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)

Southend (Essex) has the world's longest one built for pleasure (4)

Scottish town briefly captured by poor country (7)

Surface, perhaps carpeted (5)

Sinuous and seductive (informal) (6)

Small suitcase (6)

Sudden commotion (6)

Struggle against (6)

Small, lyre-shaped musical instrument (4,4)

Stratagem, ruse (4)

Shaping machine (5)

Spoonful — exclusive story (5)

Stress from 'sexercise' (6)

Swimmer's hairstyle (6)

Static on the radio provides material for writers (10)

Stressed editor after cooking pies and mash (10)

Switch to sailor mode (8)

Sensitive — difficult (6)

Steal a march on (6)

Shower with love (4)

Single-storey house (8)

Small finch — ten-nil (anag) (6)

Self-contained rotating gun platform (6)

Stokes is bowling? That's a blessing! (7)

Substance (heroin) found in part of Ireland (5)

See shiner among Democrats go dangerously leftward (3,4)

Show contempt for doctor, conveyed by digital signal (6)

Ship's engineers rush up (6)

Slim and elegant (6)

Some like sandwiches (honey?) (3)

Silliest place to find eggs? (7)

Sort of biker regularly wearing glasses (7)

Special design representing something (6)

Short comedy sketch (4)

Sudden loud noise (4)

Small fund for incidental expenses (5,4)

Steal scene in film (4)

Stadium slashed flat charge (6,4)

State with new shed for dairy cow (6)

Skilled arboriculturist initially shortened branch (5)

Suddenly get angry (5)

Shy — unsure (5)

Secretly planned in advance (3-2)

Source of mighty growth around university, a Spanish city (1,6)

Sweetheart wearing golden jacket (5)

Stick gas in middle (6)

Sweet roll with toppings or fillings (from Copenhagen?) (6,6)

Sanitary practices (7)

Services that can't be sent back (4)

Sportier (anag) — characters in pantomime, usually with whitened faces (8)

Sign of the zodiac (9)

Soft leather made originally from goatskin (7)

Send packing (3,3)

Sweet shop robbed as regulars left on time (6)

Scene from the past of vulgar rugby player (9)

Superficial journalist settled (7)

Stone bull seen around New York (4)

Song of fire and ice, both essentially over (8)

Sanctimonious husband's lie on oath hurt badly (6-4-4)

Stay on team (6)

See German keeping Germany essentially cushy for residents (7)

Supervise six balls with date (7)

Spongy cake/bread roll (6)

Snake-like fish (4)

Strong, quick to recover (9)

Summarise and re-state (12)

Solemn promise (6)

Short-lived (9)

Showing courage (6)

Sluggishness (6)

Second mate welcoming Republican like Bush (7)

Stock cut, investing currency from the east (9)

Setter was in the van, needing return fare from here (4)

Spoil losing weight, getting evenly round figure (6)

Somewhat rowdy, a hoodlum? (5)

Small amount of cash turned up (100 pounds) outside diner (9)

Something a writer finds absorbing? (8,5)

Sign of the zodiac (6)

Sound like a pig? (4)

She manipulates earl during two different services (8)

Spoke total sense at last to Democrat (7)

Support country after revolution with reputational damage? (7)

Score — at Rochester (anag) (11)

Sports car (or sofa?) (3-6)

Speaking parts? (6)

Spare item cut (4)

Swear, finding head of pigeon on shelf (6)

Small flat dish: slip in fruit (4-1-5)

Short table for fish (4)

Someone at sea at sea? (10)

Sound like a horse (5)

Spot on a Hindu forehead (5)

State capital initially provided with one cold large pond (7)

Secretive, a bit like a 20th-century avant-garde composer? (5)

Shock when rocker perhaps goes topless (4)

Snake on top of tea packet? (4)

Set routine (6)

State where people have more than one spouse at a time (8)

Stretch out (8)

Sterilize an animal (4)

Surroundings (6)

Select only the best (6-4)

Star actor's brief dramatic role (5)

Storm troop wildly racing? (5,5)

Soft drink for a glib type (8)

Speculator, one believing in hoarding gold (8)

Strange salute putting off English in US city (5)

Stupid person offering a bit of food (6)

Sailor dispatched to the ends of empire — one who can't be here (8)

Storing wood — it's a pain collecting it (8)

Spooky session of political party in Durham, for instance (6)

Suggest it's all right for woman in 4 to eat (5)

Secondary to (5)

Search (through someone's things) without permission (5)

Shows testicles at the front: small trunks (3,6)

Studies points following detective’s case (4)

Sailor's flag at sea (4)

Specific task that must be done regularly (5)

Someone against development in their own area (5)

Strong spoken or written attack on a person or idea (7)

Select a particular song and walk out (4,3,3)

Swallow or martin consuming other birds' food? (4)

Screwed up large stopper to protect drum (7)

Shock in city rising after treasurer cleared out (6)

State of extreme poverty (4)

Small-headed nail (4)

Supposed cure for all ills (6)

Scoundrel breaks into song in rural paradise (7)

Safety barrier (4,4)

Shown how tense it can be in hearing (6)

Specific — fast (7)

Suspect trickery (5,1,3)

Study of word origins (9)

Spanish rice dish (6)

Skiers take aim in this event (8)

Second vehicle for Mark (4)

Sausage exploded over traitor and wife (9)

Stewards with a time to look after workers? (10)

Smooth man that may be found on beach (10)

Swimmer embarrassed by hairstyle (3,6)

Squeeze tightly together (6)

Swindle — sleuth (anag) (6)

Sudden downturn (8)

Sound system not working for show (5)

School group's breaking drier (3,5)

Sends back rock band with singer to begin with (7)

Set up bar for party (5)

Support for the retired in bad debt — overturned steep charges (7)

Sailors, when first base becomes tense part of dock? (6)

Student given help and support relaxed (4-4)

Splash out getting odds and ends with 25% off (5)

Suffered when a revolutionary leader died (5)

Surgeon's worried, squeezing opening of cut with sponge (8)

Serve up standard punishment (3)

Sailor's on way out of the country (6)

Support for coal miners? (7)

Short journey (3)

Sympathetic (7)

Storyteller (8)

Shouts of triumph? I made a mistake (6)

Some birds go with empty robins' nests for a change (9)

Speed up meal cooked and eaten by Aussie (10)

Subtle distinction (6)

Scottish potato (informal) (6)

Sworn statement (9)

Story produced in instalments (6)

Soft fruit basket (6)

Stainer’s notes held by male alto (5)

Squad leaves at start of Macbeth (4)

Stuck in woods, Romeo can't help giggling (7)

Stripped duke finished hiding uniform (7)

Sideboard with open shelves (7)

Scheme — jut out (7)

Square number (7)

Sought-after item from good pork pie manufacturer returned (5)

Scholar in fresh air catching bees (5)

Single quantity of DNA that I'm allocated? (2,10)

Supply airlifted for end of fast festivity (3,2-4)

Spend wastefully (8)

Social class (5)

Severely criticize (fig.) (7)

Star that explodes, increasing greatly in brightness (9)

Shepherds' sticks (6)

Shakespeare play (5,2,6)

Swede, for example (4,9)

Such a corrupt fund that is melting messily away (5)

Spoke of part of arm (6)

Some Northern Irish players unhappy (8)

Something that might be blown in the presence of English writer (6)

Songwriter is honed after working on first of musicals (8)

Spanish bar food (5)

Short-legged dog (9)

Silly editing gets one fired up (7)

Slowly pass present back to grab attention (4,2)

Sounds like children's author demanded money (6)

State bordering (New) Mexico (7)

Something pulled over one's eyes? (4)

Somewhat brassy, bilious hotelier's wife (5)

State in which there's no point heading off for public service (7)

Support husband or wife online? (7)

Sounds like fantastic gun for acting president (6)

Showing excessive affection (6)

Supportive of political paper? Keep going (8)

Substantial magazine piece: 'Put on weight' (6)

Sediment found by the Mexican common weed (9)

State protects forged steel instrument (7)

Spades used in check for tree product (5)

Star of High Noon (1952) (4,6)

Small pointed beard (6)

Smart and fashionable (informal) (5)

Short rest (3-4)

Setters like Hollywood productions (6)

Stone axes with no backs (4)

Slip away when queen enters, overcome (8)

Strangeness of headless corpse Inspector West finally cracks (6)

Strong fancy netting required after close of play (8)

Shock announcement of Times (4)

Security feature — hair piece? (4)

Silly behaviour (10)

Sense physically or emotionally (4)

Skilled, accomplished (6)

South Pacific island (6)

Submarine missile (7)

Sexually precocious young girl (6)

Stratagem, manoeuvre (6)

Sumptuous meal (7)

Spiny-finned freshwater fish (5)

Syncopated dance music (5)

Seedless raisin (7)

Spy cracking lob shot with three players around, a common feature of Wimbledon (7)

States herb covers minced meat item (7)

Servants keeping cold eggs for one player here (7)

Swore a lawman will hold steady (8)

Summertime activity which requires seeding? (4,6)

Swagger when changing ends, creating interest (4)

Short break with nothing right in seaside town? (6)

Sleep with relations under a cloth (6)

Scottish queen who fled to England and was executed 1587 (4,6)

Stance (anag) (6)

Something intoxicating about kiss? A lot could turn on it (4)

Skin, so to speak, brace of ducks (4)

Showing cases spread out over part of plane in consumer guides (7,8)

Sound made by horse shedding weight at the start, or another equine (5)

Sign representing something (6)

Small gnawer (6)

Straight flush? Smooth! (4)

Sex at home without love — it wears things out (7)

Spring-blooming perennial flower (from Amsterdam?) (5)

Seem to welcome tips from some expert peacemaker (8)

Spots head of curly hair (6)

Still reaching for the stars during theatre night (5)

Sounding sheepish? (8)

Source of electricity not new in providing illumination (8)

Small round hole, finished around the edges (6)

Showing the failings of old age (6)

Spanish mountain range (6)

Stupidly ignore old punter (9)

Squad of athletes are tamely beaten (5,4)

Small cat is an airy killer (4)

Squeeze dry, sound as a bell, we hear (5,3)

Small stream not enough for poet (4)

Swiss cheese (8)

Some time soon (4)

Sharp-pointed duelling sword (4)

Speak over judge (5)

So that till's working at the start (2,5,2)

Supporting business, one is protected by Conservatives (12)

Stand up to grab bottom of chain for flush (5)

Stays in my place (6)

Small flyer climbs and drops (5)

Sort of cable company with a cricket team that's always lazy to begin with (7)

Strangely hide criminal in a way that shows lack of proper vision? (13)

Starts to emend details in the Sun (5)

Summary process (6)

Servile dependant (6)

Seed-packed fruit (3)

Subsequently (5,2)

Stretched out (8)

Ship-to-shore connection (9)

Spanish omelette (8)

Shoulder blade (7)

Sort of dress said to restrain a disciplinarian? (9)

Shortage of boxes? Shame, but no pressure (8)

Senior Tory leaders getting in by means of Panorama (5)

Support — Starmer (anag) (7)

Spray blown from the crests of waves (9)

Speaker's authority in chamber (7)

Something controlled by a single dominant person (7)

Seaside scavenger (11)

Serialised works, those providing rosy depictions (10)

Spot books in Mediterranean resort (6)

Space in front of a theatre stage (9,3)

Stall, booth (5)

Ship's complement (4)

Sustained righteousness (5)

Salty cheese (4)

Sound equipment Nigeria had distributed (7,3)

Substantial cut in charity limits (5)

Special group request church to follow trusted leader (4,5)

Summary arrest (5,2)

Some children gawped over his ring (6)

Sketch growing part of what's up for approval (9)

Smile more excitedly as one delivers drinks (9)

Some of loan is deferred when starting firm (5)

Some opportune moment to hold up consumer choices (4)

Synthetic fabric (5)

Statue in Piccadilly Circus (4)

Strong Irish or Scottish accent (6)

Simon the conductor (6)

Sort out high night rates (10)

Starts panicking about money and also about drinks (9)

Small wind instrument with finger holes (7)

Siren (anag) (5)

Starched frills round the neck, worn by Elizabethans (5)

Small restaurant serving wine (6)

Succulent plant (6)

Side that won the American Civil War (5)

Shrub with white, not red, flower (9)

Sort of oil in sort of lamp (4)

Something disappointing leading journalist's written up in daily (2,5)

Seek someone's favour (3)

Star system (6)

Son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Jacob and Esau (5)

Scarlet woman in court, English: her name? (9)

Something relaxing brought over, for example tea (7)

Stretch of water for which rower perhaps needs love and energy (4,4)

Season traditionally running from 24 December to 6 January (4)

Security device — not luck (anag) (7)

Sanction unit in renovated art house (9)

Sanitise lists Anglicans put outside (7)

Southern part of France (4)

Seven sixes! (5-3)

Small change (informal) (8)

Seven times winner of the Wimbledon women's singles title, b. 1969 (4)

Sensitivity, diplomacy (4)

Staffordshire area of the Wedgwood pottery business (7)

Soviet labour camp (5)

Selfless concern for others (8)

Small jumping insect (4)

Steal — Hogwarts School caretaker (5)

Spiky plant with white bell-shaped flowers, native to hot dry parts of North America (5)

Secure golden carriage (6)

Speaking, forbade reflective girl to wear this? (8)

Strange going back inside Tangier office (7)

Squander money in buffet (4)

Someone attempting to start off unloading goods (5)

Stumbled over a slang word for man (5)

Second child likely to cause an accident? (6)

Serious English author (6)

Supplication helping to restrict return of travel (8)

Senior relative not completely bananas (4)

Strongest in group takes flight, once beaten (4,2,3,6)

Some high-life Tory creating a stink (5)

Store for arms and ammunition (7)

Sang like a pig? (8)

Sportsmen untroubled by heat? (10)

Sit behind the driver? (4,1,4,4)

Something of no consequence (6)

Shade — ie asp (anag) (5)

Sing like Bing? (5)

Sound like a cat (5)

Someone from north of the border? (4)

Skill in wangling ten spades? (9)

Small sweet tuber (4)

Snatch some sleep after Josh (6)

Support end of pipe in watering-hole (4)

Saddam Hussein, for example (5)

Set in motion (4,3)

Sort of inspiration needed to fill guest rooms (5)

Secure hours at work including staff here? (5,9)

Something to excite a fan of necking bad French port (5-4)

Stroke of luck (5)

Slow movement of a musical piece (6)

Search thoroughly (5)

Showy ornament to a dress etc. (8)

Sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise (7)

Seventy-six of these led the big parade (8)

Slim-fitting female garment (6,5)

Shed a tear about girl's cleavage (6)

Substantial string of properties (4)

Sanction wordplay and strange hints about Matilda (10)

Small rounded spongy cake (6)

Stringed instrument plucked when lying flat (6)

Smooth-haired hunting dog (8)

Shakespeare says that all that glisters is not this (4)

Sign programme's finishing early (3,6)

Small vessels in which one crosses over river (8)

Skin deep wound — one kept getting careless taking E's (9)

Sturdy broad-chested British icon (7)

Song or film from the past, perhaps golden (5)

Stiffen precious material, naturally preserved for Tudor court (4,7)

Square on which Parisian supplies drug (7)

Screen regularly to exclude rejected currency (7)

Spectators' place not available for rugby player (5-3)

Symbol of love (5)

Summon by gesture (6)

Send naughty internet messages (4)

Slender Chinese incense-coated item (4,5)

Stay behind with one kept in by staff again (6)

Son in scanty clothing — scanty, indeed (6)

Solicitously enquire about art fakes put out (3,5)

Section in crowd of fans give bowler a lift? (4)

Six performing together (6)

Shocking weapon (5)

Spiral pattern (5)

Spotted entrance to palace that is without locks (7)

Socially discriminating type, a reader of, say, Homer I see leaving (8)

Successful student saving place to study article or error-strewn paper? (8)

Startled at berk punching man suitable for flogging (10)

Scam banking run for one on the fiddle (6)

Singleton picked up person making advances (6)

Sink — creator (7)

Specific detail in a set of rules — city chatline (anag) (12)

Score of two strokes under par for a golf hole (5)

Swear (informal) (4)

Salad accompaniment (8)

Sly creature in pop song? (6)

Shakespeare's mistress and attendant (4)

Supports suggestion not to finish bottom (8)

Sort of rock, belting out half-ugly noise (7)

See storm brewing somewhere in the south-west (8)

Stake and nails trainee employs initially (4)

Something that defends bit of Suffolk, Lincoln or Herdwick? (7)

Stylish rector with appeal to unknowns (5)

Shoreline bird (9)

Sugar substitute (9)

Secrets — cards in a tarot pack (6)

Store for grain (4)

Stick out for last half of Magic Roundabout character (8)

Standard and Sun cover training records (6)

Significant worker's sacked with obligation for tax (6,4)

Statement from film divorcee overturned (6)

Subject to further scrutiny (2-7)

Sailor's sword (7)

Shade-loving plant with striking foliage, much enjoyed by slugs (5)

Second half of Kama Sutra covers ground that’s hot! (7)

Slipped disc, finally sent up on last pair of crutches (7)

Second note put in score is wrong (10)

Sailor also called port in Japan (5)

Second leg: in the dressing rooms? (9)

Stingy thing following sale, shelled out at the start: it might be in stock … (7)

Spends time achieving nothing (informal) (5)

Sign of unhappiness (or joy?) (6)

Special welcome for Yorkshire cat? (3,6)

Single payment (4,3)

Speak drunkenly (4)

Sea swell aboard cutter (7)

Spiv in 22 across doffing cap, reptile (8)

Solidly built (8)

Salerno bay (anag) — to some extent (10)

Sworn statement (4)

Substitute (5-2)

Some in pride twirling crude capes (9)

Sound of indifference about small network (4)

Scottish short story writer missing area gets to go downhill? (3)

Sir reportedly better for a drink before bed (8)

Still turning up in Montmartre nightlife (5)

Sibyl or Cassandra, say (4)

Screenplay author (12)

Shylock's business (5)

Sporting venue (7,5)

Spooner's water shining — a warning signal (5,5)

Social ineptitude could make you ultimately cagier, eh? (9)

Space behind the seat in front (7)

Steer, following ring road to reach city (6)

Small ruminant or two going west (3-3)

Stephen Spender's caged birds (4)

Smooth, like well-oiled locks (7)

Startled schoolmaster forced to speak (9)

Show approval (7)

Stare at (informal) (7)

Short conclusion of a poem etc. (5)

Singular visual aid? (7,4)

Short and sharp (4)

Scornful mockery (8)

Sporting trial includes children's game: come on, young lady! (8)

Singer and friend outside university with academic attire on? (4,7)

Scottish island's so typical of a long-ago time (8)

Some items to redeem, not on public display? (6)

Small wooden area with duck in narrow channel (6)

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