Across
- 5. Second, yet first of men (4)
- 8. Arrival after midsummer (6)
- 9. FOUR Second arrival, four score followed by four (6,4)
- 10. Place lacking polish, reportedly northern (7)
- 13. Memorial location, tie up valour oddly (8)
- 15. Woman linked with a memorable blow (7)
- 17. Pet hidden in photo byline (4)
- 18. Reprimand following disorder (6)
- 23. ROAD Street leading to spa town (6,4)
- 25. TREE Ancestry branching endlessly (6,4)
- 26. STEVENS Soldier, preserve with E-flat, then events with south upset (5,7)
- 28. Gaelic female initially, charged particle indefinitely (5)
- 31. Family, sevens and time reworked (7)
- 32. SANDHAM Ancient name associated with unstable turf (6,7)
- 34. HILL Deer chase rising ground (9,4)
- 36. Obstructive speech entertaining solver (10)
- 37. First — beer with unknown (4)
- 40. French site of loss, briefly (4)
- 41. BRENT One from early England, beside capital water (6,5)
- 43. Institution sounding domestic (8)
- 44. BOIS Forest settlement, partly foreign (7,4)
- 45. RHODES Flower connected with ancient world (5,6)
- 46. Man, 500 followed by keen (5)
- 48. After vows, getaway, in a suit remade (7)
Down
- 1. Bleak open ground, place of origin (11)
- 2. BOOMER ’53 product, one linked with coronation (4,6)
- 3. LAWYER Partner’s work, bills specialist (5,6)
- 4. Firm by river, sheltering partner (10)
- 6. Mary’s influence seen in ritual and nave (6)
- 7. You heard Alex reading a hundred, initially capital (3)
- 11. Disciple when fuss embraces hesitation (5)
- 12. GOLDSTRAW Female name hiding something precious in fodder (4,9)
- 14. TWENTY THREE Summer arrival, forty less seventeen (6,6,5)
- 16. DARWENT Query over German particle, mailed to Nebraska, by river (6,7)
- 19. A Summer extra: mixing singular measures and Old Testament (6)
- 20. AVENUE Nobles take route ultimately occupied (5,6)
- 21. SANDHAM Queen, with shifting ground underfoot (6,7)
- 22. CROSS Meeting point for two beginnings (6,5)
- 24. ’79 affair, ties formally arranged (8)
- 27. DARWENT Mythic figure by Tasmanian water, oddly (6,7)
- 29. BRENT Figure from long ago, beside London body (6,5)
- 30. Woman in Trojan eternal story (5)
- 33. Midlands city, agreement ending hostility (8)
- 35. Sun as scrambled (5)
- 37. Partner, wander upset (6)
- 38. TWO First arrival, weighty to deliver (6,3)
- 39. Greek, omit thy in disarray (7)
- 40. Capital hidden in old bond one, newly joined family (6)
- 42. ISLAND STORY National chronicle, our isle spun as yarn (3,6,5)
- 45. Hidden in trad aven anti-war leaflet (8)
- 47. Terrier answering to the continent (5)