Across
Sting providing strain on piano (5)
A reactionary former Director-General wearing short skirt, bearing essential part (9)
Drunk accepts beer (not a scene worth looking at) (9)
Taking issue with shares figures? (5)
Continuation, we learn, to be disrupted (7)
Bomb vessel amid warning, of course (7)
To appear servile in civil war, Cavaliers effecting volte-face (5)
Drink a drop shortly (3)
Volunteer converting to republicanism? (5)
Old man with illusion, blessed snake charmer? (7)
See 31
Audibly chuck, given pain (5)
Conquistador's victim, black among white, helpless (9)
It's essential to stop saying "Holiday? Get away!" (9)
25a
To get Linford Christie's kit off, cheat! (4,1,4,3)
Down
Work without discharge? (4)
Capitals of Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland, Austria and Ireland (8)
Sketch monarch in pose (4)
9 15 = 24 (8)
Inward reference given in case upset during poem (6)
Mean to secure prominence first (10)
So to speak, are you familiar with Alaska's capital? (6)
26d
Glass vessel, river vessel close to shore (4,4)
Horse on hind legs to go over again (5)
Wife given wake-up call rising around noon - surely not! (4,1,5)
One lining Jane's nest (5)
Moved camp (8)
Rio's game, yet to fix line in Charlie (8)
Hat ultimately on 28? Unlikely! (6)
At end of dusk it's dark, man! (6)
See 8
Linesman sees another holding his head (4)
8 for which A, B, C or D too much? On the contrary (4)
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