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1-across – Study for degree in stars, getting locations online : DOMAINNAMES

9-across – As one does in last trips with seamen : ENMASSE

10-across – Black pipe down to bin I fill with food : BANQUET

11-across – It’s so important to be seen partying with A-list : ESSENTIAL

12-across – Movement between banks’ current accounts for light in Louvre : LOIRE

13-across – A mark found by doctor that’s fired : AMMO

14-across – Editor’s retired — force queen’s devoted follower to booze? : DEPRESSANT

16-across – Equals 1-10 in order? : SEQUENTIAL

19-across – Spots helter-skelter : RASH

20-across – Cares for more than one behind looms : REARS

21-across – Illustrated options for Congress : KAMASUTRA

23-across – Castle’s abandoned — don’t go near! : KEEPOFF

24-across – Animal reportedly loving request to stick oar in : ROEDEER

25-across – Suspect less perfect character among those dignified : SELFRESPECT

1-down – I seem dim from this set of notes : DEMISEMIQUAVERS

2-down – Being without jolly builder : MASON

3-down – Number of upset exes I met ill-advisedly : ITEMISE

4-down – Cloudy cider’s back, unable to get drunk : NEBULAR

5-down – Stop caring so much, stupid : MINDLESS

6-down – After relocation, one put dramatist here? : STUDIOAPARTMENT

7-down – When everything stops, force leaders to take unconventional transport : GENERALSTRIKE

8-down – Play in open event, regularly — start there after training : STREETTHEATRE

15-down – Sink’s chrome shatters — poncho optional when taking out central bits : CESSPOOL

17-down – Consider moving you from filming : TAKEFOR

18-down – Takes one’s hat off to die, arms folded : ADMIRES

22-down – Auditor’s influenced releasing material : SUEDE

1-across – Queen possibly grasping simple form of entertainment : CABARET

5-across – Drawings, quite a few on back of card : DOODLES

9-across – Gesture of defiance contrary for artist : KOONS

10-across – Prison reforms attributed to figure in racketeer? : TENNISPRO

11-across – A word of gratitude in the peerage for eminence : NOTABILITY

12-across – Builder’s trough — oops, it’s fallen over! : HOD

14-across – Fish joining stream after swimming instructor : SCHOOLMASTER

18-across – Each clue needs one dog trained to find the scent : EAUDECOLOGNE

21-across – Card and cut : WIT

22-across – Meeting of Ford and British colonialist reported as a turning point : CROSSROADS

25-across – Time when You’ll Never Walk Alone was sung by legendary giant in musical show : ROCKOPERA

26-across – Dock strike’s ending for artist : MOORE

27-across – Old cavalrymen back in South America, a hundred escaping injuries : HUSSARS

28-across – Meanwhile, waste time in middle of performance : INTERIM

1-down – A man under roof of chapel is plastering : CAKING

2-down – Brahms and Liszt for starters, German is sozzled : BLOTTO

3-down – Vessel beneath reddish-brown banger : RUSTBUCKET

4-down – Complete wreck : TOTAL

5-down – Give pair of lines love as an artist : DONATELLO

6-down – Artist shaving head for god : ODIN

7-down – Note zigzagging lines under rim, as artist : LIPCHITZ

8-down – Classic marks arising for artist : STODDART

13-down – Slotting in money initially, turn a load around — here? : LAUNDROMAT

15-down – Short of bees, audibly, lob rosebuds away — as not humming? : ODOURLESS

16-down – The value of cool artist : HEPWORTH

17-down – Too much to raise in dollars for the seated area : BUTTOCKS

19-down – Kandinsky originally a substandard artist : KAPOOR

20-down – Judge is introduced to magistrate finally, when standing : ESTEEM

23-down – African lover endlessly cuddles Zambian leader : SWAZI

24-down – Comfortable seat, up until now, finally lost : SOFA

7-across – One way to get 30 American instead of English cows : THREATENS

8-across – Pester 25 across’s uncle : HARRY

9-across – Awfully sad deed? King Lear’s first to beat it : SKEDADDLE

10-across – No posh car for Ringo Starr? Gee, bad day for him today : SAINT

12-across – Topless females on tail of 30’s killer? They tremble and quiver : ASPENS

13-across – Wrongly coin leg-over as a new word : NEOLOGIC

16-across – Sudden outburst from EU, after right is in panic : FLAREUP

19-across – Sounding tired? Yes, when collecting for charity : FLAGDAY

22-across – Changing gender is a new plan : REDESIGN

25-across – See 10 : GEORGE

27-across – Unit 3, nervy? Oddly not : HENRY

28-across – Play opposite male, missing a knight finally captured by queen : ANTONYAND

29-across – Some relief, if thinking 27 quoted elsewhere : FIFTH

30-across – See 28 : CLEOPATRA

1-down – One now remembered going, having heard fellow go for drinks : SHAKES

2-down – 27 agreed about carrying a hat? : HEADGEAR

3-down – A Fleet Street barber’s out of step : ATODDS

4-down – Country with good local network, finally? : ENGLAND

5-down – Much Ado About Nothing, including 2 from the beginning : DACAPO

6-down – Bard regularly worked in EU country : BRUNEI

11-down – Touchstone, say, with length under 9 inches? : FOOL

14-down – Follow up what’s said in shock : GOD

15-down – Lament, if only about 43% like this crossword : CRY

16-down – Pro golfer’s last by start of final hole : FOR

17-down – Joiner from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, initially not primarily mechanical : AND

18-down – One you texted before 11 : UNIT

20-down – Rubber users, making love during day, go red when almost found out : GOODYEAR

21-down – One child’s granny goes to see how 11s act : INANELY

23-down – It’ll make you bring up quote Puck brought up : EMETIC

24-down – Having drunk eight pints, negotiated River Tees in waders : EGRETS

25-down – Huge number shot in East Yorks town after docking : GOOGOL

26-down – Eldest daughter’s missing Israel — they’ve left for good : GONERS

8-across – Turns up by river with great self-confidence : COCKSURE

9-across – A temptation said to diminish : ABATE

10-across – Astonish with unfinished trick : STUN

11-across – Runner, having consumed pork pie, first to go into spasm : FIBRILLATE

12-across – Aristocrat getting substantial return from ape : GIBBON

14-across – One supplying information that E = R, maybe? : SQUEALER

15-across – Cause unrest? A crowd suppresses it : AGITATE

17-across – Less vivid second city : PALERMO

20-across – Flagship bearing right? : STREAMER

22-across – Back unknown plant : BETONY

23-across – Receiver receiving dodgy, initially rum, deal from snake : FERDELANCE

24-across – Strike a light! : LAMP

25-across – Date to vex proverbial patience? : TRYST

26-across – Investigator’s ploy involving hollow cats and dogs? Hardly : SPITTING

1-down – Unduly upset, getting into brief liaison of little significance : FOOTLING

2-down – Like to participate in streaking : AKIN

3-down – Fashionable hand warmer on top of cake : MUFFIN

4-down – Prolix poetic production penning personal problem : VERBOSE

5-down – Tyrant’s glacial university reform : CALIGULA

6-down – Pop perhaps returning letters received from legislators : PARLIAMENT

7-down – Insect let loose on another : BEETLE

13-down – Incomplete tea set Darby smashed, revealing what he and Joan have seen? : BETTERDAYS

16-down – Sacred building sheltering a priest’s last model : TEMPLATE

18-down – Second Greek letter inscribed in memorial : MONUMENT

19-down – Salty islanders losing heart to Norway : BRINISH

21-down – Score one less than this? : TWENTY

22-down – Piece about monarch’s proposed divorce : BREXIT

24-down – Reluctant to sin? Not initially : LOTH

8-across – Long nail securing unsigned church regulations : CANONLAW

9-across – Prayer shawl initially bagged by hunter : ORISON

10-across – See 24 : LEAD

11-across – Huge creature in pram, wheels buckling : SPERMWHALE

12-across – Papers in a sack, remained : ABIDED

14-across – Scatter around about ten cuttings : EXTRACTS

15-across – Flexible performer gave voice about my flips and tumbles, primarily : GYMNAST

17-across – Extra soft back, hard in the middle, possibly? : PERHAPS

20-across – Wretched party game : BASEBALL

22-across – Block housing administrative subdivision for beverage dissemination officer : BARMAN

23-across – Description of some bread, how else, in large fragments : WHOLEGRAIN

24-across – Bound to need clue, one of a pair for a start? : JUMP

25-across – Flier placed in mailbag — and erroneously : GANDER

26-across – Make thin mice eat a soup : EMACIATE

1-down – Media distribution officer gets money for each item afloat, it’s reported? : PAPERBOY

2-down – Highway environmental hygienist, one howling on a Greek island, did you say? : ROAD

3-down – Fail to break record that’s exclusive : CLOSED

4-down – See 2 : SWEEPER

5-down – Australian native came across the empty sleeping car in America : ROOMETTE

6-down – Stuffing reindeer, I demonstrate less love, as gastronomical hygiene helper : DISHWASHER

7-down – Work, blah blah blah, less abundant for sanit­ation consultant : TOILET

13-down – Private school ultimately feeding parent, though not one daughter, as education centre nourishment technician : DINNERLADY

16-down – Condition of livestock causes amazement : STAGGERS

18-down – Colleague in amateur team finally welcomed by head : PLAYMATE

19-down – See 7 : CLEANER

21-down – Retreat a mockery —that’s about right : ASHRAM

22-down – Male embraced by senior citizen who loves men and women, as recycling operative : BINMAN

24-down – European agreement in ancient Hindu follower : JAIN