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8-across – Turns up by river with great self-confidence : COCKSURE

9-across – A temptation said to diminish : ABATE

10-across – Astonish with unfinished trick : STUN

11-across – Runner, having consumed pork pie, first to go into spasm : FIBRILLATE

12-across – Aristocrat getting substantial return from ape : GIBBON

14-across – One supplying information that E = R, maybe? : SQUEALER

15-across – Cause unrest? A crowd suppresses it : AGITATE

17-across – Less vivid second city : PALERMO

20-across – Flagship bearing right? : STREAMER

22-across – Back unknown plant : BETONY

23-across – Receiver receiving dodgy, initially rum, deal from snake : FERDELANCE

24-across – Strike a light! : LAMP

25-across – Date to vex proverbial patience? : TRYST

26-across – Investigator’s ploy involving hollow cats and dogs? Hardly : SPITTING

1-down – Unduly upset, getting into brief liaison of little significance : FOOTLING

2-down – Like to participate in streaking : AKIN

3-down – Fashionable hand warmer on top of cake : MUFFIN

4-down – Prolix poetic production penning personal problem : VERBOSE

5-down – Tyrant’s glacial university reform : CALIGULA

6-down – Pop perhaps returning letters received from legislators : PARLIAMENT

7-down – Insect let loose on another : BEETLE

13-down – Incomplete tea set Darby smashed, revealing what he and Joan have seen? : BETTERDAYS

16-down – Sacred building sheltering a priest’s last model : TEMPLATE

18-down – Second Greek letter inscribed in memorial : MONUMENT

19-down – Salty islanders losing heart to Norway : BRINISH

21-down – Score one less than this? : TWENTY

22-down – Piece about monarch’s proposed divorce : BREXIT

24-down – Reluctant to sin? Not initially : LOTH

8-across – Long nail securing unsigned church regulations : CANONLAW

9-across – Prayer shawl initially bagged by hunter : ORISON

10-across – See 24 : LEAD

11-across – Huge creature in pram, wheels buckling : SPERMWHALE

12-across – Papers in a sack, remained : ABIDED

14-across – Scatter around about ten cuttings : EXTRACTS

15-across – Flexible performer gave voice about my flips and tumbles, primarily : GYMNAST

17-across – Extra soft back, hard in the middle, possibly? : PERHAPS

20-across – Wretched party game : BASEBALL

22-across – Block housing administrative subdivision for beverage dissemination officer : BARMAN

23-across – Description of some bread, how else, in large fragments : WHOLEGRAIN

24-across – Bound to need clue, one of a pair for a start? : JUMP

25-across – Flier placed in mailbag — and erroneously : GANDER

26-across – Make thin mice eat a soup : EMACIATE

1-down – Media distribution officer gets money for each item afloat, it’s reported? : PAPERBOY

2-down – Highway environmental hygienist, one howling on a Greek island, did you say? : ROAD

3-down – Fail to break record that’s exclusive : CLOSED

4-down – See 2 : SWEEPER

5-down – Australian native came across the empty sleeping car in America : ROOMETTE

6-down – Stuffing reindeer, I demonstrate less love, as gastronomical hygiene helper : DISHWASHER

7-down – Work, blah blah blah, less abundant for sanit­ation consultant : TOILET

13-down – Private school ultimately feeding parent, though not one daughter, as education centre nourishment technician : DINNERLADY

16-down – Condition of livestock causes amazement : STAGGERS

18-down – Colleague in amateur team finally welcomed by head : PLAYMATE

19-down – See 7 : CLEANER

21-down – Retreat a mockery —that’s about right : ASHRAM

22-down – Male embraced by senior citizen who loves men and women, as recycling operative : BINMAN

24-down – European agreement in ancient Hindu follower : JAIN

1-across – Casts, securing fish within seconds : SLINGS

4-across – Ace shot wading bird, then rook : SNIPER

9-across – Whiten part of fence : PALE

10-across – Expert on 8 etc seeing maid put on weight : GRAMMARIAN

11-across – Socrates, for example, put little time into lesson : MORTAL

12-across – Huge blunder in cape I piece together the wrong way : TERRIFIC

13-across – Right to enter acknowledgment of guilt : ADMISSION

15-across – Health problems as medication’s losing initial power : ILLS

16-across – Pitch players rejected : CAST

17-across – English journalists in emergency call for strong drinks : ESPRESSOS

21-across – Outside shopping centre, deal in weak drink : SMALLALE

22-across – Tolerate litigant being interrupted by loud fellow : SUFFER

24-across – Noticeable, it’s said : PRONOUNCED

25-across – Island centre for steel bands : ELBA

26-across – Sounds from clutch perturbed 8 : CHEEPS

27-across – Style of acting characteristic of princely madness : METHOD

1-down – Including a fine duck, serves up main courses? : SEAFOOD

2-down – Part of inside story that is translated : IDEST

3-down – Laughs with endless delight during group’s performances : GIGGLES

5-down – What’s in name? Romeo tragically passed away : NOMORE

6-down – Page with pieces, very small ones : PARTICLES

7-down – Prepares interpretations about 2 : READIES

8-down – Kinds of words found variously in other solutions : PARTSOFSPEECH

14-down – Cheekiness or laziness involving son rather than daughter : INSOLENCE

16-down – With no end in sight, came by rich material : CAMBRIC

18-down – All that’s left is to have occupation outside university : RESIDUE

19-down – Part of proverb identifying possible reason for buyer’s remorse : OVERBID

20-down – Endless scrutiny you reported over politician’s deal as unscrupulous seller : GAZUMP

23-down – Husband with ego upset family : FLESH

1-across – How poet’s day starts, absorbing French from novel : MODERN

4-across – Forceful politician enters — what a jerk! : EMPHATIC

9-across – Prepare miners for war in horrid place : ARMPIT

10-across – Fellow standing by rebuffed love for soul queen : FRANKLIN

11-across – Unabashed lad in disorderly drama : ANIDEALHUSBAND

13-across – Writing abridged by men who’ll require the accusative case? : PROSECUTOR

14-across – Flog some 7 down : VEND

16-across – Main actor having field day : LEAD

18-across – A typical Telegraph reader backs party making disclosures : REVELATORY

21-across – Guides use the facilities in Scottish island, it’s reported : INDIRECTSPEECH

23-across – Ten years of life slipped away in games : TWENTIES

24-across – Bikini-clad star reads a Sun slur in shock : URSULA

25-across – A bit of practice time, so you must reverse park : YOSEMITE

26-across – Set about to finish fantastic story : LEGEND

1-down – Day to eat American beef : MOAN

2-down – Opera singer to perform part, taking 30 seconds : DOMINGO

3-down – Dancer drops letter opener, we hear? : REINDEER

5-down – Tramp is embracing your noble lady : MARCHIONESS

6-down – Perfect way to be virtuous : HONEST

7-down – Breaking through rickety gate, I’m going to farmland : TILLAGE

8-down – Might an old man always holiday across the Atlantic? : CANADADAY

12-down – A little money to pen charming account one’s added to letters : ACUTEACCENT

13-down – Friend is pocketing millions before tax — this generates fortunes : PALMISTRY

15-down – Health service not privatised? That makes you happy : CAREFREE

17-down – See 24 : ANDRESS

19-down – Reform Church of England could obstruct : OCCLUDE

20-down – Expert satisfied with a raise for now : PROTEM

22-down – Fat, heartless landowner up north : LARD

8-across – Fanciful art of sheepdog training is mine? : COLLIERY

9-across – Trick after a backflip nailed by European dog : POODLE

10-across – Meals for a dog : CHOW

11-across – Extraordinary stature, I am in shock : TRAUMATISE

12-across – Cat, a killer losing tail in conflict : JAGUAR

14-across – Opera in a borstal extremely unusual : ABNORMAL

15-across – A junior officer in green, unsurpassed : ALLTIME

17-across – Dutch painter capturing cat in a neat way : LEGIBLY

20-across – Fine wine, relative filth finally coming first : GRANDCRU

22-across – Something felt to protect female suffering loss : BEREFT

23-across – Girl running round borders in garden to catch some balls, runs the wrong way : MISGOVERNS

24-across – Large cutting tool’s shaft : AXLE

25-across – Eat a lot — good taste! : PIGOUT

26-across – Poisonous compound not designed to impress one in particular : NICOTINE

1-down – Entering shopping centre, both bananas put aside for later use : MOTHBALL

2-down – Run when philanderer turns up : FLOW

3-down – Dog in the evening sun, perhaps? : SETTER

4-down – Case of puppy, 3, as the best thing with the cat? : PYJAMAS

5-down – See 24 : SPUMANTE

6-down – Old singer saves half of soup for dog : FOXTERRIER

7-down – State, I’m sorry to say, kicked around for starters : ALASKA

13-down – Top dog unsurprisingly stealing spectacles, misbehaving : UPTONOGOOD

16-down – Cat literarily a degree above hole : MACAVITY

18-down – Cat drops on cat as a means of survival : LIFELINE

19-down – Dog hugging Rover, totally gutted in sounding like a cat : PURRING

21-down – Fruit is eaten by cats and dogs, perhaps? : RAISIN

22-down – Keeping dry, fragment split in half : BISECT

24-down – Cat partial to nastiest sort of drink : ASTI

9-across – Recording of Logical Song : SOUND

10-across – Taking long way home — good theatrical closure? : STITCHING

11-across – Makes new recording with band, while mixing rest : REMASTERS

12-across – Makes number listeners must take in : EARNS

13-across – Precise playing parts later : TONIGHT

15-across – Well excited — do Give a Little Bit : SOUPCON

17-across – As discussed, mostly very musical : ASSAI

18-across – Bloody right? Not politically : RED

20-across – Announce Tramp to return with start of Crime? : EMCEE

22-across – Two stupid people contracted wise guy? : KNOWALL

25-across – London stages finale with set arranged first : WESTEND

26-across – Muslims surrounded by students revolting : SUNNI

27-across – Turned out bad, didn’t do School? : UNTUTORED

30-across – Man with another man’s woman is kinky later : ADULTERER

31-across – Run off with band to record backing : ELOPE

1-down – One takes in American show : USER

2-down – Amplifies first half of number, stage rocks : AUGMENTS

3-down – Fusses over big promotion : ADOS

4-down – One agrees American’s behind record : ASSENTER

5-down – Partner to want me? : MISSUS

6-down – Those planning school education changing rules : SCHEDULERS

7-down – Relating to an element from piece Rick picked up : NITRIC

8-down – Emerging from backstage: Supertramp Forever : AGES

13-down – See 9 : TRACK

14-down – Sugar’s stirred with it twice for musicians : GUITARISTS

16-down – Very much turned on before climax : NOEND

19-down – Decline drink before performance : DOWNTURN

21-down – Perhaps, Breakfast in America’s Goodbye Stranger at the start : CHEERIOS

23-down – Comes clean with personal statement, primarily in court : OWNSUP

24-down – Look at coloured light on gallery : LOUVRE

26-down – Show clue for Supertramp? : STAR

28-down – See 26 : TREK

29-down – Enough time for song : DUET

8-across – Army building plastic toy to entertain wife in Texas game : FORTYTWO

9-across – Revulsion has a benefit in North America : NAUSEA

10-across – Tree, redhead behind one : ACER

11-across – Commemorative elegy finally written after actor died, sadly : DEDICATORY

12-across – Archer’s game : BRIDGE

14-across – Balderdash, feature defining itself, nothing less, with name : NONSENSE

15-across – I shine brightly in game as author : WILLIAM

17-across – That woman’s order to collect is for valour : HEROISM

20-across – At lunchtime, change clothes for game : PATIENCE

22-across – 2s in the Church heading off commoners : CELEBS

23-across – Rotten melons once dropping off in such a state : SOMNOLENCE

24-across – Card in 7, perhaps? : CLUB

25-across – Like 8 on board game : SEVENS

26-across – Game in Cluedo set straight : UNCOILED

1-down – Bruckner’s Fourth, then moving to nicer orchestral works : CONCERTI

2-down – Leading traitors promoted : STAR

3-down – Heavy food, say … brought up : STODGE

4-down – See 15 : GOLDING

5-down – Hide in 25 concealed : ENSCONCE

6-down – Game, passing over to boxing judge, leaves at the count of four? : QUATREFOIL

7-down – Scottish team game : HEARTS

13-down – Ultimately short-lived relationships? : DALLIANCES

16-down – Chronicler writing article on Stalin inaccurately : ANNALIST

18-down – Scottish island in very cold game : SUBBUTEO

19-down – Man I mind, as hateful : HEINOUS

21-down – God swallows up Australian island group : AZORES

22-down – Grip top fish under edges in creel : CLENCH

24-down – Cheat in game : CRIB

1-across – Fish steeped in drink is a big change : SHAKEUP

5-across – Weed, by the way, is a 1930s’ classic : TOBACCO

9-across – Gloomy day nurse : DREAR

10-across – Dancing in hipsters all but produces kidney problem : NEPHRITIS

11-across – Consider high street chain’s rustic? : COUNTRYMAN

12-across – See 5 : ROAD

14-across – Some rocky resort of Crimea, a continental meeting place : MESOAMERICA

18-across – Foreign caste restricted by civil arm of repressive government : POLICESTATE

21-across – See 4 : LANE

22-across – Jumping flea on sailing boat, which can bite through to the vein : LEAFCUTTER

25-across – Strange start to ungainly forehand smash : UNHEARDOF

26-across – A toady said piled up : AHEAP

27-across – Showered right in sterilised environment? : SPRAYED

28-across – Rotter takes flow controller’s dregs : HEELTAP

1-down – Undo leading edge of stage and draw out : SEDUCE

2-down – See 23 : AVENUE

3-down – Pop duo’s chemistry’s working, having united : EURYTHMICS

4-down – The ’60s hit career of Lenny : PENNY

5-down – VIP first spotted in a bunch? : TOPBANANA

6-down – Tidal wave drag : BORE

7-down – Comprehensive’s gripe about woolly hat : CATHOLIC

8-down – Outside broadcast about Pluto, taking in a molten volcanic rock : OBSIDIAN

13-down – Boyfriend possibly holding end of the firearm up, being free from controls : DEREGULATE

15-down – Sulphur introduced to drink — finished in the air : SUSPENDED

16-down – Is appreciative of software containing binary regression : APPLAUDS

17-down – Who embraces decisive argument? : CLINCHER

19-down – See 24 : STREET

20-down – Appear with whip raised : CROPUP

23-down – If having upturned feet, entertain in the altogether dateless attraction of New York : FIFTH

24-down – Star, eyes rolling, appears in hit movie as a route to affluence : EASY

1-across – Ordered fireman to preserve world heritage site : MINARETOFJAM

9-across – Noble matter : COUNT

10-across – Ruddy stag party members start to arrive in Irish town : BALLYMENA

11-across – Porn content extended to go beyond agreed limit : OVERRUN

12-across – Beast in beret’s no musical backing : MONSTER

13-across – Sort of fields amongst high waters by rivers : STRAWBERRY

15-across – Spot? Yes, essentially a mole : ESPY

18-across – Father, we have sinned — last two leaving one of the Orkney Islands : PAPA

19-across – Jumbo crossword compilers? They’re often 5 : JETSETTERS

22-across – See 18 : WESTRAY

24-across – Repair of these second houses still to be detailed in expense accounts : SWINDLE

25-across – Concession from NATO? For one, that hurt : ALLOWANCE

26-across – Letter from Greece returning share in full : UNCUT

27-across – Play set in ultimately the worst off part of London : TOWERHAMLETS

1-down – Timid person tentatively starting to blame inferior cheese : MOUSETRAP

2-down – Hazel’s cooking won’t burn : NUTBROWN

3-down – Ex-PM reading book in shower? : RABIN

4-down – TV scores for skiing moves : TELEMARKS

5-down – Hurried up? : FLYING

6-down – Playing Real, gets little time on the ball : ALERT

7-down – Type of clue with answer X : ACROSS

8-down – Pretty mechanical? Just Bottom, enthralled by Puck, perhaps : FAIRLY

14-down – All in? Completely! : EVERYINCH

16-down – Some of those 5 get led astray? What a pity about that : SHELDUCKS

17-down – Pose as model in topless play : ATTITUDE

18-down – Fruit women put in babyfood as winter starts : PAWPAW

20-down – See 24 across : SHEETS

21-down – Be a surfer, initially wearing surprisingly sober clothes : BROWSE

23-down – Bombardment of note across area 11 by 5 : SALVO

24-down – Some yards per minute swimmers : SPERM

9-across – A corresponding housing area that’s sweet : ASPARTAME

10-across – Jumbo’s end jumbo’s end! : OMEGA

11-across – Reel composer, heading off, leaves : SPINACH

12-across – See 18 : METHERE

13-across – Musical soldiers : GIGI

14-across – Wood with incense right for skin condition : NETTLERASH

16-across – Song left for John Lennon, perhaps : AIRPORT

17-across – Easy in gold and bronze positions, one speaking as a trier : ESSAYER

19-across – Clever man, butcher slices bird : DICKCISSEL

22-across – Car check unfinished : AUDI

24-across – Measure of land close to allotment in concern for men? : HECTARE

25-across – Wed, married, I had wife — yikes! : MIDWEEK

26-across – Source of communication that’s acidic? : PHONE

27-across – Besmirch business, VW, in The Merchant of Venice : MARCOPOLO

1-down – Practice of biltong eaters died in invention of 11 dish : SAUSAGEANDCHIPS

2-down – Spot not half, double the dog! : SPRINGER

3-down – One enthralled by conventional chord : TRIAD

4-down – Capital city in county right under one’s nose? : TASHKENT

5-down – Number theorem ends in stunt, as mathematician : FERMAT

6-down – Point made another way : NORTHEAST

7-down – Nero’s tutor offering brief kiss in the main : SENECA

8-down – Jerk from Ikea has lock to screw up : MAKEAHORLICKSOF

15-down – Not seen in public once ale downed : CONCEALED

17-down – Minister in eastern capital travelling north, always : EVERMORE

18-down – I don’t know the answer that’s in vogue, yet theorem fashionable : YOUVEGOT

20-down – Out of one’s tree one flies : CUCKOO

21-down – Second drink well hot : STEAMY

23-down – Thus I depart after initially turning up — toodle-oo! : ADIOS