News Anchor
By Elgel
...and now, over to the weather.
Everything looks normal across the board, but what's coming down is another story!
We've not given you the full story on half the down clues; they only involve wordplay.
Then again, we only care about the headlines of the normal down clues anyway.
Those headlines will give another wordplay-only clue for the special downs - I've given you a straight answer to this clue above, with the right enumeration, but this time we'll need the cryptic answer.
Across
| 1 | Every now and then, jackdaw goes by? (3, abbr) |
| 4 | A moralist and a writer sent back drinking son (5) |
| 8 | Bits between empty Giza pyramids (4) |
| 12 | Labour, with liberal, reverses act (4) |
| 13 | P.I. cryptically gives vegetable (6) |
| 15 | Having no need for AA, loses all support (3) |
| 16 | Pitching in, giving over 100% (7) |
| 18 | Like piano music movement of vet's ad (6) |
| 20 | Mystical copper left in Halloween time (6) |
| 22 | Journalist wearing device for recording doctor (5) |
| 24 | Old cafe counters with grease on (5) |
| 25 | Prolific author's article is working (4) |
| 26 | Penguin-lover borne in motorcade (4) |
| 31 | Soft stuff, but short and... (4) |
| 32 | ...therefore a foul thing; rejected (4) |
| 34 | Fishy shoal circles (5) |
| 36 | Sleuths of whispered stories (5) |
| 37 | Scared to have party in Camden's outskirts (6) |
| 38 | Mad Angelo put in prison long ago (6, var.) |
| 39 | Revive Spooner, giving bell's call to tea (5,2) |
| 42 | Rule of puncture tool when going cycling (3) |
| 44 | Deposit of lithium often found in home (4,2) |
| 45 | In 7/11, but not like them? (4) |
| 46 | Rip-off rate (4) |
| 47 | Bird's one is small! (5) |
| 48 | How to measure work done by Queen and head of government (3) |
Down
| 1 | Infernal male replacing second son is awful (7) |
| 2 | Team, short one, carried gear (6) |
| 3 | Stripped down whitened beer... (3) |
| 4 | ...with French wine (6) |
| 5 | Not right; it's not starting (3) |
| 6 | Nigel's drip is rubbish (10) |
| 7 | Pepys' Utopia read regularly (3) |
| 9 | Sol's counterpart rose around noon's void (5) |
| 10 | Broken leg in trap (6) |
| 11 | Upset crown's place (4) |
| 14 | Evil of grain-delivered poison (5) |
| 17 | Soft or adorable adopted companion (10) |
| 19 | Reject one in farewell for troubles (4) |
| 21 | Edge along land, and without power? (5) |
| 23 | Voice police concern of woodsman (5) |
| 27 | Setter leaves disputed peninsula (4) |
| 28 | Instruction to kill Goliath (7) |
| 29 | Eat out spot for Australian doll (6) |
| 30 | Alien, say, from weird videogame; not aged badly (5) |
| 32 | Cap on expenses; on a shoestring limit (6) |
| 33 | Look daggers at game's leader; both sides claim to be behind (6) |
| 35 | Called out "Hot stuff!" (5) |
| 37 | Small company abandoned lawsuit (4) |
| 40 | No love is lost over it (3) |
| 41 | Ends in crescendo and sincere dedication (3) |
| 43 | Roman's introduction welcomed by 18 (3) |
