No prizes. Just a challenge during this lockdown Easter. Some clues are cryptic, others are anagrams.
Answers next week.
1. Bar assaults (4,7)
2. Fairy-tale start in Wessex? (4,4,1,4,2,3,4)
3. Produce cutlery (6,3)
4. Mame (4)
5. Military base awarded Oscar (8)
6. Lear’s soliloquy? (3,5,6)
7. Fiddle, shape, serve, snoop (6,6,7,3)
8. What Chicken Licken feared (7)
9. C.I.A.? Gee! (3,3)
10. Thumbelina, Arriety, Hermia… (6,5)
11. Judicially fair (7,6)
12. Sycorax, Sabrina, Samantha (3,7)
13. Lenient hothead (5,2,3,4)
14 Discovering nobody (7,4)
15. Female babes go to him fontwise (3,9)
16. Has the knowledge (4,6)
17. Charles & Mary remain tight-lipped (3,7,2,3,5)
18. Gandalf down under (3,6,2,2)
19. Fielder in Vienna (3,5,3)
20. The Garden of Eden? (3,5,3)
21.Michael, Leslie, Alan, Castle … and that’s your lot (7,3)
22.”…would I were constant as thou art” (6,4)
23. Peruvian immigrant stationed in London (10)
24. Scram! (3,3)
25. Glenn’s serenade (9)
26. Crayoning cramp (5,2,7)
27. Pooh’s craving (1,5,2,5)
28. Enamoured Bard (11,2,4)
29. Female puppet (4)
30. Tipped to win (3,9)
31. U.F.O. astern muddled vampire (9)
32. Demon snipper (7,4)
33. 3d (4,1,8)
34. Raw Tsars (4,4)
35. Lavoro (3,7,3)
36. Erin called (10)
37. Summer solstice (3,7,3)
38. Had tangy radish (1,4,4,5)
39. Officer’s servant starts (6,6)
40. Waspish delivery (3,5)
41. Search for chocolate bar (6,5)
42. 2/2 (repeat if necessary) (9,3)
43. April, May, June (8,5)
44. Rainforest manual (6,4)
45. Kew resident’s indisposition (3,7,2,4,6)
46. Pugwash and crew move to Kingston (7,2,3,9)
47. Familial request for directions? (1,7,5,3,4)
48. Oxbridge sportsmen’s fraternal? (3,5,8)
49. A, AB, B, O – for certain (5,4,2,5)
50. Sheer product (3,9)