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It cuts up rotten apple (3-6)
10 The Rising Sun - a London club (6)
15 The properties of America's Atlantic seaboard? (7)
21 Credulously believes everything one's told about birds (8)
28 He put Charles I in unhappy mood (3)
29 Red Sea? That's odd, it's green! (6)
30 Vessel a serving-girl carried back into pub (8)
32 Feel scared in a foreign resort (2-2-4)
34 Staggering dance! (4)
35 In Rome, stars in a humanities retrospective (5)
36 Relief when this investment's raised (5)
37 So backward a monster! (4)
38 Wins the confidence of branches of a peace organisation (6)
39 Smile when getting right into liquor (4)
40 That cannot be, in short, the broken tins (4)
41 Sensual product of Manila (6)
42 How dog sounds in county briefly (5)
43 Something will be tossed into a vehicle (5)
44 Oven in which roasting takes place (4)
46 Tree round East, one yielding fragrant resin (5)
47 Could be dateless with pompoms (8)
50 Wonder when earthquake is seen to windward (1-7)
51 Ah, that's just about all up for the deity (5)
52 Disposed of one for some money once in Italy (5)
53 Regorges the self here (3)
54 Sprouts will bring cry of disapproval in ship (6)
56 Showing much skill in photography? (3)
58 Phoned back to show anger (4)
62 Endlessly old French marshal (5)
64 Six-footer one opposed (4)
65 Grandmother of the French ostrich (5)
67 US writer moved round on her what? (9)
72 Satisfy requirements jointly? (4)
74 Pink jumper a girl put on may cause bad feeling (10)
76 Returns and does havoc, the sea does to the land (6)
78 His children were biblical giants (4)
79 No C's, and no commissions, either (4)
80 Tread softly, bird stalking through tropical wood (6)
82 Once again make a case which could be looked into (7)
85 Way over old land (4)
86 Urge driver, say, to find where journalists may be relaxing (5,4)
88 Drag a negative from Switzerland (6)
91 Confines one after another we hear (7)
93 Variety of salmon caught in Lake Tahoe (4)
94 Interest shared about a point? Yes, shared (7)
96 The scientist who was a politician before in poetry (6)
98 This is in the German tongue - what a bore! (4)
99 In Spain until some Japanese geishas take umbrage (5)
100 Become aware son is on American vessel (4)
102 Tens of pounds for this gem (5)
103 Trouble spot where game apparently can't take place (2-2,4)
105 Typical measure from a self- righteous accountant (4)
107 Crazy people who are often cracked! (8)
109 Two persons made to suffer? (6)
110 Young Edwards makes hay (4)
111 What's terribly irregular about law in irregular conflict? (9-3)
113 Soldiers taking part in revolution (5)
115 Brtisih picture gallery in a stately home (4)
116 Point to crude houses used by snow clearers (7)
117 To see what people are saying about rep, laid it out (3-4)
120 Scottish quarter has queen in islet (4)
121 Furthermore you get this over in Hampshire (3)
122 Such defects are not commonly seen in a back-street (6)
123 Nothing in the club floats on water (4)
125 Keen as other thin-walled fruits are found (6)
127 Unruly Roman house (5)
131 Ten follow the Irishman into court (5)
133 Tender love is returned (4)
134 Flycatcher first became a Channel swimmer (4)
137 Some product one requires for use in a photocopier (5)
138 Saying how a daughter takes a long time (5)
139 Furnished with jacket and trousers? (6)
140 Sudden uprising places church- leaders last (6)
143 Some clever new writer of science- fiction (5)
144 Where the wives hang out, loss of energy can result in injury (5)
145 Three-quarters netted large fish (4)
146 As the Arctic is reported to be, that is clear (1,3)
149 Show's off - it's completely lawless (5)
150 Eights pass them by, yet so will create them (5)
151 Took no action and he appeared in opera (6)
154 A revolutionary explained (4)
155 " ****** Nagar" - Mother Teresa's "Town of Peace" (6)
156 Scandinavian coin or note (3)
157 Outstanding figure in a fight (4)
159 Send round a bit of advice - as pay? (7)
163 Jury member has run-down, being swamped by evil (5-2)
164 Coming in from a limited stay in Africa (4)
165 Possible cause of food-poisoning, and consequently temperature (5)
166 Eyesore from Hell, like a rare and classical mess (8-4)
168 Some pictorial photographs of Xanadu's sacred river (4)
169 Reason score must be about 500 (6)
171 Holey Sphinxes! (8)
172 You may dig this in a rotisserie (1,3)
174 Pelican perhaps with tail of mackerel in bill near headland (8)
175 See me take shelter when there's a fight! (5)
176 Heavens! A key to the heart (4)
177 Tough tissue needed for transgression on points (5)
179 Cheese has been made badly (4)
182 Ninety degrees of confusion? (6)
185 One being taught to hide in a tree (7)
187 Breaks up the band (4)
188 Inclined to do a nurse's job (7)
189 Mark time in senility (6)
190 Concerning bone fractures one lad set (9)
192 Noel, in short (4)
194 Spanish room with morning's peaceful terms (7)
197 Old poem discovered in Gironde library (6)
198 No bargain, darling (4)
199 It's wrong so to hurry up (4)
201 At a hut in ruins is reference to ancient Irish petty kingdoms (6)
203 Acknowledged work of co-designer (10)
206 Those without may be in it (4)
210 They follow head-shaking and tears (9)
211 The chap endlessly watching the birds (5)
213 Weapon featured in the peep-show (4)

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215 Inclines to unprofitable society (5)
217 Graduate to Monarch of the Ring. Indeed! (4)
218 Short man misses half the school period (3)
220 Record goes to American in Olympic event (6)
223 Slick, perhaps? (3)
224 Stacked as carpets should be (5)
225 Bare magazine (5)
228 Tear-jerking spectacle (3,5)
231 Sailor coming up with a scheme for a drumming sound (8)
233 Religious instruction - main reversal for Norse gods (5)
235 Stake almost lost in card game (4)
237 This stellata variety arose by chance (5)
238 Attack reported but simply beamed (5)
240 Artist reflecting unpromising start in weeds (6)
242 Love in old age can be the opposite of something given in charity (4)
244 Stop Henry at the road junction (4)
245 Your setter - in the morning the very same goes in a tree (6)
246 Surreptitious about a kill (4)
247 Singularly enough, double ones for those who drink a lot? (5)
248 Turn up with metal and enter a harbour (3,2)
249 Day that is cut short (4)
250 Story about seed redistribution in N. England (8)
251 That bloody little flat has got leased (8)
252 So to finish the hearing there will make them love you (6)
253 Plant needing a little summer shade (3)
254 Observe change of diets necessary for those most unwell (8)
255 Wrongly call the English gentleman "Monsieur" (7)
256 Fish caught in a flash may have this look (3-3)
257 Again issue a record of two engineers with contracts (9)

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Young member of family (not the main branch) (5)
Looks at the bodily condition of a small marine operculum (8)
Group of superheroes traveling in New Mexico (4)
A fifty-fifty arrangement for everyone (3)
Page precedes nobleman in Scottish lace (7)
He declined Nobel prize, by gum, breaking rank (9)
That's enough to make you fed up (3,1,4)
German train crash leads to prosecution (11)
Slowly encircles a penthouse (4-2)
10 So Ian's developed into legendary Gaelic poet (6)
11 Where a miser may be surrounded by Champagne? ... (5)
12 ... thought it was in the Teesside area (4)
13 Creature with excellent vision and wisdom? (5-3)
14 Such decorative work can make one ill (6)
15 Surrounded, moved very carefully (5)
16 One of three boatman turns up old address (6)
17 Martial art event - at the outset, it's announced Yorkshireman was champion (3-4-2)
18 One of nine needed to entertain (5)
19 Charge for storing machines of war? (7)
20 Require means of execution to be rejected by court (5)
21 Bachelor in Rome's prepared grave (6)
22 More sage wife served in halves (5)
23 Some infant rattles can produce cavities (5)
24 Support friend with the rules (7)
25 They need the power of arms if any progress is to be made (4)
26 Twist and turn with pen and get hot inside! (6)
27 In other words they're analogous (8)
31 How one differs from bone-head (3)
32 Author shows wild rage about poor acting (7)
33 Pureed fruit and trifle (4)
45 This shortly may last a month, perhaps (3)
46 Check and improve accuracy of text (4)
48 An old future use for small country railway station (5)
49 Sweetheart showing what was easy once (4)
52 Specimen shown by representative in auction (6)
54 Not quite cut the butter (4)
55 Pooh's complaint, (4,4)
57 Pouring tea, say, with china (7)
59 Threw egg into Nile while wearing unceremonious attire (8)
60 Refuse to enter tunes put up for the councils (8)
61 This location has to be in Los Angeles! (5)
62 Trees for a big race (4)
63 Uncle perplexed by one of the central parts (6)
66 Is Brown among a French remainder not making a stand? (11)
68 IR employees reported Highland leaseholders (8)
69 Together they may make a catch (3,3,4)
70 Roman sea horse! (4)
71 Where in French between both sides initially there is a menacing scowl (4)
73 Something that cuts the keenness of one's appetite (4)
74 Point to a foreign article of clothing that will keep you in the shade (6)
75 Notes of a month on the road (6)
77 Without which salt is unseasonable (6)
81 Like a forecast for half a month on a Russian river? (7)

82 I've a sober disposition to overcome (4,5)
83 Woeful is Eve's case (6)
84 Exclusive of extras, hire out East African herbal drink (6,3)
87 Small birds tolerate insecticide - when dose finally is absorbed, it is reduced (7,4)
89 Making part of a circle when current is uncontrolled (6)
90 Ovens that need an extra top on for Sunday dinners (5)
92 Irish police dog returns (3)
94 I see red when she's put out (7)
95 She was once vigilant in defence of the realm! (4)
97 French statesman with novel approach to human condition (7)
101 Where there's "Fire down below" (8)
104 Oval and otherwise around the border (6)
105 Gave it back to the boy, Adelina (5)
106 Stick an O in to make it "boat" (5)
107 Being old-fashioned, is in bed still (3,2,2,4)
108 Sounds as if, all told, they're up in the building (7)
112 Serving in a queue (7)
114 Long service members blowing ego to bits (3,4)
118 Usual to win nothing in declamatory style - in bars (8)
119 Unsightly fold at the corner of a leaf (4-3)
124 It sounds as if naught would make a pilot of this (4)
125 Cows needing a stitch sent back (4)
126 Thus cry in this place or in any old place (9)
127 Public service (4)
128 Having lived for a long time, claimed to be even older (8-3)
129 Poet's never heard of the bearded lady's anathema? (4)
130 Mouldings incorporating fifty little birds (9)
132 Charge Bill Clinton, not in fashion outside America? (7)
133 Central European old Jewish town - Anatevka for example (6)
135 Ordered to accommodate retired gent, despite notoriety (3-4)
136 The way to the altar, we are told, is where riders go (6-4)
141 Not ready for consumption when cut open in haste (5)
142 Unhappy with assassinated Arab leader (5)
147 Travel about for a knave (6)
148 Warehouse charge undergoes so great a revision (7)
152 What we don't want to have done haphazardly by father (2,6)
153 Puts up in secret (6)
155 Took the same view as the two men (5)
158 Upholders of the Bible (8)
160 So long, and thanks again (2-2)
161 I grumble about equipment to soak with water (8)
162 Sort of butter made from vegetable and fruit (6)
163 Was extravagant with one's liquid assets? (8)
164 You Tarzan? -, said Welsh Jane in a plane (6)
165 Hollywood director cut the top off California tree (6)
167 Vegetative, lax - sue a doctor! (7)
170 Turn to the senior service vessel (3)
173 Trendy expert attending a conference in Africa (6)
178 Seen on a great painting? Far from it! (2,9)
180 American lawyers' artistic movement (4)
181 Lost form in the heat (6)
183 One might wean this all over again (4)
184 Suit partly jacket on scholar? (5)
186 The speed with which one will tell a person off (4)
191 Dirty places for pigs (4)
193 Rushed like crazy. The sea was going out (4,5)
195 Setback after a number turn awkward (5)
196 There's no GA in this (4)
197 Able to offer opposition, one's uneasy about it (9)
198 The charms of Turkey? (8)
200 The world of scholars feature a rotter, egghead and me (7)
202 Song girl losing her head (4)
204 Realised the scene had changed (8)
205 One who chooses, whether using his head or not (8)
206 Twisted wire could be a danger to riverboats (4)
207 They may cause irritation but they make their points (8)
208 Of an intermediate age and without a boy-friend (7)
209 During car journeys, learner talks nonsense (7)
212 Tinned pork's taken by elevated railroad to mountain plant (7)
214 Manipulate thickness (3)
216 Sateen woven in the shape of a sword (6)
217 Rock shattered in a blast (6)
219 Head of State introduced door- keeper to fashion designer (6)
221 Jewish spice gives lift to alien musical (6)
222 Standard experience for a Zoroastrian (6)
223 Level with rower about to take a sleep (2,1,3)
226 In adversity see Procne's son (4)
227 Wear little bolero designed by Cardin (5)
228 Bodies I've left were so massive (5)
229 So called Greek character caught leaving seafood (5)
230 Very good at describing Britain (5)
231 The domain is genuine, Monsieur (5)
232 British Isle has lovely borders and exotic interior (5)
234 First Jew, being David's father (5)
236 Swiss artist's modeling material, reportedly (4)
239 In making mustard, yellow will change colour (3)
241 Someone one sees in Germany with these old eyes of mine (4)
243 Cry of dismay heard in Greek theatres (4)
249 Swimmer examined orally (3)

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