Across
Get one's own back (9)
Attempt to form a party (4)
Encircled friend making a comeback (8)
Kind disposition (6)
Severely punished for being drunk (6)
Runners allowed to enter various heats (8)
Wit of an animated priest (6)
Notice fewer without blemish (8)
They make us cold and wet (6)
He lacked a fourth at bridge (8)
Oil found somewhere in southeast Europe, say (6)
A sweet's round and in layers (6)
At sea no rating is lacking in knowledge (8)
Build-up of runs — they may retain the Ashes (4)
One suffering heat burns (9)
Down
Respond to plea to return to the stage (5)
Publicist covers new lines in lager (7)
Reacted like a startled horse and threw (5)
Defile and glen in the country (7)
Mock the northern city's affectation (9)
Bird of the frozen North (7)
Refused it anyway, having had more than enough (9)
Stay to eat and drink (9)
Sheridan's competitors? (3,6)
They take the strain out of brewing (3,4)
Meeting that has no standing? (7)
In this world, or possibly another (2,5)
Sail out of port (5)
A Spaniard of Norse extraction (5)
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