BYLINE TIMES CROSSWORD #17set by Dr DivaMarch 2022

Across

  11  Flop right in the middle of Bobby’s first curious cameo (4,1,7)

  12  Stream No. 1 suffers a little setback (8)

  13  Left over receiving small slight (6)

  14  Got together working in capital? It helps to keep up (9)

  15  Believed to have been captured (4)

  16  Diverting river away from enclosure for marine life (5)

  18  Sent an agitated fool back inside, by the way (2,7)

  20  Time to worry about ringing sound (5)

  23  Art lover ate these at sea (8)

  24  Blokes enlisting help with trip – one not previously undertaken (6,6)

  26  Goat with money delivers seed (6,4)

  28  Sources from Kashmir hugely misjudged extremely radical Cambodian (5)

  30  Waste report of your arrival being acknowledged in London (4)

  31  Point used to mark the spot behind mirror (4)

  32  Little time to install retrospective design (5)

  34  Group recording the number missing turn at hospital clinic, say (10)

  35  Trumpet growth of early acclaim (7,5)

  37  Game developing strongly is lacking banks of lolly (8)

  39  Lively puppet? (5)

  41  Places for curing shoal swimming round Spurn Head, for instance (9)

  42  Proven to be trustworthy (5)

  45  Never initially bother to perform well (4)

  46  From the sound of it, gentle spectacle results in highly charged performance (9)

  48  Return snooker or gardening chum’s computer? (6)

  50  Opt for Erica’s clothes being removed? Very exciting! (8)

  51  Way of recording sound worried Cornish poet (12)

Down

    1  Kitty fixed up entire guillotine as escape (8)

    2  Starts to blend recipe, including edible shell, for tipple (4)

    3  A number of players involved in ad hoc tête-à-tête (5)

    4  Start of detailed observation on concrete (12)

    5  Heads over to find skewer (4)

    6  Handle a follower’s opportunity to remain (10)

    7  Publicly criticise, say, Warren’s weight (8)

    8  Generally decimal? (5)

    9  Avoid movies Chewbacca appears in (6)

  10  Rushing with conservationist to sports ground (7,5)

  17  Recall Simone, for example, imbibing bird and bull blood serum (9)

  19  Paperwork showing lowest publicity cost? (5)

  21  Blame rocket (9)

  22  Hates preface to academic forms (9)

  25  Casually urge Tyson to get juvenile (9)

  27  Not up to admitting so-called oracle is worthless (12)

  29  Surprisingly alert miner was wanting final drink (7,5)

  33  Kids stupidly going after loose drive (6,4)

  34  Vault, like this challenge, but ultimately without idiotic limits (5)

  36  Fortune Bob left in slime at the outset (4,4)

  38  Hurry up? I wouldn’t if it were mine! (4,2,2)

  40  Regulate some expo licences (6)

  43  Each handful needs 995 more units to make coarse material (5)

  44  Run away once Penelope sheds pound (5)

  47  Hail royal state! (4)

  49  Tire from two procedures, the first on head (4)