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1-across – Prince Andrew’s regularly going out after sex, primarily in suit : SPADES

5-across – Depress actors by not working : CASTDOWN

9-across – Token of love: attraction can feature? : RINGPULL

10-across – Go on run and walk : RAMBLE

11-across – Change her nappies with no dread : APPREHENSION

13-across – Drop toast, essentially across floor? On the contrary : BEAD

14-across – Unusual tempo to maintain one piece of music : TONEPOEM

17-across – One sticks with Tramp cross­word, initially about to submit : CEMENTER

18-across – Rip short hem to denim outfit : TEAM

20-across – Number two fault: check by pilot : VICECHAIRMAN

23-across – Downed one can at end of month : MARTIN

24-across – One might be smiling, feeling cold inside : EMOTICON

25-across – Avoids past graduates : BYPASSES

26-across – Case in hospital not so young : HOLDER

2-down – Secretary at work is smart? : PAIN

3-down – Stroke pet on top of paw and go off : DOGPADDLE

4-down – Shape second album during split : SCULPT

5-down – Cherished ones lose footing away from Strictly Come Dancing : COLLECTORSITEMS

6-down – See 12 : SURGEONS

7-down – Tips Democrat: American to limit Mike Pence : DUMPS

8-down – Meow and start to enjoy cat milk, regularly put out: it’s placed by front door : WELCOMEMAT

12-down – Criminal mostly and ten guys: Reservoir Dogs might see them? : VETERINARY

15-down – Sort out toilet pan: promise? : POTENTIAL

16-down – What have you put on top of stuff that’s not opened? Artwork? : ETCHINGS

19-down – Way to get height to pass over low plane : SMOOTH

21-down – Another kiss? Tense during important date : EXTRA

22-down – Drink and drugs : COKE

9-across – Thin soil yielding metallic element : RAREEARTH

10-across – Late bloomer, briefly behind : ASTER

11-across – Exposed as ladies with a seedy past? : NAKED

12-across – Bizarrely, an opening for 11 digger provides job in growth area : GARDENING

13-across – Conflict over replacing article in shed : DISCORD

14-across – Believes book about fungal growth : ACCEPTS

17-across – Key work by artist that’s a bit of a nut : COPRA

19-across – One making regular entries in diary? : DAY

20-across – Earth turned rapidly, we hear : WORLD

21-across – Surreptitiously leave what today’s lady could have taken : SLIPOFF

22-across – Retiring poet : DRABBLE

24-across – Assess the situation, having deadheaded pot plant : TAKESTOCK

26-across – Serving of 28s is a likely source of fibre : SISAL

28-across – Cut selectively, purging fruit : PRUNE

29-across – Enough said about Beth working out 11 : INTHEBUFF

1-down – Women’s backsides in border unnerve and frighten bird : WREN

2-down – Flighty males finally returned tools for today : DRAKES

3-down – Young Murphy used to make others supply a dope test? Nothing in that : SEEDPOTATO

4-down – Frozen stiff after first of frosts : FRIGID

5-down – Reluctant to house youngster? Here’s one who does : CHARLADY

6-down – Heard Stand 11 is empty : BARE

7-down – One provocatively removing weeds? : STRIPPER

8-down – Carrier handy today as Romeo has to pull on clothing … : TRUG

13-down – … coarse garments, luvvie, such as 2 go after? : DUCKS

15-down – Source of manure applied sparely for fast grower : COWPARSLEY

16-down – Singular blade for cutting marsh plant : SEDGE

18-down – Identify hedges beginning to require transplant : PRICKOUT

19-down – Bloomer by lawyer taking raised hat off : DAFFODIL

22-down – Sioux pick up good inside information : DAKOTA

23-down – Frontal display aroused dissent and division : BUSTUP

24-down – Smart operator hoarding booze : TOPE

25-down – South London police going north to make arrest : STEM

27-down – Get up from the ground, oddly ignoring oldie with pink organ : LIFT

9-across – Working score to capture hearts — skill around this? : ORCHESTRA

10-across – Dance and drink: pub closing early : RUMBA

11-across – Unusually par the first: golf club detailed round without experience : APRIORI

12-across – Toy Story character with a way one can fly : BUZZARD

13-across – Couple from website match.com : ITEM

14-across – Cycling gear’s allure: ride when excited : DERAILLEUR

16-across – Stopped unknown American that’s gutted — beat badly boxing : ABEYANT

17-across – Comic hero is about ordinary one rowing : BOATMAN

19-across – Unchanged by Times? Papers tempt one, surprisingly? : IDEMPOTENT

22-across – Goddess lives on island : ISIS

24-across – Get rid of old joke, perhaps, for a comeback? : EXPUNGE

25-across – Men with single publication recalled one model in paper : ORIGAMI

26-across – Problem children : ISSUE

27-across – Chat in party, taking number from nurse : DISCOURSE

1-down – A serving icon playing — fourth ace in set? : GORANIVANISEVIC

2-down – Film man and leading couples in scene originally seeing set : SCORSESE

3-down – Do wrong to take drug on start of this? : DETOX

4-down – Urgent, filth is back on hospital department : STRIDENT

5-down – Disney film with king ultimately replacing leader over a nation : GAMBIA

6-down – Creepy-crawly dead at the bottom: saw bizarre _________ in reduced Aldi ripening bananas : BRAZILIAN

7-down – Spike prankster’s drink : IMPALE

8-down – See 6 : WANDERINGSPIDER

15-down – One carrying writer on board — one working on plane? : CARPENTER

17-down – Player in bar with supporter : BANJOIST

18-down – Service expert welcoming Queen’s total defeat : MASSACRE

20-down – Model after topless sex show : EXPOSE

21-down – Tip: go over with it : TRENDY

23-down – Important part of bible for homophobe? : BIGOT

5-across – Position of bishop and cardinal making one become angry : SEERED

6-across – Act the wrong way, cutting precious tree : DEODAR

9-across – Leaders in White House the reverse of smart in Washington — what’s the downside? : WHYNOT

10-across – Weapon in novel Pale Fire : PEARIFLE

11-across – Heads off tippler’s excessive alco­holic tendency, attachment to bottle : TEAT

12-across – Something sailor needs at that point covered by one side of bridge always : WEATHEREYE

13-across – Set piece — it’s spelt out, as you can hear, in the other across solutions : CRYPTICCLUE

18-across – Leaderless, is deaf — his thing is what’ll diminish schools? : SEAFISHING

21-across – Quick removal of initial no-no for doctors from pharmacy : PACY

22-across – Notice changes after English left democratic process : ELECTION

23-across – Exactly 50% of disease in one area, part of Europe : IBERIA

24-across – Live in endless childhood? Certainly! : YOUBET

25-across – Anxious, having no time to get Chinese manual : ICHING

1-down – Tranche of boodle in sterling for Irish quarter? : LEINSTER

2-down – Give in first place with pained expression : BESTOW

3-down – Harpies gallivanting about, like other mythical creatures : SERAPHIC

4-down – Less composed editor fighting American over royalty : EDGIER

5-down – That is to say, arranged help for arduous trek : SCHLEP

7-down – Races one can’t complete : RELAYS

8-down – Entering a quiet city, changed into shades : APPARITIONS

14-down – Old man’s daily crosswords etc : PASTIMES

15-down – Refer to work Greek character turned up that’s prosaic : UNPOETIC

16-down – In fact, join a new league? : REALLY

17-down – Playing in position as substitute : ACTING

19-down – If upset, put on such varied neckwear : FICHUS

20-down – Problem with equipment, needing good fruit pruned : GLITCH

8-across – Lily, girl accommodating retired soak : MARIPOSA

9-across – State where I invested in cereal crop, wasting capital : OREGON

10-across – Considered some communist, leftie revolutionary : FELT

11-across – Upset mind originally entertained by stance adopted by John Travolta? : DISCOMPOSE

12-across – Tank ending in ditch surrounded by rubbish : THRASH

14-across – Fixation on facial organ as going down, currently? : EARTHING

15-across – A sticker brought into play, nice one! : ATTABOY

17-across – Classic music genre rejected by Roosevelt, briefly : THEOAKS

20-across – Asian rarely seen collecting post : NEPALESE

22-across – School punishment element observed in silence : GATING

23-across – Artist reportedly removed a wheel clamp close to the ground? : FRIDAKAHLO

24-across – Day book’s last prayer : MONK

25-across – Splitting trousers from behind, weapon ultimately exposing blubber : SNIVEL

26-across – Meeting relations : CONGRESS

1-down – Christmas attire: appear with this when half-cut : PAPERHAT

2-down – Possession of Scotsman in fact likely to be lifted : KILT

3-down – Gadget with bidirectional functions, I see! : DOODAH

4-down – Acquire layer of coal to haul up in Welsh town : MAESTEG

5-down – Plain city where tailless school cat raised : GOMORRAH

6-down – 24 down 10, doctor operated to save skin on thigh : DEEPTHROAT

7-down – Alcoholic drink is cradled by server, uncorked? : POISON

13-down – Sinners supposedly recollecting dead man in prayer : ADAMANDEVE

16-down – Too much fine drinking upset minister, getting sick : OVERKILL

18-down – Generosity in affectionate act inspiring promotion of close relation, finally : KINDNESS

19-down – Look again, as wreck uncovered hell! : RECHECK

21-down – Wicked queen on phone : ERRING

22-down – Mole in crotch, by the sound of it? : GROYNE

24-down – Indicate evangelist : MARK

7-across – Comical likeness of one mad curate : CARICATURE

12-across – Setter is constant, nude? : PICAROON

13-across – The same Scottish maltreatment : ABUSE

14-across – Mysteriously left one humble abode : VANISHED

15-across – Old inn for Eastern travellers, with fresh sea air : CARAVANSERAI

16-across – Those below stairs sit around with dreams : MAIDSERVANTS

17-across – Active girl : CARA

18-across – Somewhat dim fool I left on board : TWILIT

19-across – Keeps tight grips : STRONGHOLDS

22-across – Army mount having polluted air in messy stuff : GUNCARRIAGE

26-across – Desert lynx — a Manx cat by lake : CARACAL

28-across – Taking cocaine, disparagingly? : SNORTING

30-across – Secretary opposing players in dances : PAVANES

33-across – Rum, playful talk? Not half! : BACARDI

34-across – The German with smell of South African liqueur : VANDERHUM

35-across – British sprinter’s Japanese keyboard : AKABUSI

36-across – Frames for skirts are tailpieces now and again : BUSTLES

38-across – Precipitation from a Jersey sewer : ACIDRAIN

41-across – Falklands War defence secretary’s cover? No, this one! : NOTTHAT

45-across – Independent entry into bulk as influential commercial activity : BIGBUSINESS

46-across – Frightening off from evil act at illiberal city in Ireland : SCARINGAWAY

48-across – Admiral or magazine editor getting hold on 111 : NELSON

50-across – House for half the wine : SEMI

51-across – Great stone-faced film star demolished oak tree : BUSTERKEATON

54-across – Works team included in thanks for performance at La Scala? : OPERATICARIA

55-across – Passed away, holding book in place to sleep : DIVANBED

56-across – Mites and sloth : ACARI

57-across – Some of the three scents fade away : EVANESCE

58-across – One holding up the train? : BRIDESMAID

1-down – Central American coming from northern Guiana : NICARAGUAN

2-down – Crazed commander’s island : MADAGASCAR

3-down – Frost oddly seen in village near Salisbury : FOVANT

4-down – Wielded gun, swallowing drug, having no ambition : UNASPIRING

5-down – Tracing back ancestry finally and call round : CARRYINGUP

6-down – Turn up with band for festival : PURIM

7-down – Small room is at first too small for players : CELLISTS

8-down – Preparation for an exam? That will make a change! : REVISION

9-down – Irish boy working inside — good gracious! : CONOR

10-down – Native American mentioned in Tacitus or Aristophanes : TUSCARORA

11-down – Welshman — young lad — was not co-operative : REESTED

20-down – A signature about undertakings to be responsible : GUARANTIES

21-down – Spoke of dirty man of note : SULLIVAN

23-down – Promotes the second man and causes trouble : RAISESCAIN

24-down – Regularly praise Ms Fisher’s horror film : CARRIE

25-down – Monkeys in church : CEBUS

27-down – The heart of luminance reveals the location of Canopus : CARINA

28-down – Father Christmas has dropped off first of toys in parts of tropical Africa : SAVANNAS

29-down – Lumbering vehicle in Toxteth : OXCART

31-down – Ford’s early model involved in another car manufacturer’s inspections : AUDITS

32-down – Degree for Indian office workers : BABUS

37-down – Siege ruins ground that is unique : SUIGENERIS

38-down – More than one surprise attack on ruined academies that is forgotten : AMBUSCADES

39-down – Scores but Roman is frightened : RUNSSCARED

40-down – Woolly jumper counters : INSOMNIACS

42-down – The Pope, say, volunteers to corrupt God : TAROTCARD

43-down – Modi in cottage room in Scottish isle, upset : NARENDRA

44-down – Collection of monkeys and amphibian left inside : CARTLOAD

47-down – Travel guide found by font : COURIER

49-down – Money from thin air — a surprise! : NAIRAS

52-down – Lesson for detective : REBUS

53-down – Drifter certainly not without reason : NOMAD

7-across – Nick hugs Maria, mostly a good person : SAMARITAN

8-across – Chocolate producer from a hundred with a gong in 23? : CACAO

9-across – You’re a loser, says European partner : CHECKMATE

10-across – Backstreet securing triumph for Jedward? : TWINS

12-across – Underwear market surrounded by paramilitary force : SMALLS

13-across – Protection from Philistine’s beginning to massacre harmony : IMMUNITY

14-across – Somewhat reactionary cabinet is bewildered by something in cyberspace : WEBSITE

17-across – Fish supplement pawned? : HADDOCK

20-across – See 11 : THOMPSON

22-across – Motto may be ‘to consume a type of fruit’ : TOMATO

24-across – Anonymous 10 could be in range : SNOWY

25-across – See 24 : MOUNTAINS

26-across – See 8 : BEANS

27-across – Cliff top, with a fair easterly breeze, as a place to eat? : CAFETERIA

1-down – Confusion as naughty 11 embraces outgoing youth : MAYHEM

2-down – Functional study shows copper deposit in thick skin : CALCULUS

3-down – Decisive assessment essential in disputed titles : LITMUS

4-down – One takes charge of contraceptive method used on Tina Turner : CAPTAIN

5-down – Naturalist appearing in calendar — WI, naturally! : DARWIN

6-down – It’s not gross to be into witchcraft, it’s attractive : MAGNETIC

11-down – A memo to NHS unusually features politician and actor : EMMA

15-down – Essentially deny the dance being revamped and improved : ENHANCED

16-down – See 3 : TEST

18-down – It’s cruel indeed to be humiliated : DEMEANED

19-down – Rabbits OK to evolve into kangaroos : ANGORAS

21-down – Cutting room ultimately in the red : MOWING

22-down – Kind of town Hollywood is giving silent treatment : TINSEL

23-down – Reporter of fiction here with gang : TINTIN

1-across – Bath hot, dealer lying back, maybe : PERHAPS

5-across – See 22 : WARBECK

10-across – Shape of course about right for figure immediately before square? : FOUR

11-across – Cover dirty path frantically, king passing through : THIRDPARTY

12-across – See man again before short journey : BISHOP

13-across – Builder’s coat put on, hold buttons up : CLADDING

14-across – See 16 : ANDBUTTER

16-across – Study in small hotel, say, sustained income : BREAD

17-across – See 10 : SCORE

19-across – Most definitely gone and done wrong instead? : STONEDEAD

23-across – Fail to deliver breakfast? : LAYANEGG

24-across – Island, unduly round land : TOBAGO

26-across – Daughter behind vehicle in problem with brakes, initially shocked : STRUCKDUMB

27-across – African lions in captivity might go here, did you say? : ZULU

28-across – Strange and foolish? : UNCANNY

29-across – Cheat bedding former lover, sordid practice? : SEXTING

2-down – English nation’s poor rich kid? : ETONIAN

3-down – Rough pot filled with rubbish, primarily : HARSH

4-down – Rhythmic beating of 16 14 : PITAPAT

6-down – An ecclesiastic residing near Machu Picchu, for example : ANDEAN

7-down – Very drunk, run into item of furniture : BLADDERED

8-down – Italian city isn’t built up around area south of walls in Corsica : CATANIA

9-down – Malevolent woman, mean having severed head, eats Australian native : WITCHETTYGRUB

15-down – Predatory fish from Scottish island a bird cut up : BARRACUDA

18-down – Correct number finishing short race : CHASTEN

20-down – Celebrity eating off lap then? : NOTABLE

21-down – African relative carrying wood uphill : ANGOLAN

22-down – Pretender in stream, gaining benefit in fighting at the front : PERKIN

25-down – Audibly, second note’s the first for composer : BIZET

1-across – Frilly corsets for one hand-me-down : LEGACY

4-across – Make dashing leap, finally breaking cup sure to wobble : SPRUCEUP

9-across – Intelligence? Country that elected Bojo’s losing it : BRAINS

10-across – Is French car maintaining parking rule? : ESTOPPEL

11-across – Hornblower’s hard on a corps pursuing gold coin : LOUISARMSTRONG

13-across – What Victor may take, left in misery : SPOILSPORT

14-across – Use taser on left-leaning eccentric : STUN

16-across – Honey bee caught in inlet : BABY

18-across – Uproar at home? Smarten up the mess, say : DININGROOM

21-across – Scatter articles of Spanish novelist : ELLAFITZGERALD

23-across – Setter heard vessel getting slap on the lid : EYELINER

24-across – Fine soldiers knocking on walls : AGREED

25-across – Maybe Oscar Wilde ate these when out to lunch : AESTHETE

26-across – Dry American statesman who led a coup : BRUTUS

1-down – Line on taxi mostly grease : LUBE

2-down – Loves magic works, which may be Puccini : GIACOMO

3-down – Lack cake decorating skills when receiving large number of churchgoers : CANTICLE

5-down – Stamping the time when teachers finally relax? : POSTMARKING

6-down – Warcraft from America’s leader, but so refined : UBOATS

7-down – Former member of RAF moving one’s milk : EXPLOIT

8-down – 2-D shape I’m not sure is for group of plants : POLYGONUM

12-down – Give jobs to the boys? Time for a meeting : APPOINTMENT

13-down – Types info covered by journalist with Time : SUBGENERA

15-down – A German with silver ra-ra skirts overturned jelly : AGARAGAR

17-down – Puts up stakes, fencing badly : BILLETS

19-down – Most slimy East German admits: ‘You can’t believe me’ : OILIEST

20-down – Piscine is rather cold : OFFISH

22-down – Cockney is nowhere to be seen in time of putsch : IDES

8-across – Tilt when boarding does for vessel : DECANTER

9-across – 10’s first cut where 25 kept : RANCH

10-across – Plane, for example, common flyer stripped? : WOOD

11-across – Consuming chewy rope initially, disgusting stuff like that they say is unlawful for performers at 10 25? : INCREDIBLE

12-across – Somebody putting wedge back on rug : BIGWIG

14-across – Private sector that is failing : ESOTERIC

15-across – See 24 down : SHANKAR

17-across – Female doctor I kiss, performer at 10 25 : HENDRIX

20-across – Builder’s drink, particular taste : CUPOFTEA

22-across – Yet to embrace fashion, performers at 10 25 : THEWHO

23-across – A git loading safe weapon for kids : PEASHOOTER

24-across – Bloody exceptional : RARE

25-across – See 10 : STOCK

26-across – Presumably odd time for anticlimax : NONEVENT

1-down – Guzzle tasty sandwiches second : DEMOLISH

2-down – See 11 : BAND

3-down – See 11 : STRING

4-down – Peach biscuit : CRACKER

5-down – 10 25 relations in female dance finished, almost : FREELOVE

6-down – Hit often proving fatal, seeing died, possibly? : INSIDEEDGE

7-down – Cold heart of oil burner? : CHILLI

13-down – Bound to support Gates’s baby, just look at what’s in store! : WINDOWSHOP

16-down – Designs right number of masts on brig, for example, carried by ships : ARTWORKS

18-down – Natural gas in neither fluid : INHERENT

19-down – Temperature inside loco that hasn’t started rising for performers at 10 25 : SANTANA

21-down – Tense difficult, might you say? : UNEASY

22-down – County cricket side in Mediterranean city : TYRONE

24-down – Performer at 10 25 of what a Turk might do to enthral his capital, briefly? : RAVI