Cryptic clues
ACROSS
1 Children are wandering around centre of largish Midlands town (9)
6 Spies graduate artist retracting tongue (7)
10 Question a pitch’s state (5)
13 Scrub about fifty containers (7)
14 Retweet sent back in style of something you can hum? (3-2)
15 Acting’s my unconventional sort of exercise (9)
16 Have workload that’s heavy and yet extra light? (4,3,6,2,4,4)
17 Making divine lemonade, if I contribute bottles (6)
18 Country wine with blackcurrant two had outside club (8)
19 Rent for housing well over what’s required (2,5)
22 Rigid claw, curling around large plant (4,6)
23 Add walls for a building course (7,5)
27 Private quite happy to confess (3,2)
29 Following popular, short lament for cricketer (4,3)
30 New currency is a cause for anxiety (8)
32 Show attorney around with sharp movement of arm, in Med (8)
34 Ponders cutting rate for old French musician (7)
36 Rank of note held by US investigator (5)
39 Old people in America demand that gamblers go outside (6,6)
41 Turns, greeting English Lord: one on Texan’s estate? (10)
44 Order is rerun for policy maker perhaps (7)
46 That is to make someone pay for grub? (8)
48 In second year, tour with bands (6)
50 First line of song has stray dog run direct to large cat (6,7,2,5,3)
53 Obscurities sea scouts regularly miss? (9)
54 Sound of bluebottles in thicket (5)
55 Fare for those most unlikely to go by air (7)
56 Stuff that’s not starting as one wants (5)
57 I cease providing a range of services (3-4)
58 Female clothing worn for final act (4,5)
DOWN
1 Dish up book about President (5)
2 Waste one’s left with? Criticise Civil Service’s longstanding programme (6,6,5)
3 Barely adequate cover of My Way by band (3-6)
4 Forced out from school inspectorate after loudly going for university (6)
5 Giving up no longer a habit? (11)
6 Boy’s appearance outside front of local supermarket (8)
7 Anxious to avoid runs, going on a walk (7)
8 Very worried when grannies sprayed with DDT! (56)
9 Dummy intercom for terraced houses (9)
10 As stag party, maybe, consuming small scotches (7)
11 Attend to screws, perhaps, on radio satellite (5)
12 Is distressing ad yet to be re-done for firm? (4-6)
17 Space traveller seeing the world every so often spinning round (2,3)
20 Problem that only feminine tact finally could resolve (1,3,2,3,8)
21 What one paid well makes? (6)
24 Cases of amber, grey and lime displaying diamonds (6)
25 In which old government department actions sent up? (5)
26 Aircraft that’s right for one soaring over top (6)
28 “Meddle”‘s potentially mistaken for “medal”? (5)
31 Foul is due: initially playing advantage (6)
33 Novel, and possibly fancy, medical establishment above valley (5,3,3)
35 Master blethering uselessly about nothing (5,2,4) 37 Daughters into light pop (5)
38 Making short work of sailor, shot by FBI agents close to exit (10)
40 Old boy upset after cold cuts ruin a fine port (9)
42 Surfer very close to finding sandbank (9)
43 The French, on reflection, readily accept swindle (4,1,3)
45 Crime writer to rip off an amount of old material? (7)
47 Spring date: firm and ultimately succulent fruit (7)
49 Plain woman of 37 (6)
51 Bits of old satellite circling sky from south (5)
52 Does having this touch mean top grades? (5)
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Car instrument panel (9)
6 Ornamental shrub (7)
10 Sugar solution (5)
13 Tanned (7)
14 Volume control (5)
15 Avoidance or prevention (of a difficulty) (9)
16 Become anxious or agitated (3,4,8,2,1,5)
17 Unmoving (6)
18 Harem (8)
19 Ancient Greek jar or jug (7)
22 Child (5,5)
23 Additional (12)
27 North African capital (5)
29 Look over (7)
30 Fairytale tower prisoner (8)
32 Edible snail (8)
34 Oval (7)
36 Chuck (5) 39 Ulterior motive (6,6)
41 Boldly and bravely (10)
44 Soldier’s eating utensil (4,3)
46 Magical quality or feeling (8) 48 Pooh’s friend (6)
50 Throughout one’s life (4,3,6,2,3,5)
53 Upsurge in wrongdoing (5,4)
54 Period of monarch’s rule (5)
55 South-western Pacific country (7)
56 Attractively small and neat (5)
57 Ancestry (7)
58 Where Magna Carta was signed (9)
DOWN
1 Fix errors in (a program) (5)
2 Basic hairstyle (5,4,3,5)
3 Excessively complicated and detailed (9)
4 Brian —, sci-fi author (6)
5 Totally vulnerable (11)
6 (Of a point or line) assumed as a fixed basis of comparison (8)
7 Relating to part of the eye (7)
8 Item getting so much applause as to interrupt proceedings (4,7)
9 Benefit, profit (9)
10 Newly-established business (5-2)
11 Healing technique (5)
12 On time (10)
17 Intelligent; neat, trim (5)
20 Enjoying a run of success (2,3,5,2,1,4)
21 Circuit connections (6)
24 Too many to be counted (6)
25 Max —, German artist (5)
26 Traditional story (6)
28 Italian white wine (5)
31 Verse as a genre (6)
33 One looking after damaged trunks and branches (4,7)
35 Section of Westminster Abbey (5,6)
37 John —, US actor (5)
38 Embarrassed (10)
40 Film by Woody Allen (5,4)
42 Patient needing immediate treatment (9)
43 Obsession, monomania (4,4)
45 Unsteady on one’s feet (7)
47 Pyrenean principality (7)
49 With hair removed (6)
51 Prominent constellation (5)
52 Musical study (5)