| Old Liberal leader doesn't need chlorine to switch drink | 56 |
| Cover round ancient city is melodramatically sensational | 56 |
| It provides liquor we imbibe at home with the papers | 52 |
| "Want a break from the ...?" [infamous Spotify line] | 52 |
| Strong chemical found in some oven cleaners and soaps | 53 |
| Cutting grass around Lord's after LR left in sudden tantrum | 59 |
| Perceive sound of cheers and revolutionary's anguish | 52 |
| Origins of an old regal type's aristocratic bloodline | 53 |
| Motivate independent politician to help oust extremists | 55 |
| Perform karaoke about enchanting woman transitioning | 52 |
| Naughty missile to be announced during leadership challenge | 59 |
| "Elvis" actor who plays Benny in "The Bikeriders" [2 wds] | 57 |
| "...... Too Proud to Beg" [The Temptations hit song] | 52 |
| German city, the de facto capital of the Hanseatic League | 57 |
| Actress who played scientist Lilli Hornig in Oppenheimer | 56 |
| Capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul | 52 |
| Oscar winner for his role in the 2015 film The Revenant | 55 |
| 2021 musical film starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard | 59 |
| Decorative timber named after one of the Molucca islands | 56 |
| David .... is England's second-most capped goalkeeper | 53 |
| Firth of Forth island featured in Catriona by R L Stevenson | 59 |
| A kind of station launched by Ronan O'Rahilly in 1964 | 53 |
| Middlesbrough musician who has recorded 25 studio albums | 56 |
| Country whose leaders once came from the Rurik dynasty | 54 |
| By way of response attractive husband ditched aromatics | 55 |
| Bleat about cold church in shrubby Mediterranean area | 53 |
| Southern tree to shape simple organism on rotting flora | 55 |
| Smashing test in quad? Quite the opposite is entertaining | 57 |
| Organic matter in water? Government goin' to lie in retreat | 59 |
| machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | 58 |
| coole park nature reserve is located near which town? | 53 |
| inhabited island located 14km off the donegal coast. | 52 |
| radio term meaning message received and understood . | 52 |
| the beatles' third single and their first uk number one. | 56 |
| the only team to defeat bayer leverkusen last season. | 53 |
| what kind of animal is alb rt, the euro 2024 mascot? | 52 |
| who was the first black winner of the oscar for best actor? | 59 |
| man-made lake island dwelling, common in ancient ireland. | 57 |
| accidental discharge when wise one swallows medicine | 52 |
| please turn over for starters, us state that's poison | 53 |
| Robert who wrote Chicago's hit "Saturday in the Park" | 53 |
| . .. minute [Made on the spot in the restaurant's kitchen] | 58 |
| Lethbridge-Alberta-born star Conrad of "Diff'rent Strokes" | 58 |
| Rock singer Patty married to tennis star John McEnroe | 53 |
| Ontario town to the north of Algonquin Provincial Park | 54 |
| Pierre .., Leader of the Opposition on Parliament Hill | 54 |
| "It wasn't working anyway, so I got ... of it" [discarded] | 58 |
| The Sultan of ..., nickname for baseball legend Babe Ruth | 57 |
| Number of times Babe Ruth became the World Series champion | 58 |
| ... mcentire, singer known as "the queen of country" | 52 |
| New ... Yankees, Babe Ruth's baseball team for 14 years | 55 |
| johanna ..., swiss author of 1881 children's book heidi | 55 |
| flap hinged to the trailing edge of an aircraft wing | 52 |
| Ultimately storm surge bent ‘indestructible' weather gauge | 60 |
| Western Arab's lute dubiously claimed with 12 as a basis | 56 |
| The fleet oddly abandoned cadets sent out on a channel | 54 |
| Of Prince, The Revolution say "a fellow with radical style" | 59 |
| Regularly tape superb LPs: Blue every Cardigans album | 53 |
| A loopy circle around where price is displayed for sherry | 57 |
| Poetic shepherd wandering lonely, avoiding lakes, mind | 54 |
| Competitive horse level with leaders in the Epsom race | 54 |
| Decked in expensive material, scoffed about waste product | 57 |
| Great trouble concealing jollies in high-flying post | 52 |
| Breaches of the peace reportedly leading to sentence | 52 |
| Brief answer received by staff in commercial channel | 52 |
| It may be used when charming women turned up make-up | 52 |
| it's a nonsense, but it may give you a better outlook | 53 |
| shows deficiencies - in need of tightening up, we hear | 54 |
| absence of works of creative imagination will show naivety | 58 |
| it's likely to be situated in the dead centre of the town | 57 |
| it's not altruistic to market seafood, by the sound of it | 57 |
| shakespearian character should get good reception, we hear | 58 |
| "... the Next One," Grammy-winning Jay-Z song of 2009 | 53 |
| Casino where Siegfried and Roy made their Las Vegas debut | 57 |
| First country to hold elections using internet voting | 53 |
| All ... [phrase in some nondenominational church names] | 55 |
| Sport that allows some corps-à-corps [body-to-body] contact | 60 |
| police chief often seen alongside commissioner gordon | 53 |
| source of the dutton family's wealth on "yellowstone" | 53 |
| quarterback bob who won two super bowls with the dolphins | 57 |
| surname of punk musicians joey, dee dee, johnny, and tommy | 58 |
| "the hunger games" character portrayed by amandla stenberg | 58 |
| "men in black" protagonist played by tommy lee jones | 52 |
| the ...... banks [group of islands in north carolina] | 53 |
| technique used by dolphins to locate things underwater | 54 |
| Emma, Olivia, .., Sophia, Isabella [top-5 list for 2016] | 56 |
| How Uncle Henry greets Miss Gulch in "The Wizard of Oz" | 55 |
| famous reason for cancellation of snooker competition? | 54 |
| don't jump the gun – hang on pending the computer experts! | 60 |
| youngster going round ship getting kicks – overbearing type | 61 |
| [Of milk] treated so that the cream does not separate | 53 |
| Further performance makes people lose head and heart | 52 |
| Time pattern's ending in reflection of sound — dance music | 60 |
| Lad sings badly with yours truly in musical passages | 52 |
| Old player filling sandwiches with a minimum of gruyere | 55 |
| Advance fee in old sovereign, different rate earlier | 52 |
| support argument of forwards at the rear of the scrum | 53 |
| brought up by prime minister heath describing bad weather | 57 |
| noble runs off after note found in native american tent | 55 |
| paved outdoor area adjoining house of girl at number ten | 56 |
| led with broadcast showing a free natural state of living | 57 |
| old cleaning woman seen in road by garden of fruit trees | 56 |
| country in oceania formerly known as pleasant island | 52 |
| ruth's mother-in-law in the old testament book of ruth | 54 |
| rees-mogg and nob sharing british archaic clothing style? | 57 |
| current punishment for the wicked thieves warder's topping? | 59 |
| trump up again with republican harangue, ultimately hot air | 59 |
| pilot must visit planet and snare dangerous organism | 52 |
| we see love endlessly arising - can love erupt like this? | 57 |
| times of innocence and fantasy - add a lass to cuddle up! | 57 |
| paper boat travelling around lake - passport needed? | 52 |
| ... one takes turns traditionally, could be harry's spin | 56 |
| alternative of mice and men - half of that is filling | 53 |
| university's welcomed in caruso - unexpectedly rough | 52 |
| State where the Daughters of Bilitis was founded, for short | 59 |
| Horror movie moment that might make you spill your popcorn | 58 |
| Where the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was | 52 |
| When Ubers are due to reach their destinations: Abbr. | 53 |
| Like a TV show whose lines are all written in advance | 53 |
| Tablet that can receive downloads from the App Store | 52 |
| Part of a mailing address for a condo, briefly [2 wds] | 54 |
| Sports organization that manages Arthur Ashe Stadium [Abbr] | 59 |
| In grammar, the number category that implies only one | 53 |
| Control assumed by reformed feminist or Penny Wong, say | 55 |
| Certain pressure applied by one in vote is reassessed | 53 |
| Rihanna song that topped the charts for ten weeks in 2007 | 57 |
| Type of light motorcycle made by Vespa and Lambretta | 52 |
| One of the sections into which a long poem may be divided | 57 |
| Lizard known for its ability to alter its skin coloration | 57 |
| Two-piece synthetic garment popular in the late 1980s | 53 |
| --- Groan, first of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels | 53 |
| 1715 legal statute now only encountered proverbially | 52 |
| Crime film starring Al Pacino as a police whistleblower | 55 |
| Leading 20th-century sculptor born in West Yorkshire | 52 |
| Classic film musical with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra | 54 |
| Device with a rotating disc whose axis remains stable | 53 |
| Give weapons to group, or a bit of kit for the captain | 54 |
| Robin maybe turning glitzy, acting like a football player? | 58 |
| There's flooding with river unwanted in Cambridge college | 57 |
| South Americans in church on island [is like Pisa's tower] | 58 |
| Beast, this writer's editor, set up as no mere mortal! | 54 |
| A shade hard, ultimately? Certainly difficult, we hear | 54 |
| Actress Winslet of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" | 58 |
| Actor Butterfield of "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang" | 52 |
| Seasonal decoration from the Old French for "sparkle" | 53 |
| Some wholesaler, nouveau-riche, somewhere on the Med | 52 |
| arnold ..., english composer of symphonic poem tintagel | 55 |
| The usual routine; back having a drink and something to eat | 59 |
| Related to, when allowed to speak to on the telephone | 53 |
| How one gets some pedestrian job with the greatest of ease? | 59 |
| The appeal of the mince tart and what you do with it | 52 |
| Group of players heads for large, even imposing building | 56 |
| According to the inscription, large beehive houses 500 | 54 |
| Notes, easily picked up, favouring development of mitosis | 57 |
| Insect found in Bordeaux, perhaps - it targets the legs | 55 |
| The writer supports not interrupting further rare mammal | 56 |
| Peculiar beach accommodating complete collection of objects | 59 |
| Nothing missed in current access points for mountains | 53 |
| Key point as we see it: King to be replaced by Catholic | 55 |
| in such bars, one isn't allowed to leave one's porridge! | 56 |
| settled for being shown the way after being sent astray | 55 |
| the old were worried about the first graveyard resident | 55 |
| wrongly name the girl, we hear, by a telephone conversation | 59 |
| overcome - because subscription hasn't yet been paid? | 53 |
| the more this varies, the more the heat is the same! | 52 |
| they provide splendid cover for the capitals of rulers | 54 |
| take a gamble on the fellows being non-professionals | 52 |
| certify as satisfactory an account with favourable balance | 58 |
| special occasion when the mail from communist arrives | 53 |
| run away to wed an eastern european returning to the east | 57 |
| Biblical figure whose "whole body was like a hairy garment" | 59 |
| right now, you are solving .. ...... crossword! [2 words] | 57 |
| wood used to create a smash-hit fantasy-film trilogy? | 53 |
| "...... like to come and meet us" [david bowie lyric] | 53 |
| distraction for a child on a long road trip, perhaps | 52 |
| ...... fransokyo square [disneyland resort location] | 52 |
| science-fiction planet named after a city in tunisia | 52 |
| good title for a reflective book on the life of a rap dr.? | 58 |
| author who didn't charge much for his public appearances? | 57 |
| inventor whose hot ideas just seemed to flow naturally? | 55 |
| game show panelist who refused to wear glasses or contacts? | 59 |
| banish, as a roommate, in order to hook up with someone | 55 |
| "...... house" [sitcom spinoff that premiered in 2016] | 54 |
| like a basketball player who just hit a game-winning shot | 57 |
| sinn ...... [party in the northern ireland assembly] | 52 |
| remarkable urinals distributed around gents initially | 53 |
| head of church to dawdle around section in monastery | 52 |
| They deliver fuel and air from carburetors to cylinders | 55 |
| first character in cast being unstable is to get very angry | 59 |
| artist in part of east london showing colourful arch? | 53 |
| team within targets yet when upset planned way to withdraw | 58 |
| nervously seek carer about first sign of these criminals | 56 |
| spring produces this appearance almost in battle site | 53 |
| leads, perhaps, irish going into side of large house | 52 |
| new adman, say, at work beginning to spend resources | 52 |
| idler wandering in western yard in a strange fashion | 52 |
| a code of silence about criminal activity among the mafia | 57 |
| ruby, companion of doctor who, played by millie gibson | 54 |
| english county whose rivers include the camel and the fowey | 59 |
| u.s. state that hosts the annual burning man festival | 53 |