Crossword

Across

 5 Commanding cooker (3)

 7 Let all hard and resilient solids start mud-slides (6)

11 Engineer broke nice china after junction (10)

12 Browns off eats up (6)

14 Note Eastern supporter (3)

16 Attract moisture from squelch. Die, not hard, but with energy (10)

18 Water weed puts ore in East Anglia (6)

19 Felon leant on soft spot (10)

20 Has poetic evening but returns unmarried (3)

21 Scoff perch in return (3)

22 Cans surround opponents backing braid (6)

24 & 23D * (5,4)

26 Flag hot Milesian (5)

27 Cry “Singe”, but work together (8)

30 Stretches headless spoor (5)

31 Wetting agent has worker for 24 hours at the weekend (8)

33 Trick 1000 for sugar on fast food (5)

34 Destroys southern ears (5)

36 Rasp hold huge cup scam (6)

37 Small drop of a kilogram from seven days (3)

39 Digit trades off early start (3)

40 Inspiring static in in in gravity (10)

42 A neat one tied ribbon (6)

43 * (10)

44 Fix mesh with changed pole (3)

46 Withdraw from church in counsel (6)

47 Sound in word-free pen. The ticket is cut (10)

48 Team Pele vents inside (6)

49 Neither short average (3)