| Day-care break | 14 |
| Divvy up | 8 |
| dog – or what it might wag | 28 |
| dress that goes to the ankles | 29 |
| demonstration exhortation | 25 |
| donut for the road | 18 |
| descent | 7 |
| dribble | 7 |
| default result | 14 |
| docile | 6 |
| do penance | 10 |
| decadent cake | 13 |
| dress shape | 11 |
| decor do-over, informally | 25 |
| Dishy rumors, in slang | 22 |
| Digital collectible, for short | 30 |
| Dish portion | 12 |
| Disappear; go "poof!" | 21 |
| Disapprove of deputy adhering to old traditions | 47 |
| Dematerialise if wrongly appraised | 34 |
| Disappointment of a flat tyre? | 30 |
| Drink which comes before you, from what you hear | 48 |
| Decree not repeated about broken drain | 38 |
| Domed recess at a church's eastern end | 38 |
| Drama in Japan about southern food | 34 |
| Devil appearing in heaven is revealing | 38 |
| Drums time — annoying child has a new one | 43 |
| Demoted in caste, girl leaves India after a month | 49 |
| Dismal and ultimately dejected state | 36 |
| dexter premiere cancelled over north american liberal outside | 61 |
| dish holds answer to flavour | 28 |
| Digits required when making a card purchase: Abbr. | 50 |
| Dessert crust promises are like, or so they say | 47 |
| Disney-owned US TV subscription service | 39 |
| Decayed part of a tooth | 23 |
| discharge sailor on crack | 25 |
| drop of assam perhaps given stir at the end | 43 |
| Distinctive, oddly stingy character | 35 |
| Duke featured in old English verse | 34 |
| Director having drawn winning card stops | 40 |
| Demanding car rental? | 21 |
| Draw in air or liquid, eg | 25 |
| Do a body-search [at an airport] | 32 |
| Denton detective played by David Jason | 38 |
| distribute and sell soft hygiene product | 40 |
| doesn't stress when badly snarled up around end of motorway | 59 |
| drunk couple initially embraced | 31 |
| double-hyphenated figs. | 23 |
| Doing badly after current blue | 30 |
| Didn't start on crossing Burma, China and parts north | 53 |
| Destroy a large proportion of a group | 37 |
| Duelling blade | 14 |
| Discovers sectarians being troubled | 35 |
| Deficiency in restaurant for VIPs? | 34 |
| Data distributed with mail in an Adriatic region | 48 |
| Device allowing one to speak with visitors before entry | 55 |
| doctors use it to auscultate | 28 |
| david attenborough series made for netflix | 42 |
| Dog disease | 11 |
| Dessert named after an opera singer | 35 |
| Declared [a marriage] illegal | 29 |
| dave's partner admits love for mayhem | 37 |
| deplorable behaviour from idol given crackers | 45 |
| dicaprio has prepared exciting food, say | 40 |
| drinking water again | 20 |
| Difficulty, strife | 18 |
| Doughnut sign picked up | 23 |
| Driver's need propelled to change, we hear | 42 |
| Dairy brand to fold after industry embargo ends | 47 |
| Dinkum shed said to be listed quickly | 37 |
| Dramatic announcement | 21 |
| Dan ......, star of The Blues Brothers | 38 |
| doctor set at best trial runs | 29 |
| damage left on soil | 19 |
| designated survivor and 24 star .... sutherland | 47 |
| danish model, .... christensen | 30 |
| dom. ruled by many ottos, once | 30 |
| Decline in trade | 16 |
| Ditty, anthem | 13 |
| Defensive perimeter fence | 25 |
| Days on calendar | 16 |
| Domination, sway | 16 |
| Difficult to achieve | 20 |
| Demonstration, sit-in | 21 |
| Deliberate, ruminate | 20 |
| Decayed plant material | 22 |
| Dry treeless plain in Asia | 26 |
| Disturbed, irked | 16 |
| Dispersed in water | 18 |
| Dessicating | 11 |
| Deutschlander | 13 |
| Digit on hand | 13 |
| Declared a Victorian leader to have been wrong | 46 |
| Drag queen's finale in village | 30 |
| Detergent for man covered with eggs | 35 |
| Drop off awfully bitter ale to English leaders | 46 |
| Demanding obedience | 19 |
| do what one is told to control horse in a similar way | 53 |
| due for a change, employing fool – agreed! | 44 |
| deception keeping the french in view | 36 |
| divisions of a musical | 22 |
| disapproving sorts, to say the least | 36 |
| demonstration from professional ahead of cricket match? | 55 |
| daisy, perhaps, not the first cow | 33 |
| drops from dark liquid found in ships | 37 |
| defend prisoner swallowing meat pie nearly | 42 |
| drunkard pinching papa’s hat | 30 |
| dog leaps in playfully | 22 |
| driver out in escort maintains habitual actions | 47 |
| dance style that developed in oakland | 37 |
| dolly parton, to miley cyrus | 28 |
| decays | 6 |
| defective firecrackers | 22 |
| don briefly | 11 |
| director vardalos | 17 |
| dreamy sleep stage | 18 |
| dorothy's goal | 14 |
| document of ownership | 21 |
| diced tomatoes packaging | 24 |
| distinctive belief or practice | 30 |
| dwellers on mount olympus | 25 |
| detected by ear | 15 |
| dish from 10 8 for example read out? | 36 |
| divine environment for ace crew testing position? | 49 |
| designate range and theatre for spitfire | 40 |
| doctor says our bones are here | 30 |
| drawing room goddess left – that is right | 43 |
| doctor greets us giving signals | 31 |
| delinquent regularly fears resistance with social worker? | 57 |
| did some gardening | 18 |
| deg. for an expert on calculus and bridges | 42 |
| delivery-app “restaurant” that can't be visited in person | 61 |
| dir. opposite nnw | 17 |
| double trouble? | 15 |
| donations | 9 |
| ding-dong | 9 |
| dryer sheet? | 12 |
| dough source | 12 |
| discombobulate | 14 |
| doesn't eat for a while | 23 |
| dish to stop including asian starter | 36 |
| did away with diva, to be perverse | 34 |
| drink agents knocked back outside hotel | 39 |
| dog trainer's band tour | 23 |
| dear sir, l | 11 |
| dull boy cut off | 16 |
| dawdler is why tour's delayed | 29 |
| distant greeting from idaho (laid-back) | 39 |
| dash noisily to distress signal | 31 |
| distant sea as well as an island | 32 |
| dramatist sees soldier retreating in rough tartan | 49 |
| drug sect say again | 19 |
| dramatist poorly bred in south hertfordshire town | 49 |
| dream interpreter musing about key artist | 41 |
| daytime show has room to embroider sign | 39 |
| deep sound outside small chest | 30 |
| dwarf placed up minstrel's kilt! | 32 |
| dwelling modified with bran? | 28 |
| don't start to flicker, say | 27 |
| dry european barbarian | 22 |
| depressed by fruit and veg, say | 31 |
| dish for european out west | 26 |
| duck, it's a steam train! | 25 |
| dance to almost blue ford saloon by motorway | 44 |
| dashing society girl leaves broadcasting | 40 |
| dancer making arcadian sound | 28 |
| double time was begun long ago | 30 |
| drink another lager, then start energy drink | 44 |
| daringly trendy, even though dead ugly! | 39 |
| did see a strange gaunt soldier in tv crime drama | 49 |
| drink interrupted by year of mawkishness | 40 |
| daft little throne? | 19 |
| dessert returns cooked, or else! | 32 |
| different way to prepare on a hot day | 37 |
| desperate for amount of money, but keep it back | 47 |
| double message received for 1990s sitcom | 40 |
| devise a perfect theme for french party | 39 |
| distribution of entire tax too expensive | 40 |
| devil-may-care tv drama series | 30 |
| dan desperate to keep within range | 34 |
| diverse article he read relieved tension | 40 |
| defiance of maverick rugby player | 33 |
| dangerous occurrence when he left kids' programme | 49 |
| daisy to turn pale | 18 |
| donate fees for moving film | 27 |
| do live round santa fe | 22 |
| don't start peddling trip | 25 |
| disturbing article in tedious setting | 37 |
| damaged in action, a plant | 26 |
| derek jacobi's brother? | 23 |
| drink for a tennis player | 25 |
| destructive swinger putting paid to dance | 41 |
| damned exercise channel! | 24 |
| direct bargepole at fish | 24 |
| detached musically, so act twice rewritten | 42 |
| desert vehicle? if with small insertion | 39 |
| drove without regarding horse | 29 |
| disturbingly fierce man on a sitcom | 35 |
| directions to improve diplomacy | 31 |
| discerning remark against cold country houses | 45 |