| hardwood of tropical africa used as a substitute for teak | 57 |
| jeopardising ginger dean about the end of the expedition | 56 |
| behave beneficently, like successful music hall acts? | 53 |
| it's found in the himalayas as well as in pennsylvania | 54 |
| stop being angry and pacify part of northern ireland! | 53 |
| boring, it's rejected by engineers - an unspecified amount | 58 |
| it's achievable for one bachelor left in sheriff's group | 56 |
| quakers' boat, once refitted, returning to starting place | 57 |
| reserve about to get second european piece of furniture | 55 |
| takes great delight in films about victoria's capital | 53 |
| with a sharp point i am able to provide some defence | 52 |
| kind of finch the first of the swallows is related to | 53 |
| places to which people retire may be full of flowers | 52 |
| corrupt tory breaks first promise with queen's retreat | 54 |
| when there's jam, pull over second expensive car by wheel | 57 |
| fortunately, actor playing f gump catches one's dog barking | 59 |
| criminal court blocks vote, which is a serious shock | 52 |
| keen to learn from journalist, you heard, with telegraph | 56 |
| wind player loves catching intro of beethoven's first | 53 |
| employ barbie's words of gratitude, filled with love? | 53 |
| making a lord or lady disheartened even with no jewellery | 57 |
| yell's neighbour in the shetland islands; nuts anag. | 52 |
| earnest cast excited by gift exchange system at christmas | 57 |
| intense desire of king charles to have bible in german | 54 |
| identified by the police very recently in kent oddly | 52 |
| large gatherings of people obtaining very alcoholic drinks | 58 |
| a canoe i abandoned in an island area of the pacific | 52 |
| note on romans surprisingly becoming conquerors of england | 58 |
| caught cutting familiar dragon shaped tropical plant | 52 |
| head of sherborne a rascal without credit gets to economise | 59 |
| thanks novelist jules endlessly at a greek restaurant | 53 |
| finished describing hard old language of afghanistan | 52 |
| Brought back new prison officer to be sketched again | 52 |
| Restricts complicated rituals after the start of Christmas | 58 |
| Exercise consumes oxygen, have a go at verse-writing! | 53 |
| Pacific state that dropped 'Western' from its name in 1997 | 58 |
| Surname of the woman who founded a London waxworks museum | 57 |
| temporary control of someone else's instagram acount | 52 |
| 1994 film that garnered Jodie Foster an Oscar nomination | 56 |
| Task-switching keyboard shortcut introduced in Windows 2.0 | 58 |
| Days of ... Lives [soap opera with almost 15,000 episodes] | 58 |
| Item that can replace a flat in case of emergency: 2 wds. | 57 |
| Rapper West who formed the supergroup with Ty Dolla Sign | 56 |
| Frozen character who says I don't have a skull. Or bones. | 57 |
| Mythical beauty whose face "launched a thousand ships" | 54 |
| "Even the ......" [Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers song] | 54 |
| Personal struggles, and what the answers with circles have | 58 |
| Artist with museums in Vitebsk, Belarus, and Nice, France | 57 |
| Specialist who can help with snoring and apnea: Abbr. | 53 |
| Rule of the active swimmer even seems to stop visits | 52 |
| Calder entrance worsened congestion, they understand | 52 |
| site that once sold an allegedly haunted rubber ducky | 53 |
| "you ...... in love" [song from taylor swift's "1989"] | 54 |
| Afflictions that rhyme with the body parts they're found in | 59 |
| Bill Clinton's is displayed at the Smithsonian, for short | 57 |
| word replaced by "orange" in a classic knock-knock joke | 55 |
| the character tosca, or the performer portraying her, e.g. | 58 |
| comedian with the standup special "get on your knees" | 53 |
| question after hearing about someone's harrowing experience | 59 |
| john who played blackie parrish on "general hospital" | 53 |
| esoteric source of classic no. 1? not hard to be repulsed | 57 |
| reduced settlement, not entirely ample, regarding acid | 54 |
| military officer presented by left-wing speaker as spy | 54 |
| word meaning 'sinning' arrived back in reference book | 53 |
| initially found delicate wind instrument in black box | 53 |
| heart recording providing something of a celebration | 52 |
| scoundrel's broken patent leading to pressure in job | 52 |
| i accept endless rain swirling in outdoor meal venue | 52 |
| Dominance, say, found in fringe entirely abandoned by Left | 58 |
| Bird with sex unknown stalking men in the Middle Ages | 53 |
| French city and US city welcoming African politicians | 53 |
| Totally support everyone in live format getting half cut | 56 |
| Incorrigible husband perhaps did some weeding topless | 53 |
| family grab unfortunate odd cook, tucking into snake | 52 |
| nell —, author of the stage plays steaming and cancer tales | 61 |
| 2000 biopic starring geoffrey rush as the marquis de sade | 57 |
| ship in which jason went in search of the golden fleece | 55 |
| the —, flat marshy headland in essex on the north sea coast | 61 |
| bold article about brad pitt ending with leading verb | 53 |
| fights less about losing energy settled within a day | 52 |
| "The Lion King" antagonist loosely based on King Claudius | 57 |
| Fight card highlight [… letters 1-5, minus letter 3] | 54 |
| Exams taken on a treadmill [… letters 2-9, minus letter 7] | 60 |
| Quibble, or a hint to what the four skipped letters spell | 57 |
| They’re lit on the last day of Lunar New Year celebrations | 60 |
| .... zirconia [synthetic gem that resembles diamond] | 52 |
| "Yabba dabba ......!" [Fred Flintstone's catchphrase] | 53 |
| "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Oscar winner Guinness | 52 |
| Where "it's fun to stay," in a Village People hit song | 54 |
| Camouflaged tin cafes as the most elaborately decorated | 55 |
| A person or thing regarded as perfect; most suitable | 52 |
| Promise to put tent behind post office before I go with Al | 58 |
| Former baronet I met when Homer’s son was no longer outside | 61 |
| Paid trio sums - half in each case are local sayings | 52 |
| What sprinter Donovan will be one day in London court | 53 |
| For what reason is there a fair war, according to Spooner? | 58 |
| Innocent-looking, especially when using a strange licence | 57 |
| Sturgeon stung on removal of its strange-looking eggs | 53 |
| I put new trainer right off with my inability to move | 53 |
| "Let's play a ... record!" Find the first step at 43a | 53 |
| Intelligence agency with a cryptography department: Abbr. | 57 |
| Step 2: "Place the record on the ... [revolving plate]!" | 56 |
| Expert of disputed relevancy does without any letters | 53 |
| Finish in the deep, on floundering with no finish in sight | 58 |
| To extract metal from an ore through heating and melting | 56 |
| Stanley Tucci's character in "The Devil Wears Prada" | 52 |
| broadway musical based on the myth of orpheus and eurydice | 58 |
| african animal with features similar to zebras and giraffes | 59 |
| brand of mandarin oranges owned by the wonderful company | 56 |
| "self-......" [song title by nelly or the offspring] | 52 |
| line on a map connecting points of equal underwater depth | 57 |
| actor who played taurus in 1967 film comedy the happening | 57 |
| olympic sport whose three disciplines include trampolining | 58 |
| commissioner of police of the metropolis from 2005-08 | 53 |
| river in germany that flows through wurzburg to the rhine | 57 |
| Between cigarette ends, the band will fawn or grovel | 52 |
| Wealthy holding company evading tax, at first glance | 52 |
| certainly not secret weapons with which people are welcomed | 59 |
| wartime food, starting off with sausage, peas and mash | 54 |
| the sort of strike that produces violent uncontrolled act | 57 |
| one whose occupation is subject to contract for a time | 54 |
| one with an important part in 'the traitor's return' | 52 |
| thriller starring gene hackman and denzel washington | 52 |
| jessica ..., jessica alba's co-star in valentine's day | 54 |
| 2,000 .. [what the four longest answers have in common] | 55 |
| John Doe and Richard .... [placeholder names in litigation] | 59 |
| rift with conservative seconds before that chap's married | 57 |
| member of this writer's club oddly rejected sandwiches | 54 |
| clubs perhaps on legendary man. united striker's case | 53 |
| truss maybe accepts ribbing regularly by european polymath | 58 |
| some neighbours in exeter typically like teddy robinson | 55 |
| spring weekend date with buffet and dessert reportedly | 54 |
| on holiday shortly, visiting island state of malaysia | 53 |
| activists regularly snapped at invading european country | 56 |
| protrusion which, if cycling, gives an unpleasant feeling | 57 |
| robin hood finally featured in best rare performance | 52 |
| flower working in america where the sun don't shine? | 52 |
| Up in space, circulate part of the frozen polar region | 54 |
| Social class starts to collaborate and sees the effect | 54 |
| Cosy starship travelling in pursuit of distant bodies | 53 |
| "There's more to this list, but I'm not gonna say them all" | 59 |
| 2001 comedy with the line "Girls, I'm going to Harvard!" | 56 |
| Group that objected to Lady Gaga's meat dress: Abbr. | 52 |
| 2020 Black pint hit whose title is a question: 4 wds. | 53 |
| Mushroom Kingdom citizen, in Nintendo's Mario franchise | 55 |
| Huey Lewis and the News hit song "I Want a New ......" | 54 |
| Queen played by Katharine Hepburn in "The Lion in Winter" | 57 |
| "This Is the ......" [Seth Rogen comedy set in Los Angeles] | 59 |
| Sitcom from the '80s about an alien voiced by Paul Fusco | 56 |
| 2018 song by Secrets or the age of eighth-graders, perhaps | 58 |
| Entertainers found in the circled letters of this grid | 54 |
| Benevolent, left-wing and Scotch? Could be a soulmate | 53 |
| Low level illumination makes the French rep easy to bear | 56 |
| She cleans teeth daintily, and he keeps gents amused | 52 |
| Dug up the old interstate highway and got a bad back | 52 |
| Line that goes through the center of a spinning object | 54 |
| "... of Two Cities," novel by Charles Dickens: 2 wds. | 53 |
| quintus —, roman epic poet and dramatist who died in 169 bc | 61 |
| 1970 biopic starring toralv maurstad as edvard grieg | 52 |
| 2005 dubai world cup winner ridden by john r velazquez | 54 |
| Ask that only the end of the needle be stuck in a cushion | 57 |
| Regularly claim free offers – I'll deny carefree existence | 60 |
| What's more in Belgium, Germany is in view on the way back | 58 |
| Cycle lights with rain in short – one needs a conductor | 57 |
| one with keen eyes needed for a golf course, we hear | 52 |
| they throw out the winners after the end of the race | 52 |
| more experienced, but a mere beginner amid the wild deer | 56 |
| one who arranges steps to charge her poor performance | 53 |
| against the rules for a soldier, i replaced top first | 53 |
| one who works at an establishment that changes hands | 52 |
| in the long grass, the french made unsteady progress | 52 |
| variety of mineral required for those working on the track | 58 |
| a specialised military unit showing withdrawal symptoms? | 56 |
| Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in 2008's "Doubt" | 56 |
| "Ambition should be made of ... stuff": "Julius Caesar" | 55 |
| Only African-born headliner at London's Live Aid 1985 | 53 |
| Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by "three-quart" | 54 |
| Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958 | 57 |
| heavenly creature "from montgomery" or "of the morning" | 55 |
| sea-lion relative whose name can be found in "sea lion" | 55 |
| iconic clint eastwood movie that is getting a remake | 52 |
| will ...., grumpy old man and shooting stars panellist | 54 |
| academy award winner from puerto rico, benicio .... .... | 56 |
| 80s band who topped the charts with china in your hand | 54 |
| controversial leader of uk reform party, .... farage | 52 |
| epic superhero movie from the mcu with angelina jolie | 53 |
| barbara ...., bond girl who married ringo starr in 1981 | 55 |
| danny dyer's daughter, dating footballer jarrod bowen | 53 |
| australian television award, won last year by sam neill | 55 |
| bbc1's obstacle course-based game show, .... wipeout | 52 |
| a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | 55 |
| a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | 53 |
| a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | 56 |
| a long flared woman's dress, often worn on formal occasions | 59 |
| CNN abbreviates it further by dropping its middle letter | 56 |
| "This ... fine mess you've gotten us into, Ollie!" (2,1) | 56 |
| distinguishing characteristic of a product, for short | 53 |
| "Honorable" acronym added by Merriam-Webster in 2019 | 52 |
| 'un peu de soda, vin, cidre' - french king's favourite | 54 |
| say i'm up, conscious, oddly attending maiden conference | 56 |