Across
- 2. English poet who wrote The Pied Piper of Hamelin (6,8)
- 4. 1928 play written by Mae West which was adapted into the film She Done Him Wrong (7,3)
- 8. A very dry white Burgundy wine produced near Auxerre, in the department of Yonne (7)
- 9. In Indian cookery, an appetizer consisting of vegetables deep- fried in batter (5)
- 10. American state known as the "Land of Ten Thousand Lakes" (9)
- 11. South African-American actress who played Stella Bridger in the 2003 remake of the film The Italian Job (6,8)
- 12. A satellite launched in July 1962, used to relay television pictures and telephone conversations across the Atlantic (7)
- 13. worship of an image held to be the abode of a superhuman personality (8)
- 14. James Bond film featuring Lois Chiles as space scientist Dr Holly Goodhead (9)
- 15. A long-shafted axe-like weapon with a hook or pick on the reverse, originally used in the late Middle Ages (7)
- 20. Novelty party song recorded by Black Lace in 1984 (6)
- 23. A type of underwater hockey, played mainly in Britain, using a lead puck called a squid (8)
- 26. A lively dance, popular especially in the 1920s, characterized by spasmodic kicking with the knees turned inwards (10)
- 28. Spanish dish of different sorts of meat and vegetables (4)
- 30. In architecture, bearing a decoration reminiscent of a mass of curly worms (10)
- 31. An easily caught small carp-like freshwater fish, genus Gobio (7)
- 34. German theologian whose list of Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 incited the Protestant Reformation (6,6)
- 38. The white nutritive material surrounding the yolk in the eggs of higher animals (7)
- 40. Cocktail drink of curacao, vodka with a dash of lemonade or fruit cordial (4,6)
- 41. A usually close-fitting one-piece garment extending from the neck to the feet, worn chiefly by athletic performers (7)
- 42. Former RAF base in Berkshire, the main site of the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (11)
- 46. A raised horizontal bar, four inches wide, on which gymnasts perform balancing exercises (4)
- 47. A fish-shaped device towed from the bow of a vessel to deflect mines along a wire and sever their moorings (8)
- 49. An early Jewish Christian, especially one in fourth century Syria (8)
- 51. Town in Cornwall which is divided from its suburb Newport by the river Kensey (10)
- 53. 19th-century castle near Ledbury, Herefordshire, founded by the 1st Earl Somers (7)
- 54. The Muse of lyric love poetry (5)
Down
- 1. A ballerina's short stiff spreading skirt (4)
- 3. A geological epoch of the Tertiary period, marked by the start of global cooling (9)
- 5. The quarter of the sky where the sun, stars and planets set (8)
- 6. country of origin of Javier Sotomayor the only person to have cleared eight feet in the high jump (4)
- 7. Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war (6)
- 11. A sweet liqueur with a chocolate and vanilla flavour (5,2,5)
- 16. Aromatic flower-bud which yields an essential oil used to relieve abdominal pain and toothache, and flavour food (5)
- 17. American singer-songwriter who sung "You deserve a break today" in the advertising campaign for McDonald's (5,7)
- 18. An extension of a nerve cell or neuron which transmits impulses away from the cell (4)
- 19. Tropical tree with a very thick trunk, whose fruit has an edible pulp called monkey bread (6)
- 21. Archetypal working-class male from Southeast England with a large disposable income but without culture or taste (5,3)
- 22. A small lightweight sub-machine gun designed chiefly by Shepherd and Turpin at Enfield (4)
- 24. In botany, attached to a different kind of organ (6)
- 25. A measure of capacity, equal to 54 gallons of beer (8)
- 27. Female forename in several European countries, originally meaning "born again" (6)
- 29. The main river flowing through the Polish city of Wroclaw (4)
- 32. Latin term for permission granted by a bishop to a priest to move on to another diocese (5)
- 33. British animated children's TV programme first broadcast in 1974, featuring a green dog (7)
- 35. The easternmost of the Canary Islands, whose capital is Arrecife (9)
- 36. A member of an Independent Order founded in Salford in 1835, as part of the British temperance movement (9)
- 37. Large crested parrot of the Australian region, often kept as a cage bird (8)
- 39. A small gnat-like fly which appears in dancing swarms especially near water (5)
- 43. a group of three megalithic oolitic limestone monuments near Long Compton, Warwickshire (9,6)
- 44. 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott, which was promoted by the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" (5)
- 45. Fashion designer who founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London, in 2003 (6,6)
- 48. The First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, famed for her collection of clothing, art and jewellery (6,6)
- 50. The leading sheep of a flock (10)
- 52. a prefabricated, semi- cylindrical building of corrugated iron, formerly used by the military (6,3)