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1-across – Fixes tennis nets after slice returns : FASTENS

5-across – Tempted to carry Olympic torch, at last took faltering steps : LURCHED

9-across – Mused around at home? It’s necessary : NEEDSMUST

10-across – Analyse possible pass across the pond : PARSE

11-across – Enjoy dropping rubbish and go back for 3 : LIKE

12-across – See 11 : FALLINGOFF

14-across – 3 one might have with tea : APIECE

15-across – Mischief in Kenya, oddly so : KNAVERY

16-across – Company board rebuilt city : CORDOBA

18-across – See 14 : OFCAKE

20-across – See 5 across out to find another date : RESCHEDULE

21-across – See 11 : ALOG

24-across – Scale camel’s head and leg? : CLIMB

25-across – Diminished Richard IV gone inside, having stepped down : ABDICATED

26-across – Blarney Stone finally located next to trees : EYEWASH

27-across – No more metal for a spot on : EXTINCT

1-down – Terminal Five is not always ‘Ladies First’ : FINAL

2-down – Boozer up for 3? I can’t hear you : SPEAKUP

3-down – Could be a yes-or-no challenge : EASY

4-down – Classic fare is great success, including an American Smooth — about time! : SAUSAGESANDMASH

5-down – Dangerous thing, a short weekend? : LITTLEKNOWLEDGE

6-down – Note conclusion of atonement in punishment and remorse : REPENTANCE

7-down – Growth for one in hospital getting no more treatment : HORMONE

8-down – Climbing weed on Stephen Cook : DEEPFRY

13-down – Swirling in a box: hope and fear : XENOPHOBIA

16-down – Boat picked up sea forecast : CORACLE

17-down – Break in hostility after war game ends : RESPITE

19-down – Amount of explosive is what 23 may have, covering nothing : KILOTON

22-down – One waited for dog to come back separately : GODOT

23-down – Caledonian mother leaving something for luck : SCOT

1-across – See 12 : ESPIONAGE

6-across – See 26 : CLAMP

9-across – What’s answered when one’s going woof or oink, say : THECALLOFNATURE

10-across – Criticise one of those billed : RAIL

11-across – Vessel behind it travelling west during wonderful trip : ACTIVATE

14-across – Yellow and black half of nut in aromatic plant : LEMONBALM

15-across – Engineers told you so! : THERE

16-across – Problem supporters backing United : SNAFU

18-across – Silent voices restored originally, Lebanon rebuilt : NONVERBAL

20-across – Small, small, small amount of money invested in tea plant : SWEETPEA

21-across – Second: first no more! : STOP

25-across – Modern time, looking back, in roistering and a crash? : ROARINGTWENTIES

26-across – Two items of seafood pinched by cat, not one — unfortunately one can’t get away with it : WHEEL

27-across – Best turkey drunk, according to Spooner? : TOPFLIGHT

1-down – Fragrant substance produced when badger scratches head : ESTER

2-down – Politician’s bearing setting one up for devotion : PIETISM

3-down – Fine wine unopened : OKAY

4-down – Those at the front in detachment lining up and climbing over the hill in Scotland? : AULD

5-down – Under oath, a bond for removal : EFFACEMENT

6-down – A scream muffled by shout for old competitor : CHARIOTEER

7-down – A meeting about usual borders getting praise : ADULATE

8-down – Gradual increase ultimately in diamonds, a thousand in ring : PIECEMEAL

12-down – Guardian site desperate to bandage wound around paper’s leader — investigation of some concern? : INDUSTRIAL

13-down – Fill out forms with age in green, originally : GAINWEIGHT

14-down – Tons carried by girl, hideous lump to lift a back-breaker? : LASTSTRAW

17-down – See 19 : AVERAGE

19-down – Mean when in a temper initially, money handed over in card game beginning to escalate : BATTING

22-down – Put one in letter box? : POSIT

23-down – Exchange prisoners sent up : SWOP

24-down – Not entirely used up, culinary dye : ANIL

9-across – Something in girl’s hair, daughter after an order designed to keep nits away? : ALICEBAND

10-across – Not suitable to sleep in tutu, skirts removed : UNAPT

11-across – See 22 : HISTORY

12-across – Pudding-head in antiquity, a dummy : REPLICA

13-across – See 17 : LIFE

14-across – Shipping magnate playing blinder aboard vessel : VANDERBILT

16-across – Tyre on, classic surrounds fine in the end : RETREAD

17-across – True, a singular teaching on the workings of Congress? : AFACTOF

19-across – Sheep penning the Guardian’s business, back in time : FOUROCLOCK

22-across – Achieve something extra­ordinary in Spooner’s fishy puzzle? : MAKE

24-across – Greek character for all to see left working alongside another? : UPSILON

25-across – Stimulating originally, if not dull : SUNLESS

26-across – Topping, terrific in game shows? : ICING

27-across – Stone in rain, clean after a pummelling : CARNELIAN

1-down – Of course, I’m learner originally trained under master of composition! : BACHELOROFMUSIC

2-down – In a tizzy, is this fury in the extreme? : HISSYFIT

3-down – Joint group of musicians set up : TENON

4-down – Travelling north, one US state consumed by another, in short — here’s a third! : MARYLAND

5-down – Song and dance and wine fancied a lot! : ADORED

6-down – Huge tailless fish, one of those seen at funfair : BUMPERCAR

7-down – Middle Eastern paste I see in container, spicy at heart : TAHINI

8-down – Footballer’s quality in game ulti­mately missing, what’s on the end of famous boot? : STRAITOFMESSINA

15-down – Dreamboat with cross to bear, gone less delusional : SEXONLEGS

17-down – Bananas can rest on top of yellow branches of tree? : ANCESTRY

18-down – Flyer detailed every second part of final figures : TRAPEZIA

20-down – Happy it’s inferred to hold information — not mentioned : UNSAID

21-down – Punk shaved, fancy trousers folly : LUNACY

23-down – Up in garret, needed key : ENTER

1-across – Dodgy dealer’s wealth comes from awful crime : CAPITAL

5-across – See 1 : OFFENCE

9-across – Note anger about places issue will develop : UTERI

10-across – Fiddle with metal casing finally breaking : VIOLATING

11-across – Military group’s demand to tuck into bananas etc : TASKFORCE

12-across – Sage stuffing for burger is hideous : RISHI

13-across – Long time, an unspecified amount : YEARN

15-across – Main city’s much spoken of Welsh address : OFFENBACH

18-across – Trifle dish in which to put a piece : BAGATELLE

19-across – Records order where races are run : EPSOM

21-across – I touch frames for picture : MOVIE

23-across – Cutting quality of performing acts in set : CATTINESS

25-across – Criminal’s basic characteristics seen in Leave voter : KIDNAPPER

26-across – Predator caught in northerly forest : TAIGA

27-across – When working, warn a cruel boss one might explode! : NUCLEAR

28-across – See 27 : WARHEAD

1-down – Simple sort of number line by swelling family : COUNTRY

2-down – Force media people to go north of Hadrian’s Wall, say : PRESSGANG

3-down – Crook to hurry, absorbed by paperback? : THIEF

4-down – Footballers can spin with wrong turns : LIVERPOOL

5-down – Putting on weight, figure gets gas : OZONE

6-down – Bouquet of paper across the Channel? : FRAGRANCE

7-down – Arrests partners holding hands without trouble : NAILS

8-down – Eccentric single with obligation to wear heavy hot stuff : ENGLISH

14-down – Showing no shame, a compiler’s in sacred place : NOTREDAME

16-down – Chance to shoot fox behind cockney trio : FREETHROW

17-down – Stainless steel ingredient from follower of a Regency writer? : AUSTENITE

18-down – See 1 : BUMPKIN

20-down – See 8 : MUSTARD

22-down – It’s essential to believe, dictating from scripture : VEDIC

23-down – Person who manages business, one selling up : COPER

24-down – Start off season in one side of Italy : INTER

8-across – Possible regret on waking house­bound granny, initially? : HANGOVER

9-across – Biblical character, writer briefly embracing a mystic syllable : NAOMI

10-across – See 25 : CARD

11-across – As heavy traffic carries on backing up, trouble ensuing : NOSETOTAIL

12-across – Song stretching out for US singer-songwriter : CAROLE

14-across – Regular relief from daughter? : CHANGING

15-across – Classical thinker attached to army unit : PLATOON

17-across – ‘Safe place for a show’, girl claims — this way for entertainment! : SEVENTH

20-across – Approach sign in race after diversion : COMENEAR

22-across – Looking good with this short-term concept? : TWENTY

23-across – Get better price after Queen holds a shade back : RECUPERATE

24-across – See 12 : KING

25-across – Magician, say, reversing curse that’s beset player : TAROT

26-across – Wet bum covered in thorns? Don’t 23! : GETWORSE

1-down – In large space, a fish enjoyed itself : HADABALL

2-down – Artist virtually climbing over the hill, some might say? : AGED

3-down – See 17 : AVENUE

4-down – Cut in three, strict rule finally broken : TRISECT

5-down – Admit what I did in the restaurant I visited? : INITIATE

6-down – European songwriter endlessly penning contrapuntal pieces, blowing top : PORTUGUESE

7-down – See 22 : VISION

13-down – See 14 : OFTHEGUARD

16-down – Food in old crusts of toast, scrap sandwiches : OMELETTE

18-down – Rhea, for example, bird ahead? : TITANESS

19-down – Attack a rule in speech : ARRAIGN

21-down – Godfather’s code in theatre mostly sent up : OMERTA

22-down – See 22 across : TWENTY

24-down – Bird gathering speed on water : KNOT

1-across – Previous message in a bottle? : POLICE

4-across – See 1 : RECORD

9-across – Representative of pretentious nobility : SNOB

10-across – First part of appeal by Romeo to seduce novice : APPRENTICE

11-across – Cold and shivering, crazy about love : CORYZA

12-across – Suggestion made by boozer on due process : INNUENDO

13-across – City came first before village in fiction : CAMBRIDGE

15-across – He or she with the Guardian who tormented 24 : ZEUS

16-across – Bob kept locked up by 1 down : HOPE

17-across – Self-styled reference, lexicon, dictionary and so forth : THESAURUS

21-across – Selfish attempt to disrupt regenerated cities : EGOISTIC

22-across – In June, Scotland is a cultural hub : UNESCO

24-across – One bound for America with Philistine on board : PROMETHEUS

25-across – See 14 : FONT

26-across – Key in her top type : HALTER

27-across – City couples, happily married, on the telly at last : SYDNEY

1-down – She opened a box of letters from Dad? : PANDORA

2-down – Look, baby, that’s not a pressure group! : LOBBY

3-down – Man essentially fat — it’s his bread : CHAPATI

5-down – They leave old tune out : EXEUNT

6-down – Not going out with macho types, you finally become available : ONTHEMENU

7-down – Degenerates rejecting holy books for many years : DECADES

8-down – Jump scared, being a youngster : SPRINGCHICKEN

14-down – Batman’s plot, if convoluted, is the first in which to get immersed : BAPTISMAL

16-down – Primarily hooked on gin, his work included : HOGARTH

18-down – Soft sea creature, tailless and timid : SQUISHY

19-down – Strange uniform governess put conservative leader in : UNCANNY

20-down – Figure is poorly situated after I’d gone : STATUE

23-down – Delicate female drowned in rising river : ELFIN

8-across – Laugh about foreign article, sloppy stuff requiring a rubber? : SUNCREAM

9-across – Record line by Pavlova, for example? : ANNAL

10-across – Dish, while in pot, Greek character covers : LAMB

11-across – How dare he wear the van out! : WHATANERVE

12-across – Stick nose in object worn round neck, did you say? : MEDDLE

14-across – Produce notes about Arctic, giving a lecture : SCOLDING

15-across – Baby feeder squashed by bricks — no need to worry : LETITGO

17-across – See 10 : PASANDA

20-across – Kind of desert carrier not entirely accepting European cause of disease, possibly : BACTERIA

22-across – Political machine cruelly rejecting part of manifesto by a majority : MAYBOT

23-across – Agree hedges opening at the end — feature of labyrinth? : COMPLEXITY

24-across – Nothing in heads of negotiators as deadline approaches : NADA

25-across – 104 fancy holiday destination : CORFU

26-across – Bum of leader’s taking a beating : FREELOAD

1-down – European in America entertained by south-east African : SUDANESE

2-down – Scoundrel requires system for paying up : SCAB

3-down – Two minutes of relief? : WEEWEE

4-down – Mission Paul set up, fishy? : EMBASSY

5-down – Italian sculptor welcomes a second lover : CASANOVA

6-down – Provocative chopping of nice new log : INCENDIARY

7-down – CON split? : CLOVEN

13-down – Division in home arising over creative work, gradually become estranged : DRIFTAPART

16-down – See 18 : GORGEOUS

18-down – As is a femme fatale? : DROPDEAD

19-down – Please keep Friday cleared: the following 24 hours is to take priority? : SATISFY

21-down – Now achievement of tennis player eclipsing that of batsman? : ATONCE

22-down – Chaos in spring over the border : MAYHEM

24-down – Zero tolerance in the end for African runner : NILE

1-across – Sad feeling, Brexit dealer beyond hellish place : DISMAY

4-across – Sex in urinals once ordered for a pound, say? : ANIMAL

9-across – See 15 : CAVA

10-across – Part of series back on screen : SECONDTEST

11-across – Good houses giving poor boys food : BUMSON

12-across – Dividing the country, is monarch Republican or Unionist? : IRISHMAN

13-across – Sweet thing ending in harmony, some land slipping back into water : LAYERCAKE

15-across – Not quite finished opening a wine vessel : VENA

16-across – Scottish town that may be lit : WICK

17-across – Bit of a bloomer around setback for experienced politicians : STATESMEN

21-across – One’s possessed coin made in error : DEMONIAC

22-across – Retired setter with head on stamp : EMBOSS

24-across – Doctor done with flu and visibly embarrassed, struggled : FLOUNDERED

25-across – Song enjoyed, though disheartened : LIED

26-across – Dull seeing bottom within limits of decency : DREARY

27-across – African understanding why many avoiding the borders : KENYAN

1-down – Almost entirely posh character ascendant in novel : DRACULA

2-down – See 11 : SEATS

3-down – As scenario briefly unfolding : ARSENIC

5-down – Sister taking so long to dismiss a church representative : NUNCIO

6-down – Without rivals, unable to play? : MATCHLESS

7-down – Concert venue providing some basic singing, including opera, though not needing to : LASCALA

8-down – Tons and tons in 10 across, perhaps? : ACRICKETSCORE

14-down – See 4 : ENCLOSURE

16-down – Reportedly handle like a car, perhaps? : WHEELED

18-down – Has unruly lad gone climbing? Put one’s foot down here : TREADLE

19-down – Near middle, back from Asia? : EASTERN

20-down – See 23 : WILDER

23-down – Film director: goat less domesticated : BILLY

9-across – Potential share for peacemaker — that’s how this ends : SWORD

10-across – Getting better, those people conclude, after operating : ONTHEMEND

11-across – Play cricket on second XI, followed by hot relaxing treatment : STEAMBATH

12-across – Abrasive European happy taking one right away : EMERY

13-across – From vessel I’m able to see inside Rome : VATICAN

15-across – Object when put in torn garments : RAIMENT

17-across – Stormy, is it? After regular cancellations, agree to meet : TRYST

18-across – Feature of dress that may attract attention : HEM

20-across – Promote officer after fire returned : EXALT

22-across – Crass advice about people’s survival ‘sans pain’? : LETTHEM

25-across – See 22 : EATCAKE

26-across – Cardinal, say, disrupting firm belief : CREDO

27-across – He reported storm at sea, danger to shipping : MAELSTROM

30-across – Make too many plans? Not a good balance : OVERDRAFT

31-across – Chaps who work out rapprochement, in part : HEMEN

1-down – Deity leads a double life : ISIS

2-down – Time inside too cold at first — being kept under wraps : COVERTLY

3-down – Male attached to one palindromic female … : ADAM

4-down – … and another holding ring, small expression of adoration : HOSANNAH

5-down – Creator of printed works, 100 in number : ETCHER

6-down – One foreign coin produced after complaint about new kind : BENEFICENT

7-down – Demanding part, central character in Othello : SEVERE

8-down – Finishes off prize crossword, being very nervous : EDGY

13-down – Temperature in medicine bottle’s key : VITAL

14-down – Eye trousers initially exchanged — they’re said to be trendy : CATCHWORDS

16-down – It’s in the tax once faithfully paid : TITHE

19-down – Wartime emergency gear for pilots in a mess, wet after coming to grief : MAEWESTS

21-down – For instance, they include ant since also an insect : ANAGRAMS

23-down – Nice view? Some parts are like that : THEMED

24-down – One sailor, saying nothing, turned up in Asian port : MUMBAI

26-down – Make sound of one bird or another : CROW

28-down – Part of West End not quite as fashionable : SOHO

29-down – Before university, people posted list of courses : MENU

1-across – Bowled, chance of a draw wasted : BLOTTO

4-across – Cutter in dance is no longer tacking? : JIGSAW

9-across – See 21 : PARK

10-across – Someone spying first of pins grasped by marker of territory? : PEEPINGTOM

11-across – Spring, when one has cup upset : POUNCE

12-across – See 23 : THECROWS

13-across – SIX : STEAMSHIP

15-across – How one’s coffee may be ordered in African country : TOGO

16-across – For all to see in May for example, a wild animal : PUMA

17-across – Lover’s pet snakes failed to stir : OVERSLEPT

21-across – Skilful, I start crossing on football ground : GOODISON

22-across – Help player, having missed header : ASSIST

24-across – Having suffered main loss in difficult battle, Chelsea take on dangerous responsibility : BELLTHECAT

25-across – Curse at my gags : OATH

26-across – Nothing coming in when delivery happened, track item without a name? : DOOBRY

27-across – Comic’s ending in second place — that’s easy : BREEZE

1-down – See 19 : BOATOUT

2-down – Woody Allen movie, black melodrama, hero ultimately sent up : OAKEN

3-down – xposed? : TOPLESS

5-down – In the same book, I remain magnificent, initially : IBIDEM

6-down – Lumps in it perhaps, take up American dress on creature of the night : SUGARBOWL

7-down – How novel twice has inspired second reference book : WHOSWHO

8-down – Bones to cover still, penning a fine book : DEATHINVENICE

14-down – Animal appendage getting a bash, suffering cuts : ARMADILLO

16-down – Start low, catching French horn up : PROCEED

18-down – Cleric guarding a nuclear structure : REACTOR

19-down – Go to town, or go to sea? : PUSHTHE

20-down – Stocked by libraries, the reference book : ESTHER

23-down – Man alive seen to empty trash out before a murder : STONE