BYLINE TIMES CROSSWORD #4set by Dr DivaFebruary 2021

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Across

    1  A writer, you move into first to second place. I, Roger, am upset and take in a pub. (14)

    8  Am glad to rip up what blokes read (3,3)

  12  Trump BBQ? (5)

  13  Gets up to confess a lack of trickery, welcoming short animation (8)

  14  Turn back and pause, Nick (6)

  16  Spans study with this Italian, missing a follower initially (8)

  17  Various countries, Heather concludes, use European currency in the morning (5,7)

  18  Small hooter is cut short (5)

  19  They reduce wind via miscreant jockeys (12)

  25  Broadcasting from a hovercraft? (2,3)

  26  Stick to increase in covering (8)

  27  Neat arrangement for a bet (4)

  30  Exclusion of outlaw after warbling (7,3)

  31  Loose talk about vacant address? It is your right (4,6)

  33  Dehydrated, withdraw from molecular identification (4)

  34  Abstaining before yours truly promotes Free French texts (8)

  35  Legendary wood-dweller 12 months after having taken test (5)

  38  Tuesday’s competition heats up mineral deposit (5,7)

  39  Top regalia turns it into stellar display (5)

  42  Transport fence to start administration (12)

  45  Cynics’ back muscles have spasms (8)

  47  Remove rear protrusion from unit (6)

  48  Penny takes back father with tiny bit of contempt (8)

  49  Very little tails off after I had dope (5)

  50  Fork out for former writer’s degree (6)

  51  Unconventional support for extras (6,8)

Down

    1  Basic life provided by a graduate, embracing me, filled with love (6)

    2  Week’s ban from social media is a laugh (6)

    3  Initiate parched vampire? How brutal! (12)

    4  Unofficially the origin of music? (3,3,6)

    5  Adjourn for upstanding knight on boat (4)

    6  Fake news, say, about keeping goose upright? (10)

    7  Pull out when nuisance becomes tedium (5)

    9  Estate in upheaval shows spirit (8)

  10  Civvies worn by Muslim lawyer? (5)

  11  Ultimately direct bug to a new dog (6,8)

  15  Clever childminder loses direction but gets about (5)

  20  Very few young start with key computer equipment (8)

  21  Offer to give Tate makeover causes ruction (8)

  22  Undertake to go over game (8,6)

  23  CIA bails out a hall (8)

  24  Model soldier starts excavation with Frenchman (8)

  28  Story of scenic mere in conflict (12)

  29  Refurbished troopship crosses turbulent sea to mark the missing (12)

  32  It has no one turn up at the outset with cross-gender change (10)

  36  Provocation of Home Counties’ dialect banning many (8)

  37  Cruel fracture is sore (5)

  40  Costume has double attraction to family’s eye (6)

  41  Unaltered, being of quasi tissular origin (2,2,2)

  43  Distressed metal ram (3,2)

  44  The woman’s hesitation is total (5)

  46  Attaché I would involve in East African uprising (4)