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1-across – Smooth musician’s ‘Stranger on the Shore’? Certainly not : SANDPIPER

6-across – See 26 : ROOF

8-across – Distinction of contemporary artist with cash but no power : EMINENCE

9-across – Delicate newspaper worker let off : SUBTLE

10-across – With leaders of Commons and Lords involved, cite bad language! : CELTIC

11-across – A lack of quiet song refrain in rock : SHORTAGE

12-across – Ball held by top class residence on the river? : AFLOAT

15-across – Devote time to break useless caddie’s resolve finally : DEDICATE

16-across – Crusty thing, the poet, Holder : SCABBARD

19-across – Turbulent water taking one day to fill pans : RAPIDS

21-across – Truss passed water plant : BINDWEED

22-across – Villain put away minister : CURATE

24-across – If not overcast, going topless : UNLESS

25-across – Crude oil rep, Rex, one gone for a Burton? : EXPLORER

26-across – Covering that’s unusual for a loft : FLAT

27-across – Go on, chuck final! : LASTDITCH

1-down – River of soup – no hoax! : SOMME

2-down – Far from content, at loose end? Open out : NONETOO

3-down – Headgear with fashionable insert, reversed flap : PANIC

4-down – See 2 : PLEASED

5-down – One attending emergency : RESPONDER

6-down – Like K-9 in unstable orbit, circling round and around : ROBOTIC

7-down – Bound dictionary includes ‘book with a gilt refinement’ : OBLIGATED

13-down – In fact, oil production is legendary : FICTIONAL

14-down – Crossing a line in pursuit of farceur : TRAVERSAL

17-down – Criminal goes to bed unusually on time? It’s not worth pursuing : BADDEBT

18-down – Odd, irregular stone’s fair feature : DODGEMS

20-down – Meaning to climb up, right and left : PURPORT

22-down – Award I had for Matchmaker role : CUPID

23-down – Effective power of the disheartened and the deranged : TEETH

8-across – Even one needs energy drink : SMOOTHIE

9-across – A maiden, improperly : AMISS

10-across – Firm happy to manipulate records : COOK

11-across – Hopeless couple taken in by bad design : DESPAIRING

12-across – Unit sees to the fire : STOKES

14-across – Inmate at Slade who provides bowman : FLETCHER

16-across – The devil at Newgate, historically? : OLDNICK

18-across – Blackball backward thug caught going too far : BOYCOTT

21-across – Musical is hard on a poet : HAMILTON

23-across – King’s brother sketched article first : ANDREW

24-across – Remarkably good, a romantic type of marriage : MORGANATIC

26-across – Shout for type of beer : ROOT

27-across – Old railway freight left off water in Norfolk : BROAD

28-across – She hates broken trophy : THEASHES

1-down – Always bad keeping time : IMMORTAL

2-down – Hair fastener for rugby player : LOCK

3-down – Island ways broadcast : RHODES

4-down – Sparks as the TV’s not working : SETSOFF

5-down – Doctor Zhivago heroine in spectacular arena : LARA

6-down – Critic and I mixed caustic liquid : NITRICACID

7-down – Doctor can sue practice : USANCE

13-down – One district exchanges partners for this one’s Oval : KENNINGTON

15-down – Conceit, for example, associated with love : EGO

17-down – Stop filming stroke : CUT

19-down – 2 3 melded on card : THETOWER

20-down – With all due ceremony, where Yankee might be born : INSTATE

22-down – Ultimately alone in a crowd – a parasite? : AMOEBA

23-down – Is this Ambridge resident all a-quiver? : ARCHER

25-down – Crossing-point for number of French : NODE

26-down – Groomsmen regularly rebelled : ROSE

1-across – Represent player admitting false start : ACTFOR

5-across – Lee Mack cooked, ate right fish : MACKEREL

9-across – The last word about German and Swiss origin of explorer : AMUNDSEN

10-across – Number in exchange? : NINETY

11-across – Reasonable to follow tight circle to the summit at the top of the mountain? : TAUTOLOGICAL

13-across – Dali working with a stick about injection moulding : DADO

14-across – Old politician in real trouble? That’s ideal! : EXEMPLAR

17-across – Spoken greeting bound to create an event : HIGHJUMP

18-across – See 13 : RAIL

20-across – In case it changes, so absorbed and keen : ENTHUSIASTIC

23-across – Clyde receives this degree : KELVIN

24-across – Tortured soul indeed, having used 3/2 : DELOUSED

25-across – Note this dessert? : ETONMESS

26-across – Say nothing about fever as protective cover : SHEATH

2-down – See 3 : COMB

3-down – Bottom inch of loose end wrong, says nitpicker : FINETOOTH

4-down – Comme Les Folies Bergère de Paris? Quelle partie? : RISQUE

5-down – Object to nose reshaping, note with lines said to be polite : MINDONESPSANDQS

6-down – Gaming equipment provides comfort : CONSOLES

7-down – Boredom oddly not seen in Lennon’s music : ENNUI

8-down – Killing juvenile Chinese may be reported : EUTHANASIA

12-down – Defamation needs a tiny bit of minor adjustment : MALIGNMENT

15-down – This regiment has a kind of music rising above the sound of fire : PARACHUTE

16-down – Annoyance is hidden by subtlety : NUISANCE

19-down – Some islands can be so tall, but not these : ATOLLS

21-down – Sport leader must go to make it a safe environment : HAVEN

22-down – Qualifier in 26 : HEAT

1-across – Point out finally a cause of plague : LOCUST

4-across – Banter for a badge? : BADINAGE

9-across – Man with a cave for a mermaid? : FINGAL

10-across – US presidential election may be like an old Citroën rally : TWOHORSE

11-across – Another effing hot type of ruin? It could be! : OUTOFTHEFRYING

13-across – Like including soldiers in welcome deals : AGREEMENTS

14-across – Gaslight : NEON

16-across – See 10 : RACE

18-across – A top family’s dodgy ‘booty’ like this? : MAPOFITALY

21-across – See 11 : PANINTOTHEFIRE

23-across – Since isolation, forced to find a solution : ISOTONIC

24-across – See 23 : SALINE

25-across – Potential source of X-rays put on inside stone : SARDONYX

26-across – Extremely sick unclean kitchens: they’re smelly : SKUNKS

1-down – Lacklustre Labour leader in embarrassing selfies : LIFE

2-down – Win a couple of these in sound game : CONQUER

3-down – Followed suit to begin with and was in debt : SHADOWED

5-down – One for cavities? : ASWEETTOOTH

6-down – Reside? Yes, but not out there! : INHERE

7-down – Virgin is one that recedes with time, lacking aspiration : AIRLINE

8-down – Crisis upset both author and leaders of the end of the Georgian era : EMERGENCY

12-down – Most from age 18 : THEMAJORITY

13-down – Academic top prizes for shrinks : ATROPHIES

15-down – Skip, half-drunk, with this in pocket? : HIPFLASK

17-down – Preserve with grim honesty : CANDOUR

19-down – Incriminate a regime in a radio broadcast : ARRAIGN

20-down – Wholly or partly certain to topple : INTOTO

22-down – See 1 : LESS

9-across – Shopkeepers badly need marts : TRADESMEN

10-across – Even pieces of John Le Carré translated straightforwardly : ONTHE

11-across – What actor needs — impressive vehicle, we hear : ROLES

12-across – Wagner’s work showing long involvement with Rhine : LOHENGRIN

13-across – Kansas girl crashed hot rod before the Fourth of July : DOROTHY

14-across – Senior briefly embracing another in private : SOLDIER

17-across – Contracted very bad kind of fever not easily discerned : VAGUE

19-across – See letters centrally placed in crossword — cryptic, maybe : SPY

20-across – Dickensian villain giving female a drink : FAGIN

21-across – Fails in theatre, medical device holding operation back : DRIESUP

22-across – Revolutionary joining moderate movement — heavens above : TROTSKY

24-across – Indication that storm’s abating, so relaxes : WINDSDOWN

26-across – Suddenly emerge from kind of junction after neat reversing : ERUPT

28-across – Part for actor I send up : RISEN

29-across – Change of rate less risky for financial administrator : TREASURER

1-down – Crude and despicable types upset son in film : STAR

2-down – Adapt for British star in The Comedians, say : TAILOR

3-down – Semiprecious stone I and others collected for wealthy elite : JETSETTERS

4-down – Representation of happiness I myself endlessly revised : SMILEY

5-down – Honestly reformed, in secret : ONTHESLY

6-down – Don’t stop thug : GOON

7-down – Something round prison, initially, that’s inspirational : STIRRING

8-down – Meagre list : LEAN

13-down – Eg Hockney, or French artist : DAVID

15-down – Comfortable existence provided before enemy turned up in form of rent : LIFEOFEASE

16-down – Lustful extremes of ribaldry : RANDY

18-down – Around pub, reckon to get this? : GUINNESS

19-down – Keeps ahead in games : SUPPORTS

22-down – Fiddle or violin clerk finally deposited in bank : TINKER

23-down – See 10 : SQUARE

24-down – See 1 : WARS

25-down – Provide information regularly in espionage : SING

27-down – Beginner with spell in Hamlet, ironically, not petty role : TIRO

1-across – Able to restore compliance at first in central banks : MEDICINAL

6-across – House fixed in advance : PUTUP

9-across – Leading Brexiteer Boris ending, unfortunately, ruling people : GOVERNINGBODIES

10-across – Bet everything Spain makes a mark in football : GOAL

11-across – Amend E sharp bum note covers : REPHRASE

14-across – Drunkenly outspoken, narcissistic creature in the main : SHELLFISH

15-across – Retire, having left new regional capital : TURIN

16-across – Use a description of cider? : APPLY

18-across – Transparent ornaments, say, in some minimalist American music? : GLASSWORK

20-across – Maybe scratch both sides of Hindustani hat : HANDICAP

21-across – See 10 : LINE

25-across – For yours truly, where Trump is certain to create tragedy : PROMETHEUSBOUND

26-across – Desire what’s finally in butterfly net : YEARN

27-across – Spy once noting criminal on edge : RIMINGTON

1-down – Frenchman excited in ungodly place : MAGOG

2-down – Climbing, setter’s cutting palm tree branch off : DEVIATE

3-down – Caught group in army base : CORE

4-down – Slowcoach shaking off top cop : NAIL

5-down – Feller tricked about European turtle : LOGGERHEAD

6-down – Diviner Wessex girl mounted by forward man : PROPHETESS

7-down – Cryptic hint on vent into which one disappears : THINAIR

8-down – Boris: leader of party, awful sneak and rat : PASTERNAK

12-down – Ali G follows foreign character, one foolish target : CLAYPIGEON

13-down – His sentences add up to life : BIOGRAPHER

14-down – Careless friends lifted very soft grass skirts : SLAPHAPPY

17-down – Greek First Lady’s assistant straddling two gates : PANDORA

19-down – Poet cut capers in the tube : OVIDUCT

22-down – Turned around in cockney’s area of London : ENDON

23-down – Stick around American island : GUAM

24-down – About to welcome group flying in port : OBAN

7-across – In unpleasant way, skin horribly lousy : HIDEOUSLY

8-across – 9 6 16, eccentric American : CAMUS

9-across – We dominate, are pale-hued; ripe for revision, me? : DEADWHITE

10-across – 9 6 16 attributed to Reagan? : BYRON

12-across – 9 6 16 Jack, leading scorer in two legs : JONSON

13-across – Seabird never rejected skin of shark : SHAGREEN

14-across – Our team in African capital find cold reception : WELCOME

17-across – 9 6 16 with Richard, regulars at tennis : DICKENS

20-across – Pipe turned in spiral shape almost by old woman : NARGILEH

22-across – Glower, about to lend out : CANDLE

24-across – 9 6 16, usually first in a haunt of vice : AUDEN

25-across – Scrooge, say, broke, about to chuck last bit away : SKINFLINT

26-across – Dog refusing lead at end of day, troubled by fleas? : ITCHY

27-across – John’s eating no end of sausage in place in New Mexico : LOSALAMOS

1-down – 9 6 16 church has half of Room 101 at the front : CICERO

2-down – Going from either end over diocese, travelling the shortest route : GEODESIC

3-down – 9 6 16 dunking roll in tea? The opposite : BUCHAN

4-down – Discrimination, the charge against 9 6 16s? : ELITISM

5-down – Barman’s wife is in bed : LAWYER

6-down – See 9 : EUROPEAN

11-down – 9 6 16 is up to receive top honours : SAKI

15-down – Rising, point to foreign character: Beware void! : EVACUATE

16-down – See 9 : MALE

18-down – 9 6 16’s work: regal ruin, as family’s taken over : KINGLEAR

19-down – Tick on list, we hear, 9 6 16 : CHEKHOV

21-down – 9 6 16 massaged ego, then stopped short : GOETHE

22-down – 9 6 16 hoax involving American gunmen : CONRAD

23-down – 9 6 16 part of Germany, more central : LANDOR

1-across – Finishes with a Damien, Desmond or Douglas? : GRADUATES

9-across – Default version of green energy : RENEGE

10-across – Good person to cruelly put down late offering from 30? : STOPPRESS

11-across – Satellite dish rented out, without Sky having the deal, initially : NEREID

12-across – Like our canines, can get bored? : DRILLABLE

13-across – Slight oscillation of 4 in Queens : QUIVER

17-across – Intake of Peruvian tamanduas? : ANT

19-across – Parts after Scotsman does, perhaps : RABBITS

20-across – Goes off trade bans by state boards : EMBARKS

21-across – Girl with a heartless sister : ANN

23-across – Either half of 6’s rhyme, providing colour that is part of a hand : PINKIE

27-across – One to kill 17 acrosses around 4am? Tiger, with no hesitation : FUMIGATOR

28-across – It’s mad, backing this president! : HOOVER

29-across – Like the ref, Heather closely follows game : WHISTLING

30-across – Enthusiastic? Missing second half, lost rag : THESUN

31-across – Look at dog’s make-up : EYESHADOW

2-down – Going round club … : ROTARY

3-down – … wrongly lied about 6 … : DIPOLE

4-down – … sporting a real one : AERIAL

5-down – Letter the writer left in printer? : EPSILON

6-down – Model fashion magazine left out — fat character recently back on TV : TELETUBBY

7-down – Currents flowing round sides and top of electric fences : RECEIVERS

8-down – Explosive speech in The Mitre? : HEADDRESS

14-down – Sip alcoholic drinks, some of Andy Murray’s favourites : DROPSHOTS

15-down – Quit a group supported by One Direction, originally : ABANDONED

16-down – I’d turned up to see dessert served up and shared out : DIVIDEDUP

17-down – Leica stated old film rating : ASA

18-down – Number of lions eaten by 19, contrarily : TEN

22-down – Timeless toy that’s blue, like 26 : NAUGHTY

24-down – Drunkards after almost 6 rounds? : DIPSOS

25-down – City in the style of a 6 : LAALAA

26-down – 12 holes for the 6s’ 28 : NOONOO

8-across – Drink in a pub not entirely cold sent back by military commander : COCACOLA

9-across – Delight in the morning milk : AMUSE

10-across – Weapon observed during the peepshow : EPEE

11-across – Very deep saying recalled, amid praise : BOTTOMLESS

12-across – One’s emptied volume into river, the entire works : OEUVRE

14-across – Member, in being welcomed by leaders in Chinese government, on the up : CLIMBING

15-across – Infatuated with food, boy guzzles : STUCKON

17-across – Within walls of park, a bitter brought over for one of those on the gate? : PADLOCK

20-across – Drinking stout, the highlight of sainthood Brendan finally put on some weight! : HALFATON

22-across – Drug for case of zoophobia, heading for cage : PROZAC

23-across – City, capital city, one becoming nothing in endless chaos : METROPOLIS

24-across – Scotch is a weapon : FOIL

25-across – It’s rich to serve rum and coke up! : POUND

26-across – One beyond twelve brewing green tea : TEENAGER

1-down – Alcoholic drinking Pepsi sadly, most sentimental : SOPPIEST

2-down – See 25 : CAKE

3-down – One drink or two taking effect on blue fluid : DOUBLE

4-down – Framework I see in coffee : LATTICE

5-down – Pottery, a jar cut in isinglass : MAJOLICA

6-down – A singing bear going after port — uproar! : HULLABALOO

7-down – Those seven sailed, one short, one of four : SEASON

13-down – Loud, very boisterous of course, one must be restrained : VOCIFEROUS

16-down – In middle of moss, fish eating finest molluscs : OCTOPODS

18-down – Notes produced by this wine to drink at home : CLARINET

19-down – Behind the door of condominium, indulgence ultimately swell : INFLATE

21-down – Drink fizzy pop in Levantine city : ALEPPO

22-down – Curdled drink, sweetener served up like jelly : POSSET

24-down – Colours of spectral phenomena fading, each one’s ending : FLAG

1-across – Beginning of spring? That should get you going : JUMPSTART

6-across – Cool — nothing to add! : NEAT

8-across – Sack of fruit with old plant : PLUMBAGO

9-across – Arctic resident maintaining temperature — that makes sense : INTUIT

10-across – Statement by filmed divorcee, retracted : REMARK

11-across – 23 in a short run features in Guardian story : ANGELINA

12-across – Wolves team surrendering lead twice, shooting high : ACKACK

15-across – Dear me, my mongrel whined! : YAMMERED

16-across – One getting fuel emptied into buttocks, blows up : INFLATES

19-across – Spirited point in wise broadcast? : YEASTY

21-across – Spillage of onanist on pioneering physician providing parts for 23 : JENNIFER

22-across – Reportedly take offence at description of female in union : BRIDAL

24-across – 23 has a wrinkly bum : HILARY

25-across – Comment as a huge amount inside volcano backfires : ANNOTATE

26-across – See 6 down : WOOD

27-across – Odd bean, say, for bootlegger : RUMRUNNER

1-down – See 11 : JOLIE

2-down – A couple of doctors like a port : MOMBASA

3-down – See 24 : SWANK

4-down – An old tree full of life originally, an exceptional thing : ANOMALY

5-down – Stick-like and sticky? But the name hasn’t stuck! : THINGUMMY

6-down – Love in contrivance of 1 down and a late 23 : NATALIE

7-down – Alliance lamenting jerks : ALIGNMENT

13-down – Formerly little money in ransom I set, necessary to rise : CENTESIMO

14-down – Toy with lift key here — helium unnecessary for toy operator : KITEFLYER

17-down – Rope in ground keeping beam up : LANYARD

18-down – Contemptuous remarks, as bones turned up in the middle of Portsmouth : SARCASM

20-down – See 21 : ANISTON

22-down – Stop a couple talking a foreign language : BANTU

23-down – One taking a part, a part that’s uninitiated : ACTOR