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8-across – Sweet thing, a magnificent sea reflection? : DEMERARA

9-across – Fine muscular swimmer : HUNKY

10-across – Stretch of road I took, underground passage : ADIT

11-across – Act entitled to be amended — where to ratify it? : DOTTEDLINE

12-across – See 18 : FENCES

14-across – Business heading west in report, move premises : RELOCATE

15-across – Driven thing with little power, sadly Blair not in control : RELIANT

17-across – Troll, rather ugly, immediately starts texting platitudes : TRUISMS

20-across – Where it may get windy, paper in government department secured by device that grips : CLIFFTOP

22-across – Introduction of cog with a square tooth : CANINE

23-across – Grounded supporters don’t allow scoundrels to follow Colchester United, initially : CUBANHEELS

24-across – See 2 : DOOR

25-across – See 15 : ROBIN

26-across – Lad needing a rise, struggling in paid work : SALARIED

1-down – Speaking budgie, oddly, gets hostile attention? : BEADYEYE

2-down – Very close hybrid of rodent and ox : NEXT

3-down – Animals with long faces sleep upside down : PANDAS

4-down – Attack row of cages : BATTERY

5-down – One coaxing Turner to capture daughter : WHEEDLER

6-down – Change of tone, when fifty overwhelmed by disease : INFLECTION

7-down – Seal discussed, little one owned by the Crown, perhaps? : CYGNET

13-down – Fabric he altered with large cut for religious leader : CHIEFRABBI

16-down – Producing a score, composer at first in love : NOTCHING

18-down – Make up scene with demons dancing around marshland : MENDONES

19-down – Calm down, feeding vegetables to animal : APPEASE

21-down – Slat by tradition letting some rays through? : LOUVRE

22-down – Total outsiders accommodated by patient man : CASTLE

24-down – See 9 : DORY

1-across – In back room, rare vodka highball served thus? : OVERARM

5-across – Stay after passport centre makes a bit of a mess : SPLODGE

9-across – This way acceptable to back sadistic pervert : SICKO

10-across – Deck tours guided by Meat Loaf, Cher, Jagger and Bowie? : ROCKDUETS

11-across – Wrecking old city besieged by poor design : DESTROYING

12-across – See 2 : GUY

14-across – It’s essential to back newspaper feature after plan is redrafted : SPINALCOLUMN

18-across – Adieu, extinct bats! There’s something wrong : INEXACTITUDE

21-across – Note abbreviated sense of humour : SOH

22-across – Signed off, old and detached : DISENGAGED

25-across – How a lady starts getting excited, with hesitation : HALTINGLY

26-across – In advance, securing room to manoeuvre a murder victim : EARLO

27-across – Don’s trip with boy : SLIPSON

28-across – Hides from this attempt to imprison queen : TANNERY

1-down – Edison contrived a legal position for play : ONSIDE

2-down – 13 following Hendrix, an apology for manly affection? : EXCUSE

3-down – Doubtful this could make Carol happy : APOCRYPHAL

4-down – See 26 : MORAY

5-down – Support an old Sodomite’s offering early in auction : SECONDLOT

6-down – Legendary demon upset one who reportedly perished with the 26 4 : LADY

7-down – Dared to drop a clue for eg ‘exhume something unpleasant’ : DREDGEUP

8-down – Trying volatile gases to suppress the female principle : ESSAYING

13-down – See 6 : MONDEGREEN

15-down – With which one is naked and free : NOTHINGON

16-down – See 2 : KISSTHIS

17-down – See 2 : MEWHILEI

19-down – Your mate regularly seen chasing silver markets : AGORAE

20-down – Folly of designer cut when cold outside : IDIOCY

23-down – Country messing with one genotype? : EGYPT

24-down – Do not hit girl! : MISS

9-across – Encapsulating the ultimate in pomposity, standard rubbish from the right — here, primarily? : TORYGRAPH

10-across – Too much in flash slogan : MOTTO

11-across – Most keen to put a copper on trial : ACUTEST

12-across – Honest sight is 14 20 : ANAGRAM

13-across – See 23 : GRID

14-across – Choice from over there? It can’t be helped : ONEOFTHOSE

16-across – Dull and grey outside in a storm : TEDIOUS

17-across – Cut uniform with cap : FLATTOP

19-across – Missing starter, brush up on very meaty dish : OXTAILSOUP

22-across – Salmon, royal survivor of the sixteenth century? : PARR

24-across – Religious festival a jot warmer : WHITSUN

25-across – Reportedly return as Jeremiah, perhaps? : PROPHET

26-across – Endless trouble recalled about a relative of hip hop : RAGGA

27-across – For example, Georgian monarch welcoming a novelist from Ireland : EASTERNER

1-down – Open lock possibly underhand? : STRAIGHTFORWARD

2-down – A place for learning in class cut — for our misspelling? : GRAUNIAD

3-down – Match a shade short : AGREE

4-down – Battle wound acquires bandages : HASTINGS

5-down – Bargain, 50% off price to get hold of jalopy : CHEAPO

6-down – Just one militant maintaining lead in primaries : IMPARTIAL

7-down – Time to plug in dry old music player : STEREO

8-down – Standard inside edges in Melbourne getting team out, error unfortunately inspiring paceman initially : ROOMTEMPERATURE

15-down – West possibly observing struggle in Balkan city : MOVIESTAR

17-down – Shabby swimmer lagging behind : FRUMPISH

18-down – Edit it and change instruction : TEACHING

20-down – See 14 : THINGS

21-down – A number of numbers written up, three quatrains and a couplet? : SONNET

23-down – General practitioner worried about current network : POWER

1-across – Comic film’s aired, cutting a shot : EDUCATING

6-across – See 1 : RITA

8-across – Result of hit subordinate’s interrupted live : BLACKEYE

9-across – Giving away little vest in gymnastics supplies : STINGY

10-across – Way to travel — use your legs! : STRIDE

11-across – Make weak tea, brewed after I returned? : EMACIATE

12-across – Fixing two wheels, mend moped : MOONED

15-across – Awards one’s received running dodgy business : GOINGSON

16-across – Hiding mint sauce here, we’re told : ONTHELAM

19-across – Appropriate and odd aspects of Ezra Pound : NICKER

21-across – Begged problem child to get older differently : IMPLORED

22-across – Plagiarism in Private Eye a bit naughty : PIRACY

24-across – Fond of binding religious books together : INTOTO

25-across – Troubles of new group we’re leaving Valentine’s gift : NEUROSES

26-across – Once England’s No. 1 gallery intended heartless cash flow analysis : BANK

27-across – See 26 : STATEMENT

1-down – Acclaim stimulant powder from the south : ECLAT

2-down – Leaderless party’s attempt to charm people? : UNCTION

3-down – Singer performing lead, that of Eurydice : ADELE

4-down – Wings of iconic bird raised, making main threat : ICEBERG

5-down – Development, for example, raised standing : GESTATION

6-down – Toper finally sick in bars : RAILING

7-down – Trashed Hitchcock work: it requires balance : TIGHTROPE

13-down – Figure raised in Arab land, first person with a drink problem : OENOMANIA

14-down – Joyful composer touring carnival site : DELIRIOUS

17-down – Poor wine stores in raised area : HILLOCK

18-down – Miraculous food cook cuts for sainted figure : MADONNA

20-down – Wear out staff, in essence : CORRODE

22-down – Spin doctor due to be no fan of Congress? : PRUDE

23-down – This man’s involved in court case : CHEST

1-across – He probably knows a South American footballer, missing centre-back, white clothes : WISEMAN

5-across – British fighter once offered inducement using Arab carrier : SOPWITH

9-across – See 5 : CAMEL

10-across – What might explain use of air rifle on leader in conflict : CLARIFIER

11-across – Position where very old revolutionary caught by old bullet : EXTRACOVER

12-across – Thus detailed humorous way to : WASH

14-across – See 12 : YOURMOUTHOUT

18-across – Heads rolling, I check copy in binder : ADHESIVETAPE

21-across – Red choice : RARE

22-across – Boot finding flea, say, on some ground : CLODHOPPER

25-across – Support pronouncement of Scilly Isles a bit? : STABILISE

26-across – Picked up, like a Tiller girl who’s attractive? : HONEY

27-across – Party sealing lips, minding language : SHINDIG

28-across – Stick olive finally in drink, don’t wait! : BARGEIN

1-down – Musical put on stage to nurture traditional character : WICKED

2-down – It lines identical old fabric : SAMITE

3-down – Pole has introduced island to Aussie’s food : MELBATOAST

4-down – Chip in minimum of oil, hot vessel lifted : NACHO

5-down – Disoriented one day in jet : SPACEDOUT

6-down – Immediate sensation of a breaking leg? : PAIN

7-down – One taking someone off duty list tiny boy and I set up : IMITATOR

8-down – Castle contracted to host bash after good day for old emperor : HIROHITO

13-down – See 1 : STEPMOTHER

15-down – Offensive uprising : REVOLTING

16-down – Shortage of baby food in part of the UK, those beastly things blubbered? : WALRUSES

17-down – Collected by wife half cut, hear me performing Show Me The Way To Go Home? : WHEREAMI

19-down – Wipe bum : SPONGE

20-down – Line up that there drawer : CRAYON

23-down – Jerk knocking insect on hollow wood over : DWEEB

24-down – Female animal, the Queen’s dog? : HIND

1-across – Bread, spinach and turnip, a turnip’s first eaten : CHAPATI

5-across – Sweet thing, as French produce private parts : BROWNIE

9-across – Cylinder turns around : SPOOL

10-across – Heading for carrots, one fetching for us cut vegetable : COURGETTE

11-across – Take the blasted thing from the pen of author : NICKHORNBY

12-across – Midnight on a journey, excited : AGOG

14-across – With flyer penned, doctor ratifies orders : FRATERNITIES

18-across – 11’s distance to one Irish county and another? : ALONGWAYDOWN

21-across – See 19 : DISH

22-across – Spinner, figure surprisingly on the money : CENTRIFUGE

25-across – 11’s sin is so in Saladin? : ABOUTABOY

26-across – It’s recalled, story without a name : TITLE

27-across – Opening clue perfect for discussion : KEYHOLE

28-across – The oxygen group’s proposition : THEOREM

1-down – Function where figure hosts number : COSINE

2-down – One carrying great weight now : ATONCE

3-down – In autumn, group starts feeding together : ALLTHERAGE

4-down – Old person beginning to regret satnav so? : INCAR

5-down – Cried, describing Moby Dick? : BLUBBERED

6-down – Social occasion with some characters rolling over in ecstasy, groping : ORGY

7-down – Cooker cutting out? That’s always happening! : NOTAGAIN

8-down – Stimulate singer to perform in centre of Queens : ENERGISE

13-down – Let out houses in game one’s played : TINWHISTLE

15-down – People in diagram may be found : TRACEABLE

16-down – Book is easy there, but … : HARDBACK

17-down – Oodl — or poodle? : DOGSBODY

19-down – Spread out on this beachhead, absolute beauty : BUTTER

20-down – Trade in communist merchandise ultimately gets me promoted : REDEEM

23-down – Meeting judge, shut case : TRYST

24-down – German rising and falling? : OTTO

1-across – Unlikely winners don’t cook enough eggs on a regular basis : UNDERDOGS

9-across – Timid people include ‘hard left’ Frenchman : MICHEL

10-across – Credit must be taken by fast bowlers!! : SCREAMERS

11-across – For the Fallen, twice read: 28 rhyming words : HUMPTY

12-across – Badly stymied and frustrated, you initially make clear : DEMYSTIFY

13-across – Unwilling to heed content of idea FT originated : DEAFTO

17-across – Honey Bee, say? : MEL

19-across – Sloth’s a regret, when returning to large area of land : EURASIA

20-across – How one man composed capriciously : ONAWHIM

21-across – Clarkson as presenter, originally for Top Gear : CAP

23-across – Spots royal being more reckless : RASHER

27-across – Promote short clue within contrary setting : ADVERTISE

28-across – Idiot that’s wrecked my punt : NUMPTY

29-across – Everybody in Hackney perhaps needs to instruct youth about love : COACHLOAD

30-across – See 7 : DESERT

31-across – Surprisingly pleased about a new seaside amenity : ESPLANADE

2-down – A scene with liberal drink supply? Virgin territory, in more ways than one : NECKER

3-down – Two short names for a man or woman : EVELYN

4-down – See 11 : DUMPTY

5-down – One that’s spotted if Nigel Farage is upset, not representing Ealing : GIRAFFE

6-down – Very small chap, one that goes ballistic : MINUTEMAN

7-down – Ring newspaper editor about home with trees damaged by loose, uneven bits of Sopwith Camel : SHIPOFTHE

8-down – Where kids have fun seeing Mary’s polo game : PLAYROOMS

14-down – Daughter being sinful with the same bold action : DERRINGDO

15-down – Bloomer by model, eating hot carrageen : IRISHMOSS

16-down – Fool goes in to see yes-men? : ASSENTERS

17-down – Computer’s current backup : MAC

18-down – Cut off short run with a bounding stride : LOP

22-down – Punishing a couple in Russia : ARDUOUS

24-down – Camel’s broken spirit : MESCAL

25-down – Hot water off the south coast, after temperature rises by 4 degrees? : STOLEN

26-down – See 2 : ISLAND

9-across – Moving book back, Orwell initially secured by bent nail : EMOTIONAL

10-across – French author puts bird behind geese, flying : VERNE

11-across – See 8 : CHICKEN

12-across – County needing way to avoid country music genre : NORFOLK

13-across – Hook perhaps scratching head, incandescent : IRATE

14-across – Unknown number it’s under­stood, endless wine bottles for old movie star : ROYROGERS

16-across – Keep your chin up to apply warpaint? : PUTONABRAVEFACE

19-across – Proper bit of 11 in position : RIGHTWING

21-across – Ultimate bit of fluff in a leotard : FINAL

22-across – Dance with me for some fiddling : CONGAME

23-across – Barcelona’s tomboy? : CATALAN

24-across – See 20 : TONIC

25-across – Openers: with those for Sussex and Surrey testing reactions : RESPONSES

1-down – Old transporter, truck loaded with embroidered lace : TEACLIPPER

2-down – Leading man I suspect, about which a word of caution? : DOMINANT

3-down – Relish difficult situation : PICKLE

4-down – A cipher featured in news soon : ANON

5-down – Tree — positive thing planting 50 x 2 : YLANGYLANG

6-down – Obvious figure, hidden meaning : OVERTONE

7-down – Bird hunter cut loose after evisceration : ORIOLE

8-down – Table for a Jamaican fool and poltroon : JERK

14-down – Those picking up signals there’s evidence of wailing in the synagogue? : RABBITEARS

15-down – Scores in southern river determined quality : STEELINESS

17-down – Bird which occupies nest until chicks hungry, primarily : NUTHATCH

18-down – Historian head examiner discussed? : ANNALIST

20-down – What one gets when noticing mixed drink : GINAND

21-down – First to fall, in short, a downward distance : FATHOM

22-down – Pretty detached, remote ultimately : CUTE

23-down – Patient enquiry : CASE

7-across – 12 more Spaniards ate crackers : DRAMATIS

9-across – It’s not entirely lost on guest speaker : TONGUE

10-across – Shortage in change? Absolutely! : AMEN

11-across – Possums say Paul is off on another planet : MARSUPIALS

12-across – Characters listed in play : TILDES

14-across – Cover a municipal role : CAPACITY

15-across – See 23 : CHICKEN

17-across – Extend length of bird : STRETCH

20-across – Gun-toting kid somewhere on an island : YARMOUTH

22-across – Reason sensation happening : WITHIT

23-across – Dish, one quaking at the prospect of investiture? : CORONATION

24-across – Stalemate followed by defeats, officially stop game : DRAW

25-across – Diamonds in cargo, oddly, for Roman consul : CICERO

26-across – See 7 : PERSONAE

1-down – Search bottom parts, unattractive : FRUMPISH

2-down – Sign form, seen regularly : OMEN

3-down – See 24 across : STUMPS

4-down – Actress ultimately given daffy part as tramp : STRUMPET

5-down – Unwise to move since tired : INDISCREET

6-down – 15, something to do with a fast one, say? : PULLET

8-down – Tidy wood : SPRUCE

13-down – Broke down, having erased scores, might you say? : DECOMPOSED

16-down – Sovereign inspiring couple to catch lion, say, for master : EDUCATOR

18-down – Hit before lunch, perhaps with a new ball : CHINAMAN

19-down – Sixties’ model losing weight, tiny little thing : SHRIMP

21-down – Lovely person — who’s teaching Oxbridge students? : ADONIS

22-down – Get to taste bitter : WINTRY

24-down – Abandon GP and surgery : DROP

1-across – Report covering achievement, having abandoned a refuge : SAFETY

4-across – Firing weapon, one flying straight over ship, then boat cut in half : CROSSBOW

9-across – Not quite noon, expected later : NEARLY

10-across – Brief hint: solver needs answer that’s water off Australia : TIMORSEA

11-across – Short script edited with info and photo that’s traditionally found in newspaper : PORTIONOFCHIPS

13-across – Backing of king sufficient, say : FOREXAMPLE

14-across – Accordingly caught by better goalkeeper : ERGO

16-across – Pavilion ultimately remains — his design? : NASH

18-across – Children’s author admitting actions an online threat : RANSOMWARE

21-across – Like track I see in English city, start of line from small village? : ALASPOORYORICK

23-across – Right battle it’s clear : CONSOMME

24-across – Announcement of written arrangement, a charge on smokers etc? : SINTAX

25-across – Grand people in sweaty shifts : STEINWAY

26-across – Film us leaving cat with tailless dog : PSYCHO

1-down – Air circulating on jumbo jets all finally used up : SONG

2-down – Suggestion: somewhere to go in all seasons : FLAVOUR

3-down – Source of news then oddly allowed after, not leader : TELETEXT

5-down – Review of short play in theatre adaptation? : RHINOPLASTY

6-down – Slump that was painful after gutting of sawmill : SLOUCH

7-down – Top row of vehicles? : BUSTIER

8-down – Shower mat slipping on top of that : WHATSMORE

12-down – Beastly sound arising, father’s about to threaten diminutive figure : OOMPALOOMPA

13-down – Spanish Steps short of energy dry up — entertainment, barely? : FANDANCES

15-down – Clever lot, males promoted before relations : SMARTIES

17-down – Playwright born a Native American : SHAWNEE

19-down – Small vinegary drinks for abstainer, perhaps? : ASCETIC

20-down – Complex put on private residential area : UPTOWN

22-down – Fair old pan having bottom scrubbed : EXPO