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1-across – Not interfering with workers on holiday : HANDSOFF

5-across – Releases clutch? Van on ‘give way’ reverses into sign : LETSGO

9-across – Fixing our price for dealer : CROUPIER

10-across – Bottom line for tailor : PROFIT

12-across – Tree is more healthy with its first cut : OSIER

13-across – See! Mary Poppins essentially to get flying across Britain carrying one? : CARPETBAG

14-across – eg Elaine Paige initially off with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber? : YELLOWGARDEN

18-across – Fan might get this seat in Stoke City’s original ground : SEASONTICKET

21-across – Bush, First Lady and Republican, meeting young : EVERGREEN

23-across – Pass a house that’s a state : IDAHO

24-across – See 14 : SPIDER

25-across – Put out fire with rake? That’s more unusual : FREAKIER

26-across – Drug injected in hand on joint : REEFER

27-across – Stunning men after love involved in affair : FLOORING

1-down – Hard area, not primarily for bully : HECTOR

2-down – Secluded retreat on border for incredible sex : NOOKIE

3-down – One might fly US pro here to play : SUPERHERO

4-down – What Macron might sign for protection? : FRENCHLETTER

6-down – Run to the first hole to secure eagle there? : EYRIE

7-down – Sun journalists covering over great lie on these pieces? : SOFABEDS

8-down – Calls to limit working after reviewing company figures : OCTAGONS

11-down – Kettle for this? Press on button : CROWDCONTROL

15-down – Idle one round after morning coffee : AMERICANO

16-down – One checks dipstick to get type of oil right : ASSESSOR

17-down – Serve here and support family : BASELINE

19-down – Up for dawn on island, here? : TAHITI

20-down – Date wears dress for Tramp : TOERAG

22-down – Downed one German beer when drunk : GREBE

8-across – Move like snake towards bottom, slow and stop : WINDDOWN

9-across – Quickly put together ladder to place above : RUNUP

10-across – They replaced little piles of sand in river : TEES

11-across – Motivation seen in mother after winter : MAINSPRING

12-across – How to get an anagram, of course : SOURCE

14-across – Connoisseurs who consume timeless movies online? : EPICURES

15-across – Delivered letter indicating possession — sign in colour : RESCUED

17-across – Stereotypical heavy drinkers creating trouble or breaking vessel : SAILORS

20-across – Pester with an Asian drink, Japanese port : NAGASAKI

22-across – Missing female, shed a tear outside, showing passion : ARDENT

23-across – It controls amount of moisture I mixed with mud, that is : HUMIDISTAT

24-across – One of the two letters one should mind by bad and nasty person : PILL

25-across – Literary lion using a non-standard lexicon, mostly : ASLAN

26-across – Getting over the hill? It’s about taking it easy : CRESTING

1-down – Guide old lady around hazard on road : CICERONE

2-down – First part of African capital one’s withdrawn, notes as well : ADDS

3-down – O’ Mice and Men, initially composed as left-wing : COMMIE

4-down – Stimulate new learner I put in uniform : ENLIVEN

5-down – Leading part and another taken from actress — I’d a female title role : CRESSIDA

6-down – Sorted out blunder without anxiety : UNTROUBLED

7-down – Soak or wash, in a way : SPONGE

13-down – With solid support, a kid’s father makes music : ROCKABILLY

16-down – Don’t blow up things with charges — they could help one get away : EVASIONS

18-down – Vexatious order crossing line : RANKLING

19-down – Use special scissors covering slit up in piece of decorative needlework : PINTUCK

21-down – Desert animal a couple raised in modern times : AOUDAD

22-down – Post-war leader emerging from battle energised : ATTLEE

24-down – Boxers, for example, swap some neat jabs — just the finalists : PETS

1-across – Impale this one drunk outside pub — wicked! : MEPHISTOPHELIAN

9-across – Could be some bucks around rebel golf tour — make it happen : DELIVER

10-across – Took flight, like Batman on drugs : ESCAPED

11-across – Left switch to chance : LOT

12-across – Not working — line about entertaining low comedy practitioner : DUDLEYMOORE

13-across – I’m working, love, not in a mood : IMPERATIVE

15-across – Prince Harry defending wife finally put right : HEAL

18-across – One sat with former PM’s counterpart : EXAM

20-across – Not pleasant but feuding is settled without force : UNEDIFYING

23-across – Setting by Vlad in essence awfully boring : MISEENSCENE

25-across – Greeting West ignored for another : AVE

26-across – Drink mother’s ruin occasionally out of can : MARTINI

27-across – Very much affected, banker accepted drink in celebration : SHAMPOO

28-across – Homeless patient cooking food : SPANISHOMELETTE

1-down – Male singer popular with English girl : MADELEINE

2-down – Mike with best friend’s first computer : PALMTOP

3-down – Unwelcome visitors wearing big boots : INVADERS

4-down – Attempted to pull one up, getting knackered : TIRED

5-down – Maintained parking’s booked : PRESERVED

6-down – With no money, people affected set up temporary quarters : ENCAMP

7-down – Copper’s introduction to syndicate ultimately causing collapse : IMPLODE

8-down – Reminder for one horse to be mounted : NUDGE

14-down – French address above 1960s’ US band member and composer : TUNESMITH

16-down – Support until now a reason for dismissal : LEGBEFORE

17-down – Ultimately, one fellow leaves when winter comes in New York? : AFTERALL

19-down – Chambers describing one country and another : AUSTRIA

21-down – Having problem cooking, son admitted? : INASPOT

22-down – Joe hiding artist’s sign : GEMINI

23-down – Complaint raised problem about Liz previously, who didn’t 9 : MUMPS

24-down – Be unhappy about eating second course : EPSOM

1-across – Retiring jester, hot and haggard : WITHDRAWN

9-across – Returned call by American feller? : AXEMAN

10-across – Bother to boast after Surrey’s opener is a fearsome presence in the field : SCARECROW

11-across – First Hanoverian king meets First Lady in distress : GRIEVE

12-across – Such characters unsuitable for bigheads? : SMALLCAPS

13-across – Bit of scandal? It taints flipping bellicose ruler : ATTILA

17-across – French place I left for some European capital : LEU

19-across – Maybe train, going back and forward in part of badminton match? : SHUTTLE

20-across – See 19 : SERVICE

21-across – Spots knight going for a whizz : ACE

23-across – Europeans punched by awfully grim politically motivated Leaver : EMIGRE

27-across – One’s driven, say, to interrupt regressing career : ESTATECAR

28-across – Board made from elm, oddly its outer part : EMBARK

29-across – Eating date, gains soft soggy sandwiches — it’s what you get from buffets : WINDSWEPT

30-across – What gardener may want — drier clothing right? : TROWEL

31-across – Cheap floor : KNOCKDOWN

2-down – Reward for work in mine, working around toxic gas : INCOME

3-down – Novelist grasps Latin only with real effort : HARDLY

4-down – Jacket in retro Chanel style : ROCOCO

5-down – Cry over nice house ruined, where synthetic gas explosion comes from : WHOOPEE

6-down – Defector to Labour, say, pens chapter on eliminating waste : EXCRETORY

7-down – Lacking sense, I climb high across rising rocks : IMBECILIC

8-down – A French revolutionary accepting revolutionary yarn is off-topic : UNRELATED

14-down – Girl Guide’s teeth sure to wobble : USHERETTE

15-down – Gold ring probed by policeman with caution in work we hear : AUDIOBOOK

16-down – Like chow mein from the can, not new in China : STIRFRIED

17-down – Field Australian league’s sides, at first : LEA

18-down – Speculate, losing millions in employment : USE

22-down – See 5 : CUSHION

24-down – Save coppers up like Homer? : BARDIC

25-down – What Persian maybe did in Middle East still to be paid : MEOWED

26-down – Fruit twice yearly gaining weight : PAWPAW

1-across – See 9 : STUDIES

5-across – Dwarf runs into Sleepy, essentially outside : ECLIPSE

10-across – Bring up leader of school form : SPEW

11-across – All hands below deck on this? Cheers round bar: one sailor returning : BANANABOAT

12-across – One on bed with tablet: that hurts : PILLOW

13-across – Is old hotel on seafront rejected? It’s very like another one : ISOMORPH

14-across – Season with this football manager getting a trophy : PEPPERPOT

16-across – Smoothly pass down wing, keeping inside line : SLIDE

17-across – American to fight roughly : ABOUT

19-across – Previous issues of Eagle go: obtain mag in jumble : EMOTIONAL

23-across – Tip: any horse at the finish struggles over Grand National : EGYPTIAN

24-across – Returns home: needs to move nearer : INCOME

26-across – Find attractive model: pose and dress down : TAKETOTASK

27-across – Type character at end of script : SORT

28-across – Refraining from relaxing on cocaine : CEASING

29-across – Taking out date that’s confident : ERASURE

2-down – Cut head and face : TOPSIDE

3-down – Pin to act on short spring : DOWEL

4-down – Shelter in trees by banks of elm with one bending over : EMBOWER

6-down – Tory party member getting protection : CONDOM

7-down – Tidy up room initially left in big mess : IMBROGLIO

8-down – Did substitute put feet up on training day? : SWAPPED

9-down – Flirt without fellow? Ms Denise Van Outen dancing around subject : ENVIRONMENTAL

15-down – Fat swelling under pressure point : PLUMPNESS

18-down – See 19 : BAGGAGE

20-down – Bigger hospital getting heart bypass? : THICKER

21-down – Fan and ventilator to tackle damp, occasionally : ADMIRER

22-down – Reject plant that’s in row : DISOWN

25-down – Patients’ chests? : CASES

1-across – Figure, by the sound of it, taken already : SPOKENFOR

6-across – See 13 : SLOT

8-across – See 14 : FESTIVAL

9-across – Separate cape rounded by unpopular revolutionary : DETACH

10-across – See 16 : ORDERS

11-across – Generate slops for grunter living in pigsty? : TEENAGER

12-across – Blank charter on Gibraltar not entirely backed : IGNORE

15-across – Nick, Paul etc wasted energy : PECULATE

16-across – Those such as eyes left in the sack? : MARCHING

19-across – Reportedly, wood supporter behind very rotten tree, back part : LUMBAR

21-across – See 19 : VERTEBRA

22-across – See 14 : FRINGE

24-across – Working body in Dog and Duck caught in drunken furore : LABOUR

25-across – Streaky appearance put stain on flashy stuff : MARBLING

26-across – Do little swivel, diver partially turns : IDLE

27-across – Machine possibly combined with server that almost crashed : HARVESTER

1-down – Pilot, one looking round back of cockpit : STEER

2-down – Month, eg October, not entirely busy : ONTHEGO

3-down – Icon in document allowing entry to Spain, briefly? : ELVIS

4-down – Writer experienced upset : FELTTIP

5-down – Sovereign taken from lender, price after adjustment correct : REDPENCIL

6-down – Trouble after groups go to sea : SETSAIL

7-down – Players beginning in harmony in interpretation of score: music, say, arising? : ORCHESTRA

13-down – Serious rubbish sadly, or time when few watch? : GRAVEYARD

14-down – Comically delivers a bunfight and something edgy — does this? : EDINBURGH

17-down – Something attractive: verse for just three of six wives? : CATHODE

18-down – Relation, though not well-spoken, accepted linguistic rules : GRAMMAR

20-down – Jersey’s post collection : MAILLOT

22-down – See 24 : FORCE

23-down – Person imprisoned by king, hopeless case : GONER

9-across – Recast the three leading characters in play, not well : INCAPABLY

10-across – Venerated female heard but not seen in programmes : CERES

11-across – Name of David’s girlfriend — but her heart wasn’t in it : EMILY

12-across – Furious triad of Brussels bureaucrats ahead of a fateful day? : EUMENIDES

13-across – Does, for example, what’s wrong in France, cutting wages : FEMALES

14-across – Scene of drama — in which masked man wields knife : THEATRE

17-across – What each little woman had in play : THREE

19-across – eg 23, preceded by 17 21 in novel : AMY

20-across – Name first of female trio, annually : APRIL

21-across – See 17 : SISTERS

22-across – Arranged dowries as members of Shakespearean threesome? : WEIRDOS

24-across – Alcott and her characters represented as sweet : CHARLOTTE

26-across – Vessel carrying vital supply from China or Taiwan : AORTA

28-across – Field and bowl : ARENA

29-across – Growth man cut, in case : ACCRETION

1-down – Olympian English family raised : NIKE

2-down – Division in church exists between ends of spectrum : SCHISM

3-down – Where I keep something secret : UPMYSLEEVE

4-down – A bachelor pursued by so-called queen, leader in sisterhood? : ABBESS

5-down – Reflective quality about top spy mystery, oddly : SYMMETRY

6-down – Son allowed to do survey : SCAN

7-down – Indicator of tense change in excited raptor, such as a hawk : PREDATOR

8-down – Divine female with one sibling : ISIS

13-down – Honours, we hear, those dealing with life and death matters : FATES

15-down – Removed in period prescribed, but not the first time : ERADICATED

16-down – 11’s pen-name some embellished : ELLIS

18-down – Ruby embracing Victoria or Virginia, in other words : RESTATED

19-down – Almost everyone protested in a way about a fierce dog : ALSATIAN

22-down – Girl hiding sister’s last tool : WRENCH

23-down – Novel heroine’s passionate, with extreme letters exchanged : DORRIT

24-down – Preserve line within large family : CLAN

25-down – 17 21 constituted issue for this tragic father : LEAR

27-down – Girl taking a course from Exeter to Leeds : ANNE

1-across – Horse observed that has teeth : HACKSAW

5-across – Chap keen to stay in Keaton film about slapstick, originally : BATSMAN

9-across – No more breakfast : TOAST

10-across – Tasty little French thing, is it? Hubby, pack your bags! : MANGETOUT

11-across – Slate rocks on river in South African city : EASTLONDON

12-across – Vessel always filled with water, primarily : EWER

14-across – Relative, 4 1 down, cruelly? : MOTHERINLAW

18-across – 14 seen as wicked? What a ridiculous question! : THEANSWERIS

21-across – Drink got bigger : ROSE

22-across – A school and hospital I built to accommodate parking for one ever present on the high street? : SHOPAHOLIC

25-across – Expecting pudding, he put salad first : UPTHEDUFF

26-across – Sweet mint sauce’s back : BOMBE

27-across – Indian greeting some poets, a mantra recalled : NAMASTE

28-across – Operatic bride, South American girl : SUSANNA

1-down – Murder king, despatching a murderous leader : HITLER

2-down – Vulgar line recited? : COARSE

3-down – Small town deal : SETTLEMENT

4-down – She obtained nursing degree : WOMAN

5-down – Belt required when stout, with nothing left to tuck in : BANDOLEER

6-down – Bay, perhaps, where thorough­fare is out of bounds : TREE

7-down – Second working rule drawn up before end of week, reversing move by Jackson? : MOONWALK

8-down – Fastener on top, new dark colour : NUTBROWN

13-down – Wife seen embracing that man in taxicab after vacation, fail to grasp opportunity : MISSTHEBUS

15-down – Drag first of hostages inside worthless residence : TOWNHOUSE

16-down – Great performance set in motion to take Ashes trophy : STARTURN

17-down – Where one has relocated male article : NEWSITEM

19-down – See 18 : ALEMON

20-down – Eye part clears after treatment : SCLERA

23-down – Birds dropping in light gusts of wind : PUFFS

24-down – Hobbit’s central characters, drones perhaps : BEES

8-across – Big jumper everyone in conflict loves : WALLAROO

9-across – Flights of fancy supremacist leader in organisation conjured up : SPACE

10-across – Python having a snooze? : IDLE

11-across – Harry: kid returning with barrel, having trapped a monster : GARGANTUAN

12-across – Powerful woman, concern of 26’s rival in 9? : AMAZON

14-across – Battle site a shade outside capital in Oman, inducement required to defend it : SPIONKOP

15-across – Language student again taken in by a rogue : ARABIST

17-across – Wrinkly earthman is going after final wishes — did he boldly go? : WILLIAM

20-across – A criminal back into drugs, tried : HADABASH

22-across – 26’s business, better returns in it : SPACEX

23-across – Company considered stocking hairpiece marked with parallel folds : CORRUGATED

24-across – Ring children’s character back : HOOP

25-across – Moisten first of tissues that’s poked into bottom : BASTE

26-across – Rich man investing amount of money in country house after retirement : ELONMUSK

1-down – Upset on sea, wretched mostly — so it is! : MALDEMER

2-down – Down payment raised in company owned by 26’s rival in 9 : BLUE

3-down – See 2 : ORIGIN

4-down – See 9 : TOURISM

5-down – Country Spain hit in India : ESWATINI

6-down – Constable country, with criminal stealing two articles? : EASTANGLIA

7-down – Flipping old story ending in wedding — that’s sweet : GELATO

13-down – Lazy as grazers munching top of bush, variegated plant : ZEBRAGRASS

16-down – Shimmering bridge shown after opening of gate : SPANGLED

18-down – Local river south of a lake, did you say? : ALEHOUSE

19-down – See 17 : SHATNER

21-down – A second US president arising, primitive life form : AMOEBA

22-down – I had put in crooked nose, laterally : SIDEON

24-down – It’s a song, that man said : HYMN

9-across – See 28 : THEBRIDGE

10-across – Online buyer sorry about return of bag : ECASH

11-across – Woman shortly, I suspect, delivering the Queen’s Speech? : MIAOW

12-across – Old writer occupying peak in Jerusalem — a mountain! : SQUILLION

13-across – Thinkers arranging beer in line on the counter : CEREBRA

14-across – Slight lead after a fall, everyone left behind : AFFRONT

17-across – Painting located in London museum? There you have it! : VOILA

19-across – Law enforcers satisfied : MET

20-across – See 28 : UNDER

21-across – Knockout solver? : CRACKER

22-across – See 8 : FREEZES

24-across – Capital party for male mogs only, we hear? : KATHMANDU

26-across – Musical item with scores report­edly chasing old silent movie star : HARPO

28-across – Forgotten now, carrier of pooh sticks? : WATER

29-across – Pink loose robes, crimson when turned round : UNDERDONE

1-down – One crew, not a couple : ITEM

2-down – Darn pants or trousers, say, after skirts in rage : REPAIR

3-down – Fail, as Russian roulette player will wish to do? : DRAWABLANK

4-down – Fleece pulled up on stormy seas, port found in Ukraine : ODESSA

5-down – Instrument lobbed up in wheeze, throwing toys from pram? : PETULANT

6-down – See 8 : HELL

7-down – I fail financially to support soldier in legion : MANIFOLD

8-down – No chance the Prince of Darkness will slip up then? : WHEN

13-down – Conservative: I win having lost Conservative city : CIVIC

15-down – Instrument untangling long fur, help Manx : FLUGELHORN

16-down – Thinner track going uphill, what else can I say? : TURPS

18-down – Saint terribly worried, terribly worried : INASTATE

19-down – Dessert that would come back when booed, did you say? : MERINGUE

22-down – Blood and water etc I had: rinse cut around that : FLUIDS

23-down – Crystalline mineral unknown, image about right : ZIRCON

24-down – Fruit that won’t take off : KIWI

25-down – See 26 : MARX

27-down – See 8 : OVER