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8-across – Date of historic score, with combinations of sixes : EIGHTEEN

9-across – 10, or part of 24 down : SPRING

10-across – English novel a player pens, for example 1 11 : LEAP

11-across – See 1 down : EIGHTYFOUR

12-across – Proverbial loser in 10 24 down regularly scrapped with partners initially : WEEPER

14-across – Issue of Trump, in part, dividing a piece of the US : AMERICAN

15-across – Like promise broken, broken by male like Boris : UNKEMPT

17-across – Member of jury in recent trial — treason involved? : SENATOR

20-across – Iron hook smashed large stone : KOHINOOR

22-across – Even you, in old-fashioned way, decorate fabric : TIEDYE

23-across – Left author to judge paper again, for instance : REDECORATE

24-across – Setter might produce them, ending off this month with a little extra added : YAPS

25-across – Inexperienced cowboy cut end of rope : GAUCHE

26-across – Eg clue that’s really simple and good? Brendan’s not without method : GIVEAWAY

1-down – Datebook? : NINETEEN

2-down – Party official, one in US government shortly before Trump’s termination : WHIP

3-down – Try again in seat occupied by male : REHEAR

4-down – Result of exchanging letters from an Indian city before 1st of March : ANAGRAM

5-down – Sweater I reknit, so to speak : ASITWERE

6-down – Dissolute scholar, learner I punish at college : PROFLIGATE

7-down – Soul of an MP disturbed about what UK’s abandoning : PNEUMA

13-down – It’s contested quadrennially, bringing power and official place to live : PRESIDENCY

16-down – Romantic female role today for model : PROPOSER

18-down – Dweller on mountain, one seeking gold in 10 24 down : OLYMPIAN

19-down – Impeach, as a restraint, in hearing : ARRAIGN

21-down – Difference between 2020 and 2019, at some point : ONEDAY

22-down – See 8 : TWELVE

24-down – See 10 : YEAR

1-across – Make less iron, perhaps : DECREASE

5-across – One article carried by climbers primarily? : ICEAXE

9-across – Such a tyre goes soft? Extremely likely : CROSSPLY

10-across – A poet caught out, being a bit of a heel? Quite the opposite : TOECAP

12-across – Castrate last of brood — Siamese not seeing Thailand once : DESEX

13-across – Shows respect for lethal weapons : CROSSBOWS

14-across – 21 against installing electronic warning light : BEACON

16-across – Refreshingly, very little said against Queen’s Counsel : ADVISER

18-across – Pongs include body odour in antelopes : REEBOKS

20-across – Far from comfortable, condemned characters in purdah : HARDUP

22-across – Resigns from pop group Blue : STEPSDOWN

23-across – Kick out English footballer who’s dropped ecstasy once : EXPEL

24-across – Hobnob, perhaps, as writer that is keeping the big man on board : BICKIE

25-across – Point needed after City game : LACROSSE

26-across – Take stock, with unhappy result : RUSTLE

27-across – Note mistake’s third to appear in clues — they’re seldom spotted : RECLUSES

1-down – Went off, you might say, for a number of years : DECADE

2-down – State arbitrators have seized some of this puzzle’s content? : CROSSREFERENCES

3-down – Cricket team making opposing players run back and forth : ESSEX

4-down – Musical’s essential element : SILICON

6-down – Combining two different styles shows some balls : CROSSOVER

7-down – Having contrary understanding of what might be a super 19 : ATCROSSPURPOSES

8-down – Recording disc certain to generate publicity : EXPOSURE

11-down – Not one of the 21 formerly used for counterirritant : MOXA

15-down – B___ sick as a parrot? No, a finch : CROSSBILL

17-down – Returning at first reluctantly, almost becomes part of the woodwork : CROSSBAR

19-down – See spinner’s over : SPOT

20-down – Stone Age tool? Joiner would be in heaven, oddly : HANDAXE

21-down – Using rifles, shot 15s, say : FLIERS

23-down – Register as nurse with reduced capacity : ENROL

9-across – Brother smothering body part in 8 28 : CARMELITE

10-across – Little publicity for doctor : PROMO

11-across – Jamaican music, pattern of notes around ghetto originally : RAGGA

12-across – Bloomer on radar, so wrong : AARONSROD

13-across – Work out second Beatles number : GETBACK

14-across – Nothing revolutionary in the Butcher of the Somme coming down hard : HAILING

17-across – Flipping mug is our leader : BORIS

19-across – From a long way out, service returned : FAR

20-across – File letter for audition? : QUEUE

21-across – Premier League initially probing drugs cheat — some effect : DOPPLER

22-across – Lights out not later than beginning of evening — black, of course : BYEBYES

24-across – Bug in 8 28, once whipped? : CHANTILLY

26-across – Smalls shown by not entirely loyal supporter : TRUSS

28-across – See 8 : CREAM

29-across – Is leading Tory in Mr Johnson ultimately to fail in his duty? : MISGOVERN

1-down – Tree competitor polled : ACER

2-down – Book fair, fair! : BRIGHT

3-down – Bone found in tart as stirred into dinner, say? : METATARSAL

4-down – Take over a century to separate foursome following the leader of government : HIJACK

5-down – Cupid after lips of some looker : SEARCHER

6-down – See 25 : SPAN

7-down – See 23 : YOURLIFE

8-down – Cosmetic: measure of volume impressing wrinkly a lot : COLD

13-down – Mouth commercial rot : GOBAD

15-down – Top foreign figure is not surpris­ingly being discussed : INQUESTION

16-down – Imagine pub’s out of stout : GUESS

18-down – Rifle unloaded, safe to carry a gun : REPEATER

19-down – Noted window cleaner almost catching priest’s member : FORELIMB

22-down – Fresh-faced youth is not out after bowled over : BOYISH

23-down – Absolutely what happens in Russian roulette? : YOUBET

24-down – Fifty having flown, see bird : COCK

25-down – Period I spent in the morning, initially wasted : TIME

27-down – Not all there, Johnson glibly lied : SONG

1-across – Charm sweetheart briefly during date : SEDUCE

4-across – They might mix in resort with short greeting on return : SPATULAS

9-across – Where some might deal cocaine to a crime ring : CASINO

10-across – Dance fan second to last in Strictly Come Dancing : FLAMENCO

11-across – One might create a scene in public, as VIP treatment inept : PAVEMENTARTIST

13-across – Bugger! Burst water pipe, right? : WIRETAPPER

14-across – Indian place put starter of rice in oven : AGRA

16-across – Forward’s head to score goal : SEND

18-across – Company after energy that’s natural and non-polluting : ECOLOGICAL

21-across – Kinky man, Roger, with condom that’s standard : COMMONORGARDEN

23-across – One found in hanging basket, a rose sprayed with cheap stuff : AEROSTAT

24-across – Sexy old girlfriend going for outfit that’s blue : STEAMY

25-across – What poacher might do to get American bird : KILLDEER

26-across – Underwear stores empty around shopping centre : SMALLS

1-down – Item of clothing accordingly getting designer label : SOCK

2-down – Having no love makes couple give up hope : DESPAIR

3-down – Questions to do before exams : CONTESTS

5-down – Stop and help crazy pair of Yanks outside : PULLTHEPLUG

6-down – Watches money invested in banks : TIMERS

7-down – Connecting line doing tattoo : LINKING

8-down – Deficit quick to come down : SHORTFALL

12-down – Bank on no charge to cough up : EXPECTORATE

13-down – Old comedian to attempt joke : WISECRACK

15-down – Get on grass, let me see plant : AGERATUM

17-down – One turning up on time wearing model’s clothes revealing figure : NUMERAL

19-down – White sign over bouncer : CUEBALL

20-down – River running through Germany twice flooded : DOUSED

22-down – Bowled OK, conceding runs : BYES

1-across – Awful muddle, how Berlin fires accompany one in another capital : FIDDLE

4-across – Dish served piping hot, on silver, by soldiers : HAGGIS

9-across – Tide reportedly smooth and dry in a site that’s produced vegetables : NEEPSANDTATTIES

10-across – Cleared out aquarium: offensive bacteria and other primitive life : AMOEBA

11-across – Instrument a doctor inserted into body in physical examination stings at first : BAGPIPES

12-across – New Year, when in unspecified location : ANYWHERE

14-across – Unpretentious street fashion leads : MODEST

15-across – Spoke of Saudi Arabia’s second revolution : RADIUS

18-across – Legionnaire’s headgear over one with aggressively clenched hand — that’s certainly not him : PACIFIST

21-across – Important stuff : MATERIAL

22-across – Evening dress for her and dinner jacket ultimately for him : ROBERT

24-across – Rebels turn sign : REVOLUTIONARIES

25-across – Joint of beef, no starter, feeding poorer half : REEFER

26-across – The reason to include flowerless* drink : WHISKY

1-down – Enthusiast welcoming mere possibility of being a citizen : FREEMAN

2-down – Con takes in Lab leader in two beats : DUPLE

3-down – Member adopting alias before the end of honourable discharge : LEAKAGE

5-down – Molten rock rises, full of aluminium alloy : AMALGAM

6-down – Suspect, we find, got in trouble : GETWINDOF

7-down – Spits in empty stonework jugs : SKEWERS

8-down – Thrown up in hotel bidet? Tasty! : EDIBLE

13-down – See 1 across : WHILEROME

16-down – Lay a friend under cover : AMATEUR

17-down – Au revoir, loose ends after wrong size fit : SEIZURE

18-down – What one might do with old paper platform : PULPIT

19-down – My terribly thin Greek city : CORINTH

20-down – Sherry craving, but not her place to consult : SURGERY

23-down – See 1 across : BURNS

8-across – Record mostly minor changes in style of pictures : FILMNOIR

9-across – Set of nine or ten one had initially cut : ENNEAD

10-across – School activity cancelled? On the contrary : NOPE

11-across – Knave sharing 25% with top man in his hostile takeovers : HIJACKINGS

12-across – Guard having mainly brave aim : DEFEND

14-across – State of what’s still left in river and loch : CALMNESS

15-across – In error, grip is changed for work on magazine, say : GRAPHIC

17-across – Dog and another pet grabbing old white garment : LABCOAT

20-across – Churned up, as field after one’s removed quantity of soil : SPADEFUL

22-across – See 15 : DESIGN

23-across – One acts in emergency ward, finally, with duty nurse needing replacement : UNDERSTUDY

24-across – What’s at heart of 23, long ago in former times : ERST

25-across – Shares taken back by limited company that goes to wall : STUCCO

26-across – Challenging puzzles — though apart from one hard one, oddly easy : TOUGHIES

1-down – One is posted during watch, for instance, as helmsman : TIMONEER

2-down – Duck out of business meeting : SMEE

3-down – County discard is hit with club : COSHED

4-down – Plan for fast plane, including maximum speed : PROJECT

5-down – My bad term of Latin : MEACULPA

6-down – Additions to petrol mix can stink, OK? : ANTIKNOCKS

7-down – River in East — that’s crossed by crews : GANGES

13-down – Lose power, protected by coppers no longer? That’s convenient : EXPEDIENCE

16-down – What’s brewing, if unions organised : INFUSION

18-down – Sign about journey south for old craft : ARGOSIES

19-down – Knowing about relative showing off : FLAUNTY

21-down – Circle in pub drinks certain wines : PINOTS

22-down – For practice session, fail as well after switching halves : DRYRUN

24-down – Authentic German dramatist affected by Brexit? : ECHT

1-across – One beginning to position essent­ial pockets inside setter’s coat? Good Lord! : HIMUPSTAIRS

9-across – See 13 : AITCHES

10-across – See 17 : TOBETSY

11-across – Problem looking OK with school after low grade : EYESTRAIN

12-across – A royal disapproval for party? : BEANO

13-across – Processing Spoonerised chat, make not a lot of habit etc? : DROP

14-across – Commercial breaks are initially mesmerising client : MERCANTILE

16-across – Catch on in the end : BUTTONHOLE

19-across – See 13 : ONES

21-across – Hang out first of washing in valley : DWELL

22-across – A strike on head of robin in death — accursed bird? : ALBATROSS

24-across – Lord’s period noble after abdic­ation of king — outstanding! : OVERDUE

25-across – Old vessel shipshape, on board­ing, expedition’s beginning : TRIREME

26-across – Welshman with desire to put in effort, saw work? : TREESURGERY

1-down – While bottle after spinning stopped by hapless Beth, play dirty : HITBELOWTHEBELT

2-down – What covers Paul’s bald patch well! : MYHAT

3-down – Opening time — charge! : POSTAGE

4-down – Great Hollywood success : TITANIC

5-down – Quaffing vat, what giant might say, drinking : IMBIBING

6-down – Is it complete? Show part of it in full : SITUATIONCOMEDY

7-down – What might have come before G Plan, briefly — something cast in gutter? : FAGEND

8-down – How one might learn some of the Tory backbenchers turned up : BYROTE

15-down – Appliance as it should be without French president : COOLIDGE

16-down – Notice in defect, nasty piece of work : BADLOT

17-down – So, best ten bananas fed to gorilla, I say! : HEAVENS

18-down – Nipper in loft, back shortly : LOBSTER

20-down – South American relations in historical county : SUSSEX

23-down – Cord matching rope, ultimately : TWINE

1-across – Sauce I don’t know at all, edges of label cut off : PASSATA

5-across – Vegetable container covered in fruit, knocked over : SPINACH

10-across – Prefer sugar granulated or in cubes? There is no choice : LIKE

11-across – See 10 : ITORLUMPIT

12-across – Wooden building rented out by Earl Grey, perhaps? : CHALET

13-across – Opposing players in periodical kicking leader under the table : ONTHESLY

14-across – Leader once as PM, less hot around the Palace of Westminster, perhaps? : JOSWINSON

16-across – See 17 : STORY

17-across – What’s not true, you see, starts with Boris around, by the look of him? : FAIRY

19-across – Bully ruing action having lost in battle : AGINCOURT

23-across – Where hula dancer might per­form, on well after backing singer : HONOLULU

24-across – Winning club, positive : UPBEAT

26-across – Instrument blown: were only Victoria, Emma, Mel B and Mel C performing? : DIDGERIDOO

27-across – A lovely surprise : BOMB

28-across – Treasure, like US singer? : CHERISH

29-across – Into river, pad let down : DEFLATE

2-down – Quick expulsion, by the sound of it, as a pack of lies reported? : ATISHOO

3-down – See 27 : SHELL

4-down – Artist created new romantic hero : TRISTAN

6-down – Old governor, good and dead : PILATE

7-down – Stool, might one sit beside chair? : NUMBERTWO

8-down – Scary work in a fridge : CHILLER

9-down – As a result, Farah in marathon taking days, oddly — this chap lasted a week! : SOLOMONGRUNDY

15-down – Duck under branch gripped by bird, not one for hawk : WARMONGER

18-down – Cut, boil has exploded : ABOLISH

20-down – No regret standing between walls of Newgate cell : NEURONE

21-down – Welcome again, maître d’s bubbly : READMIT

22-down – Presumption if heart is about right : HUBRIS

25-down – Tiny thing left in place of tower : BABEL

8-across – One in favour of donning long protective wear : PINAFORE

9-across – Industrialised housing experiment : TRIAL

10-across – Because there’s no beginning a Latin exam : ORAL

11-across – In confusion, turn over before syrupy TV broadcast : TOPSYTURVY

12-across – Rubbish Proust — result of too much drink? : STUPOR

14-across – Broadcast people treated as a game : PATIENCE

16-across – Mr White’s gerbil smeared over Tarantino’s head? : GILBERT

18-across – Draws breath, since fleeing raiders : PIRATES

21-across – Celebrated prizefighter making audible smear on vehicle : SULLIVAN

23-across – Emperor king gets in amid dodgy circle : MIKADO

24-across – Canal workers, for whom there’s no hope, welcoming lido refurbishment : GONDOLIERS

26-across – Water distribution network connected to river support : MAIN

27-across – From the same source, money makes the writer : IBSEN

28-across – Town in New Zealand, one flooded with cash : PENZANCE

1-down – Start to learn about Tibet suppressing resistance, before one books : LIBRETTI

2-down – See 25 : CALL

3-down – Drink ‘turned on’ hotel employee : PORTER

4-down – Penny fills black pudding, which emits gases : JETPIPE

5-down – See 26 across : STAY

6-down – It could denote feet of little note : MINUTEMARK

7-down – As it was written round the loo of a certain European? : SLAVIC

13-down – Being stoned, has applied a decorative coating : PEBBLEDASH

15-down – New Zealand bird’s partial intuition : TUI

17-down – On very short cycle : REV

19-down – Poorly experienced Rex turned out to be the ultimate jigsaw puzzle completer : ENDPIECE

20-down – Shrunk, emptied — essentially neglected : UNKEMPT

22-down – Ideal place for patio conversion, after you texted : UTOPIA

23-down – Somewhat squeamish nanny’s contribution to the Talmud : MISHNA

25-down – Court judgement row over name : LINE

26-down – Possible castle fortification said to be minor blemish : MOAT

1-across – Doctor Who includes ordinary lines and special craters : HOLLOWS

5-across – Prepared food without recipe? That’s wrong : CROOKED

10-across – Banker puts £1 back into Tyneside : NILE

11-across – Openings to shorts held apart : THRESHOLDS

12-across – Woman rejects former partner’s wing : ANNEXE

13-across – Talked at rented building : NATTERED

14-across – They liquidate lots of tea at home in three seconds : ASSASSINS

16-across – Husband’s river dwelling : HOUSE

17-across – End of episode — a three-parter? : DEATH

19-across – Poor niece sure has hunger : ESURIENCE

23-across – After surgery, confident 4’s been removed on the other side : OPPOSITE

24-across – Easily beat old steeplechaser going the wrong way : MURDER

26-across – At the start of a month, before bored doctor made out : DECIPHERED

27-across – Tailless flying elephant? I’m speechless : DUMB

28-across – Shakespeare’s slander? : ASPERSE

29-across – Strong iron forged into 50 small coins : FLORINS

2-down – Determines the position of in-store clobber : ORIENTS

3-down – Lord’s story about expanding borders : LIEGE

4-down – See top of wig — it’s on head : WITNESS

6-down – Struggle raising temperature on subsequent attempts : RESITS

7-down – A stratospherically bad environmental issue? : OZONEHOLE

8-down – Infinit? : ENDLESS

9-down – Tool ensuring sharp designs : PRUNINGSHEARS

15-down – God’s first person in Australia gets English permit : AUTHORISE

18-down – Articulate former journalists : EXPRESS

20-down – How to make me older? : REMODEL

21-down – Sailor can jail band over onset of war : CREWMAN

22-down – When things go bump? : NIGHTS

25-down – Two-way detection system : RADAR