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9-across – Hearts, say, fit: officer leads : MAJORSUIT

10-across – See 22 : AHOPE

11-across – Band that’s tough is flipping fresh : SINEW

12-across – Secretly at home, soldier : INPRIVATE

13-across – Top revolver : SPINNER

14-across – Relative aboard vessel, drifter : VAGRANT

17-across – One with endless despair in White House : IGLOO

19-across – Lament, from this day even, bearing loss : FOR

20-across – Compare similar types caught by mine, killed when thrown back : LIKEN

21-across – Might one be posted to cover defensive walls amidst rifle shot? : FIELDER

22-across – Character on 28 in band, one ultimately doomed : WITHOUT

24-across – See 19 : THEFALLEN

26-across – Recollection of first of explosions sounding intolerable, over Normandy? : NOISE

28-across – Noted German advance finally stops — here? : BEACH

29-across – This sign marking 24 across partially coinciding with 28 : CROSSWORD

1-down – He prophesied awesome men of steel, leaders all : AMOS

2-down – Starts to delight Jack in drinking local spirit : DJINNI

3-down – Line entering trap on 28 — experience missed 19 24 : GROWINGOLD

4-down – One overwhelmed by 28 horror ultimately — one so young : JUNIOR

5-down – Die: finished in resting place : STOPOVER

6-down – Mark fighter for country : MALI

7-down – Weapon ending in dirt on 28, work for evacuation? : TOMAHAWK

8-down – Where D-Day remembered in the requiem : HERE

13-down – Runner, very strong little boat : SKIFF

15-down – Character standing upright in battered line: stage set : GELATINISE

16-down – Belief: it could go either way : TENET

18-down – Main elegy almost unnatural for loyal old chap : LIEGEMAN

19-down – Army getting to grips with something raw — that’s hairy : FORELOCK

22-down – Pale fashion abandoned : WANTON

23-down – Supporting other ranks, I issue prayer : ORISON

24-down – Brass shown by neighbour emerging from the depths? : TUBA

25-down – Hurt in store, heading off : ACHE

27-down – Objectives in decisive operation achieved, heroes every one in conclusion : ENDS

1-across – Leather, fake I say : SHAMMY

4-across – Germany’s sound leader in Angela’s in 23 : OOMPAH

9-across – Good grades Paul was always unable to attain — who would have thought it! : WELL

10-across – Touring middle of farm, muck encountered — mess about : GOOFAROUND

11-across – Secure fifty picnic hampers : CLINCH

12-across – Mere hint about unusual instrument : THEREMIN

13-across – Growth of intellect in Essex? : BRAINTREE

15-across – Make sense, as might exhibits in gallery collection? : HANG

16-across – See 25 : OVER

17-across – ‘Loose women’: clue de trop : UNWELCOME

21-across – See 15 : TOGETHER

22-across – Eagle, for example, hit rocky peak : RAPTOR

24-across – Dark snake and lady of the night? : WINDOWLESS

25-across – Affect suddenly with strong push in sustained campaign : WASH

26-across – Bear in river on purpose : ENDURE

27-across – Bird: 22 out of one’s tree? : PARROT

1-down – Cosmic light initially alters forms : STELLAR

2-down – Pooped nothing out then? : ALLIN

3-down – Assaults exciting — still on police record? : MUGSHOT

5-down – Authorised reference covering talk that’s come up : OKAYED

6-down – Astronomical topic, male boobs : PTOLEMAIC

7-down – Whiffy — as a goose may be? : HONKING

8-down – This hen wouldn’t want to be turning her friends out : SOUTHERNFRIED

14-down – See 9 : INEVERDID

16-down – Scent style in rose I gathered : ODORISE

18-down – Every other one blocked off, set up roads vital for an enormous area of land : EURASIA

19-down – Descent of celestial body, twinkling before dawn : MOONSET

20-down – See 23 : SHOWER

23-down – Might exhibitionist stand naked under this? : POWER

1-across – Earth, what goes around the sun : HELIOS

4-across – Quickly get ahead after game : SNAPUP

9-across – What one might say after fleeing country : IRAN

10-across – Platforms attached to lorries, those managing to go in reverse : TAILBOARDS

11-across – Juice knocked back with endless food from another planet : JOVIAN

12-across – Greek woman in Paris punches chin furiously : HELLENIC

13-across – Abstract making leverage to impress European Commission leaders : PRECISING

15-across – Smack fly on the rebound : TANG

16-across – Flag adopted by Bantus in Kenya : SINK

17-across – Old cop, having secured lighter and ciggy in the end, lights up on a clear night : STARRYSKY

21-across – Extremely big girl, very cold having left boozer finally : GALACTIC

22-across – Saturnine flash on Venus, for example : MOROSE

24-across – Drained after tight run-out, remaining calm : UNTROUBLED

25-across – Dark energy ready for NASA? : DIME

26-across – Stop following characters central to sissyish arrangement : SYSTEM

27-across – Draw in boundary, one cut off by post-impressionist : ENDEAR

1-down – Cups turning up in time for port : HARBOUR

2-down – All finally on reel, you mean, filming Bambi — it’s a wrap! : LUNGI

3-down – Stumbling into us, head of gov­ernment having entered, trips : OUTINGS

5-down – See 6 : NEBULA

6-down – Neptune: a ball in pieces circling a remarkably hollow luminous cloud : PLANETARY

7-down – Extra fat bear has lost weight : PADDING

8-down – Spun thing, as gripped by mercurial spinners, say? : FISHINGTACKLE

14-down – Constellation where Uranus etc misplaced : CENTAURUS

16-down – Mars visited by leader from Epsom, a town in Surrey : STAINES

18-down – Beastly male duck, flipping fast : RAMADAN

19-down – By the sound of it, money only for a subcontinental area : KASHMIR

20-down – Tailor finished off dressing butt : ATTUNE

23-down – Top, top game : RIDGE

1-across – Bird box has string : SPARROW

5-across – Order her gift and ring worker : FIGHTER

9-across – Office anger around men at the back : POSTERIOR

10-across – Bits of poetry from writer’s American rubbish : IAMBS

11-across – Director hurt when going over shot : DRAM

12-across – Keep stiff and carry on : STRONGHOLD

14-across – Pick up one old lover for bit on the side? : ANNEXE

15-across – Warms up again — run races to conserve energy : REHEATS

16-across – See 21 : POPPINS

18-across – Peer into 27 annual : YEARLY

20-across – In ring take in swinging punch : ROUNDHOUSE

21-across – Banks employed her pimp: any pros let go : MARY

24-across – Met in New York, perhaps old prince getting ‘date’ : OPERA

25-across – What’s limiting hairdressing? Girl’s small mirror : HANDGLASS

26-across – One pardoning former addict smuggling cocaine : EXCUSER

27-across – Americans pull and make out when going back : YANKEES

1-down – Tasty dish mostly ordered with a starter of pasta : SAPID

2-down – One blackbird’s heading over spot to sit on fence : ABSTAIN

3-down – Smoke half of joint, then kip : REEK

4-down – Strange how he let Mrs sit back on chair for painting : WHISTLERSMOTHER

5-down – Bond that’s top secret : FORYOUREYESONLY

6-down – Setting out third piece in auction with a lot in the sale? : GOINGCHEAP

7-down – Closed with maiden, cricketer we hear gets draw : TOMBOLA

8-down – Lives on borders : RESIDES

13-down – Inside after going to pubs : BEHINDBARS

16-down – Penny, excited with love, grabbing partner’s bottom, having endless sex drive : PURPOSE

17-down – He wrote notes by page with cryptic clue on : POULENC

19-down – Greenery in meadow following season : LEAFAGE

22-down – More than one sure pharmacy’s closing: couple of tablets needed? : YESES

23-down – Local not for an alcoholic drink : AGIN

8-across – Name sewn into footballers’ underwear : KNICKERS

9-across – Spare time occupied with last letters in mailbox and cabinet : EXTRA

10-across – One hears the Queen’s off fish : ORFE

11-across – Jack: knave covered by queen? It’s on the way? : TARMACADAM

12-across – Smothering people in manure is rational : COMPOS

14-across – Activist carrying bomb, bully : DOMINEER

15-across – Hot inside wide heat-resistant receptacle : ASHTRAY

17-across – Eccentric return of stuttering Labour Party? : ODDBALL

20-across – Most bubbly girls drained from glasses, help to drink last of champagne : GASSIEST

22-across – Fairly attractive … : PRETTY

23-across – … wire broken in old office equipment : TYPEWRITER

24-across – Belligerent god in paradise, rather laid back : ARES

25-across – Scottish town’s appearance in news? : NAIRN

26-across – Spruce: tree roughly three feet : TRIMETER

1-down – Rising endlessly, Finland’s river, one that’s vast : ENORMOUS

2-down – Came by a roundabout route to 24 down : ACME

3-down – See 12 : MENTIS

4-down – With a leg either side, sit and read novel : ASTRIDE

5-down – Still cold, shivering male tucked in? : BECALMED

6-down – Within a board, reform ain’t possible : ATTAINABLE

7-down – Rolls may be kept here : GARAGE

13-down – Shop that’s opening, one in mount­ainous route over lake : PATISSERIE

16-down – Jack, queen, king, ace: no trumps anomalous? : ABERRANT

18-down – Educated general quaffing dry wine : LETTERED

19-down – Giant finally caught by David, say — that’s the law : STATUTE

21-down – Unspecified individual in company on edge : ANYONE

22-down – Not quite finding a space for oatmeal cake : PARKIN

24-down – Top secret monkey? : APEX

1-across – Native American dog bites wildcat : CHOCTAW

5-across – Something tasty served up, gentle delivery breaks to the left : SPAGBOL

9-across – 1960s’ film back in vogue, if laddish : ALFIE

10-across – Contrary granny from Finland posh, everyone agrees : UNANIMOUS

11-across – Thug denies bombing, as lesser explosion acknowledged in Berlin : GESUNDHEIT

12-across – See 17 : BALL

14-across – Unfortunate if, in clues to cryptic, one’s a write-in? : INFELICITOUS

18-across – Those landed in hot water following home secretary, reportedly in difficult situation? : PRETTYKETTLE

21-across – Dose of mercurial ointment for cut : LOIN

22-across – Appropriate name, Bambi, attached to delicate creature : COMMANDEER

25-across – Put foot down with joke about little boy punching copper : QUICKENUP

26-across – Whacking cane, flipping clever idea, pupil finally bending over : LARGE

27-across – Unable to see how maid is mad, so to speak? : EYELESS

28-across – Battery not funny: where next after conviction? : DRYCELL

1-down – Storm that’s electrical : CHARGE

2-down – See 18 : OFFISH

3-down – Make oneself worried on leaving hospital, one thinks it’s broken : TIEINKNOTS

4-down – Arrogant writer originally stuck-up, I’m repulsed by that author : WAUGH

5-down – Revolutionary ways to secure nail, I gathered : STALINIST

6-down – Passionate in a short film : AVID

7-down – US dancing bear eating something sticky up : BOOGALOO

8-down – Pale but upright? : LISTLESS

13-down – Anyhow, organ like nothing? : WILLYNILLY

15-down – Hunters should, first of all, kill notorious enemies off : ELKHOUNDS

16-down – Top cabal after program for needlework design : APPLIQUE

17-down – The weak probably wouldn’t catch it, given spherical pill : MEDICINE

19-down – What’s better than twice-cited 4, did you say? Better author : GEORGE

20-down – See 19 : ORWELL

23-down – Two-wheeler was idling miserably : MOPED

24-down – Loft extension’s beginning somewhere in Scotland : SKYE

9-across – Tradition to include prom finale in retreat : HERMITAGE

10-across – Some heartache at home in Hampstead? : HEATH

11-across – What may help sleep is blend regularly used by conservatives : BEDTIME

12-across – See 11 : STORIES

13-across – Ultimately, trivia help me climax? Yes : APEX

14-across – Special ‘lorry class’ motor race : RALLYCROSS

16-across – Split hairs? Use a fine-toothed comb : NITPICK

17-across – Rich fellow being stupid and loud : WELLOFF

19-across – I’m surprised solver’s keeping mum : YOUDONTSAY

22-across – Scholar missing short holiday as a result of injury : SCAR

24-across – Feeds well and puts to bed : TUCKSIN

25-across – Not fast enough for capital in drag : TOOSLOW

26-across – Sex in the City fine with love … : NOOKY

27-across – … and another lie about another secret : LEICESTER

1-down – Is it good to kiss and tell? : THEBLARNEYSTONE

2-down – Award without end pitch : GRADIENT

3-down – Municipal rise and fall : CIVIC

4-down – Bikes initially have come home without a saddle : BAREBACK

5-down – Start to withstand what might go pop? : WEASEL

6-down – Safe at last, wrapped in cloth, cut off from supernatural stuff : THEOCCULT

7-down – Coins wasted securing a better establishment : CASINO

8-down – Underwear storage in artists’ bosoms : CHESTSOFDRAWERS

15-down – Little sister hugs so many when playing game : SIMONSAYS

17-down – Get less convincing victory protecting the planet : WEARTHIN

18-down – Elaborate clues to ‘a kiss’ : OSCULATE

20-down – Uniform: spelled out, it’s square : UNCOOL

21-down – Producing a pleasant sensation, half disgustingly : TINGLY

23-down – Lust after firm check : COVET

8-across – Girl I see in place of a couple of gentlemen : VERONICA

9-across – A capital in Africa, to the west? : ABUJA

10-across – Reportedly contemptible look : MIEN

11-across – Make a move for that lady, fit : GOTOGETHER

12-across – See 24 : SURFER

14-across – Those are for runners with good reasons to fail : NOSERAGS

15-across – Country in muddle, so thought-provoking : LESOTHO

17-across – Tramp banking on sovereign : MONARCH

20-across – Go down, not up initially — climb with difficulty : SCRAMBLE

22-across – Free seat, I say, for adults? : STEAMY

23-across – Depreciating profits evident originally, steps quickly taken to catch old scoundrel : PEJORATIVE

24-across – Snake more certain to bite head of firm is one on the board? : WIND

25-across – Workers feeling miserable easily : HANDS

26-across – Party intellect, predatory : RAVENOUS

1-down – Setter standing in undies, unfortunately — and not much else! : SEMINUDE

2-down – See 25 : DOWN

3-down – Quick footballer, swift perhaps? : WINGER

4-down – See 24 : TASTING

5-down – Halfwit carried by mythical ship beneath southern sea : SARGASSO

6-down – Baked item sounding a pain in the backside? : BUTTERCAKE

7-down – Villain demanded to ride horse : BADEGG

13-down – Trifle, dessert with a roly-poly : FOOLAROUND

16-down – Tribe has translated for scholar of ancient language : HEBRAIST

18-down – Imminent revolt constraining dynasty : COMINGUP

19-down – Reckless behaviour wrong in prohibitionist : DEVILRY

21-down – Shortage of staff with cook finally leaving nursery : CRECHE

22-down – Not given ring, female sweetheart put off : SHELVE

24-down – Arm grabbing clear, sparkling tipple — sampling it? : WINE

9-across – Refuse to fight for little cash, losing face : SCRAPHEAP

10-across – Firm support for bust group dealing with crisis : COBRA

11-across – Only half reviving what royals do : REIGN

12-across – Move into computing is trouble for corporation : ENTERITIS

13-across – Encourages bloggers initially getting louder? : FOSTERS

14-across – Standard price? No go for person lacking appreciation : INGRATE

17-across – £1,000 put in bank is a good economy : TIGER

19-across – Signal in letter read out : CUE

20-across – What cockney uses to warm up diner : EATER

21-across – Goddess put off embracing this person : DEMETER

22-across – Discount left in reserve for digital component : CUTICLE

24-across – Mostly limping, ingesting energy in sprite : HOBGOBLIN

26-across – French bread then, with herb twists : EUROS

28-across – Two rivers in the country : RURAL

29-across – Spelling near to awful following European language : ESPERANTO

1-down – Spots architect clutching ruler : TSAR

2-down – Intellect of bishop comes down : BRAINS

3-down – It’s paradoxically known, so pretence is wasted : OPENSECRET

4-down – I don’t know about tax in depressed area : RECESS

5-down – Fighter inclines to lift sack : SPITFIRE

6-down – One providing good service for colourful shrub? : ACER

7-down – Summary of ratings on essay : ABSTRACT

8-down – Part of orchestra lacking right instrument : BASS

13-down – Doomed journalist needing to diet? : FATED

15-down – Suppose clothing involved beret, bar extras : GUESTBEERS

16-down – Governess defends current place for laying eggs : EYRIE

18-down – Issue raised by new bride makes you quail, say : GAMEBIRD

19-down – Singer’s around, plus car : CAROLLER

22-down – One seen at parties has talent for impersonation : CANAPE

23-down – I’m amazed about a halo of light : CORONA

24-down – It’s plucked from abridged version of Marx : HARP

25-down – Members of parliament slow to reform : OWLS

27-down – Your health seems to lack nothing, on the rise : SKOL

8-across – If apron loose, tie at the back — that’s it! : PINAFORE

9-across – Adult thing Spike Milligan might have said, on leaving? : IMAGO

10-across – See 24 down : TOSS

11-across – Opt for little dip : PICKPOCKET

12-across – A thing out of order, for heaven’s sake : HANGIT

14-across – Some meat including joints, where fish served : CHIPSHOP

15-across – From which 6 3 might be served for engagement? : PRESTON

17-across – Fencing off evergreens, spruce trimmed to begin with : ATFIRST

20-across – Swimmer beginning to tire in theatrical performer? : STURGEON

22-across – Cook up banger stuffed with last of mince : CREATE

23-across – See 25 : CANNONBALL

24-across – Pro-Democrat president : FORD

25-across – Awful stink: party going after an ecclesiastic having pinched intern’s behind — he’s fired : HUMAN

26-across – Grab ungulate initially behind hump : COPULATE

1-down – Conservative racket: Guardian’s nailing it : DINOSAUR

2-down – See 15 : PANS

3-down – See 6 : HOTPOT

4-down – Fashion icon briefly hugged by top fop : PEACOCK

5-down – Quick drive from London to Leeds on paper, an error : MISPRINT

6-down – Bread covered by another lid, not quite screwed onto hash dish : LANCASHIRE

7-down – Setter inspired by game that’s fruity : POMELO

13-down – Director finally welcomed by Frenchman with love, gracious in appreciation of board? : GASTRONOMY

16-down – Intimate element going in earlier — case dismissed : ONEONONE

18-down – Steep cost at weekends, perhaps, restricts you : SATURATE

19-down – I think about name for youth : INFANCY

21-down – Inferior technique coming up short : TRASHY

22-down – Muslim leader has an edge in church : CALIPH

24-down – Complain about ludicrous toll for delivery : FULL