June 2010

Across

1Side with dissenter sent off - quality shown by good referee? (17)
10'Home is the sailor' (poem) (5)
13Strike in French terminal (4,2,5)
14Yesmen that I confuse with a gemstone (11)
15Heading league, football team's brought in amateurs in rotation (5)
16Pat goes berserk, get the police (7)
17One criminal left with another, we hear? (9)
18Mistake that's rare, tricky to stomach (7)
19Strong-willed and apparently masochistic (4-11)
21Liberal - I had come upon one with intelligence, with excessive desire (10)
22An excellent book. Very good, indeed (6)
24Disturbance three can make, literally and legally (4)
27Our pals cohabit, moving round to avoid this fear? (14)
29Pantomime actor, gloomy, laid off (8)
31Caught in a hard water area (3-5)
33Respected politician, say, in presbyter's island (5,9)
36Assist in making a wager, perhaps (4)
37About the right point to finish and splash out (6)
38Given new pitch, son departs to play (10)
42American lawyer's energy sufficient for deed (5,2,8)
44Get rid of boils? Ah, maybe! (7)
46Cheat high church man of keen intellect (4-5)
48"Thou foster-child of **** and slow time" (Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn) (7)
50Heartless old king has heir to tea (5)
51Purple hat Marianne sported (11)
52Poetic animal takes very odd poetry, but in the style to be expected (11)
53Funeral lament in cathedral, for example (5)
54Piece of hose positioned near fire at the present time (9,8)

Down

1Last month, a holiday made an end of one's living (7)
2State keeping artist in Asia - Dubai, possibly (5,6)

3Showing lumps, being led out and mistreated (9)
4Battle calls followed by unions (10,5)
5Coming second in several Oxford papers, I'm assured finals? (5)
6Basic tips for humanity (3-5)
7Rock festival (7,7)
8Synonymously gilt-edged perhaps, to be a sight better off (10)
9School's anger over admitting unknown and vigorous movements (7)
10From Rabelais, lewd passage extracted (5)
11It shows views of race if it's a cross-country event (7,4)
12Balanced, prepared diet that rounds off the day (8)
19Fashion icon, perhaps (6)
20Story about a sheep in a Western town (7)
21Kind of acid used in antisocial act I committed (6)
23Where shoppers grab best in a meat scramble (7-8)
25Rides large waves around the ship (6,8)
26In making a comeback, the man did wrong (6)
28Duck eats duck, flying round on this? (7)
30Like carrier lost at sea, perhaps (6)
32Suffering below, agrees to hard work (5-6)
34State of wife, sanctimonious after a little drink (11)
35Useful device for increasing calculation (10)
39"Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the *** cell" (Milton) (9)
40These days, it's wise to limit speed (5,3)
41Older male as national representative, initially appropriate (5,3)
43A distraught "Father, I can't move!" (7)
45Execute boxer, shamefaced (7)
47Sleazy Sam, you old hotch-potch! (5)
49"Allow not nature more than nature ***" (King Lear) (5)


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