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Official state reptile of Florida (9)
___ Welles, director and producer of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (5)
Mournful — eg Alice (anag) (7)
Where a case is secretly decided (4,4)
Food thickener extracted from seaweed (4)
One of those who conquered us in 1066 (6)
Make preparations (4,2)
Soon afterwards (4)
Zombies (8)
Someone with experience (3,4)
Cider maker (5)
Ian Fleming's M, for instance (9)
Strange (8)
Hide from view (3,3)
Delight (4)
Likely to shoot recklessly (7-5)
Gramophone or jukebox (6,6)
'Ifs' and 'buts' (12)
Easy to operate (4-8)
Dashing (8)
Expert commentator (6)
House in Spain (4)
Sit once more in tranquillity (6)
Palace player going too far in a large undergarment (8)
News about cycle of regularly fabricated material (5)
Boss losing face in dog-tired state (9)
Slides, as with sliding rocks (9)
Pirouetting priest in party is slippery (5)
Business that's going to set up partnerships? (6,6)
The Met Office? (8,4)
Divine Greek female and Frenchman on island (5)
Person to copy European-style bread sandwiches (4,5)
Time off saved duty at work (5,4)
Versifier performed in recital (5)
Legal authorities excluding one sign (8)
A second tie put on where actors perform (6)
Study absorbing info about English traitor (8)
Alleviate pressure on my total earlier food intake (8)
Rising stars around independent channel (5)
Liberals seem upset by society's work on injustice (3,10)
Do I take drug, on turning up to get some protein? (5,4)
Canadian songster scoffing a trifle (6)
See 18
Scandal involving royal house making bit of capital (9,4)
What makes middle of cell right after fresh clean out (9)
Cleric rejected papers cutting about sex (8)
Praise dropping a train network for non-union shenanigans (8)
Feature of Copenhagen — Danish design kept secret (6,6)
Olivier periodically dressed in check cloth (6)
For example, stupid flipping sucker! (5)
British cooking takes a bit of skill with containers (7)
Officer getting memory back with small 2001 computer? (7)
In Madrid, sick after doctor left (4)
Impervious to nastiest crook stalking queen (9)
Will, the writer touring Italy, recalled travels (5)
Arrested over kind of tyres (8)
Excited? Silver-plated goblet, two thirds off! (4)
Remember to catch fish (5)
Bowl over after over, then departed following wicket (4)
Sets of offices (8)
Goes for recipe in pans (5)
Sport's comeback following change passed on (7,2)
Polish shoe with stockings (4)
Base of guerrilla den in Ecuador revealed (7)
Swinger's bar? (7)
Cultivate distant surface of Mars (4)
Confess to framing model Jodie, being out of control on the runway (8)
Attacks small hill with 1,000 soldiers at the rear (6)
Tape 100 like me, endlessly (8)
Break free, when she gets rid of husband over headland (6)
Gasp as bottom removed from trousers in New York (4)
Journalist completes review as Spurs get beaten (9)
Battle — scared? 60% run away (5)
<span>Openings for medics to inhale O</span><sub>2</sub> (5)
Testing parking shelter (8)
Adores wife's gold vessels (8)
Former US president loses millions, primarily tax dodger (6)
Stew — raw, yet tasteless (6)
Face snooker revolution (4)
Measure of bridge in Venice announced (4)
I call out madly about Greek character in the clouds (10)
Money's in hiding place (as auditor perceives it) (4)
Time, between a day and a month, tense on Parisian hill (10)
Ban covetousness? Not entirely (4)
After short time, bit of a hand for subsidiary performer (6,6)
Old girl, condiment left out is repulsive (7)
Lie about with Eddy being abandoned (7)
Primarily Transcaucasian, besieged inland locale: it's strategically important! (7)
Fluttering eyelids in sordid manner (7)
Tech giant, soft at heart? As if, dear! (5,2,2,3)
Celebrated wildebeests returning (4)
Lowers exchange rate rashly, leaves audit without independence (10)
Some Mafioso hoodlums in New York district (4)
City once playing for time, half-hearted – terrific (10)
Topless, dotty host (4)
Hint: it's a Chinese dynasty (4)
Comedy not half seen: Everyman's suppressing tantrum over IT, getting aggressive (11)
Baron (who's Australian); Dame (who wrote) (7)
Graphically clearly, Charlie turning into Romeo (7)
Beer (unknown quantity) and Spanish wine (no OJ) in old city (10)
As Boyle may be heard to mention pioneers in elastics for back of bra? (4,3,3)
Incessantly consumed, extremely sour (2,5,4)
<span>Hopeless situations when </span><i>cassoulet</i><span>'s prepared</span> (4,6)
A bit of fizz in cup Ruth stirred for cocktail (5,5)
In 50s, doddering, most uncertain (7)
Broadcaster to decline to show spy film (7)
Right, it's flipping porridge (4)
American, educated, gets employed (4)
Still taking in first piece of information (9)
Fan removes uniform for closest mate (4)
Ale and prawn cocktail? It could kill you (8)
Withdraw sequence of notes (6)
Warning given by European after live conflict (6)
Significant island wrapped by Christo somehow! (8)
Abandons the run, gutted to be behind (6)
Annual payment for looking after kids? (8)
Training is going as intended (2,6)
Shrink gets paler as husband moves back (6)
Properties that provide disappointing rents for the owners (8)
Staff reportedly thriving — except for this bullied Spanish waiter (6)
Strong leader for Greeks takes time to make mark (6)
Share out treatment for serious type of film? (8)
We're paying for liability (4)
Boring and reserved, slip inside for a drink (3,6)
Small share of profits for what's at risk? (5)
Buy off a very soft moderate (7)
Bread filling that is dull (5)
Dismissal for adding copy into middle of notes she typed (3,4)
Stopper's team come together for opener (9)
How one checked authenticity of old money, then some new (7)
Play away? It will turn into farce (9)
Individual weight of one diamond, perhaps (9)
Rude man is crazy for nanny (9)
Abroad for a long time due to lack of services (7)
Drug best known initially to keep dancers going in trance (7)
Oven has opening with leather on top (7)
Bring together tips for making ancient thatched cottage homely (5)
Try reading out opening bits of Secret Agent (5)
According to the rules (2,3,4)
Obscene material (4)
Grieving (8)
Prey (6)
Water diviner (6)
Land surrounded by water (6)
Regional dialect (6)
Pass out of sight (8)
Part of horse's foot (4)
Appalling (9)
Uncontrolled emotion (8)
Caprice (6)
Preposterous (6)
Benefit (4)
Impetuous, spontaneous (9)
Text corrector (9)
Vigilant (8)
Absolute ruler (6)
Summary (6)
Clear (of tax) (4)
The Seven Seas (6)
Seismic disturbances (6)
Surprising part of a story? (5)
Illustration (7)
Small kind of onion (7)
Correct in every detail (5)
Comical (9)
Material draped over a sofa (5)
Entangle (7)
Loud warning to sailors (7)
Illegal activity (5)
Termination (6)
Even though (6)
<span>(Of an angle) more than 90</span><sup>o </sup><span>but less than 180</span><sup>o</sup> (6)
A grave message (7)
Relating to where one was born (5)
Instruction to sailors to pull hard(er) (5-2)
Dried coconut kernel (5)
One holds a sword (6)
Getting money by using threats (9)
Inside story (7)
Cross on Scotland's national flag (7)
Suffocate (6)
Soften (6)
Unbending (5)
Outspoken (5)
Good knight with lot lost, hit on the field (6)
Man of class, maybe English, with old money and gold (8)
Performers walk in the auditorium (6)
Service just the same, no good (8)
Bohemian learner joining a foreign religious house on holy island (14)
Unhappy fellow 'gutted', we hear? Support found in church (10)
Trench in meadow ending with silt (4)
Only off when mad dogs go out? (4)
Grander lie broadcast by chief villain (10)
One left in workplace after final day is all right (14)
Vehement cheat — PM, I fancy (8)
Downtrodden worker keeping a promise (6)
You once linked with doing nothing may be giving up (8)
Harry is safe — son's in hiding (6)
Not all bowling at Edgbaston will get a wicket? (4)
First of all, horses must be given numbers (7)
Conservative meeting leading bosses — are there skeletons hiding here? (8)
The driving idea originally conjured up for supposed royal prerogative (6,5)
Open Voltaire's work — don't close it (6)
Pound troy — half-forgotten weight (7)
Soldier keeps to rules I lay down (9)
Most in French resort upset during holiday? One should minimise health risk (11)
Skill needing to keep working in male community (9)
Cut back on iron? (8)
Top clue cunningly constructed? This one is word-wise! (7)
Party with yob carrying drug to distribute (4,3)
One with fifty occupying beach, say, in Ibiza? (6)
What's loud has listener showing anxiety (4)
Out of keeping (11)
Potato (informal) (4)
Result of imports exceeding exports (5,3)
Keep apart (7)
Lounges (5)
Fanatic — monster (5)
Plans for achieving set objectives (7)
Stuck-up (8)
Short high-pitched warning signal (4)
Crushed (by the powerful) (11)
Move quickly (as clouds in a high wind) (4)
Place in position (7)
Pause in activity (5)
Pre-eminent (8)
Damson pie is (anag) — heated (11)
Television (as opposed to film) (5,6)
Powerful weapons used by English archers in the Middle Ages (8)
Trend (7)
Me too! (5)
One's person (4)
Crowd ended exercise (5-2)
Live in retreat — most mean (7)
Industrialist's housing experiment (5)
Throw-out before a score? Attempt might pay off (5,1,3)
Rapture! Fig cultivated as a possible basis for a fad diet (10)
Underwear ultimately unsuitable for a northern hillside (4)
Turn right, then Green St and stay? (12)
Go out of one's way to look after knotted hair on calves (6,4,2)
Religious pictures one disregarded as frauds (4)
Ubiquitous wife has the lot: two cooks — everything (4-2-4)
Seal accepted a lot of money for getting close and personal (9)
Sea snail is more fresh by river (5)
Try to be a loveless, awful source of power (7)
France's doomed people carrier? (7)
Guarantee place advantage (6)
Each year end increase is an obstacle for auditors (6)
Protect game — it could get you on film (6,4)
Grand parrot is celebrity (5)
Cardinal possibly raised double gun (9)
Bachelors hurt inside (4)
Going to pieces on getting into cooking (8)
Playing by ear? Try hybrid fruit (8)
Knockout stuff from loch or ground (10)
Use it for a change to cover burn in a religious ceremony (9)
A way of progressing agents' lack of cover (8)
High-flying electronic equipment icon with visa difficulty (8)
Rough up the Spanish implement (6)
More than one artist in pull-out (6)
Hell with back to front relative darkness (5)
Odd cure for linen that's unbleached (4)
Bay's home, standing firm (6)
Clots in kitchens, cooking (8)
Communist, English, ultimately smitten with posh ladies (6)
Cave in, having consumed most of ale, in resort port on the Med (8)
Up to cultivate the land (4)
What moon reveals after autumn in Oregon Trail (4,6)
With no humility, half of mum's brothers advanced (11)
Pulling muscles earlier in inattentive state (11)
'Pudding!' announced by footballer in glad rags (6,4)
By sound of it, put up with a swine (4)
Arrest, finding weapon in bibliophiles' association (4,4)
Trained gudong, one working with hunters (3,3)
Stir herb stews; they're regenerative (8)
Fancy: 'Prussia' contains name of another country (6)
Range small, not large – pick! (8)
Perhaps Merkel's eaten 40% of icing that's used on cakes (8)
Flower, gilt edges removed, clutched by gutted lady (4)
Old range destroyed in quiet stampede (8,4)
Smarty-pants, cold, the French musician, vacuous crook (6,4)
Setter had cryptic clue earlier: 'father of geometry?' (6)
'How do you spell "shy"?' That's pretty light stuff (6)
Silly, stupid, bad: a fast scramble (4,2,1,5)
Primarily modernized African democracy, although governor's a strongman called Andry Rajoelina? (10)
Incomplete romantic gift Everyman had offered up in muddle (8)
Perhaps krypton might make you angriest? (5,3)
Weatherman's line: 'I weep over a drop of rain' (6)
A little belligerent ombudsman in Bury (6)
Report of low reef in wharf (4)
Derogatory term for an accountant (4,7)
Squalid housing (4)
About to happen (8)
Rule, tenet (7)
Revel in another's misfortune (5)
Harmony, accord (5)
Grant, allowance (7)
Two-way conversation (8)
Frustrate, thwart (4)
Make gestures (11)
Soothing or restorative substance (4)
Rough cider (7)
Rabbit pen (5)
Impetus, spur (8)
Campanology (4,7)
Ordinary members (4,3,4)
Precipitator (8)
Bone of the upper arm/elbow (7)
Once more (5)
Criticism (4)
8 speech in a drama (9)
Piece for a lone singer or musician (4)
Swingeing (8)
Factional divide (6)
Empty (of) (6)
Player's token in Monopoly (3,3)
___ Morning, 1967 song by The Velvet Underground (and Nico) (6)
Always sober (8)
Part played (4)
Explosive stuff (9)
Single stone in the form of an obelisk, say (8)
Quick-firing naval anti-aircraft gun used in both World Wars (3-3)
Taken for a ride (6)
Simon and Garfunkel number, say (4)
Film commentary (5-4)
To hand (9)
Hold sacred (8)
Tasty morsel (6)
Like the sea? (6)
Bit of a wedding cake? (4)
Chef covering up hot item used for kitchen storage (3,4)
Party attended by composer leaving new widow (7)
Country involved in formal investigation (4)
Schubert composition about a European capital (9)
Film-maker in scruffy anorak limps on (5,8)
Check design of trainers (8)
Eagle never crossing valley (4)
Country losing territory on North Island to old Britons (5)
One attempting to lose runs level (4)
Strangely tasty cep seen as belonging to the same sort (8)
Set of clubs given to girl (5)
Game played by poets nursing sick setter (9)
Bird that can cough things up? (4)
Vagrant stealing first part of investigator's brief (7)
Sticky stuff coating large end of rectangular dressing (7)
Animal turned up with mother (4)
One who oversees meeting with Chinese pilot (8)
Spool for thread endlessly going up and down (6)
See 12 across
In a rush to charge queen (6)
End of scarf covered by moist part of cloth (4)
Fish go into chippy (9)
Type of race put down again (5)
Aides trained to make plans (5)
Independent publications losing Azerbaijani leaders' pictures (8)
Experiment involving long container (3,5)
Space given to lean recruit (6)
Social 20 across accepting large, grand residence (6)
Hit boy below the belt (4)
Bird heard when crossing river (4)
Spreadsheet: advanced and superb (9)
Look into Mafia to come back and thrive (5)
Toy filled with wrong fuel, sadly (9)
Politician covered in sauce rises suddenly (5)
Small, small person may be cross (6)
Came to sorry end, swallowing pigment (8)
Impressed? Not me! Rubbish web designers (7)
Determined individual finally loses heart (7)
Needed some paper in colour (8)
Make a friendly gesture, we're told, to obtain pet (4,2)
This could be the apple of the teacher's eye? (5)
Mother looks over home publications (9)
Not as many women get into free running (5)
Highly obvious to vocalise about pick of the bunch (9)
Send off old wine (6)
Romeo forced out and cast aside (8)
Dig starters of parsnip, liver and octopus — yuck! (6)
Nation's wicked slandering — no sir! (7)
Article abolishing right of secular organisation (6)
Finish close second in race (8)
Give out when time's up (4)
Thought supreme deity initially mad (8)
Some offer a reward — definitely not well done! (4)
Proves company is involved in fraudulent activities (8)
Get on with five in a whirl? (7)
How's your father upholding higher education for all? (6)
Wreak havoc over drug being less potent (6)
Very little money provided by New York to support a writer (1,5)
Under no circumstances! (3,2,4,4)
Be victorious (3)
Army or navy mechanic — I refit car (anag) (9)
Sensational (8)
Move slowly, with great effort (4)
North Yorkshire racecourse (6)
Very famous person (6)
That hurt! (4)
Regularly and widely used (8)
Pomegranate syrup, used in drinks (9)
___ Fleming, Commander Bond's creator (3)
Eventually commit oneself (4,3,6)
Small amphibians (5)
Not meant seriously (6-2-5)
Intimacy (8)
Excursion (6)
Very common (4)
Imprisonment (13)
Angered (anag) (7)
Have good intentions (4,4)
Cogitation (7)
Try, with great effort (6)
English actor, Charles, b. 1946 (5)
Speedy (4)
Frame in competition — lose it (5,2)
Three-legged rugby player? (3,4)
Somersault hit the roof (4)
Action of bandit with equipment breaking cover (10)
Babies 2 27, rears on noisome nappies (6)
Stripling in 14 having dropped male off (8)
A group of soldiers in welcome treaty (9)
Hand 2 27 (5)
Member of old empire in La Paz must be optimistic, finally (5)
Astronauts together step into wind (5,4)
Preserve order initially, drunk among native Americans (8)
2 27, as peas may be? (6)
Use spirit in container (4,6)
See 2
Disturb it splitting stone (7)
Level in rugger, having lost every other one — win following defeat? (7)
Like a billionaires' club member, author reportedly has already joined? (7,2,2)
Isle with earless goat? (5)
Bum has soon, when whipped, come clean (7)
2 27, as arm may be? (6)
Sozzled, rich upper-class lady taking water under pressure? (9)
Fellers, those recording information? (7)
As may be bum, fairly 2 27 (7,6)
Something perhaps 2 27 when you bash in peg the wrong way (3,6)
Bounce around sphere? One would be 2 27 (7)
Move towards hugs for each host (7)
When darkness is coming in ironwork? (7)
Lose fight admitting that was painful (3,3)
Unsophisticated church body touring India (5)
Swipe right (11)
Put link next to a contract (7)
Sleep with looker after bar (4-3)
Sticky label near thing (5,4)
Teams on radio? They think out of box, primarily (5)
Adds with fingers (4)
Shortly have meals for one sent back? Let me see food with no meat (10)
Start to pick on barmaids? Perhaps they can (10)
Small label to stick (4)
Watch when bank grabs money! (5)
Wrong nebuliser? Possibly do for granny? (4,5)
Players holding an ace in this? (7)
Float with a marine crew (7)
Head and governors round table, of course (6,5)
Territorial map is wrong to inc­lude northern land near this? (7,8)
Fat dog is knackered during exercise (5)
Left date that’s too old (7)
Determination of kinky lovers to get endless sex (7)
Sign male put over top of septic tank … (8)
… getting flush with usual paper (7,8)
Maiden meeting one that’s lucky (6)
Stunner squeezing fiance’s bottom is a poser (6)
Harry Kane to describe cup holder’s state (8)
Matter over central heating, accepting temperature’s rising (6)
Very annoyed over British pound? (7)
Bull with stick through heart after matador’s finale (7)
Bale occasionally finishes matches (6)
Massage area around member: you need a partner to do this (5)
£51 uncle's blown, consuming hot 'meals' that are really just booze (6,7)
Opposed to Protestantism to some extent (4)
Time one German given clubs (he's a golfer) (5,5)
Work party (6)
PM's body parts in Spooner's speech (3,5)
Message in very odd parts of zodiac wanting flipping Everyman to irritate (5,4)
Cheerful boy, by George (to begin with) (4)
Primarily, someone honouring 'Infallible Ali'? (4)
Dishes sent back: long time, wait with only sides cleared off (9)
<span>'Curse of marijuana' – the </span><i>Mail</i> (8)
Indecent bridal pants (6)
Star, Ringo perhaps, announced: 'Good, EU's beginning to evaporate' (10)
Nurse's backside (4)
Little wrinkles, removing head in butchery jobs (8,5)
Behold! 'New joke' at first originated in ancient past (4-3)
Low-carb diet's sound in Ecuador's capital (5)
Italian footballers on WhatsApp, perhaps finding caretaker (7)
Easy reading – e.g. taut thriller – I ordered (5,10)
Regularly suppressing anger round a poet (6)
What you may get when boxed salad accommodates a little ethical principle (6,3)
On drugs, southern English getting old-fashioned (7)
<i>Citron</i><span> mixed with water in French drink</span> (9)
Fish from south not available in W Yorks city (4,3)
The French female admitting mistake, largely shown up – seriously! (3,4)
Scrappy Sea Lord arms cannon again? (7)
Giving up iodine, lighten up for duration (6)
How Hermione had a child, a poet (5)
Spanish dance (6)
Line connecting points of the same atmospheric pressure (6)
In full, unexpurgated (5)
Ornate antique cupboard (7)
Influence, manage (7)
Aberrant, unpredictable (5)
Scar (9)
Protective garment (5)
Remedy (7)
Tropical storm (7)
Fleshy extension at back of the soft palate (5)
Hypothesis (6)
Natural aptitude (6)
Breakfast and lunch combined (6)
Of few words (7)
Helicopter blade (5)
Japanese warrior (7)
Ostentatious jewellery (5)
Cannabis joint (6)
Suddenly (3,2,4)
Frankness (7)
On the way (2,5)
Good luck charm (6)
German accent (6)
Preliminary survey (inf.) (5)
Steam bath (5)
Baleen — enable who? (anag) (9)
Military alliance, created 1949 (4)
Wrong (9)
Extravagant promotion (4)
Beam supporting floorboards (5)
Delight greatly (in) (6)
Eating (anag) — Moroccan spiced stew (6)
Malodorous (6)
Old salt (3,3)
Irish poet who wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree, d. 1939 (5)
Scottish dance (4)
Prestigious group of US private universities (3,6)
Wine sediment (4)
Abundant (9)
Round of applause (4)
Asian country (4)
Accept a loan (6)
Most kind (6)
Colourful beetles (9)
King or queen (9)
Cylindrical cake (5,4)
Children's TV programme, running since 1958 (4,5)
Jovial (5)
Things you ought not to tell? (5)
Somerset town close to the Devonshire border (6)
Soviet Union's leader after Lenin's death in 1924 (6)
Move slowly down the runway (4)
Large ethnic group of eastern South Africa (4)
Hand in dictionary that is left out (7)
Move away from taking this to attempt repair? (4,3)
Following a story that has no end is disastrous (5)
Second sign of hesitation to enter filthy house (9)
Eloquent, sliding in car on ice (10)
Make quiet money (4)
Magazine's serious debating topic (3,3,5)
Direct view here in the fog is nil, unfortunately (4,2,5)
See 7
Unprepared to survive, so small (4,6)
Quietly use a rope to get around in thick fog (3-6)
Extremely upset about snake, an unseen attacker (1-4)
Cross, but showing wit as well as anger (7)
How to cook new hatchlings from the bottom of the sea? (4-3)
Workplace starting to warm up? (6)
It can't fail to become whole (6)
Endurance, suffering toenail rot (10)
Very skilful person made money boxes (5)
Team getting on with protecting injury (9)
Start to search inside hollow part of tooth (4)
Weston-super-Mare, such a mean place? (3-5,4)
Handbill that can be used to keep the rain out (8)
Hand out inspector's words of approval (10)
Very simple, like a shepherd's meal? (4,2,3)
Puts play off, its bill being remarkable (8)
This childish fight can escalate rapidly (8)
About to smack, intercepted (3,3)
Way into actual robing room (6)
Short of energy, resistance overwhelmed by United (5)
One marsh turns up in desert (4)
Tourist needs face mask going round city centre (7)
Lend SMS a hidden meaning (7)
Saleswoman recalled trouble over carbon copy (7)
State-backed broadcast interrupted by Love Island (7)
Flying down the touchline? (2,3,4)
Model basically embracing rejection of fur (5)
Cut up joint that's not top grade (5)
Son feebly playing alone (2,7)
Leader described by prominent journalist as 'conceited' (9)
Look, I'm not sure about coming in as substitute (5)
Number 10 cut directive originally taken on board (5)
Turn to see ladies joining king's circle (4,5)
Release international organisation's credit (7)
Although small, couple accepted sandwiches … (7)
… and little Edward eating roll expressed gratitude (7)
Unconventional Tory ally — one long excluded from privileged family (7)
Several problems with our visa (7)
Empty seat next to nobleman's finally sat in by church founder (2,5)
Rubbish drug experience with ecstasy (5)
City trimmed part of garden to do post-retirement activity (4,2,3)
Set up support for Special Branch (5)
Shock in underworld after rising Mafia boss cleared out (9)
Honour East German city backing end of coal energy (7)
Used to make drink when working late each first Friday (3,4)
Nutrition doctor's writing stuff on low-calorie soda (4,5)
Not even a famously patient person is right to be a handyman (3-6)
Catch up on rest, missing island feast (7)
Set sail, turn craft east heading for Okinawa (2,2,3)
Vital for credit union agents to be online (7)
Do my best trick banishing boy's shyness (7)
Validated on social media almost the same day (5)
Luxury line includes zit treatment (5)
Perfunctory wash (informal) (7)
Woodwind players (7)
Maybe (7)
Not clear (7)
Nitwit (informal) (5)
One of two US presidents (9)
Reverse or modify a previous opinion (4-5)
Stone with coloured bands (5)
Radioactive element used in nuclear reactors — trio hum (anag) (7)
Able and willing to adjust to new conditions (7)
Letter (from St Paul?) (7)
Signified (7)
Drop dead (informal) (3,2)
Quorum for a crowd? (5)
I appear on trip (anag) — wrong (13)
Pristina is its capital (6)
Leo, for example (13)
Guarantee (6)
State categorically (6)
Steady on there! (4)
Remaining (4)
Edible fat emulsion — fighter who uses his head? (6)
American biscuit (6)
Discarded (6)
Scope (5)
Revise and/or correct (5)
Old lecturer enters competition with authority (6)
Joker breaks into school for change (6)
Egypt is regularly overturning complaint (4)
A fake prophecy: 'Earth's lost metal' — it's doubtful (10)
Text about new hit fashions (6)
English bowler moves around leg — wicket falls! (8)
Is footballer blocking Everton's last delivery? (9)
Drunk hides whiskey in study (4)
Following kick-off, running back for corner (4)
Work in bed? Initially, employer to play along (9)
Animated figure's bearing American god (8)
In speech ex-PM beguiles table (6)
Perhaps email in the latest style? (4-6)
Type of film only showing in visible and ultraviolet light? (4)
Fancy pheromone contains secret message (6)
Timid setter's crossing river (6)
Turkish delight at last — after starter of olives, am not upset! (7)
Spy gets kind of crimson once cover's blown (5)
Singer Moyet left first to hide one love affair (7)
Line in what you're reading to classes (6)
Lift prize cup of the highest quality (3-6)
Listen to the end of our bust-up in anger (4,3)
Second chicken drinks beer on top of barn for encouragement … (6-7)
… as Goldberg and sheep celebrate raucously (5,2,2)
Ozone damaged, I see, by this age (7)
Pepper pot shaken over fried carbon-free mince (7)
Cambridge college's uprising — can I go outside? (7)
Unscramble what Enigma produced? (6)
Cheers when husband quits and fails badly (5)
Mess partner (anag) — military drill command (7,4)
Move to gain a tactical end (9)
Hill-climbing gear? (3)
Concluded (5)
Ben-Hur's wheels? (7)
Cut into (6)
Liqueur distilled from cherries (6)
Dance — stew pot (anag) (3-4)
Ultimate (5)
Canon — the boys in blue? (3)
World's largest island, capital Nuuk (9)
Garden structure for keeping plants and tools (7,4)
Continuous series of performances (3)
Dashboard instruments — swimming trunks (7)
Beginner (6)
Cub Scout pack leader (5)
Braveheart producer, director, star (3,6)
Forthwith (11)
Flick knife (11)
He's a Time Lord (6,3)
Very young children (7)
Abdominal organ — bad temper (6)
Drunk (5)
Primate (3)
Don't split small dead plant (7)
Removing wrappers to use gas oven, Lloyd prepared food (7)
Keystone Cops' initial material, worth mining (4)
Director mistakenly cut Roach's last saloon number in storage on farm (5,4)
Keep out of steep enclosure for entry to barbican (5)
In every other Sennett reel, artist begs (8)
Clamour for return of Fatty Arbuckle in small part (4)
Poach cycling ducks (5)
See 22
He went from Italy to America by scooter to join fashion house, squandering silver (8)
Boatman's following silent film, a universal horror (5)
Drunken parties with pineapple and edam starters as canapé (9)
Normand — one in supporting role as a rule (8)
Athletic Chaplin for head of Disney! (7)
Clap Purviance, unevenly acting like a goat (7)
Dance seen in pantomime Our Gang orchestrated originally (4)
Was absent, yet recast? Not Stan Laurel (5,3)
Communist trap? On the contrary, not Hardy (6)
Hapless Chase met agents to make cuts (8)
Buster Keaton missing on second shooting of scene! (6)
Funny film shortened — would be, too, if the ending was cut (4)
For some, WC Fields blowing his top with hate is outrageous (3,6)
Langdon's heart captured by desperate lament (5)
Quite forgetting to count (5)
Silent comic ain't curt (8)
Clue to warming together (3,2,3)
Old Russian clown is said to die (3,3)
Coarse grass laid down and shooting up (6)
Boatman has appeal but not much (1,3)
Garvin finally accepted in routine, the smallest of the brood (4)
Butt of humiliating mockery (8,5)
Type of house (informal) (4)
Judicial decisions (8)
Prolix (4-6)
On dry land (6)
Rice dish with shellfish and chicken (6)
Forte (6,4)
Goody-goody (8)
Very much (1,3)
Exaggerated military attention to appearances (4,3,6)
Tavern (8)
Departure — condition of a racecourse (5)
Send a bill (7)
Badly wounded by a penetrating object (5)
How to kill time with your thumbs? (7)
Incisions (4)
Where Lincoln and Obama began their political careers (8)
When seen (2,5)
Brawl (5-2)
Hold sway (5)
Wee (5)
Finish filming (4)
Overcrowded relationships lasting? Er … unlikely (9)
Employer's cat second to be taken (4)
Cold drink, one originally left behind (5)
Cave-dweller looked suspiciously at drunk (9)
Cross mouth of Tay to get to Dundee? (7)
Talks quietly to dogs slipping lead (7)
Bloody fantastic job (without catch)! How did you get it? (3,3,7)
Cull in the 18th century perhaps a big step forward (4,3,6)
Doctor paused taking temp­erature for latest news (7)
Catch journalist drinking rum? On the contrary (7)
Forced flier to land finally — previously arrested (9)
Going around in the nip, openly intimate (5)
Live next to a field (4)
Shots from above hit destroyer's bow — lost about six, not nine (4,5)
Set way of raising money? (8)
Distressing condition initially explored by northern writer (5)
Fan opinion — sell-out sounds annoying (5,9)
Disappoint old and new sports­men at the centre — sorry! (3,4)
Round trip extremely boring in the event (4,3)
Shock permeates island — without cuts taxes shoot up (9)
Sport I abandoned that is extremely rough (6)
Watch blonde running past it (kept changing her mind) (4,3,3,4)
Dry day — ready with the liquid (9)
Fellow coming out in spots, beginning to suspect rash (8)
Sit around drinking sensible healthy drinks (7)
Creature camouflaged in ball turned over, not dead (7)
EastEnders tough guy is upset — that's plain (6)
Stars from old film genre turned up (5)
Sages who followed a star (4)
Roomy (8)
Mild expletive — vermin (4)
Loud and grating (8)
Subsequently (10)
Seldom (anag) (6)
Impart knowledge (6)
Luxury hotel and golf resort in Perthshire — legal genes (anag) (10)
Move (8)
Volcanic molten rock (4)
Confuse (8)
Tactic (4)
Relating to the sea (8)
Prepare (3,5)
Dissuade(d) (3,3)
Conflict in which the Light Brigade futilely charged the Russian guns (7,3)
Shop sign (4)
Indian writer, Vikram ___ , b. 1952 (4)
In an good position (4-6)
Means of establishing who is present (4,4)
Diplomatic representative (8)
Set up for use (6)
Nosh (informal) (4)
Music's pitch indicator (4)
Atomiser sprayed around a perfume (9)
Person opposed to 27 backing place for better learner (5)
Day behind bar in 27 work (5)
Criminal dares to get involved with dope (9)
The man's receiving little knock in instances of corporal punishment (7)
One who incarnated 27 almost learnt lines (7)
Sacred work is a tiny bit tacky at the outset (5)
Balletic movement not for Depardieu (3)
Showing false modesty, leading around rodent (5)
Bob carries jug round? Impossible! (2,3,2)
This person, about to stop affair, is creator of 27 (7)
Make blue colour hems in Gerald's jacket (5,4)
Pulse in broth that needs stirring (5)
A bridal accessory said to provide help (5)
Like some accounts with exaggerated depiction (9)
Character from 27 works in Spielberg film (4)
How shoe may be repaired, outside very cracked (6)
Character from 27 works readapting 27 works (10,4)
Believers back from America? (6)
Qualified teacher strikes to get retirement cover (8)
Creator of 27 in toboggan, raising £1,000 (4)
Take back grappling iron left in a risky way (8)
27 work about way to the north (2,2)
One who incarnated 27 English put in song (5)
I need clout, fooling around — it's in my DNA (10)
Not yet getting on with my inter­locutor, nattering emptily (5)
Strategic opening of play in tense state (8)
Rules of behaviour for officer to keep to (8)
See 25
1 and 8 shot, including a hostile attack (6)
See 3
Person opposed to 27 shot after part of target (10)
English playwright sure to leave university (4)
Large quantity (informal) (10)
Unvarying (8)
Boy's name — academic bigwig (4)
Major tributary of the Rhine, flowing through Frankfurt (4)
Dazed (7)
Fixed and definitive (4,3,4)
Tolerate (7)
Run like billy-o (4)
Deliberate trick (4)
Very soon (2,1,5)
It's not a good place to get stuck! (2,1,3,4)
Flower (5)
Employee taking notes? (7)
Distinctive periods (4)
Scope for freedom of action (8)
Accessory (3-2)
Natural ability (sought by scouts?) (6)
Mending — nightcap (anag) (8)
Car modified for extra power and speed (3,3)
Studio — I relate (anag) (7)
Confuse (3,2)
Ransack (5)
You're getting closer! (4)
Meet female model travelling west in state (7)
Help with technique identifying face on boy (7)
Increase sunlight, did you say? (5)
Rebel was shown affection by Ms Pavlova, we hear? (9)
Lost in thought in having escaped Titanic: going to break up (10)
Incentive required, team failing to finish (4)
Athenian's dip in defeat, alas, a marathon backfiring (12)
Creating distortion, shapes triangulated (12)
Potty rough, nipper's rear pulled out (4)
Dog-ear she embroidered, holding end of cotton that's wound on a reel (6,4)
Second person from Paris inform­ally dressed by runner for Chanel, say? (9)
See 28
Stop from trembling in fear behind king (7)
Why tapering items are best? (3,4,6,4,2,2,3)
Auditor's dressed Natalie Wood (6)
See 28
Cryptically waste garment? (10)
Fungus by the sea gets wet, finally (5)
Cups in large boxes right? That's a mental lapse (5,4)
Prison appropriate (4)
Mountain ascended in spirit, you've done well (4,4)
One entering test after old king in lesson (8)
Party supporting Johnson ultimately, in principle — this heavyweight must be fired (10)
Coming from both Dakar and Dhaka? A rogue on safari (4-5)
Vehicle that's standard, with a criminal initially inside (5,3)
Adolescent growth, terrible mistake (8)
See 28
As is woman with Man United? (6)
More than one back in demand, or saleable (5)
Island where a dollar cut up (4)
Old boy spouts about traditional knick-knacks (6,4)
Namby-pambies knocked back casserole (4)
Perhaps fillies west of Tennessee oddly lacking judgment (5,5)
Unattributed, somewhat uncanonical (4)
Since I'm talking to a techie: play in a forest! (2,3,4,2)
Inebriated tennis legend admitted by second doctor (7)
Confines criminal instead (7)
What's often part of underwear, laciest pants (7)
Cat given stroke the wrong way by Everyman sore at each end (7)
Misappropriation setter concealed. 'Not entirely perfect?' That's outrageous! (3,4,4)
Lazy superstar, we're told (4)
Crude gluten isn't causing concern (10)
Very, very average (2-2)
Coquette and Romeo finding depravity in China (3,7)
Line for throwing in East End ball game (4)
In France, I will take starters of raw kidney – idiot! (4)
Strangely, he dreamt that he drank with a dormouse (3,3,6)
Apparently innocent, like Cupid? (3-4)
Echo about coastal inlet (7)
Reinserted fancy culinary implement (10)
One smelling the roses, with an accent? (4,6)
Treat pet with trip to resort with gentle sounds (6-6)
Discovers a discoloration's covering half of saucer (10)
Persuade Greek character: talk up trinkets (10)
Spicy pepper: Rod has urge to tuck in (7)
Baits burrowing creatures (7)
Image of head seen in Identikit (4)
Primarily obscenely / greedily / lecherously eye? (4)
Gain after expenses, tax etc. (3,6)
Wading bird (5)
Long-billed water bird (7)
Official list (8)
Volcano (4)
Castrato (6)
Harden metal by heating (6)
Jumbled mixture (4)
Uncommunicative (8)
Tool (7)
Tableware (5)
Eradicate (9)
Without equal (8)
Formal headgear (inf.) (6)
Part in a play; function (4)
Take the consequences of one's actions (4,3,5)
Broad-brimmed cowboy headgear (3-6,3)
Storage vault for bones (7,5)
Be reluctant to act (4,4,4)
Surround (8)
Spanish rice dish (6)
Russian emperor (4)
Constantly (3,3,4)
Refrain from voting (7)
Ventilated (5)
Prophet (4)
Emotions (8)
With pleasure (6)
Fallacious (6)
Exhausted (4,4)
Young deer (4)
Thin porridge (5)
Author of The Hobbit (7)
Big Apple folk (3,7)
Passage between rows of seats (5)
Principal role — heavy metal (4)
Impede (6)
Country of south-east Asia (8)
Sailor (7)
Dachshund (informal) (7,3)
With good judgement (10)
All over the world (8)
Generally (2,1,4)
Gait between a trot and a gallop (6)
First sign of the zodiac (5)
Scarper (4)
It's prepared during social event in space (8)
Setter's role is to communicate (6)
Ruminant and insect run away to get married (8)
Royal runs off, allegedly (6)
Sacrifice bad English jewellery (8)
Spouse detailed to return with catch (6)
Assorted charts lead to places of worship (10)
Butcher left these with a set of choppers (5,5)
Cut out tax (6)
Make light of not working after performance (4,4)
Clergyman keeping company with another (6)
New star dies in accident (8)
Leftie eating endless leeks smelt awful (6)
Passion leading to hot dispute in airport (8)
Monster depriving old horseman of oxygen (6)
Leave the outskirts of Seville with upper-class twit (3,3)
Everyone at university about to appeal (6)
Capital trick involving hen being changed into paper leaf (10)
Prepared to go round a bottom­less piece of ice that's steep (8)
Newborn adopted by holy man rejected as strange (8)
Unlawful occupation of locked resort? (8)
Mistress in a chateau having friendly talk with girl (10)
Culprit placed old farthing on part of fireplace (8)
Instructed to include seal to prevent entry (8)
Gnome set out to find precious rock (8)
Despot's extremely tetchy outburst (6)
One may carry drink (6)
Article represented a patron saint (6)
A-lister's cool futuristic vehicle (8)
Bits of cold strange US rubbish (6)
Inept act reformed miserable wage (8)
Bloke with revolutionary knack for incantation (6)
Magnificent piano left on purpose in here with front missing (11)
Mature heads of Royal Institution promote educational networks (5)
A traitor enters river to get clear (9)
Tried firs chopped up and cooked (4-5)
Vegetation initially found living on restricted area (5)
New dawn as rains cease spreading across North (11)
Instruction in reduced working (6)
Glorify ladies dancing around island before start of evening (8)
Hostile part of song (6)
Aware male is lacking in feeling (8)
Exceptional whistle-blower is great on turf (10)
Clean six-footer having one month in charge (10)
Creature written about in Italian sonnet (5)
Awkward naked fiend in popular religious establishment (12)
Boar's feet prepared for Sunday lunch? (5,4)
Medium upset couple (4)
Various cabbages have skin disease (4)
Subordinate part in inferior play (6,6)
Mother's nag about missing lid on sage sauce (10)
Lowering of Parisian somewhere below ground (10)
Villainous foe ruins a broadcast (9)
Begin small pastry dish (5)
Parasite in rotten leaf (4)
Regularly dissolve something in water (4)
Awful (8)
Electric lamp (4)
Shakespeare's 'food of love'? (5)
Native of Tyneside (7)
Edward VII's father (6,6)
Wander (6)
Baker's dozen minus one (6)
Treacherous behaviour (4-8)
Digital currency (7)
Unattached (5)
Delta's follower (4)
Reddish brown — tree (8)
Weighty book (4)
Platform for public speaking (7)
Finally (2,10)
Small working sailing boat (6)
Inordinate (5)
Short respite (8)
Nervous queasiness (informal) (12)
Likely (8)
Assassinated US president (7)
Pot belly (6)
Concealed difficulty (5)
Dispatched (4)
Complained of exercise in this square? (6)
Thought fun is late starting (6)
Criticises financial centre; forgets what to say about it (7)
Makes off, seeing current end-of-year measures? (7)
Unwelcome gift made undrink­able coffee, hated from the start by girl (8,7)
Hastened to adopt disguise for auditors (4)
Toff in uniform was in the army secretly (10)
Farmer being punched by small gang (10)
Parasite's brief panic about pound (4)
Translating English literature, pens second half of proverb (6,2,7)
Man alone before child (7)
A feeble prosecutor, so walk (7)
In safe space, nothing is to tease (4,2)
Summer weather coming in, button up dress (6)
Chairs about entrance to cabins on ships (9)
It may have wings, but absolutely not power to rise (6)
Observed screen did go haywire (9)
Red Dwarf is beneath me (5)
Philosopher's very cheap cars (8)
New measure of computer storage filling two clouds (5)
Skilled with scalping, hotel make one pay a bomb (5,6)
Visiting sister, went and arrived with a progress check (5,6)
Manifest expectancy in stands ringing large field (2,3,4)
Rodent not lacking stomach eating a sort of light pastry (3-2-4)
A thousand queuing to catch a fast train here? (4,4)
Irrational to criticise thief (6)
Mondrian's first to abrogate a religious genre (5)
A little late, intentionally avoided any restaurant (3,2)
Fowl's crest (4)
Eradicate (5,3)
Relatives (7)
Board (3,2)
Grey or white wading bird with long neck and legs (5)
Spice — met gnu (anag) (6)
With perfect regularity and precision (4,9)
Short-sightedness (6)
Composition for nine performers (5)
Trainee officer (5)
Against the law (7)
Grimm character with very long hair (8)
Malay dagger with a scalloped blade (4)
Mouth (informal) (8)
Small — modest (5)
Duped (5,3,1,4)
Strength (5)
Very active (2,3,2)
Adjust for better functioning (4)
Brandy (6)
Bowling game (8)
On tenterhooks (5,2)
Amazon e-reader (6)
Ex-director of the Russian Federal Security Bureau, b.1952 (5)
African river or country (5)
Maple or sycamore, for example (4)
Plant donor leg set by doctor, initially (9)
Heard 'Clear off!' in a broad brogue, say (4)
Bounder showing angora creat­ion — knockout all round (8)
Attraction of climber getting into lap dancing (6)
Accordingly, returned flag as an object of worship (6)
Long streamer displayed by group, role-playing (8)
Figures holding back in game (6)
Out of control city mess affecting an entire body (8)
Prone to an outburst against rough calico around neck opening (8)
Turnover, spectacular at first, is contained by Pacific island (6)
MacLean's editorial houses purged (8)
Husband has love competition, a poet (6)
Old-time Royal Variety performer? (6)
Guardian follows one into unlit derelict submarine (8)
Stiffener, for instance, taken over time (4)
Instrument George Michael and mate finally installed in apartment (9)
A writer's turf (5)
Shackle produced by Roman soldiers seizing rebel leader (3,4)
Peers around rough entrances crossed by golfer (5)
Figure old motor starter is installed in right-hand vehicle (7)
Doing, as is ordered, what's expected from a GP (9)
Sublime member of singing group (7)
Musical works in which Hamlet's friend's first to go burying gold (9)
Two litres covered by one-time liquid softener (9)
Typical sort of characters, as in 'serfs', maybe (4,5)
Chapel presents old exotic detective with test (7)
Virtuoso passage from A Study into Catholic South Africa (7)
Sports event official's broadcast from another planet (7)
Division of school hard by river (5)
College tour around yard (5)
Engagement (9)
Part of a stage in front of the curtain (5)
Surely (2,5)
In seventh heaven (8)
Clanger (by which one may be saved) (4)
Able to make fine distinctions (6)
Discharge — absolve (3,3)
Peer ranking above a viscount (4)
Devon seaside resort (8)
Friendly, pleasant and good-tempered (7)
See eye to eye (5)
Proved to be the case (6,3)
Guaranteed to bring a profit (8)
Raducanu's game (6)
Chances of winning? (4)
Leading fashion house creations (5,7)
Pinkie (6,6)
Star of the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life (5,7)
Strong protective structure in middle of a dual carriageway (5,7)
Police rank (8)
Manage (with inadequate means) (4,2)
Woodwind instrument (4)
Cheer when money added to contract … (6)
… that's out dreaming? (6)
See 11
Furious pace with pilot flying with the speed of light (10)
A very suspicious type arriving in bearer of gifts: no 26 — this with 26? (6,7,4)
Stage empty, this with 26? (4,4)
It's sweet with celery and gin in a salad (9)
See 16
CIA feels prepared where all evidence is gathered? (4,4)
Overcharge for it, free plastic (9)
This with 26? A film criminal (8)
Teacher content in the end, is one good at multiplication? (6)
One's never even right in head after left in agony (10)
See 18
You shouldn't have filled vessels with gas (6)
Drive home last of nails on lock (6)
Reversal of rule brought into play changed system for online subscribers (7)
Discontent as 9 rocks catching head of umpire (5)
Reel showing lead in Garbo embraced by old-timer (7)
Sensation, this with 26? (6)
Use a rich kind of Merlot ultimately — when bread is served? (9)
See 11
Close thought with money helping to support criminal (13)
Country in Chad regularly chasing leading actor (5,4)
Images in online gallery showing sauce guzzled by bear (4,3)
Saying something dense, common sense half gone, this with 26? (7,4)
Set up trap in matching puzzles (7)
Antelope children lifted up (3-3)
Caller has prisoner finally freed from nick (5)
Shelter (6)
Lessens (6)
Country house with grounds (5)
Leopard (anag) — released conditionally (7)
Rural community (7)
Small game bird (5)
One who opposes official policy (9)
TS Eliot's 'cruelest month' (5)
Angelic messenger who brought the Virgin Mary her good news (7)
Instructor (7)
Padded mattress from Japan (5)
Casual top (1-5)
Scottish children (6)
Take away (6)
Caressed (7)
Italy's largest lake (5)
Ornate and extravagant in style (7)
Where Gene Pitney was only 24 hours from (5)
Lamb joint (6)
Austro-Hungarian-born American film director, d. 1986 in New York (9)
Yellow element (7)
Dishonest person — tornado (7)
Too old (4,2)
Fundamental parts of a platform (6)
Come to (5)
British film and television award (5)
Guy in Love Island is a horny bounder (5)
Public figure giving hint (8)
Stage direction stops working in theatre play (3,11)
Pro card player's inspired about project (8)
Happened by chance to ring, interrupted by heavy metal (6)
Pastry crust of canapé, something consumed in bits (9)
Traditional motifs in piece of music caught by solver in France (5)
Comparative magnitude of bits east of desert (5)
Less wild path for conquering warrior (9)
Hollow area poor driver ends up in — he leaves it (6)
Summons a vehicle back across open ground (8)
Poet, reading the Iliad, mostly stunned (5,9)
Imported copper: high grade, half mended (8)
Deity in religious books with pale covering (5)
Like a pub where all the hard liquor's been drunk down (3,2,7)
Where birds are devouring corn seriously (2,7)
Barring Connery's lead, classic version of Bond (5)
Tardily, woke Liberal goes on record, boring new voters (9)
Fare pocketed in voyage at sea (4)
Abridge Old Testament book, suppressing hard term (9)
Subtle, absorbing end of tale one's related (5)
Feature of Love's Labour's Lost nothing but repetition (12)
Rich man from South Africa confined, having been given a stretch? (9)
English following type of stock car (9)
Post mountain-climbing setter in building (9)
Amerindian's poetic apostrophe to a wise man (5)
It's said to dismiss Poland's No 1 playmaker (5)
Rolls topped with unwrapped spam or fish (4)
Pun (4,2,5)
Money provided with interest (4)
Will (8)
Sky — gosh! (7)
Part of an egg (5)
Wed (5)
Far-off (7)
Government department (8)
Work hard (4)
Weeping (11)
Mowed grass (4)
Nunnery (7)
Wash — food for pigs (5)
Note — torch etc (anag) (8)
Working class, collectively (11)
Unpremeditated (11)
Upright (8)
Velodrome vehicle (7)
Personnel (5)
Discard(ed) (4)
Getting ready for the start of punitive damages (11)
Drink and party endlessly wearing skirt (7)
Chocolate confections which are usually eaten about midday (7)
Plank 8? (3-2-4)
Little picture of poinsettias (5)
Your money's worth giving for tea clue? (4,2,8)
See 13
Fastidiousness of society rip-off (10)
Extremely ambitious politicians: one of them killed Shakespeare's Cleopatra (4)
Singers reported in the paper (5)
Current conductor left inside motor starter (9)
Rubbish surface turned into something suitable for lawn (7)
Height of sculpture is about right (7)
Sea essentially still and flat (11)
As expected in what you do, keep hearing you are to follow strange echo (3,3,3,6)
Provide enlightenment and exalt leader stepping down (5)
An aristocrat who swings both ways is not quite right (1,3,3)
All NHS leaders have duty to pro­tect personnel from infectious disease (7)
Nightlife mostly turns into a type of entertainment for high flyers (2-6)
Without a doubt, transfusions with blood regularly administered (2,3,4,2,4)
<span>Buyer's </span><i>pro tem infractus est</i> (6)
Parasite seen in experimental test tubes (but eradicated) (6)
Script of bodice ripper originally found in abandoned toilet (8)
Rejected in Vietnam: capitalist game of greed (3-3)
Dumas' second character Aramis could be a swordsman (7)
Ultimately just cause for betrayal (7)
Hermits occasionally getting into sex that's explosive (6)
Notes on a fish? (5)
Academic point of view produces sympathy (6,7)
Post-It's regularly showing trident shapes (4)
Bungling tail captures spy concealing note that's irrelevant (10)
One might add fine powder; more often, one removes it (6)
A performance-enhancing drug for a flier (8)
However casually learner is given direction, styles ensue (9)
Misfortune: Everyman is going to speechify at the opening (4)
Seamen like part of a church, we're told? (4)
Genova resort with boy making safe journey (3,6)
Most expensive horse doesn't finish – bother! (8)
Greek island reportedly closes? (6)
Walk Amelia round body of water (4,6)
Enclosed by what pyramids must enclose (4)
Battered half of old sign seen in cataclysmic weather (5,8)
Fussier tailoring producing slit (7)
Catalogue includes unknown composer (5)
Wore pants with gut that's got too big for? (7)
Loyal staff running with baton in team-building exercise (7,8)
Fixtures in north taken on by northbound Redgrave? (6)
Dramatist not beginning his work, 'Give And Take' (9)
Some detecting rat in some French dishes (7)
Revolutionary operatives losing power: it ended with glasnost (6,3)
Tense following refusal. Little drink? Absolutely (3,4)
From advert, I got a queasy feeling (7)
What gingery may become? (7)
Supremely ethereal, revered angel playing horn, primarily? (6)
Yemeni's neighbour soon to be rising (5)
Harshness (8)
Castrate a male animal (4)
Society's customs and conventions (5)
Have impact on (7)
Associate, partner (12)
Jaunty (6)
Put to one side (6)
Forgetful, distracted (12)
Coffee bar attendant (7)
Unsuitable (5)
Tense, nervous (4)
Amicable (8)
Charity (4)
Shared (7)
Unease (12)
Soft felt hat (6)
Grant of temporary absence (5)
Cautious, circumspect (8)
Anxious (12)
Introduction (8)
Downwind (7)
Damage (6)
Expression of indifference (5)
Remain (4)
Golfer's rare feat (4,2,3)
Contraceptive (4)
Broad range — crumpets (anag) (8)
Counterfeiter (6)
Leave (6)
Loud piercing cry (6)
Remove items from a case (6)
Dickens character (who founded a club) (8)
Lairs (4)
Renowned (4-5)
Major fishing port in northern France (8)
Free offer to arouse customer interest — reseat (anag) (6)
Mean (6)
Sheepshank, for example (4)
Fictional Italian lad with an embarrassing tendency to lie (9)
World War II fighter (9)
Keep quiet (4,4)
For the most part (6)
Cold-hearted (6)
Eager (4)
Fully commit to making a splash? (4,3,6)
Old countryman sick, having broken blood vessel (7)
Fashionable to travel round a windy city (7)
Girl caught by colonel lying (5)
Challenge not extremely skilful (9)
Nothing heard from American prisons (5)
Asian pianist playing to entertain a king (9)
American power breaks trans­mitter: one hangs up (9)
Copious beer gets right to the heart (5)
Desperate ham pleads for the bright lights (9)
Starters of soup unusually served hot in cold dish (5)
Not exact, but so far to travel (2,1,4)
Stowing silver, 1,000kg carrying capacity (7)
Wave to ship for a ride (6,7)
Players need these for maximum clearance (3,6)
Lament for one buried in cathedral (5)
Pass Charlie what's laid on in the bathroom (1,3,1)
Implant that leads the field (9)
Remarkably alive, runs all round (9)
Good to do nothing? Topping (5)
One wouldn't spend a day teaching here (7,6)
Inconsiderate to move freight in this form? (13)
Rustle some sheep, say? You scrubber! (5,4)
One must take steps to activate this (9)
Industry arose, organised with speed (9)
Site of massacre, Missouri style? (5)
Apply oneself in serious contest (3-2)
Confesses being no good in MI6 (5)
Hot soup dished out by the French in a cold location (5,4)
Black — then hurry to get clean? (5)
Cricket side disappearing or continuing? (7)
Ladies maybe excited by TS Eliot (7)
Some water — sort of service needed by home (5)
A limited number taking newspaper every now and then (9)
Powerful rescue vehicle is a great help (5,2,8)
Daughter is given programme of study in 'Communication' (9)
Dismissed female I embarrassed (5)
Girl taking dog maybe the wrong way — an error (7)
Biographer, dandy following old boy around (7)
Severe — not entirely Mister Nice (5)
See list that includes guerrilla fighter (9)
Connected ideas — so act in a new way (10)
Shady deal to get a mean dwelling (8)
The short opening suits a plant (6)
Boy with good musical number (4)
Moment to enter heart unit (10)
Sailor to do wrong when given the drink (8)
Source of inspiration university maiden found in the V&A? (6)
Characters associated with government business in resistance units (4)
Animal reserve — a distant one seen in flash (6,4)
Such elders could be event organisers (10)
Aussie animal gets smart at rest (8)
Weapon hidden in fellow's clothes (8)
Bands of special soldiers capturing a woman (6)
Take care of doctor who stepped in a puddle (6)
Crowd in service seeing in Christmas? (4)
Second team player (4)
<span>Greenhouse gas, CO</span><sub>2 </sub> (6,7)
Orinoco, Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria et al (7)
Be jubilant (5)
Continue (2,2)
Animal that preys on others (8)
Tattooist's tool (6)
City where Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert all worked (6)
Was of greater significance than (8)
Jaunt — doctoring of information (4)
Healthcare worker (5)
Connoisseur of fine food (7)
Box containing items of value (8,5)
Intimidate (3)
Fictional barrister created by John Mortimer (7)
Barn-dwelling birds (4)
Barren area (6)
Exaggerate (6,2)
Arctic peoples (5)
What artistes aim to do (9)
Kind of biscuit — eg turning (anag) (6,3)
Indoor footwear (8)
Roman god, counterpart of the Greeks' Poseidon (7)
Covering that disguises someone's true nature (6)
Bulky (5)
One component of brass (4)
Take food (3)
Report of chronicler on burial site, potentially a cracker (12)
Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content (7)
Robin flying around church's inner passages (7)
Stern composed features female's lacking (7)
An ancient Greek is charged with negativity (7)
Most of sole behind cat's third claw (5)
Toddlers kept engaged by this dramatic series? (9)
Interminable street party growing louder (9)
Variety of wine bar bottles 50 cents (5)
Enduring stars in stage terms? (7)
Moulded sink thrown away (3-4)
Emit cry of pain close to mummy, looking rather sickly (7)
Whiff of sodium beginning to develop? (7)
I feel dry runs should be organ­ised and easy to follow (4-8)
Oily liquid cools off, covering middle of street (7)
Agreed! And, if we're taking turns, I'm off (5,2)
Engineers in open hut worried at that point (9)
Nile region once served up excellent cake (5)
Releasing toilet pipe (7)
Twinkling finale for virtuoso part in duet (7)
Jerk stabbing Caesar's associate, maybe with passion (12)
Immobilise one cover raised in Peru's old national gallery (12)
A worthless African party orig­inally encouraged shirking (9)
Gives precious coat to US serviceman left wearing scraps (7)
Means of preserving grim impartiality (7)
Revered head of board removing editor (7)
Nutmeg's supporting commercial plugging superb college (7)
More furtive adult missed by violent killer (5)
Dank (6)
Ancient unit of length, based on the forearm (5)
Curtain rod covering (6)
Entryphone (informal) (6)
Person of equal standing (4)
American's wallet (8)
Type of heavy rock music — thermal hats (anag) (6,5)
Adherent of the main branch of the Methodist Church (8)
Pale blue colour (4)
Shade of meaning (6)
Seabird — pro yes (anag) (6)
Cede (5)
Break from proceedings (6)
___ Attlee, prime minister 1945-51 (7)
Married (anag) (7)
Manager of Manchester United, 1945-1969 (4,5)
Vicious (5)
Anti-tank weapon used by infantry (7)
Vehement outburst (6)
Edible flatfish (5,4)
One kept prisoner as security (7)
Pirates (anag) — shlep (7)
Shrubs (to rest on?) (7)
Note with a Turner portrait (6)
11th-century Spanish folk hero (2,3)
Space for change bowler given second over from the other end (5,4)
Where Epicurus came from when rejecting spicy snacks? (5)
One injured ankle in thrills? (9,6)
Man in field badly wants a pee (4,4)
Brand the Goddess of Pop 'a looker'? (8)
A sea chest, possibly? Possibly, possibly (2,3,4,3,2)
See 14
Lamb Chop-Orville double act from this pair's island? (5,3,6)
See 16
With obvious strain one bears warrior's sword (8)
See 10
Possible reason we can't cross the river here? One's left work, in short (8,7)
Stop dead: cougar to the left (3,2)
Longing for England, Browning now reviewed parade? (5,4)
Correspondence taken up in Parliament (5)
This 'title' could be 'tile' (7)
Desire, but with little morality (8)
See 3
Thirteen Enigma Variations Elgar originally pictured within Nimrod puzzled composer (10)
Not, say, spaghetti hoops on a round of toast? (6,4)
Spooner's swimmer might seize the chance (4,3)
Kentish Town station's entrance surveyed by female eagles (9)
As bespoke tailor did? (8,2)
Dressing paper boy in bag in the van (5,5)
As Fellini said to directors, 'Quickly, get on!' (3,6)
Dangerous customer and what he's disguised as something transitional? (7)
This wine would struggle to be nastier (7)
Opt for a grape? (5)
Like 11's visionary feature of colonnade? (8)
See 23
Liquid disinfectant (6)
Grassy plains (6)
Hooray! (7)
Sustain (5)
Expression of hesitant agreement (informal) (2-3)
Hitherto (4,3)
Exercise from a standing position and back, spreading arms and legs (7,4)
Marksman (7)
Engraving in low relief on a brooch or stone (5)
Oscar Wilde thought that this was 'something wasted on the stupid' (5)
Small west European country (7)
State of great confusion (6)
Bandage up (6)
Resign (with reputation intact?) (3,3)
Noteworthy period (5)
Police station (informal) (3,4)
Goodbye (5)
Calm — ocean (7)
French existential philosopher and Simone de Beauvoir's partner, d. 1980 (6)
Person living beyond their hundredth birthday (11)
Study of other-worldly sightings (7)
Corvine creature (7)
Heaviest known metal, Os (6)
Senility (6)
'I know a bank where the wild ___ blows' (Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream) (5)
Deserve — virtue (5)
Self-assured, able to absorb study after study (9)
In time, about to come to same conclusion (5)
Curtains made at home, apart from fringes (5)
Revise a city rent that's bound to bring better profit (9)
Sign agreement — book available outside without question (2,5)
Around lake, watch person catching fish (7)
Gamble on it, backed in place of many mounts (5)
Purpose shown by predecessors of foe (3)
Group of players that's gross? On the contrary (5)
Because, for example, ultimately it's true (7)
Release call for peace by superpower (7)
Doctor is clad by a colleague to prepare for theatre (9)
Tries and dismisses following court's conclusion (5)
See 27
Old soldier in unit invested in food processor (9)
Decorated with diamonds above and below (4)
Private patients are treated here (6)
Outline conversion of hotel suite (10)
Eschewing even bits of theory, create lines of verse (6)
Educated learner's initially expelled, with poor grade repeated (8)
Figures turned up at short notice: not a lot (4)
Pilgrim, speaking directly, left home (8)
Exact straight line passed over centre of gravity (4)
One form of what time is? Minutes, perhaps (5)
A certain opinion on iconic TV broadcast (10)
Assesses lab subjects, having injected drug (5)
Tribe's difficulty dividing African country (8)
Microscopic part for pupil, say? (8)
Most powerful men on board, but not at court (6)
Communicated with head of French department, initially, around ten (6)
What's required you must pay finally? (4)
A river journey for ancient boat with many oarsmen (4)
Reign thus, badly and absolutely! (4,5)
Buffalo Bill's entertainment (4,4,4)
Being pulled along (2,3)
Vanquish — no truce (anag) (7)
Work for money (4)
Arena for the San Francisco Giants or the LA Dodgers (8)
Idiot (6)
Archer (6)
Bulletproof (8)
Social climber (4)
Musical tempo (7)
Unsophisticated rustic (5)
Major cure fee (anag) — act of God that prevents one keeping a promise (5,7)
Transitional (7)
Beginnings (4)
Snare (6)
See you later! (informal) (6-2)
Reddish-brown dye (5)
Home destroyer — bawling clerk (anag) (8,4)
50% extra pay (4,3,1,4)
Strive — strife (8)
Informal name (7)
Italian city on the Adige (where the two gentlemen came from) (6)
Food grinder? (5)
Heap of wood and other combustible material (4)
Doctor can predict one will be clumsy (8-5)
Carpet salesman also on edge (9)
Try to persuade some regular guests (5)
Honour a team's first principle (5)
Friend not in the church for pseudoscience (9)
Ignorant French article precedes a fight with Europe (7)
Another hearing actual TARDIS oddly stopping (7)
Naked celeb acted, discovered by director and chosen (7)
Drunk chose to drink lager at first (7)
Mostly pack rupees after liquidating capital (5,4)
Smell carrion meat every now and then (5)
Volunteers guarding inter­national artist's jewellery (5)
Soldier with drug amongst 11 raving — forging bond (9)
Meter is broken, coming outside to get plug (13)
Top theatre's first Evita cast to mesmerise (9)
Emu I lift from the bottom entertains hip insider? (5)
Test disheartened pupil before English lesson (7)
Small catch when man working on the house accepts direct debit (7)
Sensible king swaps sides first, I see (9)
Evening things out, removing wrinkles at last (5)
Half-heartedly encourage hard nut, struggling during extremely tedious valuable pursuits? (8,5)
Material for the Guardian, as per PA? (8,5)
After reshuffle, Attlee ran for deputy (9)
Stolen? I'll walk clear of all charges arising (3-6)
Drink's rough, reportedly (7)
Houses preferred by sailors (7)
Phone up after pressure is checked (5)
Panic room beneath sadly unfinished (5)
1605 Catholic conspiracy to upset the English establishment (9,4)
Elementary stages (of the alphabet?) (abbr) (3)
Blender (4,5)
Profundity (8)
Medical check using radiation, ultrasound etc (4)
Locomotion (6)
A cricketing wrong 'un (6)
Set of conventions (4)
A cricketing four or six (8)
Modelled after something else (9)
Bottom edge (3)
In a big and impressive way (13)
Secretory organ (5)
Of minor importance in America! (6-3-4)
Culprit (8)
Feeling sleepy (6)
Bottom (4)
Dictionary expert (13)
Authoritarianism (7)
Milled maize (8)
Enthusiastic experts on computers etc (abbr) (7)
Aries, Taurus et al (6)
That tastes good! (informal) (5)
Enormous (4)
Shared (8)
Guitar string clamp (4)
Excessive enthusiasm (5)
Sheriff's officer (7)
Halloween practice (5,2,5)
Most recent (6)
Inquisitive (6)
Preoccupied with excretion (12)
Ostentatiously wealthy (7)
Non-clergy (5)
Arduous journey (4)
Unblemished (8)
Groom (4)
Tower of a mosque (7)
Not familiar (12)
Historical England (6)
Remark not intended for all to hear (5)
Not visible to the theatre audience (8)
Relations by marriage (7-2-3)
Add more details (5,3)
Visualise (7)
Inn (6)
Divert (5)
Cricket extras (4)
Putting around and through miniature windmills etc (5,4)
-hero, -lock or -monarchist (4)
Turn out in the end (9)
Go away! (4)
Slap on the bottom with an open hand (5)
Senselessness (6)
Gives way (6)
Slightly drunk (6)
Slippery (6)
Happening every 24 hours (5)
Nothing in the North (4)
Fine by me (informal) (4-5)
International fair (4)
Brave and heroic deeds (7-2)
All-night party (4)
Madcap (4)
Ill-tempered (6)
Prayer with invocations by the priest and responses from the congregation (6)
Tortilla — lead chain (anag) (9)
Children's game — as in 'mossy' (anag) (5,4)
Vessel carrying black gold (3,6)
Open to gales? (9)
Take to task (5)
Twisted (5)
US native (6)
Killer (6)
Grumble (4)
Cannabis (slang) (4)
Sound out group retreats for the famous (6)
Cats without a skin retreating inside, where they're never seen (6)
Just downplay occasional absences (4)
Incurred expenditure on behalf of church that's no longer influential (5,5)
Guide plays her party piece (6)
Socratic version of what 16 across is (8)
Fantastic price made one want to do it now (5,4)
Raised stink with US Republicans taking North back (4)
Foremost of keen investors exploiting venture capital (4)
By embracing life at sea, it doesn't seem as long! (4,5)
Not recognising central unit's position during trade (2,6)
Complete brief for substitute (4,2)
Uses the mic flexibly to provide record of score (5,5)
Judges, for example, to me must be united (4)
Plain case has lost ivory top (6)
Legendary lover admitted dealing in drugs (6)
Woman set off in yacht (7)
Bet against queen making film (5)
Scoundrel creates wicked home for liberal arts (7)
Slow down — consider putting in time for golf (6)
Pays for machine to make furniture (9)
Material building up as temperature drops (7)
Doctor made realities go away (13)
Pressure to withdraw conserv­ationists? It's happened before (9)
Monarchy lacks good family relations (7)
Film tricks that capture the sound of fox dispatching duck (7)
Record that is covering turf event (7)
Can staff have character that's heartless? (3,3)
Identify first murder victim found by lake (5)
They are often lit up outside pubs (7)
'Howl!' — poem recited as a series of lines (3,4)
Doctrine kids read endlessly (4)
Enrich soul performing a stage routine (6,4)
Fly home with religious group? (6)
Common man takes on popular politician (8)
Risk of obesity is low apparently (3,6)
Process essential to commence expansion (5)
Conduct from addict injecting heroin (5)
Sweet picture, perhaps added by discrete software module (5,4)
Repay debt in full and move on (5,3)
Plant found in back parts of Thanet Castle (6)
Way to earn money spent moving bodies (6,4)
Bias shown by some key economic world leaders (4)
Places to go that are wildly insular (7)
Most economical spring break (7)
Superstar provides heavenly bread stuffed with delicious olive tips (7)
Jack, who doffs his cap in church space (5)
Cheers after Charlie's appearance in extravagant production by Italians (7)
Occasionally call out men, big old boys (6)
We sold cat spraying fluid produced when frightened (4,5)
Waste long time in prison (7)
Come upon fatty spread — something I don't fancy (3,2,3,2,3)
Burning everything around motorway (9)
Fighter disposing of both sides creates classic record (7)
Arranged denial without asking first (5,2)
Waves used to make other waves (7)
Try uplifting sign given by an enormous number (6)
Took the test again after returning a shocker (5)
Lesser deity (7)
Specify individually (7)
Midshipmen's quarters in old warships (7)
Withered with age (7)
Car crash (5)
Very much (9)
Woolly coat (9)
Like a rowing boat? (5)
Get too big (for) (7)
Catchphrase (3,4)
Covered entrance to a building (7)
Preferred course of action (3,2,2)
Unearth (3,2)
Mood disorder (5)
Badly-behaved nursery rhyme boy (7,6)
Numskull (6)
First conqueror of Everest with Edmund Hillary (7,6)
Prospective husband (6)
Period of one's greatest productivity (6)
Fertile (4)
Nothing in tennis (4)
Imprecise — loose (6)
Restaurant (6)
Try to gain favour by flattery (6)
Massive herbivorous hoofed animal (abbr) (5)
Because of (3,2)
Like a shot that’s one foot off (5,4)
I picked up that man (5)
Rallies around a year later (7)
Plant not out by hedge (7)
Number getting into some trouble (5)
Europe perhaps able to control movement (9)
Standard partners getting off with sadists (5,3,7)
School uniform matches period in history (9)
Deliver new stock of local vegetables (5)
Secret Service after prince over Virginia (7)
Container with hamper gives protection for food (7)
Knock off bails, ultimately getting duck (5)
Group of players mostly penning quiet pieces for instruments (9)
Sins with time on hands, son admitted (10)
Obsession with self-image on a shot (8)
Filling canine with hole at the front, cutting into infected area (6)
Roll cigars at the back with habit (4)
See 8
Short underwear is more flashy (8)
Tycoon with no money from a common male ancestor (6)
Tories’ lying has extraordinary scale: that’s what they do (4,10)
Brilliant nurses opposed to support from just one side (10)
All settees, when rearranged, fit together (10)
Bank, embroiled with lies, could go under (8)
Get sex partner on top (8)
Mentioned bill? Not during date (6)
Cover one in crib (6)
Upright position (4)
Tough husband wearing drag (4)
Rapid irregular heart beat (11)
Pakistan's capital (9)
Draw (3)
Bent (5)
Of games held every four years (7)
Quibbler (6)
Barrack (6)
Quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and opposite angles equal (7)
Gives voice (5)
Pigeon's murmur (3)
Minor (5-4)
Fitter in many locks (8,3)
Cause suffering to (3)
Cinderella's potential carriage (7)
On top of all that (2,4)
Cuddly bear (5)
Frank (9)
Utility vehicle (4-2,5)
Favoured student (8,3)
Recording of a written work (9)
Greek letter — lopes in (anag) (7)
Not perpendicular (6)
Herb of the mint family (5)
Strong emotion caused by a real or supposed grievance (3)
US party political switch in social trick (9)
Doctor has odd brown beds (5)
Fruity bureaucrats? (9)
Film in shadow (5)
Former prime minister's upset, ultimately very tired (6)
Pub requires no money for a sort of smoothie? (8)
Cloth manufactured by a German and a Scotsman (7)
Terminal at Heathrow initially breaks rules (7)
Rich duke wears spectacles after springtime? (4-2-2)
'Preach to choir!' minister to roar, ultimately in shock (6)
Love playing game to the end (5)
’e led Wise's production of a song (9)
Derrick's bird (5)
Moved judge jails old king over daughter (9)
Feature in how to turn a cat into a man (6)
He's about to reform Slade without leader (8)
Principal's lines are sparkling (6)
Erratic motion around Lagrange point as revealed by satellite (7)
Romantic grasped style, doffing cap (6)
Experienced uplifting drugs like 1 down? (8)
Contents of tin can once found in South America (4)
Always move different sappers to protect the Queen (8)
A cyclist's greeting, in the main (4)
Hard Viking decapitated rider (8)
Sunday? That's right, man (7)
Star setter's raised to finish (6)
75% of prison is empty (6)
Fabulous story involves English travel card? (6)
Traditional English folk fun — micro-darnings (anag) (6,7)
Bluish green — duck (4)
Monster frightening to children (8)
Back down (7,3)
Rug (6)
Pub bar (6)
Raincoat (10)
It usually comes with the menu (4,4)
Conditional and temporary release from custody (4)
Ovens for smelting iron (5,8)
Catch (8)
Old object (5)
Underlying meaning of words written or spoken (7)
Source of irritation (5)
Kind of glassware (7)
Undiluted — cool! (4)
Act secretly in union (8)
Nannies (7)
Dram (7)
Steep rock face (5)
Shin bone (5)
Wipe out (4)
One word and all hell's let loose — they'll pay for this (5,4,4)
Close up Oscar sees audience's dirty (7)
Rarely on time, you held policeman up (7)
Calculate silence about United's the end for Ole? (5)
Joke repository includes one that's extremely hard-hitting (9)
Considered scoundrel comedian at heart (5)
Backing pub name — on reflection like the Oracle (9)
Relation's arrival welcomed by mother (9)
Crowd's last intimidating display in capital (5)
Play country in Africa — no trouble over touring (9)
Duo use lime to catch bird (5)
Mostly Messi is accommodated — it's what we do with celebrities (7)
That bloke with nice bum about to join conversation (5,2)
Laments about teachers not getting money — hypocrites! (7,6)
Battle to get space at bar (9)
Work out one day's been wasted (or two) (5)
Give birth with assistance (5)
Old Vlad in the Netherlands climbing? Only it's flat! (5,4)
Ride like this for dosh? (9)
Gone to pick up tea inside (or coffee) (5)
Elbow possibly cut by stake not a sporting injury (7,6)
Locate patient lost in market area (9,4)
Exaggerated performance of car? Admits being misled (9)
Angry gripe about disgraceful advantage given only to a few (9)
Passing nurse in van (9)
Grumble increase's ultimately trivial (5)
Cuts? Nothing's been mentioned (5)
Animal in one pen being mounted (5)
Tilt to one side (4)
Forceful and definite (8)
Ethereal (4)
Bird in a murmuration (8)
Gumshoe (7,3)
One who handles equipment for musicians on tour (6)
Numbers puzzle with 81 squares (6)
Bathos (10)
Immediately get on well (3,2,3)
Written instruction to cancel a correction (4)
Allergic reaction to pollen (3,5)
Snappy reptile (abbr) (4)
Bolly, say (informal) (8)
Crucial — number (8)
Something of concern (6)
Turmoil (5-5)
Suddenly understand (informal) (4)
Budgie holder? (4)
Puppet with strings attached (10)
Traveller to work (8)
Impulsive (8)
Hogwash (6)
Ex-monarch of Persia (4)
Don't go (4)
A waste of time with empty beer glass, nothing to drink (9)
Metal brackets in case for instrument (4)
Gymnastic feat where champion hit the roof (8)
Failing to push for result (6)
Extraordinary student I observed in class (6)
Same fur wound around friends initially warming couple? (8)
Complex way to end communication? (4-2)
Very old cardinal put on clothes (5,3)
Keep something hideous, pornographic magazines perhaps for online literary creation? (8,7)
Tex-Mex food for another journey, it's tacos apparently for starters (6)
Work on hand, one caught between stools? (8)
Cutting hem back, I see a soft fabric (6)
Protest: gather it is audible? (6)
How to get tips for cooking equipment (8)
Tip of little finger sliced off, black (4)
What inspires remarkably popular leader of community totally (5,4)
Conference seeking reconcil­iation, where seeds may develop in conversation? (5,5)
Suspicion understood by ruthless fictional species on being abandoned (7)
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See 16
Flat out, prepare for a fight (6,3)
Crack one with line did you say? (7)
Fracas kicking off if hot dog thrown about? (4,5)
Love affair within a limit (9)
Good player after women times header in effortless turn (9)
See 23
Dear little couple supporting society (7)
Throne issue for PM and POTUS? (7)
Fish with second fish (5)
Girl over here about to quickly mix drink (5,7)
Tight-fitting trousers (3-7)
Important Hindu prince (8)
Calf meat (4)
Brock's residence (4)
Ukrainian-born Marxist, expelled from the Soviet Union by Stalin in 1929 and later assassinated (7)
Mexican seed in which a hatched larva moves (7,4)
(Crime) carried out from a moving vehicle (5-2)
Syncopated music (4)
Beatles' number? (4)
Marine crustacean, which lives attached to submerged surfaces (8)
Platinum anniversary (10)
Obverse call? (5)
Illusory — ghost (7)
Salt Lake City's state (4)
Smart clothes for a formal occasion (informal) (4,4)
(Join with) a metal fastener (5)
Face wiper (6)
Country formerly called Rhodesia (8)
Slang (6)
Issue forth (7)
Vigour and vitality (5)
Zero (5)
Guitar part (4)
Disparaging, abusive (10)
Worried (7)
Inactive, vigourless (5)
Yorkshireman (4)
Disease treated by insulin (8)
Young bird of prey (6)
Candle holder (6)
Spectator (8)
Bill of fare (4)
Military uniform (5)
Senior naval rank (7)
Contender (10)
Hut, shanty (5)
Impel (4)
Keep hold of (6)
Easy-going (4-4)
Remaining from a meal (7)
In the clear (3,3,4)
With discernment (10)
Monument (8)
Philistine giant (7)
Ten-year period (6)
Mistake (5)
Fog mixed with smoke (4)
Punctuation mark missing from ones grammar (10)
Violent windstorm (7)
Surface of a cut gemstone (5)
Incline (4)
Excessive maleness? (8)
Passionate (6)
Gossamer — fairy retainer to Queen Titania (6)
Old gold coin (8)
Furnace (4)
Danger (5)
Old salts (3,4)
Genuine (in Australia) — mid-air funk (anag) (4,6)
Of sound (5)
By mouth (4)
Bee's middle (6)
What grows from a main stem (8)
Tool for cutting metal (7)
Framed someone by setting a trap (8,2)
Musician in the brass section (10)
Like the construction of a honeycomb? (8)
Where live fish are on show (7)
Dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub (6)
Sound of a revving engine (5)
Face cover (4)
Many letters received after a number of animals shot (7)
Scowling, dropping some flour in gravy (7)
Illness being new, complaining more to listeners (9)
Finish cleaning second little pet (3,2)
Boy, by complete coincidence, not female (4)
Domestic cleaner's opinion of lottery (10)
Sport I play in good health (6)
Dismember hanged traitor? Mercy! (7)
No relaxation, enclosing a direction for poetry (3-4)
Recruit is strangely silent (6)
Settlements in town send me nuts (10)
Pointed criticism of second pub? (4)
As slaver, master holding nothing back (5)
Is old cat welcoming a time in quarantine? (9)
Idiot parent ignoring last notice (7)
By the way, threw out mild oath (7)
That's one in the eye for scholar (5)
Presenter and what her voice may come from (7)
Many Britons so classified graduate with me (4)
Carried away by current film? (4,4,3,4)
Is it unfair to ask these of the wealthy? (6,9)
Not in position to admit girl that's too good to ignore (10)
Embed Mike into one factory (7)
Tackle receiving poor pay in intermediate period (3,4)
Thus raised concern about untrained playwright (5,5)
Number fed on bananas, very many (2,3,2)
Old soldier, a camp entertainer (7)
Perhaps seen from Torquay hotel window, ie waves crashing (3,4)
Needed as substitutes? Come off it! (5)
Pretty fine appearance (4)
Get rid of club's fuel (8)
The end of Ronaldo's last game broadcast (5)
Vegetable acceptable with drained ricotta (4)
Mathematical genius blended natural gin (4,6)
Airport employee becomes an army officer's personal servant (6)
Folk wisdom about weather in part of France (8)
Rum drunk in place to rest on a British island territory (7)
Writer married to Italian poet and philosopher endlessly producing a hanging ornament (7)
Maxim about mishap involving gold (8)
Tiny tick (6)
British awfully jealous about top-notch French wine (10)
Fish swallowing end of angler's line (4)
Saint and top monk losing bishop's shoe (5)
Hobbles along in total disorder (8)
Prison staff returning drug to Chalky or Dusty, say (8)
Cheese principally for epicurean travellers abroad (4)
Party chief's area of knowledge (6)
One business transaction left Yemeni leader in a perfect situation (7)
Criminal returned seascape artist's unfinished night scene (8)
Insect on river removed danger to area by a watering hole (4,6)
Tin and nickel originally covering old gun (6)
Confusing words by mother to child endlessly on plane (5-5)
Record holder going to fight in independent island state (8)
Legal officials working overtime on sign (8)
Stalemate as setter's out of date (7)
Delight to hear statements from the defendant (6)
Second head of security upset secret service (6)
Youngster given drug on lump of sugar? (4)
Twining honeysuckle — booed win (anag) (8)
Smell (unpleasantly) (4)
Mushrooms, say (5)
Make slightly wet (7)
Wooden equine for kids (7,5)
Passes on (6)
Good look(ing) (6)
Practice of growing different things in a field in sequence (4,8)
Cure-all (7)
Speak (5)
One of four playing cards in a deck (4)
A persistent (and annoying) acolyte (6-2)
Drift through the air (4)
Score at the wrong end (3,4)
A little bit at a time (5,2,5)
Christening (6)
Target ring furthest from the bullseye (5)
In a cautious manner (8)
Edgy and easily upset (6,6)
Completely impractical (8)
Shifting voter? (7)
Socio-economic classes (6)
Sixteenth of a pound (5)
Food prepared from husks of cereal grains (4)
See returning ambassador dashing around (6)
The fellow with right awkward clues — a labouring individual (8)
Passages in ancient Greek city by lake (6)
In storm secure a support (8)
Good entertainer, American guy who gets in the spirit? The opposite! (11)
Villainous knight brings extra fear, we hear (7)
Plan once again coming from socialist platform? (7)
Front office for countryside activity (11)
Respect pop singer's shown for old city, a capital (8)
Grab fruit that's delicious except for five 'off' bits (6)
Facing nasty snakes you and I may show timidity (8)
Bullies offering bribes? (4,2)
Description of big effort in situation with no one at work? (3-3)
Exodus was one of these with surging Red Sea put asunder finally (10)
Sound a group of singers had picked up (8)
Sport and dance curtailed when leg gets crushed (4,4)
Female promiscuity of blonde bombshell with attempt to cut out wife (8)
Reluctant man with bad wife, little husband (4)
Sovereign's beginning to appear with piece of regalia for someone in Lusatia (4)
Menials working for Conservative female (10)
Regular visitors pretty in colours (8)
Bad person above all others joins up (8)
Disturbing judgement that's very loudly introduced (8)
Curved shapes in pollarded trees (6)
A dog's dinner? (4)
A blade used by crew avoiding river animal (4)
Bind with something circular (4)
Double-dealer (3-5)
Deep red (as suffering from sunburn) (7)
Low basin for washing the privates (5)
Hackneyed (5)
South-west English county (6)
Container for clothes in need of a wash (7,6)
From a country in the Horn of Africa (6)
Jazz with a two-quaver rhythm (5)
Total nonsense (that may be eaten!) (5)
One of the Three Tenors (7)
Not mass-produced (8)
Foolish fellow — American thug (4)
It's driven and usually covered with dimpled white latex (4,4)
Redbreast (5)
Materialistic — downed my drill (anag) (7-6)
Edible root (5)
Wednesday? (7)
Piccadilly hotel (4)
Impassive (6)
Resign (4,4)
Too perfect? (7)
Books with blank pages to be filled with photographs or stamps, say (6)
Elite group in an organisation (1-4)
Housey-housey (5)
Have a strong desire (for something) (4)
Notes about mollusc one cooked as tribute to sailor (7,6)
Means of ascending rocky coastal area unveiled (9)
Married soldier's sent back a letter from abroad (5)
Oddly priced toy displaying quality brother seeks? (5)
Key step taken by defenders (9)
Anything in New York inclined to offend (7)
Tag describing article found in English mine (7)
Labour excluded from govern­ment training session (7)
Explain inclusion of tragic old man in contest (5,2)
Pure ecstasy after flower festival in church (4-5)
Light flickering from fine sparkly fabric (5)
Remote school denied sandwiches (5)
They review problem with motorway sign (9)
Marshal notices seats occupied by 1,000 holders of these? (6,7)
Former PM's retreat briefly Chancellor's responsibility (9)
Seasoned officer's penetrating voice (5)
Particularly large stick raised over boy's bottom (7)
Initially carry great authority, a typically Welsh craft (7)
The Spanish earl gives out tips and is delayed (5,4)
Hot stuff emerging from company meeting in Massachusetts (5)
Grand growth in garden has Shakespeare in tears — I'm touched (7,6)
Helping with alacrity, agree to settle best rent (5,2,6)
Deceives with bat, slicing through covers (9)
Should one mix basil with the last of coriander? (9)
As potential purchaser, gets into stonier ground (5,2)
Man contrarily supporting rebel leader, unknown where I live (4,3)
Youth league disheartened server (5)
Bottle finally explodes in intense fire (5)
Frozen continent (9)
Output (5)
Absolutely essential (7)
Pain in the neck (8)
Nickel or dime (4)
Something whose name one has forgotten (informal) (6)
Japanese woman trained to entertain men (6)
Elizabethan frill (4)
Chinese dish with bean sprouts (4,4)
Made of baked clay (7)
Ballroom dance of Cuban origin (5)
Vehicle fuel (6,3)
Of hearing (8)
Fast electronic music (6)
Decisive defeat (4)
Mannequin (7,5)
Jan 1 to Dec 31 (8,4)
Top plate of an internal combustion engine that holds the injectors and spark plugs (8,4)
Light comedy with improbable boudoir antics (7,5)
Transient (8)
Japanese religion (6)
Shout of pleasure from one flying along! (4)
Building entrance unknown for a long time (9)
African natives from city in the way of … (5)
… repairing outer road (5)
A prince's fruit and gin cocktail turning up (9)
National Front of Belfast tense with Irish revolutionary (7)
Start getting judge to sit astride horse (7)
Shop around hot city (5)
Might sound like Roman from successful period (3)
Flower power shortly facing the end of hostility (5)
Key leader removed fencing — bitter shock? (7)
Confinement at home after making inventions (5-2)
Diet of rolls — add sandwiches from French (9)
Former student given finally more Guinness double stout (5)
Infilling suspect cavity (5)
Fancier has best that is last of litter (9)
Mark mobile soldiers' second uprising (4)
Rings one set aside at the beginning (6)
Scientist testing ice melting (10)
Sailor has bath outside in river (6)
Setter's upward stroke blocks shot — pity! (8)
Old copper has piano from East Enders sweetheart's scratched (4)
Finishing off each can, dog's thrown up (6,2)
General hospital getting a soldier upset (4)
President's withholding the last of human remains (5)
Shut up! Setter's dug around issue (10)
Fabric Raymond gets removed from boards (5)
Inclined to introduce the head of religious education (8)
Means of staining poor-quality trousers, rather tight in front (8)
Force restraint of member: not right (6)
French painter dreadfully rueing … (6)
… worst risks son's raised (4)
One Direction getting brute to lose face (4)
Peer pressure ultimately applied against a heartless prince (4)
Multitude (6)
Derive by logical reasoning (6)
Governor (5)
Agog (3-4)
Athlete using bars, beams and vaulting horses (7)
Unceremonious — dull (5)
Punch and Judy operator (9)
Behind (5)
Worrier about things that might happen (7)
Expose to ridicule (7)
Mark by scraping (5)
Fluctuate (6)
One of Snow White's seven (6)
Illusion (6)
Pickled herring fillet (7)
Trunk blood artery (5)
Readable (7)
Furry South American rodent (5)
Until now (2,4)
Comma, say (9)
One spar (anag) (7)
Ecstasy (7)
College grounds (6)
Close — prudish (6)
Fine material used for veils (5)
Coarse material used for ropes (5)
Oxygen coming in a little lower, excellent source of fuel (8)
Muted sound when treacherous fascist backed (3-3)
Flying pig? (6)
Comment on article not finished off (8)
Might one be looking up a Spoonerism for Mrs Malaprop? (11)
Arresting boxing scrap, very exciting (4-6)
See 12
Second US president back in A&E — cause of dysentery? (7)
Potential success is in doughnuts or fried onions with salt (6,4)
Fish stick bought at seaside (4)
Container for flowers, little one filled with primroses initially on plot (5,3)
Sept, Nov: Dec remains (6)
County boundary approached by member of colony (6)
One with deep ground in which body finally buried, watchful (4-4)
Criminal slain in North Arabian desert — we are all in it together (2,3,2,2,6)
Where informal expressions found to align with Syrian code, oddly translated (5,10)
Stick all fingers and thumbs right into sponge cake (10)
Setter throwing up egg and a piece of chicken (7)
Double first's ultimate achievement (4)
Wind blows at 3mph — that should be a breeze (5,3,7)
Figure meat and grain eaten by King Edward, say, part of English course (9,6)
Borrow cooler jacket (10)
Stop drug, nothing injected (7)
Cat rolling up in the early hours, awake (4)
Shaman (5,6)
Five hundred sheets of quality paper (4)
Sing (to a lover?) (8)
Prison (informal) (7)
Native of Mosul? (5)
Hard close-grained tree with a syrupy sap (5)
Transparent plastic paint (7)
Unstoppable rapid decline (4,4)
Toasting or pitching implement? (4)
Without any concealment or deception (5,3,3)
Thing (4)
Irish spirit (7)
Forgive me (5)
Fish with a venomous tail (8)
Garden carrier (in children's race?) (11)
Rodent less common than its grey variety in the UK (3,8)
Dark purple blackberry-like fruit (8)
Nordic country (7)
Small flower (on a chain?) (5)
Bubbles (4)
Policy of separate racial development (9)
Tacit (8)
One of a list (4)
Substantial size (4)
Delegate, sub-contract (4,3)
Autumnal full moon (7,4)
Gourmet (7)
Crowd disturbance, uproar (4)
Spanish American labourer (4)
Waste, debris (8)
Flag on a ship leaving port (4,5)
In demand (7)
Libertine (4)
All-female celebration (3,5)
Set phrase (5)
Cold-shoulder (4)
Ornamental metal disc on dress (6)
Envy, resent (8)
Occur (6)
Opening (7)
Man-made waterway (5)
Under tension (4)
Eye infection (4)
Don Juan, say (9)
Red-white mix (4)
Church like St Peter's in the Vatican City (8)
Sharp — statue (anag) (6)
Plant with bitter leaves used in green salads (6)
Not behaving normally (informal) (6)
Ox, cow or yak? (6)
Sporting trousers kept taut by underfoot bands (3,5)
Lager, bitter and stout (4)
It's built by bees (9)
Overconfident (8)
Cheap showy ornament (6)
Nose wiper? (6)
The netherworld (4)
Kind of baked sponge — icky paste (anag) (5,4)
Feeder on carrion (9)
Attack from above — moved bib (anag) (4-4)
Jerked (6)
Cut into two parts (6)
Impecunious (4)
Would-be barber on the rampage — all hide! (7)
Things found in yachts regularly after back-to-back parties (7)
First service at 10 (5)
Fancy pickles to stash (9)
Missed having part exchange reviewed (6,4)
Long short time (4)
Hotlines got crossed for student of culture (11)
Wonderful publication: Guardian, finally providing Matilda with little money! (11)
Crimes contributing to everybody's insecurity (4)
A girly boot design is essential (10)
Outstanding underground network in having no leader (9)
More than half a dozen trees found in Kent (9)
Be quiet about a theologian and American holy men (7)
Stress fractures overwhelming writer's family members (7)
Absolutely empty lavatory is lethal (6)
Bully the French soon (4,2)
Left most of Essex with liver upset — worse things can happen (6,4)
Should the East stop ignoring borders? (3,2)
Stressed at first, man hoovered shoddily (5,4)
See 26
Still taking no sides, refer to uprising (8)
Running cadence of horse mostly circling donkey (4,4)
No-hopers mislaid baggage containing uniform (4,6)
Trouble with Cats? Musical rubbish (4,5)
Has an evening meal, including potatoes, and crashes (5-3)
Diagnose problem that expressed mental stress (8)
They say you are each in love with this museum (6)
Personified sleep getting endless hype? Not so! (6)
Hindus take off clothing and start to swim here? (5)
Computers etc starting to cause headaches and irritation (4)
Onesie's bound to fit (8)
Pub hosts fellow with ukulele, initially as a joke (2,3)
Sad face reflected jealous heart inside (4)
Sailor's fallen into the sea — not entirely sober, to be honest (5,5)
Democrat finally able to recognise tyrant (6)
Queen covered by favourite band is more than fair (8)
Tiny amount of money for exercise area's crazy (7)
Fooled by belt pinching Nike design (5,2)
Suspicious at Iron Man going in with bad guy (4-4)
Hurry, having let out large vehicle in front (6)
Living with difficulties from dodgy repairs? (5,5)
Al Pacino's beginning comeback with new project (4)
Hatches plan to skip church expedition (5)
Example of animated epic with humans chasing monsters, ultimately (8)
Sweet animals to look at (5-3)
Mother's knocked up top pancetta stuffing for meat (4)
State this country rejected Remain (6)
Watch drinking: wine knocked back's not easy to deal with (7)
Volume of whispers picked up (4)
Keep blocking selfies I deleted; it's easy (10)
False regret after relative's guillotined (6)
Small change (1.50 approximately) son put in box with writing things (6,4)
Upset about advanced age (3)
Extract from psychotherapist's article (3)
One condemned lad felt unlucky (3-5)
Live alongside former lover on island, splitting expenses (7)
End of equation should = 0 (6)
Hamper for when royalty's aboard punt (6)
Undercharge daughter for fuel (4)
Relief after penny spent (4)
Old handbook of tables giving precalculated values (5,8)
Small dog from Africa that cannot bark — Jane's bi (anag) (7)
Computer/phone connector (5)
Dandy (4)
Witness (6-2)
In a humble manner (6)
Portuguese Atlantic island group (6)
Percussion instrument — a ringlet (anag) (8)
Peas (anag) (4)
Speak (5)
Searched on the net (7)
Efficiently brief (5,3,5)
Curved strip of bone (3)
On the line (2,5)
Active male principle of the universe (contrasted with 'yin') (4)
Rioted (anag) (6)
WWII pilot prepared to make a suicidal attack (8)
Drain (anag) (5)
Recall the past (9)
Arrogant (9)
Most frank (8)
Disgust (7)
Advertising phrase connected to a product (6)
Adult insect (5)
Mother wit (4)
Mark above a lower case 'I' (3)
Some potato? A lot ordered with a snack in the tube (9)
Theatre is nothing to heartless devil (5)
International computer system's not hard, in my opinion (5)
Spooner and Imogen agree where Doll Tearsheet worked (5,4)
Mac to use moisturiser (7)
All our letters after B: A goes, for a start (7)
Female, inwardly modest, showing a bit of leg (5)
Go just over five days? (3)
Whiskey wanted back that is in inaccessible place (5)
It was used for building the holy city? Wrong (7)
Writing on page about excuse (7)
I rouse fools with cunning, no joking (9)
All the Spanish make commotions (2-3)
Miss a film that wins Oscar (5)
People carrier's small opening to reverse in a narrow street (9)
National leader veers off racecourse (4)
Remarkable Belgians performing, not live (6)
Abroad, a thousand separately enter coast, a part of peninsula (5,5)
Vehicle engine cover half made of such steel? (6)
Gall as old Greek character almost drowned in beer (3,5)
Green shade clothing brothers (4)
Period of which the present day is near the end (8)
Woman's rotten idea scaled down (4)
Cunning creature tucks head down a minute: it brings relief (5)
See the end of Harry Potter prepared for printing plate (10)
Interrupting wind energy for resident temporarily (5)
About to tuck into brownish-red biscuit (8)
New moon was spotted event­ually by outdoor worker (8)
They may subsidise part of service, but only with one rupee (6)
In affection, bind daughter in embrace, finally close (6)
Swimmer to show off briefly (4)
Miscellaneous stuff ends with these (4)
Origin of privileged performer (4)
One who achieved a state of perfect enlightenment, d. c.483 BC (6)
Spend (time in prison) (5)
American fraudster who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, d. in prison 2021 (6)
Cook gently in liquid below boiling point (6)
Burrowing shellfish (4)
A selection made purely at random (5,3)
Property specialist — negate taste (anag) (6,5)
US state (with a creeper?) (8)
Wish (4)
Kind of Swiss clock? (6)
Swoop (on) (6)
Camping canvas (5)
Chaste — valets (anag) (6)
Raised bumps for reading (7)
Weak and ineffectual person (7)
Pretentious (informal) (9)
Superficially impressive (5)
Islam's month of fasting (7)
Continent (6)
Small sour fruit used for making jam and jelly (4,5)
Muslim who fought against the Crusaders (7)
Drain (7)
Distinctive — normal (7)
Octave (anag) — wading bird (6)
Golf clubs (5)
Bob dreads pageboy? (7)
Dish in sink captured by Turner in pictures (7)
Forced Pat to hurry to catch American stage show (6,9)
Recipe with the last word in noodles (5)
Doctor Dickens et al snubbing English lecturers? (9)
Time to block low ball in sporting event (9)
Piece of cheese, say, and starter from wine list (5)
Red ruby uncovered and held by John (5)
Egotist from South America thus raced back (9)
How crow and dove move perhaps or fly sky high? (3,6)
Replayed service absorbing lots of time (5)
Determined about reaching the top, property tycoon means to be heard (8,7)
Idiot and nonchalant revolutionary in old kingdom (7)
Strippers stagger around clutching nether regions (7)
Low sound on beat failing to generate excitement (7)
Suffering onset of 'twisties' and Simone Biles shows resilience! (15)
Party with little quantity of beer is in order (9)
Scrubbing away a sea sponge secretion (5)
Diversification of retailers is certainly no lark (4,5)
Foppish fellow also losing head (5)
Sports gear, if set out, is a sporty adornment (2-6,7)
From the deep area near a lake entered by ship (7)
Being a lush country with no king after one fails (9)
Way to get a kitty cat plump (4-5)
Drink bottles different in club (7)
Tempting figure's about to eat doughnut pieces (7)
One rambling old US leader appears in 60 Minutes (5)
What you can see in bars, turning up for attack (3,2)
Take (to be true?) (6)
Source of confusion (6)
Pedicurist's tip? (7)
Most charming and beautiful woman (at the ball?) (5)
Grade 'A' (5)
Fair-weather timepiece (7)
It's often cast upon the waters (7,4)
Onslaught (7)
Unconventional (informal) (5)
Incinerated (5)
Very appetising (informal) (7)
Walk like a child (6)
Arouse (6)
Off course (6)
Sound like a bird (5)
Old Egyptian royal (7)
In a densely populated area (5)
Very large indefinite number (informal) (7)
In a uniform way (6)
When to drink up — Milo's gin etc (anag) (7,4)
Protected against loss or damage (7)
Not highly cultured (7)
Tactical move (6)
Link between two words (6)
Up to that moment (5)
Pain in the neck (5)
Daisy and Bruce playing with a kid (9)
Old film about tango that shows right amount of spirit (5)
A little nipper trapped between poles (7)
Execute dance, with Romeo standing in for Victor (7)
Consider route taken as read (5)
My goodness! Typical Ascot gear's time-consuming (5,4)
Endless clues for Rod's basket and tack (see below) (6-4-5)
Greeting KL native of great height (9)
One's message of dismay about gripping device? (5)
Titters infuriated some bars at the end (7)
Massive flier covers a short distance (7)
Catch container caught on rock (5)
In stunned state, the Spanish call for leniency (9)
Witch with warts transmogrified face with hands here (5,5)
Clubs avoid habit-forming E number? (8)
Measure litres then stupidly put in gallons (6)
Hide small close relations (4)
Huge fan carrying a horsey paper around (10)
One needing help in looking for EU complex? Definitely (4-4)
Output of sewer a running sore? (6)
Area's excellent service stifling resistance (4)
Even in case of forgery one paper appears twice (5-5)
Poet's time? It appears twice daily on one (3,2,5)
Revealing some material in Times earlier now and then (8)
Six seconds matter for man of the house (8)
Sleuth left very little to get his teeth into (6)
Players more willing to join society (6)
Ran away from rifle fire (4)
Phone old boy missing race once (4)
Badly bruised (5,3,4)
___ Days a Week, 1964 Beatles song (5)
Habitual drinker (informal) (7)
French holiday house in the country (4)
Royal egg (anag) — a drain on the church? (8)
Bodily secretion (6)
One who belongs (6)
Overshadowed (8)
Toothy smile (4)
Sounded angry (7)
Epigrammatic Japanese poem (5)
Something brought to mind (12)
Less serious (7)
Money-saving measures (4)
Something bought very cheaply (1,5)
Creative type (8)
Fresh — make-up (informal) (5)
Person who takes the risk for a new business (12)
Meat-free fast food (6,6)
Duplicate — twin (8)
Mexican pancake rolled round a filling (7)
Interfere (6)
Impassive (5)
If long, it's unlikely to succeed! (4)
Swimmers' academy? (6)
Lust is sadly seen over Brighton & Hove? (8)
A media king half ignored this social activity (5-3)
Rowing boat club? I remember some of that (6)
Foul zip location (5,3,4)
This type of clue is back — without a couple of letters, it's a killer! (4)
Cruise with a warmonger's axe or missile (8)
Rigorous check requires coupon in order to set up deposit account (4,4)
Second buzzer for auntie (4)
Annoyed with piece of furniture for TV (5-7)
Strong back or chest (6)
Endless spin in many institutions starts around copier (8)
Spend the summer dividing 1,000 by 200 in a rough calculation (8)
Veg party (6)
City conflict ends with weapon deployment (4,4)
Lovers stripped with poet to embrace love in the water (9)
In conclusion, layabout primarily swings the lead (6)
Don't make waves? (4,4,3,4)
What's up after stink in feeble opera (2,6)
American taxi round American centre (5)
The Guardian has coverage of gastric haemorrhage as a sign of desolation (10)
Unreliable and expensive cover for Alpha Romeo (10)
Breathe in/out and have a long sleep (9)
Bitter quarrel initially talked about after surgeon pockets tip (8)
Pleading for Quarex? (6)
Scar shown by Arab (5)
See 2
Often Iceland's (anag) — independent (4-9)
Tot up (3)
Confirms as true (9)
Moving — gin on tap (anag) (8)
Batty or Ephron? (4)
Spool back (6)
Kind of deep blue — metal (6)
Neglect (4)
Toyed (with something) (8)
Marie or Pierre Curie, say (9)
Tea-maker (3)
By a large degree (13)
Keen (5)
Queen's attendant (4-2-7)
Formal agreement (8)
Vintage stockings (6)
Right-hand woman or man (4)
Swindon-based heritage charity, founded 1895 (8,5)
Remote — unfriendly (7)
Hill where Jesus was crucified (8)
Turns down (7)
Italian Adriatic resort (6)
Small and appealing (informal) (5)
Opposed to (4)
Manage (4)
Hairdresser (8)
Shortage (4)
Extremely hungry (8)
Gibberish, nonsense (5,5)
Reliable (6)
Newspaper chief (6)
Impertinent behaviour (10)
Move overseas (8)
Muslim ruler (4)
Unmarried woman (8)
Operatic song (4)
Disaster (8)
Tonic (4-2-2)
Production (6)
Presentiment, apprehension (10)
Long heroic poem (4)
Violent anger (4)
Heraldic bearings (4,2,4)
Pennant, decoration (8)
Ill-defined situation (4,4)
Wriggle, squirm (6)
Housing converted from stables (4)
New Zealander (inf.) (4)
In hock to the bank (9)
Small shallow lake (4)
Hateful (9)
Wood shaping tool (4)
Lower oneself (5)
On impulse (6)
Nutty confection (6)
Dimwits (6)
Potential sources of danger (6)
One tends to ramble (5)
Flat-bottomed river boat (4)
Similar or equivalent in some respects (9)
Dance (by jumping up and down) (4)
At the start (9)
Atmosphere picked up instinctively (informal) (4)
Chess piece (4)
Something unusual (perhaps worth collecting) (6)
Chinese dumpling, usually served in soup (6)
Green patina that forms on copper, brass and bronze — diver's rig (anag) (9)
Time fades (anag) — negativity (9)
Water carrier (9)
Sea pigeon (anag) — undercover work (9)
Slacker's vice (5)
One's usually found by the fireside (5)
Log on (4,2)
Small spherical missile (6)
Old Turkish title of respect (4)
Take in — hoax (4)
Break one's word (9)
Dog number ten, a rare item (5)
Change loose dress (5)
Kept quiet, being shy (9)
The indignant take it as a violation (7)
Get snappy here when very warm in rear of ship (5,2)
Agitated by the disorder at university (3,2)
Part of a Dutch name for a vehicle (3)
When spoken endlessly, very Italian (5)
Such repetitive work attracts no living wage (7)
Naughtily fool guy with mystery science (7)
Military command contemplates where armies clash (4,5)
See 19 down
The quality is not entirely the same (5)
Had coin in change for part of south-east Asia (9)
Alternative PM that represents England for Shakespeare? (4,5,4)
Joint almost broken with doubled force (6)
A stirring race meeting? (7,3)
Bird's periodical food (6)
Apostle meeting God? It's child's play (5,3)
Youth spotted this problem (4)
I prove criminal American gets a police record (8)
Dolls are scattered round outhouse: one should be in cabinet (4,5,4)
See 1
No square dealings in this seat of power? (4,6)
See 8
Bill sounds cheap for pictures (8)
Another royal pulled down, one in Africa (8,5)
Scruffy representation of nudity (6)
Shout at youngster climbing platform in the sea (3,3)
See 1
Took a tumble from deadly hill (4)
See 8
Something shiny in church where the Pope is (6)
Stress bill will need a bit of money added (6)
Broadcast making one smile (4)
Plant needs crazy amount of liquid (6,4)
Understand article and be furious (6)
Old female leads the way, naturally (2,6)
Talk and smooch freely, when abandoning a city (9)
Guide always offers this thought (4)
It's absolutely right to get together (4)
Come down with sombre nobleman (9)
Strange artist keeping very quiet? I'm even quieter! (8)
Sergeant major facing soldiers? One's unlikely to be this! (6)
One may be in the dark when it comes to looking after people (5,5)
Son needs help, it's stated (4)
With mockery a rite's made to look silly (6)
Plain foot movement needed with gym (6)
Merciful post-war PM (7)
Set aside area of responsibility (5)
Arts graduate about to join little woman in play (7)
Squat in Essex river (6)
Preacher no longer one who thumps (9)
Aunt is rambling around one African country (7)
Teachers sorting out the classrooms (13)
Chap comes out with those unfair comments (5,4)
Extremities of planet full of spirit (7)
Man climbing trail — before he makes this? (7)
Seductress with anger — an evil character (7)
Second successful person, not the first, is a baddie (6)
Old Greek author sees river water rising (5)
Person working with coffee beans? (7)
1975 film starring Warren Beatty as a promiscuous LA hairdresser (7)
Soothing balm (7)
Leave (informal) (4,3)
Wild (5)
Impossible to hear properly (9)
Zoo (9)
Operation to catch a person committing a crime (informal) (5)
Blockhead (7)
Highly-regarded (7)
Cut down (7)
Grow tense (7)
High steep bank caused by river erosion (5)
Moore or McGough? (5)
They should bring you round (8,5)
Respiratory condition (6)
Vinaigrette, for example (5,8)
Poise shown under strain (6)
Something sweet to chew on (6)
Slacken (4)
Croquet or tennis venue (4)
Self-deprecating (6)
London columnist (6)
Rat or squirrel, say (6)
Awkward (5)
Grow old (3,2)
Bill's on cover but nothing inside newspaper (7)
Member of West Indies cult movement, one embraced by South America (2,5)
Fit wrapping round King's Row (5)
Chairperson, possibly, con­fronting potential killer for entertainment (4-5)
Memo composed by a family in outskirts of Hong Kong: 'No longer just a female role' (10)
Refined grade 'A' ore almost becomes a driving passion (4,4)
Lacking gravity, that's plain (12)
Butler juggling with claret — it's trajectory is clearly visible (6,6)
See 12
Turning aside cast in Cold Feet (10)
One's referee is closest (9)
Someone getting on Circle line by exit (5)
Talk on 50A light (3,4)
Pound tip of blade into unyielding weapon (7)
Poor quality tree entered in test (6)
Twice the trouble and strife in such a state? (6)
Started to welcome care, being tolerant (4-6)
Who's enemy of drink in Denmark? (5)
Off course, land without a dog (9)
Broadcast spoils instrument (4)
Morning person protected by spies in the country (8)
Cut in the sack covering makeshift grid (8)
Piercing cry that hurt head of little bird (7,3)
By which to read chart left by a member? (5,4)
Ravenous celebrity, Violet needs good sources (8)
Wage battles with arms, as tests of military strategies? (3,5)
Rook carried out and led off (6)
Definitely how a thought may be acted out (6)
General has chain for hanger-on (5)
Impression Brummie had drink? No time! (4)
Thoughtful towards others (11)
Decayed matter used to improve soil (4,5)
One of the old Cinque Ports in Sussex (3)
Circulated in a flash to a large audience on the internet (5)
Gunman's order! (5,2)
Earlier (6)
Speak ill of (6)
Money paid for a plane ticket (7)
Pay for food and/or drink consumed by others (5)
Carry it and take the blame (3)
Final warning (9)
Incisive (11)
Female reproductive cells (3)
Alike (7)
Like unbaked bread (6)
Toxic gas, Rn (5)
It's one way to get in (9)
Conciliatory gesture (5,6)
Male spies? (7,4)
Allusion (9)
Effort (7)
Tenant (6)
Cruel treatment (5)
Perfect score in Strictly Come Dancing (3)
Wireless picks up origins of alien transmission — reading it could heat things up (8)
Breaking bail — one's excuse? (5)
Recall 20% off cream hat (4)
Overly tense and risky to catch female mythical figure (5,5)
Series of notes in small capitals on drinks (6)
European royal family has swamped Britain with revolting food (8)
Address thus includes mountain time (5,2)
Hurry to climb into bed that's cleaned (7)
Graduate stands outside canteen over by the French group (8)
Ape eats second and third banana on top of the forest (6)
Work by English rector in charge of sheets? (6,4)
Evil king to fall (4)
Wise Sanders has blown his top (5)
The end of acts in play touring old city (8)
Snooker player shortens his equipment to gain power in competition (5,3)
One wearing protective gear in conduit (4)
40% of numerical facts, 50% lies in America? (6)
At Wimbledon bagel order covered by cheese roll (7)
City hit hard (4)
'I'd stab criminal', admits gangster in dock (5,5)
Note expensive car with gold and red top (6)
Refrain from taking holiday without other people? (5,5)
Sailor upset royal court … (3)
… boat's just capsized! (3)
Finally, the Times replaces work from rival advocate (8)
On Irish author said to be merry (7)
Rabble who are rioting, not acting to support society (6)
Star bit off vegetable (6)
Quaint boiled sweets unwrapped (4)
Pensioners back to front in TV programme (4)
Content of a cup at breakfast? (4-6,3)
Tiny piece (4)
Break new ground (8)
Musical instrument adjuster (5,5)
Moulded (6)
Just the gentlest wind (6)
Abstinence from alcohol (10)
Mechanical aids (8)
Spring (4)
Never done before (13)
Unqualified (8)
Shakespeare's unwise Athenian philanthropist who goes broke (5)
Neglected (7)
Bed (or table) cloth (5)
Various (7)
It could be 'five-bar' (4)
Defensive enclosure (8)
Large jug (7)
Like the peacemakers, biblically (7)
Out of control (5)
With no hidden extra costs (3,2)
Toady (4)
Another adjustment on TV (5)
Having exchanged parts, withdraw stage curtain (8)
Ma's said to groan, troubling helpful neighbours (4,10)
Typical report on patient's con­dition in absence of coppers? (2,6)
Decadent outdoor celebration after revolutionary force cleared out (6)
Motorway pull-ins: troops like to keep fixed watch here (4,5)
Cowboy gear contributing to colossal turnover (5)
Rotating poster with illuminated frame moving back and forth (5)
Burden I bear where fares are collected (4,5)
Worker on short holiday showing no interest (6)
Muscle, bit by ear affecting the mouth (8)
Everyone here is put on by firm (7,7)
Moving pictures detected evidence of arthritic joints (8)
Mast at sea trapping Nelson's second arm (5)
Refreshing change for vegan retiree (12)
Featured exhibit surveyed with theft in mind (9)
Opera awkward to cast with only one tenor (5)
Pray continue busy meeting, cutting in all over the place (2,2,5)
Brusque king tucking into chop (4)
Where to find information, if at turning between valleys? (4,5)
Clubman chucking out skinned cat (5)
It relays notes picked up from best-ever actor (6,6)
Everybody having bottoms raised, hands down (3,4,2)
Brownie groups bagging pound coins, primarily obsolete currency (9)
I must pack principal luggage for flight (9)
Job avoided by single English worker with dependents (5)
Monuments in honour of medics (5)
Unwanted discharge upsetting many (4)
Parting gesture (4)
Attractive younger companion at a public event (3,5)
Slightly left of centre? (4)
Watchful individual (8)
Delayed reaction to something unexpected (6,4)
Hubbub (6)
One gets lost in the countryside (6)
Lotion applied to the skin to make it less oily (10)
Promise to repair (or replace) faulty goods sold (8)
Resolution (4)
Incidentally (2,3,3)
Fluctuate (4)
Exhausted (5,3)
Lead (8)
Discount on goods purchased in quantity, say (6)
Charlie in Berlin, for instance (10)
The Senior Service (4)
It's a long story (4)
Fresh start (5,5)
Candied stalks used in cake decoration — nag Alice (anag) (8)
In one's mind (8)
___ Franklin, the Queen of Soul (6)
Mop (4)
How annoying! (4)
Within reduced amount, partners are said to provide so-called key arrangement (6)
Drunk with added power — it goes to one's head (6)
In place of carnival, time for something very amusing (4)
Owner, for one, taken in by erroneous report (10)
From water, retrieve reversible piece of harness (6)
Right temperature in car for one controlling the wheel, historically (8)
Use keyboard, yet needing revision without piano accurate in sound (9)
Like some humour the writer's penned, surprisingly strong? (4)
Indian dish for children's author (4)
Labour leader making a change, mostly wrong about everything (9)
Rugby thug hit male, held by supporter (8)
Failing to reach conclusions, made many crazy (6)
African city's counterpart of White House? (10)
A Berliner's affirmative vote, one opposed by people of Paris (4)
Part of the above money, including 50% from bank (6)
State that's just north of Washington and New York (6)
Parisian who, exceptionally, is somewhat shaky (7)
Key in beginning withheld from tenant (5)
Convert finally changed priest for one offering better advice (7)
Astronomer's model in error — after switching two bits, okay finally (6)
If under pressure, get going again (9)
New Yorker putting duck in home for birds (7)
Aiming to follow foolish instruction in nursery (5-8)
Novel I pen as she produces religious book (9)
In strange dialect, having big mouth? (7)
Buddhist leader embracing naughty dance (7)
In former president's way, excluding old part of US (7)
Wife of villain I spotted in a fruit tree, climbing (6)
Medic with a degree works in theatre (5)
Spiritually significant journey (10)
Florid (3-5)
Not valid in law (4)
Allotted time (4)
(Make a) high-pitched sound (7)
Defoe's often (anag) — stuck-up (6-5)
Breach (7)
Seven-Year ___ , 1955 film starring Marilyn Monroe with Tom Ewell (4)
Talk too much (about) (2,2)
Raging (8)
Comfortably off (4-6)
Iron (5)
Stopped (4,3)
Grass mound (4)
Profession of both Chekhov and Zhivago? (8)
Artistic category (5)
Cut up (6)
Absorbing item (3,5)
He may suit you (6)
Small case with a flat bottom and a shoulder strap (7)
(Make a) sudden thrust (5)
Persistently pursue (5)
Upkeep (4)
Form of capital punishment (8,5)
Rebuff, ignore (4)
Supervisor, manager (8)
mischievous sprite in Irish folklore (10)
Untidy handwriting (6)
Record-player needle (6)
Muti-talented (3-7)
Logical (8)
Squirrel's nest (4)
Repressive period following the French Revolution (5,2,6)
Clemency, tolerance (8)
Pole tossed in Scottish games (5)
Politically progressive (7)
Papal court (5)
Forerunner of the taxicab (7)
Image of a god etc, (4)
Part of the mind acting as a conscience (8)
Astonishing (7)
Highlighted, focussed (7)
Language, dialect (inf.) (5)
Lowest point (5)
Vigil (4)
Engrossing thriller of a book (4-6)
Cattle thief who makes a noise? (7)
Rough — brusque (5)
Extensive (4)
Place for a quick bite (5,3)
Do something with abandon (3,3)
Stick (to) (6)
Partridge or pheasant? (4,4)
Flat circular shape (4)
Rot (5)
One of nine in an alley (7)
Keen fan (10)
Strikes an attitude (5)
Substantial gap (4)
Crowd (6)
Oliver Cromwell, for instance (8)
Calm (7)
Advantages enjoyed by certain groups (10)
Rather unlikely (3-7)
Definitely not on the side of the angels (8)
Leisure (4,3)
The Sistine Chapel has many such paintings (6)
Song opening (5)
Permission to enter another country (4)
Tasty paste from West Asia used all round Britain (6)
Penny finished with favourite doll (6)
Juliet with nausea spewed over bag for writer (4,6)
Winter vehicle currently parking in Berkshire town (10)
Pitch declared first-class for part of match (6)
Gas put a tiny bit of taste into negroni cocktail (8)
Syrup mixed in drink in garden awfully popular at the end of June (9)
Sailor leaving American navy joint (4)
Find out about American saints (4)
When sister gets to beat backside of current helper? (9)
Vicar with ale brewed for royalist supporter (8)
Ukip leader entering vehicle getting a shock (6)
Cantankerous old person who's against burying muck in drive (10)
Lad clutching top of designer group (4)
See 9
Rotten secretary hiding intro­duction to promissory note (6)
Helium in water changing climate (7)
Small vegetable is shiny (5)
Bird damaged on a road (7)
Increased shame is difficult to control (6)
Champion rugby player working at hospital department (9)
Label meat cooked for partners in the ring (3,4)
Depressed setter with gin drunk in No 10? (7,6)
Gymnasts upset about source of unusual eye movements (9)
Bone with small top joined to bone with no name (7)
Eager trainee losing end of decider on points (7)
Mounted police meeting a member about going from place to place (7)
Go round base of col in rocky ridge (6)
Graduate set up software program for religious leader (5)
Wrong ruler is plummeting (7)
Compile extraordinary argument (7)
Royal drink returned (5)
Learn when determined (9)
Detective: 'I tape every criminal' (7,3)
Shelter in Middle England (3)
Terrible slur spread about pedigree dogs (4,8)
Party inflicting damage around River Wye, initially (5-7)
The French kiss is sloppy (3)
Snap over final talk about cause of environmental damage (7,3)
Shop supplying equipment to make public healthier (9)
Relative in French resort taking drug (5)
Fix Liberal journalist dealt with (7)
Ask to keep note folded (7)
Band's journey in the Home Counties (6)
New attempt to return drink to mug (6)
Spiteful nut rallied around (3-7)
Apply wash to top of granary loaf (5)
Thick-skinned individual marched awkwardly around yard after start of parade (9)
Fat boy taking run (4)
Simpler to cross line after money gets more paltry (8)
Study poetry in commune (8)
Ephemeral nature of rotting nectarines (10)
Distributed flyers from field and took flight across centre of Monterey (9)
Relax away from home beneath cloudy slope (5,3)
Unrealistic question by one alien losing head (8)
Target protest (6)
Silver buck returned as decided (6)
Bit of southern rubbish (5)
Boy born unwell (4)
Secret key to admission (8)
Jazz style (4)
Badge of honour (5)
Betrayal (7)
Enrolment (12)
Unexpected outcomes (6)
Entrance or exit (6)
Not appropriate — if licentious (anag) (12)
It sets out targets (3,4)
Change (5)
Forbid (4)
Made a sign (8)
Mechanical device that blows or sucks (4)
Dejection (7)
Portable radio transmitter/receiver (6-6)
Move in a circle (6)
Cabinet minister's first name, meaning 'wise man' (5)
Unpleasant wet (8)
Anti-authority — rant at cleric (anag) (12)
Imposed a penalty (8)
Division between Northern and Southern hemispheres (7)
Father Time traditionally carries one (6)
Harmonise (3,2)
Generated (4)
2 securing old, old driver (7)
Quintet and quartet where one might check out 2 (7)
2 drops in for meat (4)
Cheese left, acknowledge unfinished (4,5)
2 picking up record (5)
Name gong bagged by more than one of twelve (8)
Wobbly stuff, Hindu music rejected (4)
2's flute, perhaps (5)
2 shut up (4)
Suitcase on bed before end of life — where one pegs out (8)
Small skirt's pinned on back (5)
On reflection, what one might have said on meeting river with a religious leader (9)
17 across, composer appearing in month — where reason for being late remains unknown? (4,7)
Army, one broken from now on (3,4)
See 22
2 succeeding often on the radio — as another? (4)
Maestro primarily inspired by work in creation of score? (8)
Tyrant locking last of opponents in garage (6)
Notes from female 2 (8)
20 down, 19 and 12 across in Dutch village once (6)
Correct, somewhat vindicated I thought (4)
Ultimately, number being all wrong, take one back (4,1,4)
14, 19 and 12 across drink (5)
2 looking discontented, musical talent claims (5)
Directors of Indian state embark (2,6)
Line in solid design of aero­nautical engineering triumph (8)
Musical section briefly captivating royal 2 (6)
2: chap stealing hearts, ending in despair (6)
2, one being paid without limits (4)
Score the finest music, 'Messiah' last of all (4)
Luxuriate (4)
Inherent in the nature of something (8)
Ham it up (7)
Twelfth Night's cross-dressing heroine (5)
Body of written work of the highest quality (5)
Page edge (6)
Steps leading to a bad conclusion! (8,5)
Fabric stiffener (6)
Pointed projection (5)
Workwear item (5)
Cupboard space (7)
Outside light (4,4)
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (4)
Reading room furniture? (8)
Loosely-coiled amount of yarn (5)
Marked change — shipmate's room (anag) (13)
Large organ of the abdomen (5)
Spanish pork sausage (7)
Thirteen rugby league players (4)
Doze (6)
Colour of the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's boat (3-5)
Temporary (7)
Tube for transferring liquid from one container to another (6)
Incur (debts) (3,2)
Over 18 (2,3)
It's signed, sealed and delivered (4)
Hurry to join mums in the club (6)
Snack — you've nibbled one when entertaining Hamish? (8)
American soldiers first to enter the lists (5)
Danish ace reorganised estates (9)
It's obvious what cricketers don't want — to risk injury in nets? (9)
News stories of two couples? (5)
Tiger Moth has to fly last bit of the journey (4,8)
Smear son -- isn't one person without any faults apparently (7,5)
A poor actor with nothing wandering around beach (5)
Logically decide what could produce a snore (6,3)
Beautiful old lover, who in Paris is given designated place (9)
Eats possibly, as some in France outside home (5)
Tiny tree developing — it never stops (8)
Sets of opinions society rejected, socialist getting squashed (6)
A thousand winged creatures seen around in the morning — they are huge (8)
Signs of hope with reformed businessman abandoning sin (8)
Picture opportunity for children to have a day off school (5)
Belonging to Tory team, class thinking of no one else (13)
Treasures former PM's wife's keeping shut up (9)
Asian performance said to be put in order? (6)
Take a firm line with trendy little girl — end of argument (6)
Safety device earthed badly — struggle to get into it (4,9)
Leaping as non-U greeting (9)
Abandoned drunk is being given shelter (8)
Pro-centralising politicians — figures not in charge (8)
You may follow top cleric, a comic fellow (6)
What sounds like protective layer in ship (6)
Lowly soldiers embarrassed about rank (5)
Fitful (9)
Widespread loathing (5)
Romantic attachment (7)
Intimate and cosy gossip (8)
High point of St Peter's Basilica (4)
Official pass (6)
The swine won't appreciate them (6)
A necessary thing (4)
Takes cab (anag) — inferior position (8)
Most piercing (7)
Named the ninth rock from the sun in 1930, demoted to 'dwarf planet' in 2006 (5)
Become suspicious (5,1,3)
Meaningful (8)
In flames (6)
Alcohol made from fermented honey (4)
Impolite (12)
Exchange of views (12)
Physical reaction to something hair-raising (5,7)
Stressful (4-8)
Where one is vulnerable (4,4)
Salesperson's spiel (6)
Somewhere up in the Lake District? (4)
Trendy supplement found in salmon, for example (7)
Prolific detective sounds like he could become gloomy (7)
Force party to compromise (4,2)
Flourishing American business admirer (2,6)
What's left of cash after my leaving United (3)
Get out of bed to correct lie? (6)
Face up to change — it may be refreshing (3,2,3)
Lewis initially accepts blame for shooting game (5)
Didn't tie up as much when full of such energy (9)
Cruel ambassador with no diplomatic skills (9)
Stations spies around … (5)
… leading politician switching motorway to south — very worrying (8)
Cut duty for practise without hesitation (6)
Saintly Irish woman taking odd characters from Vietnam (3)
Unconventional tough guy receives information on personal problem (8)
Figures leading American university conference … (6)
… hide the real corruption (7)
Take off topless summer wear (7)
Section of team at Euros not getting paid (7)
Dilapidated house due proper reconstruction (4-5)
It's weird seeing number two dressed in blue (6)
Solitary confinement for international criminal (2,6)
Explode, as fool stands on foot (2,3)
Examine permits for slots (7)
Training inept GI forces — how long might it be? (5,2,6)
One who should apologise getting into row during play? (9)
Dull work may come to an end (8)
Experience essential to keeping resort modern (7)
Food and drink from France spiked with drug? (7)
Cause fall in LA when turning head to right? (6)
Divide stuff that is found inside (2,3)
Don't succumb (6)
Small ___ (Andrea Levy, 2004) (6)
Kind of hard stone (5)
Humiliation (7)
Become ill again (after initial recovery) (7)
Speedy (5)
It puts one off (9)
Second largest of the Great Lakes (5)
Flexible (7)
Talk over (7)
Back tooth (5)
One of Shakespeare's 154 (6)
Inaccurate (6)
Clean up one's act (6)
Accomplished (7)
Stay awake (3,2)
Snap up — a bit (7)
Be in accord (5)
Indicate (6)
Dismal (9)
Brother's hairstyle (7)
In name only (7)
Greek island and city (6)
Thin on the ground (6)
Moved upwards (5)
Paperwork (abbr) (5)
Nick's school loathed bolshy characters (9,4)
See 1
Crazy money? It's on credit! (8)
Talked about a lift — making arrangements (6)
Act unwisely and get lost (4,2)
Blasted policeman stops old press chief (8)
Discussed shrink, for example (6)
Dole desperate woman's claimed here? Probably not (2,6)
Old but surprisingly keeping most of hair? Hmm! (8)
Flight instruments I replaced (6)
Correct, sport — ion is a particle (8)
Came across reactionary for a moderate (6)
Book related in 2, which does cover the basics (6)
Briefly show murderer turned evil (8)
Overbearing on film set — part's recast (4-9)
See 26
Elegy awful, Gray initially admitted (5)
Historian understood country (7)
What happens during night never brought up (5)
Dirty picture upset Derek to begin with (7)
Careers masters forced to take care of PE department — that's not right! (9)
Shelter with or without husband (7)
Song about bloody American upset serviceman? (3,6)
Cut corners — someone in charge originally needs to be disciplined (9)
Queen to retire February 1st in shock (no alternative) (9)
Trouble inside — punch unwelcome visitor to house (7)
Policy supported by Unionists ready for the future (5,2)
Land where people break into song (7)
English runner participating in Jakarta Marathon (5)
Praise highly, though out of key (5)
One who exhumed Yorick's skull in Hamlet (11)
Sudden change of government by force (4)
Thing (or person) that is no longer useful (4,4)
Examine (7)
Original (5)
Seize without authority (5)
Parody (7)
Tentative (8)
Hard work — work hard (4)
Parliament, for instance (11)
Act seductively (4)
Legal decision (7)
Equal (5)
One can whip up something to eat (3,5)
An obvious change in public opinion (11)
A convenience for hotel guests (4,7)
1970s' sitcom starring Ronnie Barker, set in Slade prison (8)
Horseless highwayman of old (7)
Outdated (5)
Plug — promote (4)
Does not take sides in a dispute; doesn't make a clear choice (4,2,3,5)
Musical term [1] (6)
Piedmont province known for its sparkling wine (4)
See 7
Final stages of a chess game, negotiation, etc (7)
Musical term [2] (5)
Coincide; concur (5)
7/10 – in a word! (7)
Taking action against something bad before it becomes worse (8,3,3)
Dig (for minerals): kind of bomb (4)
Uncouth; harsh (6)
See 20
Bartolomeu ----, Portuguese explorer associated with the Cape of Good Hope (4)
Inquiring; quizzing (6)
Erstwhile; formerly (7)
Shakespearean sprite (5)
Phrygian 'Mother of all Gods' equating to the Greek Rhea or Demeter (6)
Large white roundish Asiatic legume – usually dried (8)
Antigone? (anag) (8)
Bulky; onerous (7)
The ------: period 1804-15 in France under Napoleon Bonaparte (6)
Attempt to influence; fix (6)
Tendon; gristle (5)
Niche; recess (4)
Red dyestuff used in food (not for vegans) (9)
Distribute the cards (4)
Proof (8)
When they're 18, it's time to take off! (6)
Entertaining company (6)
Smoked fish (one that's asleep?) (6)
Fine cotton fabric, often used to strain food (6)
British Virgin Islands, say (3,5)
In another direction (4)
At three-month intervals (9)
Paper size (8)
Destroys documents (6)
Take a firm stand (6)
Uncovered (4)
Requiring specialist knowledge to be understood (9)
Not persuaded (9)
You need to get over this to get on (8)
Return to a previous state (6)
Source of stable food? (6)
Move (something) with effort (4)
Shattering sort of news (8)
Siren's nose (6)
One takes a little bite, aftertaste coming back (4)
Impound vessel for unpaid work (10)
Bread for example not fresh, but quietly accepted (6)
Taking the driving seat, change gear after a short distance (2,6)
Tied house right behind field (7)
Son enjoying a spliff, adding more to burn (7)
A boy's boy? (8)
Roughly remove dressing for bad cut (6)
Moving under, can do circular steps (5,5)
Wicket perhaps finally suggesting skulduggery (4)
Senior cleric taking care of a junior one (6)
Music suggested by dejected Royal Navy? (3,5)
A woman of colour (8)
Beat time in a trance (4)
Eat around six? Wonderful! (6)
European travel: journey is a gratifying experience (3-4)
Time-saving hairdo? (5,3)
Astonished to be punched in the face (10)
King looking at what typist is doing (6)
Pretend to be an impresario (3,2,2,3)
One booked into hotel has seen dirt all over the place (8)
Refinements that used to go with smart shirts? (8)
From madness, putting out small idiotic remark (7)
Not the ways, we hear, to travel to this island (6)
A writer about myself and distant ancestors (6)
Good and bad quantity of drink (4)
A slice of chorizo needed, as far as one can see (7)
Baseball player's pet singer? (7)
Middleman's oddly abandoned notion (4)
Top actress playing for them, say (10)
The Lord has one for each letting in light (6)
Came to a vigil in the graveyard at last (8)
[Extremely stormy night here: movement's not natural] (9)
Setter values cross (5)
Devon and Cornwall listener's vow (5)
Emphasise policy must follow European articles (9)
Look again for academic work (8)
Like shoulders of beef or lamb, they can be smoked (6)
Pope endlessly fiddling with his holy principles (10)
Almost nobody here at midday (4)
Wrongfully arrest the first of dodgy dealers (7)
Location of a debutante's first gown (7)
Neat hospital worker (7)
Originally introduced the aphorism 'love your country' (5)
Make a comment that's awfully verbose (7)
Real and current (6)
Elaborate charade about time left for city feature (9)
Sounds like Hemingway is serious (7)
Ties rocking horse's tail with pin (13)
West End composer went ahead and took a trip (9)
If reporting rain or sunny spells, for example (7)
Appreciated conclusion about job yet unfinished (7)
Sonatina played endlessly in many a country (7)
Her Majesty not disguising herself in rubber (6)
Intimate meal with no starter (5)
It precedes the main event (7-6)
Most precious (7)
Gave form to (5)
Bucket (4)
What surrounds a kernel (8)
Ned Kelly, for instance (6)
Spanish madam (6)
Authorised (8)
Pipe for channelling smoke (4)
Secret love affair (5)
Dense group of bushes (7)
Extremists — cut fingernail (anag) (7,6)
Disreputable chap (3)
Pragmatic sort (7)
Suddenly terminated (4)
Cricketing reprieve (3,3)
Set upon in a surprise attack (8)
Shoot from a concealed position (5)
Strike back (9)
Media event for celebrities (9)
Card game played in casinos (8)
Wet weather gear (7)
Putty-style sealant (6)
Look cross (5)
'New Look' fashion designer Christian ___ , d. 1957 (4)
Secure — connection (3)
State welcome includes a whiskey — first class! (6)
Wife's at home, the husband's out and runs when it's cold (6)
Speed is 1,000 and 100 in reverse (4)
Mother and boy tend to awkwardness (10)
Nice lemon in tonic, mixed right inside (6)
Stomach problem from avid reader's head going hard (8)
For example, woman will pack extremely ginormous cases (9)
Old criminal carrying a burden (4)
Recovering abstainer leaves drink (4)
Outstanding independent region houses 2,000 people altogether (9)
Rejecting volunteers, politician's swamped by mock test essays (8)
Missile to stun borders of Egypt (6)
Unable to write 49 + 51 three times a quarter? (10)
Second piece of bacon (4)
Thatcher's revolting for jailing opposition leader and the Queen (6)
Get away with key? (6)