Clues Starting With

s

Soon afterwards (4)

Someone with experience (3,4)

Sit once more in tranquillity (6)

Slides, as with sliding rocks (9)

Study absorbing info about English traitor (8)

Scandal involving royal house making bit of capital (9,4)

Sets of offices (8)

Sport's comeback following change passed on (7,2)

Swinger's bar? (7)

Stew — raw, yet tasteless (6)

Some Mafioso hoodlums in New York district (4)

Still taking in first piece of information (9)

Significant island wrapped by Christo somehow! (8)

Shrink gets paler as husband moves back (6)

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)

Small share of profits for what's at risk? (5)

Stopper's team come together for opener (9)

Seismic disturbances (6)

Surprising part of a story? (5)

Small kind of onion (7)

Service just the same, no good (8)

Soldier keeps to rules I lay down (9)

Skill needing to keep working in male community (9)

Short high-pitched warning signal (4)

Seal accepted a lot of money for getting close and personal (9)

Sea snail is more fresh by river (5)

Stir herb stews; they're regenerative (8)

Smarty-pants, cold, the French musician, vacuous crook (6,4)

Setter had cryptic clue earlier: 'father of geometry?' (6)

Silly, stupid, bad: a fast scramble (4,2,1,5)

Squalid housing (4)

Soothing or restorative substance (4)

Single stone in the form of an obelisk, say (8)

Simon and Garfunkel number, say (4)

Schubert composition about a European capital (9)

Strangely tasty cep seen as belonging to the same sort (8)

Set of clubs given to girl (5)

Sticky stuff coating large end of rectangular dressing (7)

Spool for thread endlessly going up and down (6)

Space given to lean recruit (6)

Social 20 across accepting large, grand residence (6)

Spreadsheet: advanced and superb (9)

Small, small person may be cross (6)

Send off old wine (6)

Some offer a reward — definitely not well done! (4)

Sensational (8)

Small amphibians (5)

Somersault hit the roof (4)

Stripling in 14 having dropped male off (8)

Sozzled, rich upper-class lady taking water under pressure? (9)

Something perhaps 2 27 when you bash in peg the wrong way (3,6)

Swipe right (11)

Sleep with looker after bar (4-3)

Sticky label near thing (5,4)

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)

Sign male put over top of septic tank … (8)

Stunner squeezing fiance’s bottom is a poser (6)

Star, Ringo perhaps, announced: 'Good, EU's beginning to evaporate' (10)

Scrappy Sea Lord arms cannon again? (7)

Spanish dance (6)

Suddenly (3,2,4)

Scottish dance (4)

Somerset town close to the Devonshire border (6)

Soviet Union's leader after Lenin's death in 1924 (6)

Second sign of hesitation to enter filthy house (9)

Start to search inside hollow part of tooth (4)

Short of energy, resistance overwhelmed by United (5)

Saleswoman recalled trouble over carbon copy (7)

State-backed broadcast interrupted by Love Island (7)

Son feebly playing alone (2,7)

Several problems with our visa (7)

Set up support for Special Branch (5)

Shock in underworld after rising Mafia boss cleared out (9)

Set sail, turn craft east heading for Okinawa (2,2,3)

Stone with coloured bands (5)

State categorically (6)

Steady on there! (4)

Spy gets kind of crimson once cover's blown (5)

Singer Moyet left first to hide one love affair (7)

Second chicken drinks beer on top of barn for encouragement … (6-7)

Silent comic ain't curt (8)

Send a bill (7)

Shots from above hit destroyer's bow — lost about six, not nine (4,5)

Set way of raising money? (8)

Shock permeates island — without cuts taxes shoot up (9)

Sport I abandoned that is extremely rough (6)

Sit around drinking sensible healthy drinks (7)

Stars from old film genre turned up (5)

Sages who followed a star (4)

Subsequently (10)

Seldom (anag) (6)

Set up for use (6)

Sacred work is a tiny bit tacky at the outset (5)

Showing false modesty, leading around rodent (5)

Strategic opening of play in tense state (8)

Scope for freedom of action (8)

Studio — I relate (anag) (7)

Second person from Paris informally dressed by runner for Chanel, say? (9)

Stop from trembling in fear behind king (7)

Since I'm talking to a techie: play in a forest! (2,3,4,2)

Strangely, he dreamt that he drank with a dormouse (3,3,6)

Spicy pepper: Rod has urge to tuck in (7)

Storage vault for bones (7,5)

Spanish rice dish (6)

Setter's role is to communicate (6)

Sacrifice bad English jewellery (8)

Spouse detailed to return with catch (6)

Subordinate part in inferior play (6,6)

Shakespeare's 'food of love'? (5)

Small working sailing boat (6)

Short respite (8)

Summer weather coming in, button up dress (6)

Skilled with scalping, hotel make one pay a bomb (5,6)

Spice — met gnu (anag) (6)

Short-sightedness (6)

Small — modest (5)

Stiffener, for instance, taken over time (4)

Shackle produced by Roman soldiers seizing rebel leader (3,4)

Sublime member of singing group (7)

Sports event official's broadcast from another planet (7)

See eye to eye (5)

Star of the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life (5,7)

Strong protective structure in middle of a dual carriageway (5,7)

Stage empty, this with 26? (4,4)

Sensation, this with 26? (6)

Set up trap in matching puzzles (7)

Small game bird (5)

Scottish children (6)

Stage direction stops working in theatre play (3,11)

Summons a vehicle back across open ground (8)

Subtle, absorbing end of tale one's related (5)

Sky — gosh! (7)

Singers reported in the paper (5)

Sea essentially still and flat (11)

Script of bodice ripper originally found in abandoned toilet (8)

Seamen like part of a church, we're told? (4)

Some detecting rat in some French dishes (7)

Supremely ethereal, revered angel playing horn, primarily? (6)

Society's customs and conventions (5)

Soft felt hat (6)

Sheepshank, for example (4)

Starters of soup unusually served hot in cold dish (5)

Stowing silver, 1,000kg carrying capacity (7)

Site of massacre, Missouri style? (5)

Some water — sort of service needed by home (5)

Severe — not entirely Mister Nice (5)

See list that includes guerrilla fighter (9)

Shady deal to get a mean dwelling (8)

Sailor to do wrong when given the drink (8)

Source of inspiration university maiden found in the V&A? (6)

Such elders could be event organisers (10)

Second team player (4)

Stern composed features female's lacking (7)

Shade of meaning (6)

Seabird — pro yes (anag) (6)

Shrubs (to rest on?) (7)

Space for change bowler given second over from the other end (5,4)

Stop dead: cougar to the left (3,2)

Spooner's swimmer might seize the chance (4,3)

Small west European country (7)

State of great confusion (6)

Study of other-worldly sightings (7)

Self-assured, able to absorb study after study (9)

Sign agreement — book available outside without question (2,5)

Social climber (4)

See you later! (informal) (6-2)

Strive — strife (8)

Smell carrion meat every now and then (5)

Soldier with drug amongst 11 raving — forging bond (9)

Small catch when man working on the house accepts direct debit (7)

Sensible king swaps sides first, I see (9)

Stolen? I'll walk clear of all charges arising (3-6)

Set of conventions (4)

Secretory organ (5)

Sheriff's officer (7)

Slap on the bottom with an open hand (5)

Senselessness (6)

Slightly drunk (6)

Sound out group retreats for the famous (6)

Socratic version of what 16 across is (8)

Scoundrel creates wicked home for liberal arts (7)

Slow down — consider putting in time for golf (6)

Sweet picture, perhaps added by discrete software module (5,4)

Superstar provides heavenly bread stuffed with delicious olive tips (7)

Specify individually (7)

Standard partners getting off with sadists (5,3,7)

School uniform matches period in history (9)

Secret Service after prince over Virginia (7)

Sins with time on hands, son admitted (10)

Short underwear is more flashy (8)

Strong emotion caused by a real or supposed grievance (3)

Sunday? That's right, man (7)

Star setter's raised to finish (6)

Source of irritation (5)

Steep rock face (5)

Snappy reptile (abbr) (4)

Something of concern (6)

Suddenly understand (informal) (4)

Same fur wound around friends initially warming couple? (8)

Suspicion understood by ruthless fictional species on being abandoned (7)

Syncopated music (4)

Salt Lake City's state (4)

Smart clothes for a formal occasion (informal) (4,4)

Senior naval rank (7)

Surface of a cut gemstone (5)

Sound of a revving engine (5)

Scowling, dropping some flour in gravy (7)

Sport I play in good health (6)

Settlements in town send me nuts (10)

Saint and top monk losing bishop's shoe (5)

Stalemate as setter's out of date (7)

Second head of security upset secret service (6)

Smell (unpleasantly) (4)

Score at the wrong end (3,4)

Shifting voter? (7)

Socio-economic classes (6)

Sixteenth of a pound (5)

See returning ambassador dashing around (6)

Sound a group of singers had picked up (8)

Sport and dance curtailed when leg gets crushed (4,4)

Sovereign's beginning to appear with piece of regalia for someone in Lusatia (4)

South-west English county (6)

Seasoned officer's penetrating voice (5)

Should one mix basil with the last of coriander? (9)

Something whose name one has forgotten (informal) (6)

Shout of pleasure from one flying along! (4)

Start getting judge to sit astride horse (7)

Shop around hot city (5)

Scientist testing ice melting (10)

Sailor has bath outside in river (6)

Setter's upward stroke blocks shot — pity! (8)

Shut up! Setter's dug around issue (10)

Second US president back in A&E — cause of dysentery? (7)

Sept, Nov: Dec remains (6)

Stick all fingers and thumbs right into sponge cake (10)

Setter throwing up egg and a piece of chicken (7)

Stop drug, nothing injected (7)

Sing (to a lover?) (8)

Small flower (on a chain?) (5)

Substantial size (4)

Spanish American labourer (4)

Sharp — statue (anag) (6)

Sporting trousers kept taut by underfoot bands (3,5)

Stress fractures overwhelming writer's family members (7)

Should the East stop ignoring borders? (3,2)

Stressed at first, man hoovered shoddily (5,4)

Still taking no sides, refer to uprising (8)

Sad face reflected jealous heart inside (4)

Sailor's fallen into the sea — not entirely sober, to be honest (5,5)

Suspicious at Iron Man going in with bad guy (4-4)

Sweet animals to look at (5-3)

State this country rejected Remain (6)

Small change (1.50 approximately) son put in box with writing things (6,4)

Small dog from Africa that cannot bark — Jane's bi (anag) (7)

Searched on the net (7)

Some potato? A lot ordered with a snack in the tube (9)

Spooner and Imogen agree where Doll Tearsheet worked (5,4)

See the end of Harry Potter prepared for printing plate (10)

Swimmer to show off briefly (4)

Spend (time in prison) (5)

Superficially impressive (5)

Small sour fruit used for making jam and jelly (4,5)

Strippers stagger around clutching nether regions (7)

Suffering onset of 'twisties' and Simone Biles shows resilience! (15)

Scrubbing away a sea sponge secretion (5)

Sports gear, if set out, is a sporty adornment (2-6,7)

Source of confusion (6)

Sound like a bird (5)

Six seconds matter for man of the house (8)

Sleuth left very little to get his teeth into (6)

Sounded angry (7)

Something brought to mind (12)

Something bought very cheaply (1,5)

Swimmers' academy? (6)

Second buzzer for auntie (4)

Strong back or chest (6)

Spend the summer dividing 1,000 by 200 in a rough calculation (8)

Scar shown by Arab (5)

Swindon-based heritage charity, founded 1895 (8,5)

Small and appealing (informal) (5)

Small shallow lake (4)

Similar or equivalent in some respects (9)

Something unusual (perhaps worth collecting) (6)

Sea pigeon (anag) — undercover work (9)

Slacker's vice (5)

Small spherical missile (6)

Such repetitive work attracts no living wage (7)

Scruffy representation of nudity (6)

Shout at youngster climbing platform in the sea (3,3)

Something shiny in church where the Pope is (6)

Stress bill will need a bit of money added (6)

Strange artist keeping very quiet? I'm even quieter! (8)

Sergeant major facing soldiers? One's unlikely to be this! (6)

Son needs help, it's stated (4)

Set aside area of responsibility (5)

Squat in Essex river (6)

Seductress with anger — an evil character (7)

Second successful person, not the first, is a baddie (6)

Soothing balm (7)

Something sweet to chew on (6)

Self-deprecating (6)

Someone getting on Circle line by exit (5)

Started to welcome care, being tolerant (4-6)

Speak ill of (6)

Series of notes in small capitals on drinks (6)

Snooker player shortens his equipment to gain power in competition (5,3)

Sailor upset royal court … (3)

Star bit off vegetable (6)

Shakespeare's unwise Athenian philanthropist who goes broke (5)

Slightly left of centre? (4)

State that's just north of Washington and New York (6)

Spiritually significant journey (10)

Seven-Year ___ , 1955 film starring Marilyn Monroe with Tom Ewell (4)

Small case with a flat bottom and a shoulder strap (7)

Supervisor, manager (8)

Squirrel's nest (4)

Strikes an attitude (5)

Substantial gap (4)

Song opening (5)

Syrup mixed in drink in garden awfully popular at the end of June (9)

Sailor leaving American navy joint (4)

Small vegetable is shiny (5)

Shelter in Middle England (3)

Snap over final talk about cause of environmental damage (7,3)

Shop supplying equipment to make public healthier (9)

Spiteful nut rallied around (3-7)

Simpler to cross line after money gets more paltry (8)

Study poetry in commune (8)

Silver buck returned as decided (6)

Secret key to admission (8)

Suitcase on bed before end of life — where one pegs out (8)

Small skirt's pinned on back (5)

Score the finest music, 'Messiah' last of all (4)

Steps leading to a bad conclusion! (8,5)

Spanish pork sausage (7)

Snack — you've nibbled one when entertaining Hamish? (8)

Smear son -- isn't one person without any faults apparently (7,5)

Sets of opinions society rejected, socialist getting squashed (6)

Signs of hope with reformed businessman abandoning sin (8)

Safety device earthed badly — struggle to get into it (4,9)

Stressful (4-8)

Salesperson's spiel (6)

Somewhere up in the Lake District? (4)

Stations spies around … (5)

Saintly Irish woman taking odd characters from Vietnam (3)

Section of team at Euros not getting paid (7)

Solitary confinement for international criminal (2,6)

Small ___ (Andrea Levy, 2004) (6)

Second largest of the Great Lakes (5)

Stay awake (3,2)

Snap up — a bit (7)

Shelter with or without husband (7)

Song about bloody American upset serviceman? (3,6)

Sudden change of government by force (4)

Seize without authority (5)

Shakespearean sprite (5)

Smoked fish (one that's asleep?) (6)

Source of stable food? (6)

Shattering sort of news (8)

Siren's nose (6)

Son enjoying a spliff, adding more to burn (7)

Senior cleric taking care of a junior one (6)

Setter values cross (5)

Sounds like Hemingway is serious (7)

Sonatina played endlessly in many a country (7)

Spanish madam (6)

Secret love affair (5)

Suddenly terminated (4)

Set upon in a surprise attack (8)

Shoot from a concealed position (5)

Strike back (9)

Secure — connection (3)

State welcome includes a whiskey — first class! (6)

Speed is 1,000 and 100 in reverse (4)

Stomach problem from avid reader's head going hard (8)

Second piece of bacon (4)

Suspended sentence? (7)

Sells millions on hot streak … (7)

Snake about to bite Rob to bits (5)

Students grouped according to ability (6)

Sister's headgear (6)

Shattering revelation (9)

Someone on the way out ? (5)

Society invested in remedy for affliction (5)

Seabird uncommon in Atlantic state (5)

Smart painter regularly showing bends in track (7)

Senseless victims in the crime bled horribly (5,5,4)

Semi-automatic pistol first patented in Germany in 1898 (5)

Symbolic figure supposed to bring good luck (6)

Sham flier heading north in gannet, acting like magpie? (9)

Shag explorer lying back, commander (7)

Squawk by old bird, though not old bird! (5)

Swallow against birds flying west (7)

Shake tree, perhaps, where there's cuckoo I feed a lot (9)

Some fugitive, as yet loose (4)

Secretary regularly takes breaks (6)

Spired; pyramidal (5)

Shrub found in Colorado and California (4)

Suggest leaving end of webbing out of panel strengthening garment (6)

Scientific study of works claiming most of credit (6)

Standard of dinner mostly OK (7)

Serious chap from Spain disposes of heroin for son (6)

Show contempt for facility that makes you sick (7)

Sailors' song (3,6)

Soldier on watch (6)

Sound the strings of a guitar, say (5)

Son with present (sweet flower) (8)

State means to create a fast road (10)

Seek legal redress (3)

Searching for gold? (11)

Samplings of public opinion (5)

Scarper (informal) (2,1,6)

Significant imperfections (5)

Sort of tour with topless models (7-4)

Scrounger, one claiming to pocket pounds (7)

Sort of sexual transport? (5)

Sort of prisoner left us: may travel for safety abroad (9,6)

Strongly opposed (to) (4)

Sign on back of door, only reversed on the outside (5)

Seen briefly (8)

Stirred about violently (8)

Swirl — she founded Christian Science (1866) (4)

Small biting fly (4)

Short leather trousers with braces (10)

Stop work or other activity (4,2,5)

Subdivision; quarter (6)

Simple and guileless (5)

Small mammal with a long snout (5)

Spooky fairground ride (5,5)

Sort of pipe Spooner couldn't confuse! (7)

School is excellent, but beginning to go bad (4)

Size of old temporary housing (6)

Sphere in which your fortune may lie (7,4)

Start getting leg fixed (5)

Small weight for a big cat (5)

Sometimes includes rejected article (4)

Soldiers question holding party with English side getting beat again (9)

Slippery fish cooked on banks of Tay (6)

Social networking website (8)

Scottish church (4)

Smash hit podcast on radio originally — completely timeless and joyful (9)

School's covering my burn (6)

Silent after vacation with a very loud man (5)

Soften bulletin describing support from the east (7)

Second service goes over net to get game (5,4)

Sample pitted fruit — it's dull (6)

Show off exaggeratedly (5)

Swift bold hero (anag) — 1485 battle (8,5)

Sleep (informal) (4-3)

Stop a flow of blood, say (7)

Stop cutting curly hair daily (3,4)

Substitute player knocked unconscious, part of boot on youngster's head (10)

Sudden crisis (9)

Small talk? (6-6)

Statue, for example, friend of 26 across returned (5)

Some travel guides in his language for philosopher (9)

Savoir faire includes the writer being understood (5)

Source of information that bears fruit (9)

Small streams (5)

Scottish dances (5)

Socks, maybe churchwarden's gardening gear (8)

Some players at Twickers rifle kitbag (8)

Sink; fish (navy slang) (7)

Showing Europe's upset about vote (8)

Source of stone that is sought by hunters (6)

Sailor's container wrapped in poor paper (6)

Speaks by street, speaks with hesitation (8)

Some splendid artificial flower in Devon (4)

Science to record way of thinking about 1001 (12)

Soldiers take up cricket, say, to catch ball (6)

Skating arena (3,4)

Sound of insect or fly (4)

Some say terrible judge gives mark for changing letters (9)

Star in hurry loses hour by chance (8)

Substitute neither first nor last at first (4)

States 'authentic' writing (6)

Shiny metal (6)

Sea captain (7)

Sow's house (6)

Something left (or left unfinished!) (6)

Stringed instrument that's bowed (5)

Stiff vigil ending in very famous gardens surrounded by water (8)

She'll be the cause of the problem — Czech female and her male crush (8,2,5)

Spare tyre limp -- grease added for repair (6-3,6)

Swiss-German painter finally taken with English Times, an absorbing paper (7)

Side with everybody unknown (4)

Something that scurries sideways (4)

Scattered about (4,3,5)

Slang — jargon (5)

Socket on a golf club head into which the shaft is fitted (5)

Slave to the latest trends (7,6)

Small number (1,3)

Sound the horn (4)

Showing the qualities expected of a political leader? (13)

Small fleet (8)

Stars sit around, no lovers of red revolution (8)

Such relentless questioning of machine gun's capability (5-4)

Snag: first horse is missing and must be scratched (4)

Second maiden playing as member of band (7)

Satan was revolting (5)

Some frothy molecular substance used as antiseptic (6)

Surround restrictively (3,2)

Secondary proposition from man docked on lunar module (5)

Snack bar's offering primarily beans and pork sausages (4)

Serving men very roughly (2,2)

Sort of camera (7)

Suitable for a high-ranking peer (5)

Somewhat mischievous fairy (7)

Socialise with those of a higher status (6)

Speech-related examination includes a trio composition (9)

Saul certainly suppresses corrupting influence (5)

Start to tuck in old hat label (5)

Slight head cold (7)

Showing prejudice (9)

Signal agreement (3)

School temperature drops (5)

Snap after Prince's angry words (9)

Spirit? Sounds like it (5)

Stop, son! Dad ordered a drink (6,3,4)

Snare pointless — change of heart required (5)

Small aquatic bird that builds floating nests (5)

Soldiers at front of unit take seditious action (6)

Stands in line and moves gently around it (6)

Small edible fish (8)

Support for the frame of a ship (4)

Sweet made famous by the town of Montelimar in the Rhone Valley (6)

Salty little fish (7)

Successfully prevent (5)

Shortly, Samuel will welcome Sidney back for painful practice (6)

Sign for dance heads removed, showing lack of insight (9)

Soccer war stirred up by one not moving in field (9)

Secure land abandoned by thousands — how sad! (3,3)

Shanghai regularly deserted? It's a long story (4)

Sedate don goes wild when definitely passed over (5,4)

Sycophant is present as duke descends (5)

Sentimentality (8)

Spiny tree or shrub with small yellow or white flowers (6)

Spectacles clipped to the nose (5-3)

Sound navigation and ranging system (5)

Socially pretentious woman (informal) (4,4)

Sealed instruction for some severe brothers (8,5)

Stub toes carelessly: most stupid (8)

Sound like a hen (5)

Syrian capital (8)

Sixth colour in a rainbow (6)

Story about a stink over North American water (4,4)

School hung maps showing growth in bogs (8)

Single thickness of a substance lying over or under another (5)

Struggles with 5 + 8 + 7? I've left 'e' out, not even in order (6)

Smartens up princess, scruffy without pin (7)

Stronger sack carrying money (roubles) (6)

State partly controlled by a stronger one (12)

Street's not a place for events and functions (5)

Sternutation (6)

Sneakiest oath? (anag) (5,1,5,2)

Sorceress wife of Jason; Euripides drama (5)

Slang word for moneys (7)

Small hole for a lace or cord to be drawn through (6)

Swimming; floating (6)

Small cut of beef from the underside of a sirloin (5,6)

Strip the skin off (4)

Suggestive implication (8)

Spades sever rabbit's tail (4)

Sounds exasperated by announced dimensions (5)

Sellers wanting source of valuable drug back (7)

Setter's new and unusual RIP sign is thought-provoking (9)

Savings made by doctor sent to meet leaders of emergency governance group (4,3)

Sort out tangled hair (4)

Supply lavishly with food and drink (6)

Stringed instrument — I'm curled (anag) (8)

Sense a trap? (5,1,3)

Seaside walkway (9)

Solitude of one very Latin about love (9)

Shock the French after kick-off? (7)

Stale so not broadcast (7)

Say, are you home before midnight, feeling sorry? (5)

Stupid mistake to make bread (7)

Spits blood and isolates? Not a problem! (5,2)

Summarise (briefly) (5)

Sink clearer (7)

Song she sang about bishop where 2 etc found? (8)

Small plant-sucking insect (5)

Surprisingly easy task (8)

Sudden outburst (5-2)

Surgical knife (7)

Supply water (7)

Served with ice cream on top or at the side (1,2,4)

Small natural hill (5)

Scottish island hiding unknown girl (4)

Something on the menu is finished article (5)

Spot one like Rees-Mogg occupying grandiose residence (6)

Secular — blasphemous (7)

South Pacific island country where Robert Louis Stevenson died and is buried (5)

Source of one's daily bread? (6)

Stomach the first piece of music I had to play repeatedly (7)

So predecessor briefly thanks said composer who accepts a lot? (8)

Showy piece of music learner turned up (4)

Stupid suggestion, apart from one name, from 28 to 10 (10)

Space for church organ frequently left above (4)

Solemnly declare (4)

Showing concern for people's welfare — airman in a hut (anag) (12)

Significant advance (12)

Spend (time or money) (6)

Sikorsky or Stravinsky? (4)

Sceptic, non-idealist (5)

Sum up, capture succinctly (11)

Sore; corrupting influence (5)

Skin irritation caused by weather (8)

Small barrel (3)

Select — option (6)

Step out of line (7)

Social environment (6)

Swinish ogre hiding in tree (7)

Set up English duke to take Crete break (7)

Sham aims of one providing hoods (7)

Spread meant as a greeting (7)

Salt put over the French silver coin (5)

Stick out for diamonds in authentic setting (8)

Sides with boxer finally winning on points (6)

Son has spine endlessly rotated as part of the healing process (4)

Screen star has rude journalist retreating (8)

Still recalled catching tube with shopping cart on wheels (7)

Sound disapproving of motorway expansion (4)

Sailor's back on ship pursuing ocean fish (3,4)

Spirited session? (6)

See Mark's predicament (4)

Stable's opening tack room — it's slow (6,4)

Small bottle found in a drug smuggler containing cannabis, mostly (7)

Sharp police unit infiltrating revolutionary spies (6)

Stunned banks withdraw from Mae West fight (3-6)

Sick have small portion under doctor — it might well be boring (5,3)

Small change for policeman (6)

Self-denying (7)

Support for young boxer, perhaps (4,2)

Scandal reflected on a society girl (6)

Superintendent close to entrance stopping joyrider? (9)

Setter's contrarily breaking engagement to take another course (7)

Sphere of operation (5)

Semi-slave, endlessly cheeky revolutionary (4)

Suggested not breaking any laws on terror (8)

Signs midday's about time when lunch is taken? (8)

Shiny decoration (6)

Shakespeare's Malvolio is definitely one! (10)

South Korean film, Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards (8)

Sigmund or Clement? (5)

Sweden's third city (5)

Something to be skated around (3,4)

Something to revolve around (4)

Standing up, let vicar out (8)

Source of milk I'm beginning to exploit between lunch and dinner (7)

Soldiers to yield or retreat (6)

Soon minister in cathedral will get caught out (4)

Summarise journey with six deliveries? (3,4)

Sticks containers outside back of house (5)

Set of instructions for US TV show? (7)

Small characters leave playground equipment with branch (4)

Short boy munches a vegetable (4)

Spa treatment? (12)

Spur to action (8)

Starting a relationship primarily around sex: strings attached to this? (5)

Steps goal hit, travelling miles over run (9)

Sydney's iconic beach (5)

Seize control illegally (6)

Small harbour for pleasure craft (6)

School sited between Derby and Oxford, initially (4)

Submission issuer occasionally supports to soften things up (9)

Stubbornly persistent (or boarish?) (9)

Sudden involuntary movement (5)

Short and stout (6)

Shiny food wrapper (7)

Storage space (6)

Scrub area with ericaceous plants (5)

Shred; surviving trace (7)

Sudden unexpected departure (4)

Something tedious and boring (4)

Spanish poet coming from Mallorca (5)

Scotsman and journalist together working initially in a part of Greece (9)

Silver coin in tin belonging to someone from Barcelona? (7)

Snigger about raised surface of biscuit (6,4)

Southern sailors going north catch first of piranha fish (6)

Seafood and soy mixed by the Irish regularly (7)

Sinks part of Cornetto into pancake (4,5)

Spite of male character associated with the Queen of Hearts (6)

Shifts and stumbles, starting late (6)

Stone Age pottery, possibly first pieces found in county (8)

Stuffiest bar on street (7)

Spicy starter replaced by second-rate soup (6)

Ship in the past taking king aboard (4)

Supporters of the printed word? (8)

Second showing? (6)

Stares open-mouthed (5)

Skincare product (8)

Shave round blonde fringe, this female's hairy (3-4)

Soldier with swimmer and aviator on the periphery (6)

Square cap worn by Roman Catholic clergy (7)

Starts to prevaricate over man in trouble — flipping fatty lump (6)

Sweetheart, continue having drinks outside! We look after the workers (10)

Solemn promise (6)

Support; take the side of (4,3)

Spend freely (6,3)

Sydney's location (3,5,5)

Start an operating system again (6)

Scandinavian port city (4)

Sweeping, managing to cover stretch of river (3-8)

Stick parts of biro delicately together (3)

Ship with pirate (7)

Serious expert's dissatisfied look (7)

Survive stages on them? You're nearly finished! (4,4)

Support rigid line, for example (6,3)

Scientist is away during scrap (6)

Stuck-up (2-2-2)

Sack — cause for alarm? (4)

Sum of money (6)

Stars sent bananas during light meal (13)

Somerset village above a gorge (7)

SI unit of electric potential (4)

Spanish bullfighter (6)

Started rising also inside base in revolt (6,2)

Small part of input for person given challenging task requiring password (6)

Small, usually nocturnal, lizard (5)

Swimmer's bloody outdated style (3,6)

Sheath for a blade (8)

Showing compassion (6)

Strange and disturbing (5)

Sign of virtue from samurai, periodically welcoming new role (7)

Stick characters in erotic lingerie (5)

Supreme Norse god (4)

Stop moving (6)

Sobriquet of Harry Lillis Crosby Jr. (4)

Sell at an artificially low price (4)

Showy or exciting display (10)

Sport of Annika Sorenstam (4)

Swollen-headed (4)

Small long-haired dog (4,7)

Single male working as wise guy (7)

Surveys struggles to capture wicket after six balls (9)

Sacks carrying trade explosives (9)

Start with 1 + (2 x 22) + 4 + 1 + 50 (7)

Study to comprehend modus operandi in evil spirit (5)

Sideshow game's hard mountain to climb after two zeroes (6)

Somewhere to sleep in Matlock? (8)

Setting not right for celebrity (4)

Stylishness (5)

Spanish Mediterranean island (5)

Spain and Portugal start to indict secret police chief (6)

Splendid, if cheap, shot by Yankee (6)

Sexism may be regularly sparked by vodka essence in non-alcoholic drink (9)

Supporter for the woman in a depression (8)

Stretch and have a long life, it is said (6)

Stop rejecting the heart of Jesus to become a believer (5)

Spooner's US agent stuns night-time prowler (3,3)

Stone chucked by a canoeist hit islands in the Pacific (7)

Subsidised do with no press involved (9)

Smuttier note increasingly snooty beginner dropped (9)

Some pang in animals? Certainly in humans! (6)

Subject of a portrait (6)

Spanish princess (7)

Stocking material (5)

Small playful being with magical powers (6)

Situation where no progress is possible (7)

Subtle difference; nicety (6)

Save; deliver (6)

Sell (informal) (4)

Style of 19th-century English architecture, interior design and furniture (7)

Some poorly crafted material (5)

Surprising success for nightmare? (4,5)

Suspect image of Matilda with one wearing knitted pattern (9)

See Senegal's rebuilt city (3,7)

Shabby mandate, mostly mine (8)

Something left out (8)

Solidified lava used as an abrasive (6)

State of great agitation (4)

Sporting grannie almost won National (9)

Street seller's recipe involved with rice? (5)

Shaker town holding back migration (4)

Sailor's girlfriend with yen to yield to independence — the virgin kind? (5,3)

Seaside feature: sex initiation plus nude swimming (4,4)

Set your sights on a state-backed scholarly environment (8)

Southern French town's excuse, when independence lost (4)

Superfluity (8)

Single American woman is out (6)

Story books given to public library, initially (4)

Solid may drip when melted (7)

See sign showing decay (6)

Short bloke with hard dog (7)

Shallow vessel to move across under bottom (6)

Senior member of a group (5)

State capital placed within a river (8)

Soul, after treatment, indeed scratching no more? (8)

Splendid — tearing (7)

Shining (as eyes?) (7)

Special constable carrying radio, pulled out every so often? (8)

Spiritual range, undergoing change of direction? Rubbish (6)

Spud (informal) (5)

Study of waterworks (7)

Still active (for a pensioner?) (4)

Summary, synopsis (6)

Seed husks; refuse (5)

Skedaddle (4,1,3,3,2)

Small amount (7)

Supporting band's skill in German (6)

Swallows singular fluids (5)

Smart chap I fancy is one running prescription-based outlet? (10)

Studious obsessive — coat (6)

Smack sharply (6)

So-called essayist creating role of princess after 8 (4)

See (an eyesore?) (5)

Structure with roof and walls (7)

Shortcoming (6)

Slight problem with some fixtures and fittings (6)

Skip American politician being caught by cleaner (8)

Shop selling 15 (3-7)

Stake (that may be upped?) (4)

Sacred animal for Hindus? (4,3)

Start, as thieves may, to engage with two breaking in (3-4)

Stone to crush — this is just breaking now! (4,5)

Showing a complex palinode, wanting name translated (7)

Spar with graduates boxing in street (8)

Soldier punching awful weed pulling prank on American (6)

Siberian city (4)

Supporter of a cause (8)

Skating jump (4)

Structure supporting electric cables (5)

Short break (6)

Stingy person (7)

Son who plays truant (2-4)

Suspend meetings of professional fraudster? (8)

Small, almost entirely disgusting, bug (6)

Secure present for fan (6)

Smear something on back of book obscuring ending (4)

Support dodgy lease with highly professional language (8)

Studies some of unused utensils returned (6)

Start rolling stone (5)

Soft suede leather (7)

Sudden higher birth rate (4,4)

Semi-precious diamond-like gemstone (6)

Suffer side-effects from touching performance (5)

State question, enclosing note with answer (6)

Star in Pirates of the Caribbean, b. 1963 (4)

Solicit votes (7)

Small beetle with an elongated snout (6)

Skewer doll on back of truck for return (5)

Superior-sounding greeting (4)

Sees great possibility in Roman exploits (3,6)

Sensational (7)

Spots, or what's said to be spots (5)

Scotch is a no-no for Rugby School's leader (5,2,3,4)

Steadier lassoes left by one more likely to snap (7)

Sup rum with pastry one disliked after rising (7)

State old raiment is worn out — by these folk? (15)

Slight drunkenness (9)

Short rest for refreshment (3,5)

Savoury jelly (5)

Southeast Asian country (8)

Sleuth of inferior quality concealing hesitation (8)

Social event with meaning for writer (9)

Spotted puffed-up character on TV (2,6)

Study decapitated religious figure (3)

Short, endlessly short and unwelcome occupants (9)

Stream of gas upset some homeowners, initially (4)

Spiral of hair plastered on the forehead (4,4)

Sulky behaviour (9)

Strong and active (8)

Space mission souvenir display behind tip (8)

Spotted drugs of different colours (6)

Sentimentality effected with each brainwave (4,4)

See you soon! (5)

Shapeless jelly-like forms (5)

See drain (anag) — next to the kerb (8)

Stranger at back of band? (7)

Search old parts belonging to record? (8,4)

Song to develop: originally called press for review (4,2,6)

Self-righteous (4)

Setter's receiving benefit, needing a turn in the air (6)

Somnambulate (9)

Study of word origins (9)

Smooth-talking, plausible (4)

Statement added to or revising a proposal (9)

Starting point for darts players (4)

Severe skin abscess — clean curb (anag) (9)

Shiny decorative disc (6)

Showing signs of use (4)

Small fruit with perfect flavour (9)

Son attempts to steal 500 Australian trousers (7)

State dollars get old rope (5)

Short dating description: 'wearing thongs (not northern model)' (4)

Setter's embracing a royal queen (4)

Stories of elite soldiers capturing a German leader (5)

Seaman conceals grim smells (6)

Serve as a piece of furniture, somehow not the best? (8)

Scottish island to the west with rocky hill — one offers an account (8)

Smashing fellow deemed mad is lying in grass (10)

Spy on street is Harry (6)

Sends (money in payment) (6)

Someone to discuss ideas with (8,5)

San Francisco-based international mobility provider, founded 2009 (4)

Silly man perversely pinching church collection (10)

Stand in for Republican first lady penning tale (7)

Stars from Mourinho's last club possibly retiring (5)

Supplies weight to tilt part of mechanism (4,5)

Strong candidate (9)

Slough's roundabout, one in desert (4)

Stevenage, Corby and Skelmersdale, for example (3,5)

Secure — a place to keep valuables (4)

Sculptor known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze figures, d. 1986 (5,5)

Saw dog wearing lead (7)

Smart card contains expensive piece (7)

Slowly introduce prayer for dead fellow involved in action (4,4)

Slightly deaf (4-2-7)

Scanty, inadequate (6)

Split in two (4)

Screams, mixed up with a slaughter (8)

Statesmen changed limit on welfare (5,4)

South African plant makes for refreshing drink (6)

Short cut for sailor returning to work (3,3)

Strange design has not succeeded for this gemstone (6)

Say spots come up with starchy food (6)

Strong drink put husband into poverty (8)

Sponsor new op art collection (6)

Study long, absorbing Time article about teeth (6)

Self-righteous individual (4)

State in Brazil covered in Virginia creeper (4)

Solitary record success includes REM riff (6)

Selfish oddball with attempt to oust Conservative (10)

Sound of baby bird or seal (6)

Stupid holding court, you said, making general statement (6)

Surrounded by (5)

Some smear campaigns provide spin (3)

Stop visiting suspect with diamonds hidden all over the place (10)

Star announced support for record company's move overseas (8)

Strong drink (6)

Significant (8)

Secured by spike, deadly scrap metal objects (7)

Song, melody (3)

Staircase post (5)

Source of cocoa, chocolate (5)

Slimy substance (3)

Space used by surgeons? (7)

Spoken communication (4-2-5)

Stammering man's just what's needed by worker (8)

Smart agent grabbing short sleep (6)

Some hate amateurish group of players (4)

Son far from straight in making complaint in the main? (6)

Sound of small seal or young swan (6)

Slope connecting two levels (4)

Sea creatures with stinging tentacles (9)

Scrap broadcast about jazz (7)

Saying pale child, name concealed, is perhaps now 11 books ahead (5,3,4,3)

Serious consequences as that fellow will always secure first place (4,2,3)

Spirit watching over a person or place (6)

Seafood cocktail ingredient (5)

Shelter with or without husband (7)

Seek office as an American in China, India or another country (7)

Slander hospital, receiving stick for muscle treatment (7)

Small arboreal ape of south-east Asia, with long, strong arms (6)

Short published biography of someone recently dead (abbr) (4)

Sum up succinctly (11)

Supermarket carrier (6)

Smooth(er) — padre's nap (anag) (9)

Short (and revealing?) (6)

Snow? All right to seek shelter in church (4)

Stir created by retreats with slight confusion at the end (5)

Sentimental mum with desire to restrict kid, initially (7)

Some chocolate brought over in perfect case of cocoa beans (7)

Seems towelling filled with poo, shake a leg! (4,6)

Sentry found nothing right in hooligan (7)

Strait-laced (8)

Set of rules, principles or laws (4)

Supporting wheel on child's bike (10)

Slaughterhouse (8)

Speak off the cuff (2-3)

Shakespearean tragic hero (7)

Seal — prestige (6)

Still alive (6)

Small crown (7)

Satisfying taste of opium a mirage, some found (5)

Showing great energy, take sides in another upheaval (2,3,4)

Singular small accessory for one's darling (7)

Sign of the zodiac (6)

Sailor steals one advanced piece of jewellery (5)

Short reptile in half of China (4)

Simultaneously elected soldier and three students taking English (2,8)

Soldiers go back-to-back during exercise, 1 out of 10? (6)

Smartphone function (5)

Strauss waltz (3,4,6)

Simpson losing head in drinking spree? He may be a facilitator (9)

Spat hard bit of sausage out (4)

Singer Jones carries on, not yet proven (7)

Sale's not open? (5,3,7)

Stig mostly capable racing around though it's not good for the environment (7,3)

Strong and sturdy (6)

Severe suffering (7)

South Pacific's librettist (11)

Spare the criminal a list of his crimes (3,5)

Sea creature shows weak balance with oxygen originally depleted (8)

Stop me wandering haphazardly through village (6)

Straighten out to take left? The reverse actually (3,5)

Some log in with permutation of made up expression (9)

She sounds out difficult note for singer (5)

Self-centred person (6)

Sign of saintliness (4)

Some adventure now needed for glory (6)

Strip of pasta (6)

Scraped area on the skin (8)

Stringed instrument — Irish emblem (4)

Seventh planet from the sun (6)

Supply with gold before beginning to laugh and cry (9)

Servant goes after farm animal in frenzy (7)

Ship neat rum for player (8)

Substitute Queen rested by entrance to zoo (6)

Small picture shows day when teachers get more training (5)

Some modest poetry (4)

Some schoolteacher's suffering (4)

Serious grant? (5)

Shropshire market town with a castle (6)

Savoury pear-shaped fruit (7)

Smashing individual, say, in line behind museum (6)

Severe traffic jam (8)

Snappier person coming over (7)

Smarten up pages around margin (5)

Suffer to keep up (7)

Scottish landowner (5)

Shoulder muscle (7)

Star hit hard — browned off (9)

Speed of light and then boom and collapse (7)

State of a city's vehicle model (6)

Ship lay at sea to receive chief's initial examination (8)

Summary, synopsis (6)

Seed husks; refuse (5)

Sturdy dog breed from northern China (4,4)

Smooth-talking (4)

Setter's second ghost theme? Elgar ultimately promises to be puzzling (10)

Spooner's entire factory shouldn't make a big deal from this? (8)

Strong man's not ’ard (4)

Story books make a special gift (6)

Scattered — irregular (8)

Shopping container (7)

Sliced mullet? (3)

Sheerness embracing King and Crown with one last word (7,3)

Small spiny fish (11)

Setter about to eat £25 Caesar salad, perhaps (6)

Scrap the second group picked up (3-2)

Style of ragtime piano music (informal) (5-4)

Sit — pose (5)

Swallow cocktail the second one's left (6)

Star is given fixed allowance for festivity (11)

Seasoned sausage with starters of stuffed aubergines lures friend in Paris (6)

Staple Western character nursing leg when shot (10)

Stranded, isolated (3,2,1,4)

Shop keeper (8)

Small stream (4)

Swimmer who goes down without any breathing equipment (4-5)

Scientist ordered to abstain initially refused (8)

Stylish sports side eliminated (8,3)

Scraps applications for medical treatment (7)

Sovereign states dealing with charity (6)

Suspicion at first about tenor's singing style (4)

Something of little value (9)

Scintillate — stir gel (anag) (7)

Star in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, b. 1940 (6)

Standards judged to be sad, then sadder, so to speak? (8)

Secrecy ultimately maintained, is able to ’arbour killer (7)

Source of inspiration, play a villain (6)

Sentence like wordplay? (6)

Small fragments — he inserts me (anag) (11)

Starsky's TV partner (5)

System for transporting passengers or freight in carriers suspended from a cable (7)

Stage name of chairman carrying large first book? (8)

Simpson breaking bugger's back where fights occur (5)

Sponge John having picked up a bit of fluff (5)

Service breaks in general essentially all together (2,5)

Starts to interrupt reporter, asking questions in a form of Arabic (5)

Stylish and expensive (6)

Song of praise (4)

Secondary food (4,4)

Shredded cabbage salad (8)

Seeker of prey (8)

South American pack animal (5)

Straight-laced (4)

Sphere for seers (7,4)

Salty liquid drop (4)

Seeming to be everywhere at once (8)

Symmetrically arranged (4)

Sign of the zodiac (5)

Switch edges on dresses? That's rational (5)

Stressed from being off centre? Au contraire! (2,4)

Semi-verbal, say, after drinking too much of this? (8)

Star I'm backing to take off? (5)

Strong face lacks depth but shows some promise (9)

Stovepipe that's struck by 21 (4,3)

Sacrifice (5,8)

Synthetic fibre (5)

Stubble cutter (5)

See people, not initially for sex (10)

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