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1-across – Union leader comes in to bless deck : BEAUTIFY

5-across – Group to be followed by UEU : SESTET

9-across – Become familiar with single race area without high king at present : GETTOKNOW

11-across – See 3 : HARDY

12-across – 3 11’s place for sugar with game : CASTERBRIDGE

15-across – A lot of policemen take drugs : ACID

16-across – One of 3 11’s people, funny old article seen in amazement : WOODLANDER

18-across – Cross-fertilise, perhaps – try near rim? : INTERMARRY

19-across – Illness reported – I must let some air in : FLUE

21-across – Damage coin that’s damaged at base by an arithmetical concept : HARMONICMEAN

24-across – Musical from 27 25 : EVITA

25-across – See 27 : THENATIVE

26-across – They are held by 5 with one change in polarity : TENETS

27-across – 3 11’s made a profit frequently with female, a model I have cut : RETURNOF

1-down – A terror on the golf course was Humphrey, so I’ve heard : BOGY

2-down – Shaw said to be a culture vulture? : ARTY

3-down – He wrote, after his time, about some hot potato : THOMAS

4-down – Designer for use at work at a table : FUNCTIONALIST

6-down – Celestial quarter where duck swallows lady : ETHEREAL

7-down – Sailor, one to cheat and lie : TARADIDDLE

8-down – Playing by ear during attempts with soft fruit : TAYBERRIES

10-down – The very first performance of the Emperor, Wilder version : WORLDPREMIERE

13-down – Veto on one, with the monarch intervening, sent into exile : BANISHMENT

14-down – Biased account supplied by idiots to Royal Navy : DISTORTION

17-down – Old sailor in a groove has a drink – upset inside : ARGONAUT

20-down – Dome scene, 10 with a commercial turn : XANADU

22-down – One with pride at being a celebrity : LION

23-down – Joint complaint? : BEEF

1-across – Where Spooner studied : KEWKNOWLEDGE

7-across – Wader forsook his status : SHEDRANK

12-across – Tadpoles will one day be causing cardiac arrest : STARTHOPPING

13-across – Exaggerated claims for obscenity in dance music : PORNHYPE

14-across – Tolerant worshipper needing doctor? No, not yet : MONOLATER

15-across – See 8 : ROME

17-across – The dog was on the catwalk, wrapped in cotton wool : COLLIE

19-across – Values or criticises the old way of tax-raising … : RATES

20-across – … which includes time left for use by noisy fans : RATTLES

21-across – God suffering from cavalier style : PANACHE

23-across – The perfect puzzler is a businessman : IDEAL

26-across – I leave maiden’s virtue corrupted: it shouldn’t have happened : MISADVENTURE

30-across – Seemed pleased to have some good local colour outside : GRINNED

31-across – Exciting and wicked puzzle completed in 1453? : HEADY

32-across – I despise you! You disgust me! Make it with anchovy sauce! : PISHFIE

33-across – Singer with stout frame : BURLYCHASSIS

35-across – An excursion gets aweigh : ATRIP

38-across – Fish don’t rise for a fool : CHARLIE

39-across – Acquires information without backing and money in the bank? : NESTEGG

42-across – I’m agreeably surprised about record of leading character : ALPHA

44-across – Yellow Bird next century : CRAVEN

46-across – Bird that says words such as unimportant : MYNA

47-across – Comedy, maybe, one extended to humour? : PLAYALONG

49-across – Restrain the daring dogsbody : BOLDHACK

50-across – Equestrienne’s cover, like Peter from Mr McGregor? : HIDINGRABBIT

51-across – The only nail to catch something for the salad : SOLECLAW

52-across – The right sort of day for a battle given to a 44? : FIGHTWEATHER

1-down – A bit of spooning leads to a wedding, but no baby : KISSMARRIAGE

2-down – Anything for bric-a-brac : WHATNOT

3-down – Digital excrescences extracted from corpses? : NOTALES

4-down – Hero of comedy, the cock that cwowed? : WOOSTER

5-down – River reaches sea – up the river the wrong way : EUPHRATES

6-down – Officer, not private : GENERAL

8-down – Sound horn at city on the way back : HOOT

9-down – Dog with job of silencer? : DINGO

10-down – A yelp can work, no matter where : ANYPLACE

11-down – Lamented about solvers being like eagles : KEENEYED

16-down – See 31 across : MYSTERY

18-down – The ultimate comments could be the happiest : EPITAPHS

22-down – Shakespearean maid got up as vamp : NERISSA

24-down – See 31 across : EVIL

25-down – Gull in a twist of a tongue : LINGUAL

26-down – See 17 : MODELLED

27-down – Comedy, maybe – have a drink first : DRAMA

28-down – Article that’s extremely remote : AFAR

29-down – Shed tears, my child, enough to drown people? : WEEPDAUGHTER

31-down – Wine aroused craving in painter : HOCKNEY

34-down – Taking steel whip, repaired to bed : SLEEPWITH

36-down – Young thing in the ‘igh seas reportedly strikes the rocks : ICECUBES

37-down – Reduce about everything by a line to show latitude : PARALLEL

40-down – Language was difficult, said Denis : SWAHILI

41-down – City getting radiant heat from Spooner? : GLASGOW

42-down – A place of work for the wrong sort of graduate around Birmingham : ALABAMA

43-down – Bear expressed contempt for pluralist : POOHBAH

45-down – Code – and this isn’t English : ETHIC

48-down – Lactation takes minutes : ACTA

1-across – Islander asks for a bit of his money back in jest : JAPANESE

5-across – See 10 : KEATON

9-across – Hanging in a 23? : SUSPENSE

10-across – Silent film star’s scene at Little Bighorn, as delivered by Spooner : BUSTER

11-across – Story featuring in soap – EastEnders : PEARLIES

12-across – Indian manager initially worshipping God : WALLAH

14-across – Rate me? I won’t last the distance! : PACESETTER

18-across – A damp squib I can’t set off has a capital ‘X’ : ANTICLIMAX

22-across – See 1 down : STALIN

23-across – Exciting work where 21 19 eliminates Lily : THRILLER

24-across – Paul’s about to stay in the same place : IBIDEM

25-across – Swimmer fails with his freestyle : SAILFISH

26-across – See 8 : LIGHTS

27-across – Short in the red cards? Absolutely! : HEARHEAR

1-down – Dictator slaps the revolutionary in cement : JOSEPH

2-down – See 20 : PASCAL

3-down – Irritate up to a point : NEEDLE

4-down – City’s teams struggling to be efficien : SYSTEMATIC

6-down – Here’s a sort of guess: the University kitty’s indeed wasted : EDUCATED

7-down – To get drunk during The Flower of Scotland, and for a little while delighted : TOTALITY

8-down – In remarkable throngs, the lifeboat men show up : NORTHERN

13-down – Headmaster’s translation, converting old pence to new, is the literal translation : METAPHRASE

15-down – The mountains are a warning to mice! : CATSKILL

16-down – Grass receives bird for unlawful act : STEALING

17-down – Unconscious in possible grave situation? That’s unfortunate : ACCIDENT

19-down – See 21 : MILLER

20-down – Mathematician is able, perhaps, to get a prize, ending first : BLAISE

21-down – Dramatist’s hurt arm: poorly, then more so? : ARTHUR

1-across – Responsible writer from our point of view : WEJOHNS

5-across – One must be cracked : NUTCASE

9-across – Enigmatist sees Python regular carrying dead parrot’s insides outside : RIDDLER

10-across – Telegraph man and his politics accepted by European Union man : MARCONI

11-across – Domestic whose absenteeism is explained by nasty bender? : HOUSEMAID

12-across – A sign of fleas for Hitler, perhaps? : AITCH

13-across – Decided to do away with a desire : GREED

15-across – Distinctive feature of alien mutating with humans to get Tory leader : LINEAMENT

17-across – Promising person holding food correspondent to be a bit of a dummy : COMFORTER

19-across – Scottish pair, not great leaders, sound American : TWANG

22-across – Does wrong to conceal bend in passage : SINUS

23-across – Araucaria’s not so hot, they say: show how sad you are! : CHILEPINE

25-across – Declare proclivities inverted as a result : OUTCOME

26-across – Marine bird or beast pinned its ear back : SEAGULL

27-across – Charges about two sovereigns for tentative suggestions : FEELERS

28-across – Boy’s female relation by marriage? : STEPHEN

1-down – Abnormal growth restricting a beast : WARTHOG

2-down – I only want to touch my man, but this causes commotion in gallery! : JADOUBE

3-down – Handle cobbling together with elves? : HELVE

4-down – A little flower American left in road : STREAMLET

5-down – Might I live off berries? Yes, we have no bananas : NOMAD

6-down – Formidable woman ate Grant Mitchell’s head in a stew : TERMAGANT

7-down – Paul’s monkey puzzling lost in its bowels? : APOSTLE

8-down – Another handle needed to rotate peg about the centre : EPITHET

14-down – What does 23 across do in the autumn? Makes pastry : DROPSCONE

16-down – Being daffy, he fell for himself in the water : NARCISSUS

17-down – Shed on sale in Oxfam shop? : CASTOFF

18-down – Sea creature taken for hair-covered goddess : MANATEE

20-down – Some authors : AZIMUTH

21-down – Other men with girl means there’s trouble in the air : GREMLIN

23-down – Aristocrat losing some French game : CHESS

24-down – Delete in under a second : ERASE

1-across – Company Union, in a figure of speech : TROUPE

4-across – Mean, but not proverbially shy, apparently! : TWOBIT

9-across – See 11 : BIRD

10-across – One hindering short turns in the assembly of robots : OBSTRUCTOR

11-across – Short sentence from which 2 is extracted… : LITTLE

12-across – …one was given time : AGIOTAGE

13-across – Spooner’s returned to glorify famous nag : BLACKBESS

15-across – See 5 : GOUT

16-across – Toy drug remains. Nobody should be without it! : PEAS

17-across – Vehicle to aid genetic transmission of the body : INCARNATE

21-across – Escape, but without touching a stunner! : BREAKOUT

22-across – Tab? : ROTARY

24-across – Share-out is mistakenly given to references : QUOTATIONS

25-across – See 22 : CLUB

26-across – Spanish fighter, brave one on ‘ill? : TORERO

27-across – Seize the chickens! : CLUTCH

1-down – But its following is far from negligible! : TRIVIAL

2-down – I don’t worry what people say : ONDIT

3-down – Saw lead strangling dog : PROVERB

5-down – Mathematician should show this demonstration with condition : WORKIN

6-down – Money for old 14, source of green paint for artist : BUCKTHORN

7-down – Considered, but time’s up : THOUGHT

8-down – See 14 : ASSASSINATION

14-down – The killing of The Omega Man? : CHARACTER

16-down – See 1 : PURSUIT

18-down – Spray makes a lover look up : AEROSOL

19-down – See 7 : THROUGH

20-down – See 16 across : HOOTER

23-down – Silent diplomacy one’s accepted : TACIT

1-across – Fail to impress and leave university; have a taste for beer at the present time – wholly in the present : GODOWNLIKEA

9-across – 54, the golden number for port : LIVORNO

10-across – Dock – to prevent wagging? : CURTAIL

11-across – Goddess wholly belonging to labouring man : HERACLEAN

12-across – Defence secretary holds French soldier and doctor after union : HONEY

13-across – See 12 : MOON

14-across – A navigable waterway, the English Channel : MANCHESTER

16-across – Fish about to drink a river – caveat emptor! : PIGINAPOKE

19-across – See 14 : SHIP

21-across – See 14 : CANAL

22-across – I am Pooh, sadly, swallowing silver and eating raw meat : OMOPHAGIA

24-across – Trouble for the listener: each are at fault : EARACHE

25-across – Expose armour – it needs a sticker : AIRMAIL

26-across – See 1 : LEADBALLOON

1-down – Leave, before Spring’s surrounded the gold with green growth, for a job in the Commonwealth : GOVERNORGENERAL

2-down – Beetle in charge of architectural style : DORIC

3-down – Aboriginal stick for testing long-range weapons : WOOMERA

4-down – Spartan in the use of words : LACONIC

5-down – King has queen to boss, being usually on hand : KERCHIEF

6-down – One acquires a following, holding the note in spite of oneself : AGAINSTTHEGRAIN

7-down – Familiar incompetent 8 near 14 : OLDHAM

8-down – Formerly at cricket, a professional musician? : PLAYER

15-down – A small boy’s acknowledgment of literary fragments : ANALECTA

16-down – Wrinkle sounds genuine : PUCKER

17-down – Saw expert cleric coming up second : PROVERB

18-down – Expert on everything orders walk on left : KNOWALL

20-down – Gates? Devastating 8 : PEARLY

23-down – Brother saying nothing to upset the chat show queen : HARPO

7-across – Explorer returns to business and leaves from the Americas : TOBACCO

8-across – One perseveres with hearts, when spades 9 : STICKER

10-across – Sharp boy asleep? : BLADED

11-across – See 23 : LONDONER

12-across – Car going south from Leeds to Belfast? : MINI

13-across – Frog-hopper secretion in bird’s nest : CUCKOOSPIT

14-across – Forsaken the Lord God? Then we finish! : THEENDOFTHE

19-across – See 23 : BECAUSEIMA

22-across – See 14 : NIGH

23-across – Cor blimey mate, noise and abuse is terrible, but I love it so in song! : MAYBEITS

24-across – Unwilling to wear church dress : CLOTHE

25-across – Unfamiliar fake gold deposited : FOREIGN

26-across – Accepted a commanding position : GENERAL

1-down – See 14 : WORLDIS

2-down – Golf course offering a couple of slices? : SANDWICH

3-down – Bitter when the bill requires driving licence, for example, and one gets caught : ACIDIC

4-down – Rugby player’s interpretation of soft and loud : STANDOFF

5-down – Game without ends is over : ACROSS

6-down – Religious rebel, Eric the Unorthodox : HERETIC

9-down – Given the title and script failed, I abandoned cast : PLACEDFIRST

15-down – Nautical terms negotiated in stages : EASTINGS

16-down – Morning sickness is good in Victoria’s house : HANGOVER

17-down – Figure to spell misery without a ‘y’ : HEXAGON

18-down – Might one’s brains be scrambled? : EGGHEAD

20-down – Pedestrian author’s better without introduction : AMBLER

21-down – Robin Hood was one who won’t get Dick Whittington’s job : ARCHER

1-across – Rugby forward to be holding castle : BROOKE

4-across – Henpecked bishop protruding, that is : PROUDIE

9-across – Laodicean version of the North country : CALEDONIA

10-across – Salt source holding Derby : EPSOM

11-across – Where Croesus had all that bread – daily? : LYDIA

12-across – Unfinished or sent back with expression of disgust when upset : ROUGHHEWN

13-across – Predatory tool : CATSPAW

15-across – Alfred and Frank : DOBSON

17-across – Change barbarian country in the back row : LANDOR

19-across – Don’t talk to a girl with a weapon : CUTLASS

22-across – Letter to painter in Hemp-stead, not to be preserved : EPHEMERAL

24-across – Home Counties friend in bloom : SEPAL

26-across – Girl finding French gentleman an early victim : MABEL

27-across – Feudal superior, say, the back part being in cover : LIEGELORD

28-across – Pigs might fly? Barber seems : SWEENEY

29-across – First page embraced by Fanny : LARKIN

1-down – Pastoral, but reduced by severe pain : BUCOLIC

2-down – Mellow and unlikely to squeak : OILED

3-down – Child slept and was taken for a book : KIDNAPPED

4-down – Rise of record fever – died when harassed : PLAGUED

5-down – Magic award – I’m satisfied : OBEAH

6-down – Dead men, so wrongly, got smothered : DESDEMONA

7-down – East German money under wraps, feature then of Berlin : EDMUND

8-down – Year in Paris was attractive proposition : ANDREW

14-down – Docile message about hot drink taking precedence : TEACHABLE

16-down – She was at her ablutions, half naked, and David saw her : BATHSHEBA

18-down – Supporters’ meeting at Twickenham or in the country? : RURALLY

19-down – Spooner’s foolish friend : COLLEY

20-down – Food not cooked at home baffled the Crusaders : SALADIN

21-down – Water and pulp for East African soldier : SEAMUS

23-down – Time London supplied fruit : MELON

25-down – Put down some wine : PLONK

1-across – See special instructions : WILLOW

4-across – See special instructions : QUORUM

9-across – See special instructions : ARCHIEPISCOPATE

10-across – See special instructions : GLORIA

11-across – See special instructions : SQUARELY

12-across – See special instructions : CRATERED

14-across – See special instructions : HUSSAR

15-across – See special instructions : DVORAK

18-across – See special instructions : PUZZLING

21-across – See special instructions : FLAUNTER

22-across – See special instructions : IRENIC

24-across – See special instructions : XERORADIOGRAPHY

25-across – See special instructions : YESMAN

26-across – See special instructions : JITTER

1-down – See special instructions : WARBLER

2-down – See special instructions : LEHAR

3-down – See special instructions : OPENAIR

5-down – See special instructions : UNCOUTH

6-down – See special instructions : REPERUSAL

7-down – See special instructions : MATILDA

8-down – See special instructions : BIASED

13-down – See special instructions : TORTUROUS

16-down – See special instructions : VELVETY

17-down – See special instructions : KITHARA

18-down – See special instructions : PYRGIC

19-down – See special instructions : ZWINGLI

20-down – See special instructions : NEITHER

23-down – See special instructions : EXACT

1-across – It holds personalities with first half-second : VESSEL

4-across – Makes beast dirty as 1 across : MUDSCOW

9-across – Crop reared in sample 1 across : TWOMASTER

10-across – Bump into 1 across : BARGE

11-across – Ocean-going 1 across? : CANOE

12-across – The whole snake-pit contains 1 across : PILOTBOAT

13-across – In France she’s able to overturn obsolete little 1 across : NACELLE

15-across – Check design of 1 across : TARTAN

17-across – Strap on sole 1 across : SANDAL

19-across – Breach in sea capsized 1 across : DRIFTER

22-across – Day with idiot around at 1 across : FRIGATOON

24-across – 1 across from the right bits of water : SLOOP

26-across – 1 across needing a blow : SMACK

27-across – Vehicle returning jolly 1 across : SUBMARINE

28-across – Soundly strain with many sheets in 1 across : TRIREME

29-across – 1 across backed seat : SETTEE

1-down – Said to be the top level in those leading religious authority : VATICAN

2-down – Cut point on outgrowth : SHORN

3-down – Hair-raising! The Spanish were ahead with a smooth finish : ENAMELLED

4-down – Fair to allow a swallow : MARTLET

5-down – Went underground to come up for the first time : DEBUT

6-down – Diver gives expression of surprise at short time to go on : CORMORANT

7-down – For one the war destroyed? : WREATH

8-down – Principal way to fasten : STAPLE

14-down – One who does 4 to air differences causes discord : CHARIVARI

16-down – Put back to control civil power? : REINSTATE

18-down – Free to include king bearing gander : LOOKSEE

19-down – Name outlining an oriental flower : DANUBE

20-down – Full of sound tuck again : REPLETE

21-down – Compensation is out of line : OFFSET

23-down – Joint has no right to give continual pain : ANKLE

25-down – Poet’s childhood is truly content : ODIST