| Set in line of battle, perhaps: so 5 down consulted higher authority? (6) |
| Quality perfumed with 48 (5) |
| Outstanding (success) (6) |
| Old city, with it, to get a degree on 1st of June or plough (4,5) |
| Many at start of play will bloom in the desert (5) |
| Red Robin (modern tune) (5) |
| Dancer from the fen dancing with Tony (7) |
| From Cameroon there comes a camel (4) |
| Financier's complaint about marshal being given his head (5,3) |
| Follower of the shuttle (4) |
| Alternative following for Princess Christian (4) |
| Grant for potter's percolator? (5) |
| Bowler at sea (5) |
| Streamers for knights errant on red slab (9) |
| Becomes busy with a ring? (4,7) |
| Interfering old woman to make love and to draw fish (5-5) |
| 0 per cent finance for Peter Pan? (5-5) |
| Dead twice? He left off, being mentally confused (5-6) |
| One that fought with Old Pretender for more than a sonnet? (9) |
| It isn't extra for a skin transplant (5) |
| Weight increasing with speed? (3-2) |
| Bill concerning land (4) |
| A right to travel by ship (4) |
| Look for meat (8) |
| See 2 (4) |
| Arranged with a view? (2,5) |
| Congratulations to assassin (5) |
| Summons about bone of antelope (5) |
| The staff of an organisation are among the dregs -- they produce heavy stuff (4,5) |
| [Variations: 5ac, 7, 30dn, 48; and/or 44] (6) |
| Model keen on half Venetian painter (5) |
| [Variations: 8ac, both parts of 18, 49; and "this 24"] (6) |
| A candle or candles I need to play (7,3,3,4) |
| Ex-minister to make things stick (6) |
| Girl in frenzied ride for love (2,7) |
| Bad prose among trite stuff in the Guardian, with little time for our man at the front? (3,13) |
| The only cog to work the machines? (10) |
| Stick or move? (4) |
| Deer drinking 30 down in spite of bacterium (11) |
| Progressive leader for Indian state (2-5) |
| I intend rising in the motoring organisation - bloodlessly? (7) |
| Choirboy gets it in the neck (4) |
| [Variations: 4, 36, 50, 54; and, before all, 37] (6) |
| Kipling's 13 devours teetotal son of Blair, following 5 across to a Boney conclusion (6,2,8) |
| Horse chestnut without the chest (3) |
| Catcher let off (6) |
| [Variations: 11, 20ac, 20dn, 23; and 44-ly 45] (6) |
| Evening recce'd unfortunately got swallowed (5,8) |
| Beetle following French 20 (3) |
| Sound of letter swallowed (3) |
| Colleague of Blair (Tony) out of bed before queen and emperor (7,4) |
| A fellow receiving a point at first, as is fitting (10) |
| The footballer of Aragon? (9) |
| 5 across found variously in 4, 8 down and 51 (3) |
| Take liquid in clouds that don't begin to exist (6) |
| Russian girl with tales of French comedian? (7) |
| Daisy of Kent (7) |
| Shared (6) |
| The 30 down one is one, the 7 one isn't (4) |
| Table not horizontal? (4) |