affair cut short raised an old country girl : LYDIA