One, Two, Three by Kurwamac


Clues marked with an asterisk are 9d 29, in whole or in part, and may lack definition. In one case they do not originally appear in the order given.
Across:
1 What 48d do in cars (7)
*5,12,4 Brothers grumble, getting nothing when TV host is sent up by fashionable circle (7,5,5)
9 At first brown bear is taken inside: haste makes waste (7)
13 See 10
14 Fast but unheated European transport? (3,6)
15 Flier sees a Roman road and hill (7)
16 See 59
17 Blood money inside hollowed-out kayak - sphere where greedy hero is found (6,5)
*18 (7,8)
21 Skinny odds touch bottom (6)
23 British fascist gets his first two couples to start to talk in crowds about assimilation (7)
25 Listening, O! What's missing, as a contact lens might be (5)
26 Dog excrement found in front of church (5)
27 Sounds like a square meal (3)
28 Might be returning tuber (3)
29 See 9d
31 River held initially in check after plane crash (10)
33 Awful dog takes off in panic when wife leaves? What a nonsense! (4,2,4)
*36,34 False teeth rot; I morph into this? (3,5,2,3,6)
39 Ring, having afterthought about radical changes (3)
41 Dawn French: art with zero content (3)
42 Figure drink is about right (5)
43 Drug, just a small amount, results in addiction (5)
45 In the Pacific dock tail of pest, right? Excellent! (7)
46 "Morning, Father!" might be greeting to French scientist (6)
48 Discover wisdom in ants, even though it characteristically precedes the tonic (8,7)
50 See 58
51 Lacking gratitude, lovers of harmony play back German air with internal coil (10)
55 Slower race likely to hold back author (2,5)
56 Former flame smashes piano - it gives satisfaction (9)
57 Mathematician said to have worked on ship (5)
*58,50 Quality pair maddens terribly (7,3,8)
*59,16 About to make a deposit? (7,2,3,5)
60 Saucy thing taking exercise was used to print media (3,4)
Down
1 Italian poet to embrace idiot (5)
*2 Llama, sloth, ram and disembowelled mare, perhaps (3,5,7)
3 Fishing rod used resentfully - go nuts (7)
4 See 5ac
5 State requires English instruction for eight from Berlin in minority language area (9)
6 Bear in Marseilles belongs to us (4)
7 Angelic chap not having a problem with fruit (5,5)
8 Nothing makes Surtees abandon English racing cycle (7)
 9,29 Trouble-free cash - one's collapsing with the strain (7,2,2,8)
*10, 13 Generally British behaviour? (5,6,5)
11 Admissions that English tank is involved (7)
12 See 5ac
*18 Formal dress for many of you in Mississippi (5,5)
19 King to behold classic mission (5)
20 Muffled sound on knocking a couple of drinks back (6)
*22 Many shift awkwardly about the first of November (5,5)
24 Understood reversal at leaving jerk (3)
26 Opposite ends of slippery slope (5)
*27 Rebel, thy follower embraced monarch (3,7,5)
30 Left inside, fire off weapon (5)
32 The restriction on subject of Oedipus (6)
34 See 36
35 Greek historian's question indicates absurdity (11)
37 Am involved in internal turmoil, taking measures (5)
38 Measure unpleasant location in the East End (3)
40 Bet camphor stinks in commode (10)
44 Maintaining possession of widely used base silver containing a trace of nickel and tin (9)
47 A short period of rising damp, a token amount (7)
48 In terms of affection, the French are smooth operators (7)
*49 Five in 100 in France get old bike (7)
50 Didn't succeed, lost head and fell ill (5)
52 Suspicion that Quasimodo, for one, is dropping back (5)
53 Liberal, for example, turns back on god (5)
*54 Djinn initially ranked above Muhammad (4)

   
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