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1-across – Fish, carp skinned for old cavalryman : HUSSAR

4-across – A travesty, fishy fizzy drink? : CHARADE

9-across – Given a flyer, teal fled in a panic carrying first of eggs : LEAFLETED

10-across – Harpoon small fish : SPIKE

11-across – Ray gobbling river fish : BREAM

12-across – Embellish crypt with this series of art works : TRIPTYCHS

13-across – Fish’s gathered in, a little under a foot : TENINCH

15-across – Plastering material to see in face that’s been knocked about : GYPSUM

17-across – Communist sticks by workers, wiping brow : ENGELS

19-across – Score in second haul of fish about right : SCRATCH

22-across – Smothered in sauce, local appearing put out again : REPUBLISH

24-across – Obliged to leave, depart finally amid word of appreciation : GOTTA

26-across – Cat attack not kicking off : OUNCE

27-across – Emin’s back in seaside town, quiet retiring star! : PENTAGRAM

28-across – Sci-fi fan runs after vacuous Kirk into wood : TREKKER

29-across – Dumped unceremoniously in seat, by the sound of it? : THROWN

1-down – Fish — stop to catch one before unhooking heads : HALIBUT

2-down – Small fish, rock : SHAKE

3-down – Dance laden with male trips : ALLEMANDE

4-down – Pair of fish for an apple : CODLING

5-down – Equally prepared for benefit : ASSET

6-down – Battle where a trap may be tried? : AGINCOURT

7-down – Remarkably English, one side of literature? : EVERSO

8-down – One’s running — the pain from it? : STITCH

14-down – Old coin ending in circulation with European note in particular : NINEPENCE

16-down – A few lines, silver fish hooks and a perch to be gutted : PARAGRAPH

18-down – Fish, small fish : SKIPPER

19-down – Haitian leader buried in revolution, cross beneath it, monolithic statue : SPHINX

20-down – Male parent cracking and failing as a leader : HEADMAN

21-down – Sample fish, including last of blenny : TRYOUT

23-down – Cold fish : BLEAK

25-down – Supercharger cutting fish : TURBO

1-across – View from large castle — king’s away first : OUTLOOK

5-across – Messi runs by one, then many — it’s shocking! : SEISMIC

9-across – Yankee river for y’all up North? : YOUSE

10-across – Chaotic place with heroin injected by heathen meat eater : ZOOPHAGAN

11-across – Fielding position gets another 1006 balls? : EXTRACOVER

12-across – First Lady’s bit of 17? : EVE

14-across – I may work with insects a bit, not forgetting ant : BIOSCIENTIST

18-across – Records of English schooling or otherwise : CHRONOLOGIES

21-across – Mother undressed girl : ANN

22-across – Rising, minister’s answer: No start to synod? : REVOLUTION

25-across – Quantity of money left out to grip Trump’s soul : BUCKETFUL

26-across – A hobbit’s sword : BILBO

27-across – Horse’s tail pulled by bull in spring and autumn? : EQUINOX

28-across – Ruling family is extremely dirty and filthy : DYNASTY

1-down – O Little Town, sung to baby ox, ends in trouble : OXYGEN

2-down – Makes fun of square relatives : TAUNTS

3-down – Musical drama is not funny, it’s lots of action : OPERATIONS

4-down – Instrument carried by Jack : KAZOO

5-down – Ex-foreign secretary wears small girdle for washing : SHOWERING

6-down – Egyptian architect misses pet being around, in my humble opinion : IMHO

7-down – They produce deft, magic lines when flowing : MAGNETIC

8-down – Unions, caught in the past, get right with socialist leader : CONCERTS

13-down – Between cities and at home, queen wears head garment : INTERURBAN

15-down – Wild animal lives for uncertain times : SILVERFOX

16-down – Bends over books by lecturer on European game : SCRABBLE

17-down – Magnificent men on board said to make wine : GRANDCRU

19-down – See 7 : FIELDS

20-down – Cartoon dog, Spot, catches new balls : SNOOPY

23-down – Head of Ofsted lied about being drunk : OILED

24-down – Material girl : JEAN

1-across – Adulterous cavalier lax with two redheads at a time : EXTRAMARITAL

9-across – Since it needs milk, sort leaves for tea : ASSAM

10-across – Move towards Virginia holding that thing in jar : GRAVITATE

11-across – See 25 : RACKETS

12-across – See 18 down : CHECKER

13-across – Old focus of a student’s attention, daughter’s after filthy swine : BLACKBOARD

15-across – Ace in hearts, possibly, a king : FACE

18-across – See 15 : CARD

19-across – Hand in the air, it’s true! : STRAIGHTUP

22-across – Metal content of mug or cup, perhaps? : URANIUM

24-across – Wise guy, king with open access? : KNOWALL

25-across – They’re taken to court : BADMINTON

26-across – Author, possibly K or M — S is wrong : AMISS

27-across – Exuberant man jumped on plaything : BOUNCYCASTLE

1-down – Hollow story in every song that’s designed for relaxation : EASYCHAIR

2-down – Top features in magazine for British high-flyer : TIMPEAKE

3-down – A real giant for starters, the Guardian … : ARGUS

4-down – … Guardian giant, artist, utterly charming, initially breaking into a song : ARAUCARIA

5-down – One stands up as a Van Gogh painting : IRISES

6-down – A second taken by surprise : ABACK

7-down – Orb nicked from the famous Greek composer raised in European capital : ZAGREB

8-down – Last of twelve, always standing in order : DECREE

14-down – Essay under workbook for healthcare profession : OPTOMETRY

16-down – Engineer casual with tie loose : ACTUALISE

17-down – Knight abducted by prince, soldier unaware : IGNORANT

18-down – Old singer-songwriter caught private detective hired by wife? : CHUBBY

20-down – European resembling pond life, if a tad over the top? : POLISH

21-down – Is man one, perhaps? : SIMIAN

23-down – Sound car going over circuit : AUDIO

24-down – Sort of dark, in darkest passage : KINDA

1-across – No fortune for 14 : PEANUTS

5-across – A god eating five or one helping : ADVISOR

9-across – Interpreter of music outlines case of leading composer : ELGAR

10-across – 14 to damage instrument that’s cracked? : MARMADUKE

11-across – Within limits of taste, he had to bite tongue in 14 : THEFARSIDE

12-across – Fruit, cool or hot? : HIP

14-across – If maybe so, not dizzy in a spin? : CARTOONSTRIP

18-across – Leave one spaced out about vote, as a mission of Nixon’s era : APOLLOELEVEN

21-across – Tailless fish turns back : FRO

22-across – Pandemonium a degree among Yorkshire city gents, perhaps? : HULLABALOO

25-across – Shout curtailed with cricketing trophy beyond English batters? : EYELASHES

26-across – Might a girl be put out? : ISSUE

27-across – Backing singer detailed with papers for 14 : DILBERT

28-across – 14 — are you free to erase one? : RUGRATS

1-down – Quite right, inessential clothes : PRETTY

2-down – Waiter sportingly poking spleen with base of utensil : ANGLER

3-down – Urbane lad turned page ultimately — it’s garbled : UNREADABLE

4-down – Wells has a problem with empty pages : SUMPS

5-down – Where planes seen investing energy in new road, where must that road end? : AERODROME

6-down – Reportedly yucky bottle : VIAL

7-down – Relative Arthur’s dad punches — that’s to the point? : SOUTHERN

8-down – Deeper ranges, good parts for the contrabassoon, perhaps? : REEDPIPE

13-down – Building a shambles when put up, gaudy stuff : ASSEMBLING

15-down – War machine, the brute out to catch leader in conflict : TREBUCHET

16-down – 14 raising newspaper above competitors : GARFIELD

17-down – Get lost in good play, with end uplifted? : GOTOHELL

19-down – A king mixed food up, almost entirely in a state : ALASKA

20-down – Lane in 14 passes round outskirts of village in 14 : LOVEIS

23-down – Failure stood leaderless between political wings : LOSER

24-down – Held up by queen, a jocular 14 : JANE

8-across – King Louis bursting to play with vigour! : RISOLUTO

9-across – Originally, Alan Rusbridger beat the Guardian’s retreat : ARBOUR

10-across – Make available for emptying liquidised fruit over, but run out : FREEUP

11-across – Lesson once taught in pool to would-be paddler about superior speed? : THEQUICK

12-across – Modern girlfriend’s choice! : UPTO

13-across – A short service for Ratty in love with Toad : DEVOTIONAL

15-across – Dramatically, novice then losing the plot : CONNIVE

16-across – Make it with iniquity? : BEDEVIL

18-across – I agree men will get blown away after horologer’s awful windiness : LOGORRHOEA

19-across – See 21 : PAGE

20-across – See 11 : BROWNFOX

22-across – Adam’s first to broach concern over herbal plant : YARROW

23-across – How’s your father gaining admission to South China lazaretto? : SPITAL

24-across – This break the making of Loadsamoney? : STOPOVER

1-down – I produce powerful retro Affleck vehicle that is : MICROPHOTOGRAPH

2-down – Boarding pass is, for now : TOBEGOINGONWITH

3-down – See 11 : JUMPEDOVER

4-down – Constipated chap to eat Italian special up : COSTIVE

5-down – See 12 : DATE

6-down – Get organised, or be spontaneous on one : ABOUTONESPERSON

7-down – Ring up worried customer, a little overdrawn, about cash supply — the problem? : PURCHASINGPOWER

14-down – See 11 : THELAZYDOG

17-down – Leaving shortly, splitting bill to share the planet : COEXIST

21-down – Thus spread leaf and elements of plug? : FULL

1-across – Policeman permitted to secrete leader of mafia, as in collusion : COMPLICIT

6-across – Solid baby with backside on table : CUBE

8-across – Gatecrashing two parties, artist with lead on rescue dog : LABRADOR

9-across – Soup ingredient daughter put in without Spanish approval? : NOODLE

10-across – Flight of fruit from the East End? : STAIRS

11-across – In departure, line in film unambiguous : EXPLICIT

12-across – In fruit, fruit’s skin almost going off : FIRING

15-across – Longest bananas covering a fruit : TANGELOS

16-across – Individual into fruit, he eats a lot : GOURMAND

19-across – Car wheel? : ROLLER

21-across – Not forgiving a pack of lies, scratching head : RUTHLESS

22-across – This writer inspired by Bill of the Wild West Show : COMEDY

24-across – Southern Britain introduced to boxer dog : SALUKI

25-across – For example, Mars bar filled with fruit : ROMANGOD

26-across – Dry date about right : SERE

27-across – Woman voting in recess let off : ELECTRESS

1-down – For example, pottery vessel : CRAFT

2-down – Drink, bird having one : MARTINI

3-down – Solid rocks in pools : LIDOS

4-down – Sounds like fruit is up to date : CURRENT

5-down – In accessing drink, one removing lid, right, as kitchen device? : TINOPENER

6-down – Sweet plum keeps cold : CHOCICE

7-down – Likely to be wielding weapon, one function to split peach : BELLICOSE

13-down – Inject iodine, then clean out wound : INOCULATE

14-down – Good exercise to fill gaping hole, where information passes : GRAPEVINE

17-down – Find new accommodation for that woman up over the river : REHOUSE

18-down – Sowing of seed before wild party without a merit : DESERVE

20-down – Fruit salad recipe ends in the paper : LEMONDE

22-down – Police after fellow streaker? : COMET

23-down – Refuse a little kiss, or disaster arises! : DROSS

1-across – Remove clothing to loud music : DEFROCK

5-across – Play about with complete collection : PANOPLY

10-across – Two articles on a type of coat : AFGHAN

11-across – African princes uncoil lazily — obese, even : LIONCUBS

12-across – Leading person of fashion, looking back : FOP

13-across – Where doctor would go to dig beneath the surface in state of anxiety : ONEDGE

14-across – Gangster grabs every other top layer, making one cross : HOLYROOD

15-across – Boatman’s modest clothing : HIJAB

16-across – Resumes obscure, useless legal measures : ABSTRACTS

19-across – Every other neat clue? : ALTERNATE

21-across – See 25 : PIECE

24-across – Acts of government constraining extremes of unrest by society : STATUTES

26-across – Struggle against Daesh taken on by others : RESIST

27-across – Part of the Arctic environment : ICE

28-across – A lover fears them: her last tender quivering embraces, sweetheart : DEARJOHN

29-across – Novices going the wrong way by mistake : SLIPUP

30-across – Report of Treasury for Halfwits is libel : ASPERSE

31-across – Heartlessly pursued type of fabric : WORSTED

2-down – F-stop used on images, first of Turkish gents : EFFENDI

3-down – Rectify a dry condition there all round : REHYDRATE

4-down – Present debate : CONFER

6-down – Float around in sea, stormy recently : ASOFLATE

7-down – Boy who goes before Italian pope : OSCAR

8-down – Experimental clothing worn a lot : LABCOAT

9-down – Arranging characters of pleasing habit in new fashion : ALPHABETISING

17-down – Boatman may be found here initially? : AMIDSHIPS

18-down – Pi and nu: letters sent back, not stopping on in going away : UNCTUOUS

20-down – See 28 : LETTERS

22-down – Twice this might express doubt about clothing : COSTUME

23-down – Italian sauce used around start of Ramadan fast : PRESTO

25-down – Quality to suit aristocrat, backed by independent European Commission in article : THREE

1-across – A treasonous emu I, wandering in to seduce beauty in aria : LAMOUREST

6-across – Spike Milligan’s third one : LACE

8-across – Strong singer about to go down for high singer : FALSETTO

9-across – Head carrying knock, one’s exposed : NUDIST

10-across – See 24 : SAPETE

11-across – Where fox may be, one with a camel ultimately burying head in sand? : INDENIAL

12-across – Entering finale, all three starting in sensational style, unforgettable in opera aria : NESSUN

15-across – An image awfully full of love, narcissism : EGOMANIA

16-across – Sinner finally incarcerated, calling for heavy beating : DRUBBING

19-across – Nation today and for ever containing capital in Rome : NORWAY

21-across – See 1 : UNOISEAU

22-across – When foaled, discard horse : DOBBIN

24-across – Aria where boy’s a darling in mezzo-soprano, say? : VOICHE

25-across – Happy close to death, sang about it : THRILLED

26-across – Man perhaps, one and only, lacking nothing : ISLE

27-across – Tongue in, well inside case of strawberries, beginning to eat : SINHALESE

1-down – Beast saying prayer? : LLAMA

2-down – Seafood, a smaller quantity in total that’s hauled up : MUSSELS

3-down – Top broadcaster, free : UNTIE

4-down – See 6 : EMOBILE

5-down – Terrible start and horrid end in an earlier clue made less shocking : TONEDDOWN

6-down – Youth using phone catching every second of insane aria : LADONNA

7-down – Performers very inspired by uplifting opera aria : CASTADIVA

13-down – Wrong number held by user, or otherwise : ERRONEOUS

14-down – Silent, as sizeable frame in painting breaks head : NOISELESS

17-down – With vigour, cook cut bread : BRIOCHE

18-down – Pig flying at last, heading for terminal in airport : GLUTTON

20-down – See 1 across : REBELLE

22-down – See 12 across : DORMA

23-down – Goddess of desire, Nephele : IRENE

7-across – Don’t finish course after medic’s nil by mouth expression? : DROPOUT

8-across – Hospital fellow managed as cool place for uncool visitors : SANFRAN

9-across – Sky and C4 regularly record at the same time : SYNC

10-across – Swallowing tablet after messing about with gran’s pyjamas? : NIGHTWEAR

12-across – Man, shortly this could be happening in 8 : HUMAN

13-across – TV presenter drops daughter outside hotel somewhere in Greece : THESSALY

15-across – See 12 : BEIN

16-across – Money key to study responsible for Everything I Own? : BREAD

17-across – Broadcast story of 8’s mistake : FLAW

18-across – Something smoked by old man, as Tim Rice’s opener plays : PASTRAMI

20-across – Count given before jelly finally set : TELLY

21-across – Serving as expectant mother’s second name : WAITINGON

22-across – Small, once trendy dog : SHEP

24-across – I’m getting back into black tea, where unusual people hang out : BOHEMIA

25-across – Kind of grass skirts in Tuscany? Setter’s hot, dancing in them : TIMOTHY

1-down – Trumpet player’s final appearance in 8 area? : BRAY

2-down – Some wee person, for example : SPECIMEN

3-down – Start recalling something that isn’t groovy? : TURNON

4-down – Where newspaper title shows old woman’s unexpected death : MASTHEAD

5-down – Fast broken, eating queen’s pudding : AFTERS

6-down – Pretty good light for fine, sporting show : FAIR

11-down – Something pussy guiltily ate: two starters, then a partly gutted fish : GATHERING

12-down – Discontented hippy girl that might be spotted laughing : HYENA

14-down – Wary of alternative spelling, like king or poet : LEARY

16-down – Attend primarily idealistic festival in California, getting blissed out : BEATIFIC

17-down – Weed’s pulled up after busy period in 8 : FULLSTOP

19-down – Attempts to include black people in social groups : TRIBES

20-down – Quantity of wine : TUNEIN

21-down – Court female, as a setter might : WOOF

23-down – Leader in evening newspaper? : ECHO

7-across – Conclude with army’s opening invasion of Holland — hellish : INFERNAL

9-across – Atmospheric phenomenon or boomer sound? : AURORA

10-across – See 22 : BOAT

11-across – Given the law about dropping electric current, it might span two peaks : WAVELENGTH

12-across – Phone a spendthrift : BLOWER

14-across – Bird from Brazil? Mark with fine lines : NUTHATCH

15-across – Sort of dash into Ring dismissal : DENIAL

17-across – Small creature has cold, rather than hot, stint : SCRIMP

20-across – United, Poulenc incited divorce : UNCOUPLE

22-across – Bar with two articles by tramp? It bears fruit : BANANA

23-across – Agent’s message, maybe: Try to come back between chapel and drive : CRYPTOGRAM

24-across – See 2 : WITH

25-across – Laurel’s sound, having a few lines? : STANZA

26-across – Supervise rag lion housing for Muslim quarters : SERAGLIO

1-down – Dignified death, hoarding old money : ENNOBLED

2-down – Junk TV harm: people wait to gain acceptance : MEET

3-down – Solution offered by Australian state: cutting a rate of interest : ANSWER

4-down – Writer takes every blockbuster film as movingly graceful : BALLETIC

5-down – Shortening time before work on ground action : TRUNCATION

6-down – Extremely cold chest, Mark said : ARCTIC

8-down – Which should keep a worker from leaving wig off : LIVING

13-down – Light weapon exploded after blast : WINDOWPANE

16-down – See 2 : APPROVAL

18-down – £25 tip that could go to one’s head : PONYTAIL

19-down – Teacher Patch turned over remains : DEBRIS

21-down – Retina mistaken for group of sea snails : NERITA

22-down – Insect straddling overturned border soil : BEMIRE

24-down – See 8 : WAGE