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7-across – Two chessmen, one of which captures a third : KINGPRAWN

8-across – Motor racing, timid? Unlikely : FISHY

9-across – One gathers pearls from margins of sandbank in river delta, instead of its head : SKINDIVER

10-across – Pound backs dollar : SQUID

12-across – Imposes the first of taxes to be extracted from Hebrews : LEVIES

13-across – Diverge, argue, make up … friends at last, eternally : FORKEEPS

16-across – Coarse material to add fire to dance : HOPSACK

19-across – Filthy lout, not unknown, witnessed speaking : OBSCENE

22-across – Perform B major composition, part of opening : DOORJAMB

25-across – D’oh sounds as if it could be doe, pre-Middle English : DEARME

27-across – Finding a place for octopus in gastronomic display : USING

28-across – Freely flow with abuse to make Spooner go crazy : BLOWAFUSE

29-across – See 3 : DEMER

30-across – Bend, use handle and let go : UNLEASHED

1-down – Get beast to go uphill : WINKLE

2-down – CIA, NCA etc, with powers to use silver to displace cannabis : AGENCIES

3-down – Ferret around: is mud involved? : FRUITS

4-down – Small shirt holds little to note, or nothing at all : SWEETFA

5-down – It could be lobster pot : BISQUE

6-down – Marines dispersed throughout vessel : SHRIMP

11-down – Cook rapidly and boil heads : CRAB

14-down – Boatman reported for watch : EYE

15-down – Female shellfish, easily caught : SHE

16-down – Caught fish with nowhere to leave boat! : HAD

17-down – Expert the right wing excluded from conclusive arguments : PRO

18-down – Oddly cold arms : CLAM

20-down – Factory ship processed missing parts of pot : CRAYFISH

21-down – Boatman unequalled : ABALONE

23-down – Funny story, having Enigmatist its lead character : OYSTER

24-down – Melt tip and root of eggplant stuffed into razor shell : RENDER

25-down – The way this clue’s solution goes, the editor might be drunk : DOWNED

26-down – Might put into speech : MUSSEL

1-across – Fail to comprehend performance that’s sweet : LACTOSE

5-across – Worst possible thing where one deals with a breakdown : THEPITS

10-across – See 24 : CASE

11-across – Last of the rubbish written about vehicle taken back, as claws drawn in : RETRACTILE

12-across – Land bordering a western country : MALAWI

13-across – I’ve no cash, and I threaten all in need of treatment? : NATIONAL

14-across – Direction turned another way : NORTHEAST

16-across – Rapid group at sea : FLEET

17-across – Add ten, providing nothing rejected : AFFIX

19-across – Brexit no deal initially unfolding, potentially volatile situation? : TINDERBOX

23-across – Murder squeezing in boozer — might these get you in? : CROWBARS

24-across – A nasty vice being impudent — lippy here? : VANITY

26-across – Queen, perhaps yet to snub English Oscar winner, cheers : MANYTHANKS

27-across – Imitative behaviour has crossword writer doubled up : MEME

28-across – Soft little things, the English to the Australians, one and all? : POMPOMS

29-across – Naval weapon, flipping scandal, with inclination to waste billions : TRIDENT

2-down – I’m surprised a soldier lifted a Native American : ARAPAHO

3-down – Greek letter something to pick up, briefly : THETA

4-down – See 13 : SERVICE

6-down – See 13 : HEALTH

7-down – Mediocre earner needing sink and kettle, say? : POTBOILER

8-down – Cultivation shown by jailbird in hat : TILLAGE

9-down – Totally perplexed, when all humour has drained away? : ATONESWITSEND

15-down – Message on the box, switch hit and power terminated : THISWAYUP

18-down – Nowhere near end of disorder, back in confusing mess : FARRAGO

20-down – Figure going into another dip shortly, one covering one’s face : DIVISOR

21-down – Excessive land of Suleiman the Magnificent, for example? : OTTOMAN

22-down – Result of lack of planning putting leader on edge : MAYHEM

25-down – Hunter-gatherer possibly missing nuts? : NOMAD

1-across – Spurs letting in header from Newcastle? Nuts! : GONADS

4-across – Abstainer dropping special sort of acid : ACETIC

9-across – Star men assist cast to bag award thus : ASTROPHYSICISTS

10-across – Old Iron Duke leaves one in ground : MASHIE

11-across – One in dance : BALLETIC

12-across – Top down on Volkswagen : POLONECK

14-across – Painter covers books with lines like a Turner? : ROTARY

15-across – Our emperor’s vexed with this creature of habit : MOTHER

18-across – See 15 : SUPERIOR

21-across – Caring, but not up for having fun : SPORTIVE

22-across – Fox to play an inspirational role? : BEMUSE

24-across – Hussy admits climaxing and means to be heard : SPEAKINGTRUMPET

25-across – Asylum’s official uniform for one that’s flipped : REFUGE

26-across – Primate will do for sailor : AYEAYE

1-down – Interrogators try to keep tapes running : GESTAPO

2-down – Lisping Scandinavian makes a point : NORTH

3-down – Run through key prelude’s opening parts : DEPLETE

5-down – German author not beginning scary story : CHILLER

6-down – A period when expecting to prune trees anew : TRIMESTER

7-down – About time row gets more unpleasant : CATTIER

8-down – Demon’s dirty bomb disheartened country : DYBBUK

13-down – Partner of entertaining prince following the king : OTHERHALF

16-down – Figure eating puree, with recipe written down : ONPAPER

17-down – Reading or writing poorly is a barrier : RAILING

18-down – Vehicle in Senegal’s unoccupied border : SLEDGE

19-down – Time of change for local ruler, content to leave timidly : PUBERTY

20-down – Awful stink over public disturbance : OBSCENE

23-down – Two postgraduate degrees potentially a killer : MAMBA

1-across – Demons in head of crying baby breaking most of hearts, say? : SUCCUBI

5-across – Impetus lost, now stop : TIMESUP

9-across – Somewhat distant, a gull returning : ALOOF

10-across – Lizard finding pleasure ultimately in fruit, after drink : CHAMELEON

11-across – Mature, go in for work that’s engaging : PAGETURNER

12-across – One has trouble turning over bones : ILIA

14-across – No centrality and no eccentricity? : CERTAINLYNOT

18-across – Dialogue as yet unmentioned in paper, nurturing quality : MOTHERLINESS

21-across – Odd choice : RARE

22-across – Ladies and gentlemen in Florence possibly missing New York, a US city : TUSCALOOSA

25-across – Hack put on airs as lover of French writing : PROUSTIAN

26-across – Kind politician, on having shifted to the far right : GENRE

27-across – Quietly consider when judge allowed to detain criminal, originally : REFLECT

28-across – Stated floppy storing a digital file : DATASET

1-down – See 20 : SNAPPY

2-down – Hawk gripping tail of mynah bird : CHOUGH

3-down – Free, served without cheese, might you say? : UNFETTERED

4-down – Acquire lead-free metal, sure for shelling : INCUR

5-down – Player was furious, I having taken bronze on the outside : TRAGEDIAN

6-down – Happen upon rabbit and duck etc in conversation? : MEET

7-down – See 19 : STERLING

8-down – Items hanging down, butt appropriately covered? : PENDANTS

13-down – Keeping strike, escape beamer : FLASHLIGHT

15-down – I appreciate that defamatory accusations put in register for student of religious law : TALMUDIST

16-down – Unsuitable one tying up the little devil? : IMPROPER

17-down – Polaris, say, swell for launch : STARTOFF

19-down – Tender thumps magnificent : POUNDS

20-down – Encourage crocodile, please — and quickly! : MAKEIT

23-down – Setter possibly making appearance in public, an idiot : CANID

24-down – Dogs, say, insulted every so often : ISLE

1-across – Blunder made by stepfathers? : FAUXPAS

5-across – Ring road regularly is a monstrous thing : CHIMERA

9-across – Bug recurs in pregnancy : ANGER

10-across – Knowledge makes sense somehow after a conflict : AWARENESS

11-across – Firm changed mind and sent out for flavouring : CONDIMENTS

12-across – Dismal heartless face : DIAL

14-across – Concerning the province, quiet meant avoiding a surprise : ASTONISHMENT

18-across – Is embracing spin in part of symphony refinements : IMPROVEMENTS

21-across – With no flaws in this diplomacy : TACT

22-across – A green revolution in service for the boss : MANAGERESS

25-across – At first sight, youth may be of little importance supporting modern art movement : SYMBOLISM

26-across – Fashionable cube unrelated to global organisation : INDIE

27-across – Melody and noise on the right wavelength : TUNEDIN

28-across – One third of residents accommodated stray : DIGRESS

1-down – Country ragout fragrance : FRANCE

2-down – Pressing under guarantee, not only banks : URGENT

3-down – Each calling for approval : PERMISSION

4-down – Remove growth that could be sown : SHAVE

5-down – Seaside social network : COASTLINE

6-down – See 24 : IDEA

7-down – Look at ship’s make-up : EYELINER

8-down – Inside wash: very pure : ABSOLUTE

13-down – Mad person in custody is not going to start casual conversation : CHATTERING

15-down – Talk about empty pleasure in surgery : OPERATION

16-down – The stiff manoeuvres towards the end of a match? : FIFTHSET

17-down – Half specialist soldiers, for example : SPECIMEN

19-down – Provoke pointer : NEEDLE

20-down – The woman’s supporting the Guardian guides : USHERS

23-down – Equipped in cardiovascular medicine : ARMED

24-down – There’s a thought, briefly put: God of DIY dead! : GOOD

9-across – Possible words on meeting Scottish banker and a retired clerical leader : AYATOLLAH

10-across – One’s time is in the past : EXCON

11-across – Source of milk in powder going to China from Japan, say? : DUEWEST

12-across – See 26 : VOLUMES

13-across – Announcement of fitting ceremony : RITE

14-across – Violation among dissenting group — that’s about right : INFRACTION

16-across – Panacea for a silent guitarist? : NOSTRUM

17-across – Crush hand in trapping ring : PASSION

19-across – Container secured by rushes, these causing extensive damage? : HURRICANES

22-across – One bound to impress seller, if all goes well : ITIS

24-across – Recorded, month one, century back : NOTICED

25-across – China from Japan, an inevitability while going 11 : SATSUMA

26-across – Say it all — as might an audiobook reader? : SPEAK

27-across – Understanding a language for the most part, staff ending in conflict : AGREEMENT

1-down – He has the audacity to keep movin’ slowly over English language : MANDARINCHINESE

2-down – See 23 : MAJESTYS

3-down – See 22 : HOPED

4-down – A metal in purplish element : PLATINUM

5-down – Second winter abroad, feel the cold? : SHIVER

6-down – Aggressive incursion’s beginning, island inspired by vision : BELLICOSE

7-down – Fiddle with just over three prawns : SCAMPI

8-down – Anxious to have those soldiers close to privates? : ANTSINONESPANTS

15-down – Sweet as a nut? : FRUITCAKE

17-down – See 23 : PLEASURE

18-down – Unwelcome guest I book, more offensive : INTRUDER

20-down – Half of roof gone, lift clear off : ROTTEN

21-down – An educational officer in condor territory? : ANDEAN

23-down – A heating unit a joke, apes surely miserable while inside : ATHER

1-across – Lady of the night has no work : TROLL

5-across – Significant other starting out unsteadily : CHIFONIE

9-across – Work mate and Perkin twice wearing spectacles : OPPO

12-across – Halpern shows sign of hesitation for that woman : HER

14-across – Spoke of a punishment on joint : ARACHNE

15-across – Soldiers secure old city : ORLANDO

16-across – Not censored, university teachers gathered round Cinephile : UNCUT

17-across – Troubled Sheridan is gone : HENDRA

18-across – Express finally comes to junction out east : SCREW

19-across – Logodaedalus, oddly curt, always embracing instructor : LECTURER

22-across – The heart of Schwyz, say : ANTO

24-across – Another theme word with Stephenson’s team from Bristol : ROVERS

25-across – Wader changes with Torquemada before 13:00 : TURNSTONE

28-across – Dogberry put on the carpet by employers who are hooked : DRUGUSERS

29-across – Bishop managed to conceal object : BRENDAN

33-across – Starts broadcasting game, we hear : BRUMMIE

34-across – Ship, possibly a drifter : TRAMP

35-across – Holy book — European capital houses Vlad’s edition : RIGVEDA

36-across – Gourmandise strangely, with no name : GORDIUS

37-across – Unauthorised hearing from Manley — strange practical joke : MOCKTRIAL

40-across – Opera song about a posh limo : ARAUCARIA

42-across – A cleaner has no date : AUSTER

43-across – Cheek about Moley’s gait : LIMP

46-across – Excalibur and 59 old attendants : ESQUIRES

48-across – Schumann regularly takes in Biggles and islander : CUBAN

49-across – Crucible has first added egg sandwiches and relish to salad : CAESAR

53-across – Gozo having to file clutch : GRASP

54-across – A lad — Tim — composed Dahl musical : MATILDA

55-across – Gold item of clothing, not small, but uniform : AUDREUS

56-across – Dante usually orders starters for two : DUO

57-across – Call from middle of foyer by 45 : OYEZ

58-across – Because of this, shock treatment is held inside : HECTENCE

59-across – Hearing plea from the homeless? : RUFUS

1-down – Tube from Thrace twisted by Adamant : TRACHEA

2-down – Prince of Wales having no success taking in Azed : OWAIN

3-down – Asian city’s oral tradition includes article by Hazard : LAHORE

4-down – Starts to study hard, exercising daily : SHED

5-down – Notes from Taupi as he does needlework outside : CROTCHETS

6-down – Complaint made by Imogen and head about pupils : ILLNESS

7-down – Department heads of operational research need Enigmatist … : ORNE

8-down – … Io and zero combined : INONE

10-down – Select an old character, say : PICAROON

11-down – Penniless ceramicist’s studio : OTTERDEN

13-down – Port facility miles away : CUSTOS

20-down – Make a further approach to raging ocean and mere with Rosa Klebb : COMENEARER

21-down – Award-winning actress, awfully terse with Provis : STREEP

23-down – Sign letter to America about Redshank : TAURUS

26-down – Carpathian, terribly tired into the long grass, changed course : REDIRECTED

27-down – Jewellery container upset : NUTMEG

28-down – Tragic upset involving Bunthorne’s flatfish : DABS

29-down – Annoying youngsters with Boatman — I’m annoyed! : BRATS

30-down – Deny point took in about Goliath : NEGATE

31-down – This for example mounted on a car : GEMINI

32-down – In the covers, when wet? : PAUL

34-down – I want Altair cycling country : TAIWAN

37-down – Inquire after male at a specially dear opera : MASKARADE

38-down – Edited a novel about King George : LAVENGRO

39-down – Secretary on parade ground changing sides : PASQUALE

41-down – Broadcast done to more of a turn : CRISPA

42-down – Quantum and poor Louisa exchanging partners in the wind : AQUILON

44-down – Lack of movement Elgar first suffered in capital : PARESIS

45-down – From the middle of bazaar, London toerag is seen : ZANDER

47-down – Mudd in the space that is for the girl : EMMIE

50-down – Cook reportedly accepts Armonie’s 24 arrows : SHEAF

51-down – Apex’s bird working hard : ATIT

52-down – Starting quarter after one, Sunday : QAOS

9-across – Game to tuck into ale can drunk immediately : ATAGLANCE

10-across – Miss America film bags Oscar : AVOID

11-across – Inflates price, in the main the wrong way : AERATES

12-across – British monarch fed film director : BERGMAN

13-across – Bluer Sierra leaves in summer : ADDER

14-across – Bad taste of old booze after hot month : INDECORUM

16-across – Pretty, inspiring love and cheers, twirling with care : COMPASSIONATELY

19-across – Reliable music gets son really humming : ROCKSOLID

21-across – In river, you might well see one! : HIPPO

22-across – Singer’s live, unknown in the past : BEYONCE

23-across – A good deal of lawyers make money : BARGAIN

24-across – Feeds girl from the right society : DINES

25-across – Pagans first and then … a US actor? : CHRISTIAN

1-down – What gets crazed Turkish bigshot around the island : MADAGASCAR

2-down – Winged creatures in this realm of myriad bats : FAIRYDOM

3-down – See 25 : SLATER

4-down – Skin prepared for tattoos : INKS

5-down – Novel to get across entertaining plot in US city : NEWBEDFORD

6-down – Aristocrat wanting name for girl : PATRICIA

7-down – Pupils, before English, run late : FORMER

8-down – Planned economy holds back ideal state : EDEN

14-down – Lacking funds, you do this in hostelry, clearly gutted : INSOLVENCY

15-down – Leader loudly lamenting Oxford revels : MAYMORNING

17-down – Possible danger with lighter fluid on stairs : ARSONIST

18-down – What besets politician currently could be stress : EMPHASIS

20-down – Showing sadness in bearing, a queen departs : CRYING

21-down – Badger to maul tailless equine : HARASS

22-down – Ordered something from dodgy drug dealer? : BADE

23-down – English composer’s time for recital : BYRD

9-across – Brutally honest person steals? Exactly! : ONTHENOSE

10-across – Scrub cooker hard : HEATH

11-across – I hope piano players passed : FINGERS

12-across – Come down after end of flight and what should I do? Land! : TERRAIN

13-across – Range of tennis player on the backhand : ALPS

14-across – Wife after skirts in Kuwait, in precarious situation — don’t be hasty! : THINKTWICE

15-across – All those marked for dispatch left inside this, it getting shifted : HITLIST

17-across – Most important money reaches Arab League leaders : CENTRAL

19-across – Painting car seats green originally, I love blue : LAGIOCONDA

22-across – See 8 : OVER

23-across – See 11 : CROSSED

24-across – Divine figure and character in audition? : FORESEE

26-across – Host Native American daughter : CROWD

27-across – Conductor waiting to take charge, got on : ELECTRODE

1-down – Mistake of huge proportions, a team in red wearing white start ill-prepared : GOOFFATHALFCOCK

2-down – Offensive type first joins up : STINKPOT

3-down – Give up source of life, did you say? : CEDE

4-down – Wicket! Sussex opener trapped by bowler on fire — is he out? : HOWSTHAT

5-down – See 6 : HESTON

6-down – Actor in heap beginning to hurt during dance : CHARLTON

7-down – Arab country after uprising has sealed fate when shelled : QATARI

8-down – Might Beelzebub get his skates on then? Never! : WHENHELLFREEZES

16-down – Man who’s determined to cultivate derision : IRONSIDE

17-down – Put cryptically, made fishy? : CODIFIED

18-down – Further study in theology faculty : REVISION

20-down – Huge figure has to travel into Yorkshire town, shortly : GOOGOL

21-down – Top Chinese food, massive plateful? : OODLES

25-down – Damn sunrises! : RATS

1-across – 9 19 No 1 with spy working in cyberspace : REBECCA

5-across – Like du Maurier’s The Birds, breaking chain : CORNISH

9-across – See 25 : MRSDE

10-across – Fish swimming in cave round House on the Strand’s head : ANCHOVIES

11-across – Timeless stories, as put about by the same devotee : AFICIONADO

12-across – Novel start: enter woman, imagining deathly detail : LAST

14-across – See 12 : DREAMTIWENT

18-across – See 12 : TOMANDERLEY

21-across – Characters at back of Old Ferry Inn I misguidedly race : INDY

22-across – Top producer of dramatic works drinks mid-morning? : CAPPUCCINI

25-across – No 2 gutted Manchester team to sack one during next season : THESECOND

26-across – Tense chapter after close of Jamaica Inn describes plot : PATCH

27-across – Housekeeper’s high and barely mighty : DANVERS

28-across – Set sail with du Maurier’s ultimate former model : LUSARDI

1-down – This French writer of note ruined PhD — the making of Daphne du Maurier … : RAMEAU

2-down – … American press on supporting British admirer of George : BUSHIE

3-down – Conventional bridge tactic induced big slams : CUEBIDDING

4-down – See 12 : AGAIN

5-down – Relief for suffering fan sealing last passage on top of Menabilly : COCODAMOL

6-down – Castle Dor missing introduction about fair : ROOK

7-down – Papers covering artistic setting in Cornwall after the writer’s done copy : IMITATED

8-down – Pause is at The Breaking Point : HESITATE

13-down – Aspects I see represented over top of York? : CITYSCAPES

15-down – Means to uplift sea lover, moved with impression of Troy : ELEVATORS

16-down – With bands announced, follower of Q is not half engrossed : STRIATED

17-down – Just a little boy swallowing a fly : SMIDGEON

19-down – See 25 : WINTER

20-down – See 12 : NIGHTI

23-down – Heading for Polmear, load up bike : PEDAL

24-down – Summer for French crowned by the start of Fowey Festival : FETE