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1-across – Bait cricketer : SPINNER

5-across – Casual attempt to secure image : POTSHOT

9-across – Get out good fashionable clothes : HOPIT

10-across – Spooner up for distortion by design : ONPURPOSE

11-across – Pretty boy playing with Arsenal : REASONABLY

12-across – Wet grass : WEED

14-across – Good health looking problematic then? : MUDINYOUREYE

18-across – European enquiry given testament in sharp, English wit : QUENTINCRISP

21-across – Machiavellian shackling Catholic, I see! : ARCH

22-across – Train to capital crossing river, its effect disorienting : OPTICALART

25-across – Setter reversed a state that’s flow : EMANATION

26-across – Drug dealer, one often over the limit? : SPEED

27-across – Make up accent, funny case of boring joke : PUTONES

28-across – Rock garden ends, we hear, in South American capital : CAYENNE

1-down – Field ball : SPHERE

2-down – Active as an actor? : INPLAY

3-down – Decent result of spring-cleaning? : NOTSODUSTY

4-down – Drink draught up, guzzling juice : RIOJA

5-down – Underground worker, Dickens character ending on burdensome early shifts : PIPELAYER

6-down – Initials of tiresome egotist revealing my name : TERM

7-down – Trotters cut, evidently bleeding, cleaned : HOOVERED

8-down – Judge accepts bound to be more happening? : TRENDIER

13-down – Operative in USSR, possibly peripherally as foreign agent : RUSSIANSPY

15-down – A pinhead introduced to pub grub as a toddler? : INNAPPIES

16-down – Just winning, prepare for a fight : SQUAREUP

17-down – See 26 : MERCHANT

19-down – See 27 : FACEON

20-down – Some turkey heads and old goose wings filling dish : STODGE

23-down – Charged I note, first sent off : IONIC

24-down – A shade flatter : FAWN

1-across – Scratching head, Joy embraces a certain female with pride : LIONESS

5-across – Saw man chasing British online commentator : BLOGGER

9-across – Are next to improbably huge robin : NEIGHBOUR

10-across – Reportedly followed progress of parcel : TRACT

11-across – A bit of a kip after extremes of heartache and passion : HEAT

12-across – Cook it with fennel or with spinach : FLORENTINE

14-across – According to hearsay, ogle slim woman : EILEEN

15-across – Team keeping discontented rattlesnake by itself : SQUARED

16-across – It gets under the feet of two mums, trapped by routine : RUSHMAT

18-across – Partly malarial Torcello, a Venetian island : RIALTO

20-across – Incensed at people rejecting seconds, start to convulse and twitch : APOPLECTIC

21-across – Runs into Hebrew sage, perhaps : HERB

24-across – See 23 down : HAPPY

25-across – Sick brother leaves NY street after thief’s confession : INABADWAY

26-across – See 23 : RETURNS

27-across – Poet describing you poetically as first in her field : DOYENNE

1-down – Set off without a meal : LUNCH

2-down – To Riga, migrating without paperwork : ORIGAMI

3-down – Real origins of European common toad probed by Henry : ECHT

4-down – Coatis cling and spit, unusually obstructive course of action : SPOILINGTACTICS

5-down – Singer tries to rebel after ban on underwear on beach : BARBRASTREISAND

6-down – Once oddly tense and thin, resembling a stop sign : OCTANGULAR

7-down – First to grow more delicate Alpine flower? : GLACIER

8-down – Half-heartedly withdraw commercial for tyre : RETREAD

13-down – Pay me later!, ordered Co-operative worker : TEAMPLAYER

16-down – Child’s hero ignoring case of betrayal : REACHER

17-down – Took bung for throwing match : SHOTPUT

19-down – Stars in east, south and west in conjunction : THESWAN

22-down – Nice article supporting young male scientist : BOYLE

23-down – Grumpy pal with piles first delivers annual greeting : MANY

1-across – Duplicitous as in political sphere, also phoniest allies, pair struggling to maintain conceit, primarily? : SPECIAL

5-across – See 21 : FOSBURY

9-across – Somewhere in Asia, hotel’s neighbour? : INDIA

10-across – Sadly, the traditions of US apartments? : CONDOLORE

11-across – Where Jack accommodated divine liturgy easily, initially : FORECASTLE

12-across – See 24 : SEED

14-across – One performing delicate work drops into flower : BRAINSURGEON

18-across – See 1 : RELATIONSHIP

21-across – Wearing tie, figure carrying small black jumper : DICK

22-across – Man after hit story that’s hot : BONKBUSTER

25-across – Save some nice old works : ECONOMISE

26-across – Not exactly a spell : ABOUT

27-across – Stalk headless monster in bar : PETIOLE

28-across – Bird for Trump? : TWEETER

1-down – Superior numbers ultimately high, one senses? : SNIFFY

2-down – Suffer demise, nation lacking leadership getting comeuppance : ENDURE

3-down – Where beer may be found to contain copper? Wrong : INACCURATE

4-down – See 6 : LACES

5-down – Last two standing in a line wearing boxers? : FINALISTS

6-down – Chelsea so poor, Oxford ties? : SHOE

7-down – Closed one end up high : UNOPENED

8-down – Soft bowing : YIELDING

13-down – Pictures I almost deleted, dead say : ARTICULATE

15-down – Compound where I’m being carried round on large animal : IRONOXIDE

16-down – Find endless fruit covering lip : DREDGEUP

17-down – Save bags to have everything you need when power’s lost : BLACKOUT

19-down – No more time after half of air gone : ATMOST

20-down – Large hole where bottom caught, with fundament in fact squeezed up : CRATER

23-down – Toll cut, tax at first went down : KNELT

24-down – Creator claims to witness decay : GOTO

1-across – Cultivate areas of growth for the US stockholders? : FARMYARDS

9-across – Talking 2 act in Barnet : HAIRDO

10-across – Player moving around grid again : DIANARIGG

11-across – Collection of 2s going by sea? Flew! : ZOOMED

12-across – Party 2s, a nervous lot? : GANGLIONS

13-across – Scotsman taking off for African city : IBADAN

17-across – Males in 3, taking time out : MEN

19-across – Cutting that is about a dog : SHARPEI

20-across – Funny reaction, as gods start moving in right direction : ALLERGY

21-across – Elton John to his mother, say? That’s right, at first : REG

23-across – Sell dog again : RETAIL

27-across – Casual discard, when passing ditch : THROWAWAY

28-across – Bird: just a little chicken, but headless : CHOUGH

29-across – Ground strokes: first two bad : EDGBASTON

30-across – Brexit negotiators’ 180º change of direction is terminal : EUSTON

31-across – Buildings for honouring dead cats, acceptable for lost queen? : PANTHEONS

2-down – Drummer: member of group contracted to do turns around central square : ANIMAL

3-down – Unconventional household as people get older, or as it evolves : MENAGE

4-down – See 3 : ATROIS

5-down – Folk-singing comedian, sending up soldier in the Lancers? : DIGANCE

6-down – Put up a poster, say, or a flyer : RAZORBILL

7-down – Like a desert in which roamed a southward moving 2 : DROMEDARY

8-down – Swimmer or observer? : GOLDENEYE

14-down – Fast runners, East German, briefly carrying the most fat : OSTRICHES

15-down – 18 upset her actors : CARTHORSE

16-down – 2 born at end of season? Yes : SPRINGBOK

17-down – Russian station over in Crimea : MIR

18-down – Meghan agrees to have and to hold Harry : NAG

22-down – 2 that might be chained : ECHIDNA

24-down – 2 with special place for carrying a 2Mb floppy : WOMBAT

25-down – Story about donkey or 2 seen on TV : LASSIE

26-down – A bishop in favour as primate : BABOON

1-across – Case of vehicle speeding : CARAPACE

5-across – Maps all bombs shelled with nonchalance : APLOMB

9-across – En passant, victim turns left just before the end : CASUALLY

10-across – Slogan is mostly a device for catching people : MANTRA

11-across – Lad’s fancy in 26 turns to 15 20 : YOUNGMAN

12-across – Board emergency meeting starts by tree outside : EMBARK

14-across – Back between the sheets and topless, such very decadent behaviour : DEBAUCHERY

18-across – Rushes round container for Harvey and Co : HURRICANES

22-across – Understood Saudi princes essentially playing : UNSAID

23-across – Fuel hurting around half of common people : PARAFFIN

24-across – Using combined power to undress shy bride : HYBRID

25-across – Ship first to feature in opera composition : PINAFORE

26-across – Season well : SPRING

27-across – Dine out having little money? It’s not proper : INDECENT

1-down – Bone from rooster — half a dozen, say : COCCYX

2-down – Squire turns 27 : RISQUE

3-down – Top to bottom in past form of 26 minor accidents : PRANGS

4-down – Unintended consequences of local alert : COLLATERAL

6-down – Where drugs are fast to suppress hurt : PHARMACY

7-down – Shocked to have revealed sexuality in newspaper? On the contrary : OUTRAGED

8-down – Bruise for servant trapped in bottle banks : BLACKEYE

13-down – Fabric helping injury : LACERATION

15-down – Romantic ideas should be found in loft? Shove off! : THOUGHTS

16-down – 24 excluding part of goal : CROSSBAR

17-down – Papers over dream separation : DIVISION

19-down – See 4 : DAMAGE

20-down – See 15 : OFLOVE

21-down – Since strike, displayed brotherly love? : INCEST

1-across – Associate with spirit, lord perhaps? : HOBNOB

5-across – Secure with con artist? : STABLE

8-across – Those on the board rejecting view in endless game of strategy : CHEESES

9-across – Even light shades equally good for European city : GLASGOW

11-across – Book of film anyone can see failin’ that is introduced to rising young actress : ASTUDYINSCARLET

12-across – One’s ridden into Nairobi, Kenya : BIKE

13-across – Theocrat taking two wives wrecked home for sentinel? : WATCHTOWER

17-across – From the off, real indignation regarding car : RANGEROVER

18-across – A duck, deep blue : ANIL

20-across – Difficult issue for a parrot that has two legs and flies : APAIROFTROUSERS

23-across – Less tranquil one in unruly senior : NOISIER

24-across – Survive, as the tenth wicket to fall? : OUTLAST

25-across – Two little boys, one preyed upon : VICTIM

26-across – Two little boys, one offering support : PATRON

2-down – Passed green wooden houses : OVERTAKEN

3-down – Great creator lifted as rugby game’s ending : NOSIDE

4-down – Punishment for the feet, a bandit so beaten : BASTINADO

5-down – Stories from the north — the same from the south? : SAGAS

6-down – Flower managed to punch a US subject : AMARANTH

7-down – Fair lady’s head on bottom of fine maiden : LEGAL

8-down – Warning! Left in range for old Tory : CHAMBERLAIN

10-down – John Calvin’s first into battle, not entirely prepared : WATERCLOSET

14-down – Goblet literary king thus has filled, possible liquid lunch? : CLEARSOUP

15-down – Get mountain climbing, past US lake : WINNEBAGO

16-down – Language student’s crime stealing underwear : HEBRAIST

19-down – Tory leader wearing skirt and tights, primarily — I don’t approve : TUTTUT

21-down – Fighter with massive cut, one should get away with it : ALIBI

22-down – Place of discussion supporting indecisive utterance : FORUM

1-across – Show individual and organisation, both concerned with public health : DOCTORWHO

6-across – Eighth vehicle in the outback? : BUSH

8-across – See 6 : SPEAKING

9-across – See 17 : TOOFAR

10-across – Temperature in fish ending in oven, hot : STOLEN

11-across – Daughter wearing Lincoln green, no good for the city : ABERDEEN

12-across – Small parcels dark, all together : DIMSUM

15-across – Keeping healthy ultimately, fruit on field for a longer time? : LEAPYEAR

16-across – I’m always missing wife, travelling round a country : MALAYSIA

19-across – Wearing whites, one pulls hard : HOICKS

21-across – Messenger bagging last of post for royal attendant : COURTIER

22-across – Fifth primate in the shade? : ORANGE

24-across – See 26 : GARDEN

25-across – One on the table, perhaps in the middle? : HYDROGEN

26-across – In which gorgeous trailer in red and 22 across hybridised? : ROSE

27-across – Black coat on the counter, top edge a kind of blue? : CAMBRIDGE

1-down – Storehouse where drunk turned up : DEPOT

2-down – Prince having to do his own cleaning, for the most part? : CHARLES

3-down – Tear-jerker doubly touching, I assumed : ONION

4-down – Bird narrating story of Footballers’ Wives? : WAGTAIL

5-down – See 22 : OFTHEBATH

6-down – Phrase initially described by by and large is OK, loosely : BROADLY

7-down – Cerium injected into hand, virologist admits, an experience requiring a lifeline? : SPACEWALK

13-down – Lover upended in chariot, a Roman imperialist : INAMORATO

14-down – Passionate, a miss with nice pants : MESSIANIC

17-down – War film cut excessively? : ABRIDGE

18-down – Support of women cut under a patriarch : ABRAHAM

20-down – Cross old country from the south, taking passport, say, around? : INAMOOD

22-down – Wash behind your ears? It’s an honour! : ORDER

23-down – Bird in 24, bees every second buzzing off : GREBE

9-across – Opening in Wales for distribution in bulk : WHOLESALE

10-across – Steps by Chopin after 22 down : WALTZ

11-across – I object to this agreement by Italian and African : TUTSI

12-across – One tells a story of Parisian backstreet junction without vehicle : RACONTEUR

13-across – Lucky man preserves retirement outfit : JIMJAMS

14-across – Suitable partner’s rather depleted in power : MRRIGHT

17-across – No covers needed, use just this dish : SUSHI

19-across – Staff go out with permission : MAN

20-across – Perhaps enter this to get pernickety : PICKY

21-across – Leading criminal arrayed : ALIGNED

22-across – O’Neal returned, superficially evolved and changed : MUTATED

24-across – Devilish to divine? A change of course : DEVIATION

26-across – Delicate desktop material : TWEED

28-across – Stop and chat : SPEAK

29-across – Ready and willing for run with broken tooth : HOTTOTROT

1-down – Heartless two-bit moron : TWIT

2-down – Finally, club with slogan brought up the rear : BOTTOM

3-down – Dithering ambassador, one in post : HESITATION

4-down – Most of the school is in old Chennai : MADRAS

5-down – Accessories for church people keeping pecker up : HENCHMEN

6-down – Last with songbird : SWAN

7-down – Sensitive to the French crushed garlic sandwiches : ALLERGIC

8-down – Ruler turned crazy, but not quite : CZAR

13-down – Wait for game : JUSTA

15-down – Reprise d’enfant mangé par bête noire : REPETITION

16-down – Played truant to enjoy free childhood ultimately : TOYED

18-down – Five compete in winter sports gear for workers : SKIVVIES

19-down – Timing hand slipped losing an hour of darkness : MIDNIGHT

22-down – See 13 : MINUTE

23-down – On the other hand, those people come round to the idea : THEORY

24-down – After 13 down, a little flair : DASH

25-down – Cross during bank holiday : ANKH

27-down – See 19 across : DATE

1-across – Bread Irish pub rejected in place of buns? : BARABRITH

6-across – No longer green, somewhat blue? : RIPE

8-across – Order prohibited at the last minute : TABULATE

9-across – Streaks about to happen for artist : RUBENS

10-across – Three-quarters of men making some fast moves? : CHACHA

11-across – Duty to protect or deliver from evil? : EXORCISE

12-across – Big name almost sure to avoid relegation : STAYUP

15-across – Arrest in Australian newspaper written about, seedy American thing : GARBANZO

16-across – Cover featuring stunner, smeared : LIBELLED

19-across – Fears, Caribbean style? : DREADS

21-across – Children’s book in minor novel : THEIDIOT

22-across – Somewhere in Brighton where I sunbathed audaciously, catching cold : NUDIST

24-across – Country — one hosting race at its centre : MONACO

25-across – Not entirely equipped to host opera that’s unusual : ABNORMAL

26-across – Subject of selfie repeatedly in shared image : MEME

27-across – US comedienne possibly not scratching old bottom : FUNDAMENT

1-down – See 22 across : BEACH

2-down – Hot meal without starter in fish : RAUNCHY

3-down – Crow going over a Portuguese city : BRAGA

4-down – Hazard floating in crosses initially, winger ascendant : ICEBERG

5-down – Held man had to cover up something shady : HARBOURED

6-down – Book on old server, reportedly? : REBECCA

7-down – Wee, around 568ml? : PINTSIZED

13-down – Body part malodorous, black in colour : THIGHBONE

14-down – Succeed in pronouncing fanciful name of Russian hen? : PULLITOFF

17-down – Dubai, say — Uncle Sam finally losing it : EMIRATE

18-down – Rat den I set alight : DETRAIN

20-down – Back ’urdler, say, champion : ENDORSE

22-down – Norse goddess UN leader once exalted : NANNA

23-down – Small handle for beam : SHAFT

1-across – Empty nest and no memories — bad time for OAP? : SENIOR

4-across – See 1 : MOMENT

9-across – As part of time-sharing, taking turn in house : SEMI

10-across – Horrify a mate, forgetting name for mountain area : APPALACHIA

11-across – Pensioner cycling by checkpoint made from shoddy material : CHEAPO

12-across – Out of power, allowed to be smutty? : EXPLICIT

13-across – Rest of Italian team’s smutty, reportedly : INTERLUDE

15-across – Tory wearing light blue : RACY

16-across – A Christian GP, say, covering 10 : DIOR

17-across – Remote possibility of bad luck : OFFCHANCE

21-across – One performing unprepared, left holding a hole-boring tool? On the contrary : ADLIBBER

22-across – Definitely happening — keep waiting to be connected : ONHOLD

24-across – Abundance of fast sex between dessert and coffee, ultimately : PLENTITUDE

25-across – Sign new back for present season : NOEL

26-across – Photographic chemical uncovering magic : SILVER

27-across – See 26 : IODIDE

1-down – Joyce’s alter ego, in phase with male name : STEPHEN

2-down – Writing up article about show in African capital : NAIRA

3-down – Having prolonged good luck, film here once? : ONAROLL

5-down – Kiss one of two kissers wearing very large bloomers : OXLIPS

6-down – Woman with adopted youngster eating a Mexican dish : ENCHILADA

7-down – Reticently, I log off site that’s educational : TRINITY

8-down – Fantastically fine and super, so extremely delightful? : SPLENDIFEROUS

14-down – Moving in Puck’s direction, turned up on island, then left : EMOTIONAL

16-down – See 1 : DEDALUS

18-down – On the point of cupboard love : CLOSETO

19-down – See 7 : COLLEGE

20-down – Make former pupil tell story about the origin of greed : OBLIGE

23-down – Language coming from noisy party after stripper’s act : HINDI