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5-across – Fear, being tone-deaf etc, some instruments or others : FLUTES

6-across – Discovered a bit of corn planted in line, not cut : LEARNT

9-across – Particular kinds of speech — ear got some, but only some : ARGOTS

10-across – A point going in one : UNAWARES

11-across – At this point, use your ears, by the sound of it : HERE

12-across – Finished in a triple time tempo, finally dealt with : ATTENDEDTO

13-across – Entering and leaving canals? Not 12 or 24 : INONEEARAND

18-across – Uses what’s between ears, has fun with left to right shift : CEREBRATES

21-across – Visibly less happy lacking attention — hence row : TIER

22-across – Note echoed later, splitting ears in disturbed city : BRISBANE

23-across – End of list that guy had permanently fixed in memory, metaphorically : ETCHED

24-across – Lacking lead, the editors considered : HEEDED

25-across – Note from one kind of singer heard : TENNER

1-down – Like Van Gogh, for instance — messed up, with one ear : EUROPEAN

2-down – Attentive female occupying stage is happy : GEISHA

3-down – Servant who doesn’t let things go 13 8? : RETAINER

4-down – Know how to put in anagram of ear in cryptic : ARCANE

5-down – Composed, having prepared in advance without hearing organ : FORMED

7-down – Hear about breakfast or lunch, or possibly tea? It’s a deal : TREATY

8-down – See 13 : OUTTHEOTHER

14-down – Recounts how ears could be disturbed with rant : NARRATES

15-down – Becoming aware of, in a form of cognition, once nothing’s omitted : NOTICING

16-down – Comb what protrudes from head in school : SEARCH

17-down – That woman’s rising musical ability makes us listen again : REHEAR

19-down – One that hears about eg Joan of Arc in French festival : EASTER

20-down – Piece from austere orchestra in enhanced sound system : STEREO

1-across – Point weapon? That’s harsh! : STRIDENT

5-across – Mats in work for prayer, supposedly : MANTIS

9-across – Late in the year, briefly attending hospital department — it’s dirty : INDECENT

10-across – Former party leaders taken into custody : NICKED

12-across – Rosette’s a frivolity? Don’t listen! : COCKADEAFUN

15-across – Strange nation, English, on reflection : EERIE

17-across – Do the job OK but leave little margin for error : CUTITFINE

18-across – Over four weeks’ money lost at one Riviera resort — precariously placed : ONTHINICE

19-across – Finally had row : DRANK

20-across – Had listened to jockey here? : INTHESADDLE

24-across – American gym teacher perhaps a distant relative? : APEMAN

25-across – The same people present : DONATION

26-across – Youngster taking course at Oxford got his head down : KIPPED

27-across – Greatly admires PM’s astonish­ingly honest admission about Truss’s ultimate direction : IDOLISES

1-down – Aware of what’s happening? No : SWITCHEDON

2-down – With Ruby Green, consider what you might want to do in the bedroom? : REDECORATE

3-down – That’s good! Scoundrel’s given up second home : DACHA

4-down – Writings by Donne about very ordinary people : NONDESCRIPTS

6-down – Turned away — one nurse in particular upset : ALIENATED

7-down – Accept bet son refused : TAKE

8-down – See 22 : SIDE

11-down – Not working at that point with my department : OFFTHERECORD

13-down – Damn! This is complicated with no guarantee of success : HITANDMISS

14-down – Game that’s played on board : DECKTENNIS

16-down – Finish off ale in time for relaxation : ELIMINATE

21-down – Bit of hot stuff about to pick up Vlad — help! : AVAIL

22-down – Spotted in the distance — that’s cheeky! : BACK

23-down – Having turned up, go against Harris for now : VEEP

9-across – Tiger may be present, circling home of 19 17 : CATHERINE

10-across – Dishonest meat ration finally eaten : VENAL

11-across – Drank to excess back in storehouse : DEPOT

12-across – Where sailors may gather and attend regularly to get soaked : MARINATED

13-across – Setter’s lighter stakeholder? : IMPALER

14-across – Airline perks for our relatives : BABOONS

17-across – Massive thanks, work unit from the East : GREAT

19-across – Article used in anaesthesia : THE

20-across – 19 17 is safe : PETER

21-across – Mother of Sphinx and an Australian native : ECHIDNA

22-across – Not prepared and not studied! Why, for crying out loud? : UNREADY

24-across – She was never expecting invalid soldier to tour India : NULLIPARA

26-across – Compiler had been at the forefront and did nothing : IDLED

28-across – Fat chance, at the end, to sneak in half-observed : OBESE

29-across – 19 17 relax and start to enjoy mingling : ALEXANDER

1-down – A child, oddly sharp : ACID

2-down – Boost for cats and dogs? : STEPUP

3-down – Attend live performance, catch Covid and possibly end like this : VENTILATED

4-down – Rage quietly when heartless misnomer is used : SIMMER

5-down – Dreadful Isis can somehow be irresistible : TERRIBLE

6-down – 19 across 5 becoming vain when leader demoted : IVAN

7-down – What does it take to make one count? It’s complicated : UNITCOST

8-down – 5, 50 and a 500 for 19 across 13 across : VLAD

13-down – German leader is welcomed by devious Lenin round fine fireplace : INGLE

15-down – Two-sided supermajor engaging one craftsman : BIPARTISAN

16-down – Surely dropping cigarette end is rude : SURLY

18-down – 19 across 22 across urge to leave three-legged structure : ETHELRED

19-down – Shakespeare’s wife leaving one hospital after a short time: where did she go? : THATAWAY

22-down – Essentially, scroungers accomp­anying rising artist mostly like Beaujolais nouveau : UNAGED

23-down – Reported an indecent hint : ALLUDE

24-down – See 13 : NOOK

25-down – As just mentioned, set up intermediation : IDEM

27-down – Blast and mend : DARN

1-across – See 10 : LOTHIAN

5-across – Bend towards fish’s tail, course taken by hawk? : WARPATH

10-across – Part of Scotland, area into cultivation of thistle now : WEST

11-across – Artistically combined elements I made? : MIXEDMEDIA

12-across – Day carrying that Italian bag : SACHET

13-across – Deeply affected by emotion in defeat? : OVERCOME

14-across – See 7 : CONVERTED

16-across – One side politically correct : RIGHT

17-across – Gossip giving chase round shopping centre : SMALL

19-across – Launch newspaper, opening beside fashionable street : INSTIGATE

23-across – Quantities for drinking game : DRAUGHTS

24-across – Rank behind leader on cargo ship : CUTTER

26-across – Abandoned ten after one, good meeting on the whole? : INTEGRALLY

27-across – See 17 : TALK

28-across – Dancer given part in Carmen, yet no fun looking back : FONTEYN

29-across – Scent outrage : INCENSE

2-down – State shortly importing an aromatic plant : OREGANO

3-down – Knotty problem? : HITCH

4-down – Measurer of current force maintained by a sea of Frenchmen? : AMMETER

6-down – Count ushered off : ADDLED

7-down – Lecture evidently a waste of time, hope chattering sorted out? : PREACHING

8-down – Sensation hot after one dons ruff : TRIUMPH

9-down – Flash of lightning initially seen, see winds circling around by post office : EXPOSEONESELF

15-down – Book opening, inside which golden pastry : VOLAUVENT

18-down – Battle of Cologne ramped up : MARENGO

20-down – Chat about that hypothetical particle : TACHYON

21-down – Gear finally in order is training equipment : TRELLIS

22-down – Short — like an upper garment? : SHIRTY

25-down – See 7 : TOTHE

1-across – Characteristic toerag appearing untrustworthy, head on spike seen entering here? : TRAITORSGATE

9-across – See 11 : ALERT

10-across – Reportedly clever dribble — with pass is beautifully measured : SLIDERULE

11-across – Real lie broadcast in, say, football reporter’s warning : SPOILER

12-across – More than one tribal chief quivers when speaking? : SHEIKHS

13-across – Leaders in company unrep­resentative of BAME communities that may go to the wall? : WHITEBOARD

15-across – Personage found shortly : STAR

18-across – Feature has the information for a dictator? : NOSE

19-across – Set out for promontory, seeking confrontational encounter : HEADTOHEAD

22-across – Boy by himself shedding onesie finally, children’s garment : JIMJAMS

24-across – Flower reduction in mint, when cut : BLOSSOM

25-across – Leader, whose family’s imbued with personal magnetism, nothing less: murderer? : KIMJONGUN

26-across – Match, a virtual classic : AGREE

27-across – Seaside attraction, the boring rip-off : BRIGHTONPIER

1-down – American shows border closed off by capricious soviet : THEMOVIES

2-down – See 8 : ANTILLES

3-down – Stunner once more placed bottom upward? : T?S?R

4-down – Error with undies or not, bum covered again : REINSURED

5-down – Horse with bigger heart? : GEEGEE

6-down – See 20 : TRUCK

7-down – Sustained campaign identified in capital : WARSAW

8-down – Those renting houses fled farm in Caribbean location : LESSER

14-down – Give short screws, one’s missed by mistake : OVERSIGHT

16-down – Club official more confident supporting base rate : TREASURER

17-down – South American volcano is flatter, one circling peak : COTOPAXI

18-down – Judge interrupting relations after one ejected — a serious matter : NOJOKE

20-down – Huge vehicle kicking dirt up, forward joining rugby pack : DUMPER

21-down – Malay garment, number wrapped round middle of wearer : SARONG

23-down – Paul in bog scratching bottom, this artist’s speechless : MIMER

24-down – Square up after first of battles in country : BENIN

8-across – One falters lamely, being so? : FRAILEST

9-across – Picaroon stops craving lucre, which is forgivable : VENIAL

10-across – Disapproved of skirt shortened by 1950s’ teenager : TUTTED

11-across – Broadcast publicity about horrible vacuous fools : AIRHEADS

12-across – Excited remark from man entertained by compilers : WHEE

13-across – Old Scottish side admitting wild riot in showers : EXHIBITORS

15-across – Daisy knocked over football team’s comic character : ASTERIX

16-across – Televises bits of rock by pair of players : SCREENS

18-across – Old garment from clothes shop with vulture’s tail feathers : HANDMEDOWN

19-across – Husband clad in green waves coming back : ECHO

20-across – Like irrational tirade for an ambitious type : ASPIRANT

22-across – Billionaire into S&M rejected seedy things : MELONS

23-across – Strip joint that’s sordid by street : DIVEST

24-across – Writer wearing nothing with cape is being revealing : OPENNESS

1-down – Skill in designing board game — piece on the board’s with it : DRAUGHTSMANSHIP

2-down – Assault school’s leader and punishment is to be reported : HITTHEHEADLINES

3-down – Engineers made oddly smooth info for IT user : READMEFILE

4-down – Specialist on staff cheers up, given facial adornment : ATTACHE

5-down – Fans removing clothing in part of game : OVER

6-down – During school, outcast turned up advanced means of deterring pests : INSECTREPELLENT

7-down – Involved in anarchism, need lingo of Communists : MANDARINCHINESE

14-down – Old issue, either of two in Marxism-Leninism? : BACKNUMBER

17-down – What follows 19 is to confuse revolutionary : FOXTROT

21-down – Perhaps pretentious political group out of power : ARTY

7-across – Boatman’s work may bear this : JACKFRUIT

8-across – Lemon crush, sometimes topped with water : MELON

9-across – Skill catching fish? It’s having good luck : FORTUNATE

10-across – Nothing wrong about … : OLIVE

12-across – … thoroughly cheeky crossword setting : LYCHEE

13-across – Seeds at Wimbledon are embar­rassingly volatile, but not lame­brain characters : RYEGRASS

16-across – Busted split up finally to produce electronic dance music : DUBSTEP

19-across – Here it is, in b*** downpour : BRITAIN

22-across – It’s intended to remind one of time shortly before Spirit Time : MONUMENT

25-across – It originates in gonads and might engage the egg : GAMETE

27-across – Penny apiece : PEACH

28-across – Stars Meg and Sarah naughtily snatch a kiss : HEXAGRAMS

29-across – Cycling comic Dave, missing start of ride : MANGO

30-across – Liverpool’s terminus follows a three-way interchange : ALTERNATE

1-down – Imitative play every other playroom day : PARODY

2-down – Turns boat east, overtaken by larger vessel : SKETCHES

3-down – Horrible ogre grabs unnamed girl : ORANGE

4-down – Fruit exchanged in the event! : FIXTURE

5-down – One who puts an oar in noisily : MEDLAR

6-down – One consumed by passions seen regularly after meat or sugar : LOAVES

11-down – The Listener goes under quietly : PEAR

14-down – See 17 : ANA

15-down – See 16 : SON

16-down – Wandering nomads : DAM

17-down – Suppress literary gossip : BAN

18-down – Solver reported on river vessel : EWER

20-down – River in Devon at its source : TAMARIND

21-down – Love the Lakes? Love one of the Moors : OTHELLO

23-down – Not allowing U-turns or a change in direction when reversing : ONEWAY

24-down – Naked guy, once eager and free : UNCAGE

25-down – Complains, replacing one with another one : GRAPES

26-down – Could be felt inside, as well : TOMATO

8-across – Carelessly forget covering note — he’s for the high jump! : TREEFROG

9-across – Hesitates to dismiss original claims : AVERS

10-across – Old Charlie’s left behind bars : AGED

11-across – Stay here and be late, most unexpectedly : BATESMOTEL

12-across – Writing about previous measures seems suspicious : SMELLS

14-across – Throw in drink for writer : TROLLOPE

15-across – Put on a decent spread : ENACTED

17-across – Instinctively recognises northern types round town : INTUITS

20-across – Is no trouble suppressing demand for vegetable : SCALLION

22-across – Bloke Hearts picked up — their number 4 — is top scorer : MAHLER

23-across – 19, say, is low mark : UNDERSCORE

24-across – Activity on board — can money talk? : LUDO

25-across – Glower from revolutionary about to receive award : EMBER

26-across – Conservative sought election as democrat — that’s novel : CRANFORD

1-down – Fiery character with degree retained as old guide : DRAGOMAN

2-down – Unchaste woman’s under control outside : LEWD

3-down – Feels a little pretentious what the judges are wearing : PROBES

4-down – Trouble from a number of spect­ators : AGITATE

5-down – Money behind you, not outside : MASSNOUN

6-down – Old Bill turned up at empty school! It hurts to show efficiency? : BENOSLOUCH

7-down – When upset, flake out : ASLEEP

13-down – Race boldly run that’s closely contested : LOCALDERBY

16-down – Agent’s failure during dodgy year : EMISSARY

18-down – Fuss about arresting that man — him? : THEODORE

19-down – Home failing to accommodate Oscar or Bill : INVOICE

21-down – Caught on record in middle of America : CENTER

22-down – Female reveller, one in West End dropping a tab : MAENAD

24-down – Go climbing in one film : LIFE

1-across – Nicks and cuts around surgical procedures : COPSHOPS

5-across – Escort hugging Bill in darkness : SHADOW

9-across – A long time by checkout, prepared spaces for food : TILLAGES

10-across – Home party is private : INSIDE

12-across – One removes presence of army before raid in Germany : GHOSTBUSTER

15-across – Part of software licence that’s old : RELIC

17-across – Went with member — anger regularly taken out with roulette bet : PARTNERED

18-across – See 16 : SOCIALIST

19-across – Reduce large tripod : EASEL

20-across – One from the back training until team is knocked out : PENULTIMATE

24-across – Empty sauce bottles smell cleaner : SPONGE

25-across – Film lover can see it when released : CINEASTE

26-across – Broadcaster getting in hot water : SHOWER

27-across – For example, love to sit back with velvet cushions, ultimately puffed-up ones : EGOTISTS

1-down – Group mostly provide services with kinky orgies : CATEGORISE

2-down – Line at bottom of pad: brilliant material : PILLOWLACE

3-down – That man with talent to make love : HEART

4-down – Prince going over acts of carrying on; they’re taken for granted : PRESUMPTIONS

6-down – Handicap stakes around noon: placed at the back, having led : HINDRANCE

7-down – Wet duck crossing river : DRIP

8-down – Insignificant duke’s a weakling : WEED

11-down – Succeeded, Conservative with effective lying : STORYTELLING

13-down – Short hair on balls goes astray : TRESPASSES

14-down – Cheats read result out : ADULTERERS

16-down – Left one with money in last casino game? Chip lost : CHAMPAGNE

21-down – One hollow logo on the box : IDENT

22-down – Draws on American king-size cigarettes at last : USES

23-down – Strippers primarily round there? : SOHO

1-across – Father munched a pet slug, say : GASTROPOD

6-across – Royal staff sprayed tear gas : MACE

8-across – Choose suspect Prof, suspect Prof : PLUMPFOR

9-across – Score reduced, see, in a good way : NICELY

10-across – Doctor can use time allocated for payment : USANCE

11-across – Most substantial estimate needing revision : MEATIEST

12-across – See 24 : MAILER

15-across – Hang around back of barge on river that’s dredged : DEEPENED

16-across – Better off study group : OUTCLASS

19-across – See 4 : SCHEME

21-across – Gallant boxer punching person going down? : CAVALIER

22-across – War hero’s conception: vital force interrupting broad­casting of German unit : TURING

24-across – Author, one hammering home the teachings of Joseph Smith, Spoonerised? : NORMAN

25-across – Under pressure with National Insurance contribution, made to pay : PUNISHED

26-across – Too much honey? : DEAR

27-across – Decline honour in delicate art of discretion : DIPLOMACY

1-down – Some wind, as leg cocked up : GALES

2-down – Important guarantee saving time : SEMINAL

3-down – Arm a little longer, if leg! : RIFLE

4-down – Racket — schpyreme? : PYRAMID

5-down – Embarrassment initially hidden by god after dropping trousers : DUNGAREES

6-down – See 22 across : MACHINE

7-down – Arena where Greek character served up after death in old athlete : COLOSSEUM

13-down – Superior novel about victory claimed by winner : ACUTABOVE

14-down – Blundering in a ledger straightened out again : REALIGNED

17-down – Cold person inflicting pain? Sweet talker : CHARMER

18-down – Bandage parts? : STRAPUP

20-down – A Romeo encapsulated by his allure, spicy stuff : HARISSA

22-down – Chinese dynasty ending in Rosario — steps taken here? : TANGO

23-down – Poor man, wage slave earned money, finally : NEEDY