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1-across – Dominant media figure like Clarkson is a threat to the country : FIFTHCOLUMNIST

9-across – Retirement cover taken out with anger : NIGHTWEAR

10-across – Insist on the formal you in French language? : BANTU

11-across – Couple finally leaving trendy US tourist site : ALAMO

12-across – Surrey’s opener has wish to boast, intimidating fieldsman : SCARECROW

13-across – Back from theatre, writing about stage accents : EMPHASES

14-across – Run through Caucasian’s confession : IMPALE

17-across – Azzurri’s capital right back gets a shock : TREMOR

19-across – American’s behind learner in Lincoln after parking OK : PASSABLE

22-across – Leader of infantry overcome by lethargy, getting mobile unit : LIGHTYEAR

24-across – Artist turned over another’s tapestry : ARRAS

25-across – Film, one as sequel to novel : SHEET

26-across – German or Chinese food not quite hot : FRIEDRICH

27-across – Formed cult with no violence, murder or exaltation? : COLLECTIVENOUN

1-down – What might make you donate millions to nurture a crazy jihadist movement? : FUNDAMENTALISM

2-down – Light and stylish dandy’s clothing : FOGLAMP

3-down – Getting stolen primate across America is a delicate matter : HOTPOTATO

4-down – Master love poetry with a little uncertainty : OVERSEER

5-down – Commotion from leading Republican, one having a row : UPROAR

6-down – Peer into novel, bonkbuster that’s picked up : NOBLE

7-down – Crooned tune, up for a drink : SANGRIA

8-down – Define where USA’s deployed for so long abroad : AUFWIEDERSEHEN

15-down – Badly treat girl, forgetting second name : MISHANDLE

16-down – Arab statesman’s cry of disgust, with damp conditions reported : BAHRAINI

18-down – Artist, a noted British artist, wanting area green : ELGRECO

20-down – Bus mostly runs, or it fails to get Mexican’s fare : BURRITO

21-down – Wilde, if iconoclastic, is essentially divine : DEIFIC

23-down – Add 1 and 50 together in sum : TOTAL

8-across – Good, if one is a saint : BONIFACE

9-across – Nanny doubly immersed in cookbook, did you say? : AUPAIR

10-across – Scorer a little flabbergasted : BERG

11-across – Complain about superior line taken by Conservative in competitive association : BRIDGECLUB

12-across – Bird caught by end of bill : LINNET

14-across – Bread done, more dough for the better? : ROLLOVER

15-across – Killer instinct’s back in Asian commander : SHOTGUN

17-across – Cover very exposed lesion for starters in open wound : ENVELOP

20-across – Last of the jam with remarkably outstanding coffee : ESPRESSO

22-across – Bird with chicken’s head, chicken : CRAVEN

23-across – At sea, triple-pace vessel : TEACLIPPER

24-across – Success with organ encapsulated by member for Labour? : LEFT

25-across – Ornament journalist found in stream : BEDECK

26-across – Judges nailing down contracts : TREATIES

1-down – In disgust, leave town to thieves out to steal money : VOTEWITH

2-down – See 24 across : WING

3-down – Good reach for opening move : GAMBIT

4-down – Depravity in plain mischief : DEVILRY

5-down – Flag bearing African, not an anteater : PANGOLIN

6-down – Aesop caper rewritten as sci-fi story : SPACEOPERA

7-down – Paul’s salamander said to be microscopic : MINUTE

13-down – Bird, singularly doubly cuckoo? : NUTCRACKER

16-down – Flying bats move : UPSTICKS

18-down – See 1 : ONESFEET

19-down – Appear to claim prize money — sweet! : COMPOTE

21-down – Reportedly, a route north for the country : SWEDEN

22-down – Tilt dangerously always, when placed upside down in container : CAREEN

24-down – Behind roofing slab, roof missing : LATE

9-across – Writing in sounds — The Simpsons frame lost in translation : PHONETISM

10-across – See 2 : BOARD

11-across – School with a sound in 9? : SCHWA

12-across – They blow up both sides — died from grenades exploding : ENLARGERS

13-across – Box has repeat of old comic’s work? : CARTOON

14-across – Introduction to Krusty — where 21 and 22 across are found turning over channels? : NETWORK

17-across – Small job outside Springfield? : DUSTY

19-across – Recall comic rabbit : YAK

20-across – Need animated film to finish : USEUP

21-across – We pick off clips to cover TV series : SNIPERS

22-across – Homer Simpson’s endorsing characters? He wanted to phone home with this? : HANDSET

24-across – Thatcher with Home Secretary’s number : MAGGIEMAY

26-across – Question published in book : QURAN

28-across – Lisa Simpson’s right about slow person : SNAIL

29-across – Custom to record The Simpsons, for example : TRADEMARK

1-down – Topless American dad on American creation : OPUS

2-down – Do Bart and Homer play a bit on computer? : MOTHER

3-down – Drunk male — unknown prisoner returned to the empty cell : MELANOCYTE

4-down – Homer’s time to gorge : PIGEON

5-down – Poles protect spy — ask one to leave Russian city : SMOLENSK

6-down – Lift Simpson boy’s bottom first : TBAR

7-down – Chops tablet to get fix : CAKEHOLE

8-down – Pop in America lifted flaps : ADOS

13-down – Puts in Morse lines during Lewis? : CODES

15-down – Winding round quite tightly, primarily restricting vessel with this? : TOURNIQUET

16-down – Ask Apu? Two bottles smashed : KAPUT

18-down – TV animation artist close to pen : STINGRAY

19-down – Yankee, small child following ring on banks of skate park : YOSEMITE

22-down – A man wise in conversation around daughter on American prime time? : HEYDAY

23-down – Marge, maybe, before wearing down : SPREAD

24-down – Mum quiet in TV series : MASH

25-down – Man perhaps is on shortly : ISLE

27-down – Armani keen to show designer label : NIKE

7-across – Nowhere is unimportant : NEITHER

8-across – Particle of iron needing minor change : FERMION

9-across – Colour associated with Aphrodite : CYAN

10-across – In modest clothing, greetings bursting out : DEHISCENT

12-across – In the dark, guide just terribly defective : USTTE

13-across – Tight-fisted party — in Britain, the left : NEARSIDE

15-across – Like some friends to be given food, including slice of apple : FEAD

16-across – See 7 : THERE

17-across – One swimming alone? : SOLE

18-across – What the Observer does: keep following the Guardian : WATCHDOG

20-across – A day good to be in : AMONG

21-across – Caught with drink, one’s beaten : SNAREDRUM

22-across – Don’t reveal much at first — try to find out? : MASK

24-across – See 7 : HERENOR

25-across – One now not seen in pub, having gone missing, drunk? : ASHTRAY

1-down – A number of girls live very superficially : BEVY

2-down – Homosexual couple adopt son, just landed here? : STANSTED

3-down – Sound of gong and fiddle : MEDDLE

4-down – Sunday get away, taking in a picture : SEASCAPE

5-down – Fragments making appearance on board vessel : SMIENS

6-down – Heavy drinker gets in another round — hence black mark? : SOOT

11-down – No agriculturalist, old tribesman diverts great river : HUNTERGAR

12-down – United male assembly : ULEMA

14-down – Leaders of domestic football get behind Jeremy’s anthem : DFLAG

16-down – Extremely desirable fox that is in favour : TODIEFOR

17-down – Most made out knight’s winning move : SMODMATE

19-down – Cable to our boss patiently worked on : COAXED

20-down – In St John’s Island, head right to the end for air : ATMOSP

21-down – Relative defends European views, not orthodox : SIES

23-down – Pour water on small tree : SOAK

1-across – Blue clothes first, perhaps? : LOWGEAR

5-across – One with special advantage is in the drink, they say? : INSIDER

9-across – Currency of Iceland in a rut : DINAR

10-across – Lottery in hand, oddly, after card removed : WITHDRAWN

11-across – Just eastern Chinese dynasty sold houses : EVENHANDED

12-across – Goodwood’s cut : GASH

14-across – Tell to seal mouth after Beethoven’s Ninth, a line combining different tunes : CONTRAPUNTAL

18-across – Blank cheque cashed with random initials, the balance imbalanced! : CARTEBLANCHE

21-across – Unhealthy to ignore strong heart, for one thing : UNIT

22-across – A robust, rough and unfashionable, unskilled worker : ROUSTABOUT

25-across – Line retracted about idiot, with woman never believed : CASSANDRA

26-across – Pedagogue recalled hiding, having shackled student finally : TUTOR

27-across – 23, disconcerting thing? : RATTLER

28-across – Sovereign ruled country gutlessly, tending to make mistakes : ERRANCY

1-down – Run from 23 under opening in lederhosen : LADDER

2-down – See 6 : WINDER

3-down – Bulldozer great sex? : EARTHMOVER

4-down – Canopy of willow overshadowed by bay tree : ROWAN

5-down – Chiefly wet? : INTHEMAIN

6-down – Crushing victory desired, unfortunately, as 23 : SIDE

7-down – Italian mount girl has reared, glittering stuff! : DIAMANTE

8-down – Call Dutch artist a 23 : RINGHALS

13-down – 23 gets to transport rodent after getting up in the morning : BUSHMASTER

15-down – I’m grateful wine and bread have turned up — too much to ask? : TALLORDER

16-down – Reconnaissance vehicle out cold in evidence of battle : SCOUTCAR

17-down – Ultimately violent, nastier sort of toys for boys? : TRAINSET

19-down – Feeding kid, too much material : COTTON

20-down – Hardy one of seven writing off two articles? : STURDY

23-down – Benefit circling north wind : SNAKE

24-down – Uncle Sam’s zip pinches a hard object : NAIL

1-across – Motive in man of letters, an anticipatory act : FORESTALMENT

8-across – Where Britain and China are as one, in a way backward as France would have it? : EURASIA

9-across – Inland instrument not half listless : LANGUID

11-across – Rail taking popular figure briefly beyond Venezuelan capital : INVEIGH

12-across – Metal bolts ingested for starters by the Queen, entering stomach : TERBIUM

13-across – March off then ___ , to get protective garment : APRON

14-across – Gripping device holds stream : THRILLING

16-across – Rise in New York building, dropping right : INFLATION

19-across – Beak of gannet’s opening in book : JUDGE

21-across – Seen during sunset in Gibraltar, westward lights : IGNITES

23-across – A short story about country detailed in language : AFGHANI

24-across – One having a yen for money ultimately, someone bringing in cash : YEARNER

25-across – Where a stud may be noble, having love to endure : EARLOBE

26-across – Adulterating plastic, it’s adapted to a particular form : TRIANGULATED

1-down – Temperature outside over limits always : FOREVER

2-down – Putin perhaps hurried to embrace America — certainly requiring translation? : RUSSIAN

3-down – That woman has hole to fill up, one after dry pasta : SPAGHETTI

4-down – A fee going up to get parcel out : ALLOT

5-down – Possibly, rock goddess not very ladylike at first : MINERAL

6-down – Molluscs caught in marina utilised : NAUTILI

7-down – Capacity to be described as identifiably toxic : DEFINABILITY

10-down – Device removing the attraction from contentious disagreement : DEMAGNETISER

15-down – Calls to pen article sound familiar : RINGABELL

17-down – Foolish primarily and a bit thick, where one’s been taken for a ride? : FUNFAIR

18-down – One picks up signals as an amount of cash mentioned : ANTENNA

19-down – One pace — or two? : JOGTROT

20-down – Having to tidy one’s own hotel room up before beginning of day, one sparkles : DIAMOND

22-down – Shoot gun in rather packed saloon, every head looking up : SPRIG

9-across – Dunce may have this one castrated : CAPON

10-across – Overseas ruler making figure of 8s : BRITANNIA

11-across – K-Y stain unfortunately left after game with hookers : RUSTYNAIL

12-across – Become registered company in US once name changed to Lambert : ENROL

13-across – Hand over!, said one primarily into money : OVATION

15-across – Backing group into rock’n’roll is Busted, apparently : TOPLESS

17-across – Fish no 18 worries : FRETS

18-across – See 16 : DOG

20-across – Pants, if just 15 : AWFUL

22-across – Standard stop signal in song : REDFLAG

25-across – Funny reaction in left ear, when raving about Fifty Shades of Grey? : ALLERGY

26-across – Caught one fish that’s smoked : CIGAR

27-across – KFC business, not half struggling, must take in a thousand before ends meet : BUCKSFIZZ

30-across – Works in a store sadly after college : CREATIONS

31-across – Cavalryman backed in National Hunt : UHLAN

1-down – Bit of caviare cat’s taken up a tree : ACER

2-down – Rat-a-tat in advance : APOSTATE

3-down – Sweet 15 guy : ANDY

4-down – Got a bit done at work : OBTAINED

5-down – KLM and I flipping get around! : GIMLET

6-down – Hotel option when you’ve come to visit : WAKEUPCALL

7-down – Wrong ’un gets tortured now and then : UNTRUE

8-down – See 26 : TAIL

13-down – Show 15 chest : OFFER

14-down – Setter has 11, drunk in isolation : INSULARITY

16-down – KD Lang’s unnamed toy boy’s half crazy : SALTY

19-down – Doctor agrees I can initially get fit to Olympic standards? : GRAECISE

21-down – Convincing Catholic to wear odd habit : FORCIBLE

23-down – Determined to find horse in dictionary under D : DOGGED

24-down – KGB captures one relative : GIBSON

26-down – The definitive K9 18 : COCK

28-down – KO certain, without reaching last round : SOUR

29-down – Mad as the last one, the one before last : ZANY

9-across – Spooner’s rejection of dog snack? : POTNOODLE

10-across – Wander past Tate’s first valuable collection : TROVE

11-across – Hostile moves elected colonialist in Africa, reportedly? : INROADS

12-across – One on girl’s head in woven plait? : PIGTAIL

13-across – Leaden protagonist in erotic novel : GREY

14-across – Fool to admit stupid, a wise character : JEDIMASTER

16-across – Rovers team : RANGERS

17-across – Walls of cement ideal for building fortress : CITADEL

19-across – Pompous official heading for presidency, a month in and needing a drink : PANJANDRUM

22-across – Rejection of plans as probable junk : SPAM

24-across – Caught breaking into it, keen criminal — one collared? : NECKTIE

25-across – Shakespearean bagging the hide : LEATHER

26-across – Powder keg’s contents knocked over in style : ECLAT

27-across – Stir beyond two thirds of Russian sugar : MUSCOVADO

1-down – Talk about those calling god a dog : SPRINGERSPANIEL

2-down – See 20 : STURGEON

3-down – Pink river entering the black stuff : CORAL

4-down – Greek hero in old journey’s ending with ship consumed by god : ODYSSEUS

5-down – Old Greek city seeking power in new capital : DELPHI

6-down – Where women aren’t invited, politicians in a rut? : STAGPARTY

7-down – Metal key found under horse : COBALT

8-down – Setter on pitch with Scottish team player of the past : JELLYROLLMORTON

15-down – Lay waste to old Chester, say : DEVASTATE

17-down – Not being prompted to assimilate learning, initially stupid : CLUELESS

18-down – 9 across? : DOPEHEAD

20-down – A Scot, one ruling for a change? : NICOLA

21-down – Wonderful paper in doily that doesn’t need painting : DREAMY

23-down – Artist, a sizzler? : BACON

7-across – See 12 : CARAMEL

8-across – Car shows vigour around street, reaching 50 : BRISTOL

9-across – Car’s board to break — a bit : DASH

10-across – One seeking to form a contract with special agent? Not I! : NEGOTIANT

12-across – Male spins off after putting race car in reverse — that’s sweet : CREME

13-across – Trespass, while refining crude : INFRINGE

15-across – Craft fancy robe in car : FIRE

16-across – Car from Leeds : EDSEL

17-across – Car operating perfectly starts to make a comeback, then place number one returned — here? : POLE

18-across – Car knowledge assimilated by college official : DELOREAN

20-across – Rover possibly, growling : HUSKY

21-across – Negative attitude in belief inspiring achievement : DEFEATISM

22-across – Seemingly the same thing, core of victory and Triumph! : TWIN

24-across – Red small Mini? : SCARLET

25-across – Good character offered drug after drug : HEROINE

1-down – Car upset Muhammad Ali’s boxing? : LADA

2-down – Fabric in bread and water : CASHMERE

3-down – Malevolent type average, that is : MEANIE

4-down – Appreciative, having fat and gruel in a stew : GRATEFUL

5-down – In Senna’s car, indomitable former Formula One champion : ASCARI

6-down – See 15 : BOAT

11-down – Slides, as sliding slides : GLISSANDI

12-down – British general, leader in Calcutta as it happens : CLIVE

14-down – 17 down like a bird? : GULLY

16-down – Promoted jerks leave Heath : ELEVATED

17-down – See 17 across : POSITION

19-down – A Morris, neat car : OXFORD

20-down – Bee car : HUMMER

21-down – Dodge for nothing : DUCK

23-down – Some Bugatti on Automobile Island : IONA

5-across – Fabulous creature like a transvestite? : DRAGON

6-across – Endless traffic problem leads to toll : TARIFF

9-across – Perhaps gorillas eat less fruit : GRAPES

10-across – Entrance with drawback? : HALLWARD

11-across – Captured by CCTV — a neutrino! : VANE

12-across – Licence for each business : PERMISSION

13-across – Tenses up pecs left Rita’s head giddy! : PLUPERFECTS

18-across – O, much wit, then led astray? : OSCARWILDE

21-across – See 5 down : GRAY

22-across – Change key after party rejected music : NOCTURNE

23-across – Arsenal’s French striker misses one, takes new position : GROUND

24-across – Accent disguises government’s posh language … : TONGUE

25-across – … with books by the hundred : WOTTON

1-down – Soup maker? : CAMPBELL

2-down – Penny is very good to counter rumour : GOSSIP

3-down – Stop talking on the phone? : CALLTIME

4-down – It’s funny having looked over children’s TV programme : TISWAS

5-down – Worshipping a lower light : DORIAN

7-down – More upset in France : FERMOR

8-down – Cooked tea right? It’s to be seriously questioned : CHARGRILLED

14-down – Mighty intense : POWERFUL

15-down – Main towers? : TUGBOATS

16-down – Guard caught stealing gold after drugs : ESCORT

17-down – It’s mostly hiding in red wine : TANNIN

19-down – Pretending to stand in : ACTING

20-down – Drink, say, on lifting trophy : EGGNOG