Across
Hollow bit with cutting edges (7)
Exciting soap, perhaps, for best-seller? (3,4)
Really short card game ending in walkover for native of New England (9)
Message from Australia, Melbourne, returned (5)
Relative keen to cut off cloth (3)
Fancy nuts in fast (4,5)
Number are practitioners of meditation? (5)
Member of parliament? (7)
Company member regrets almost nothing after retirement (7)
Saucy dance? (5)
Outlaw speared criminal, con (9)
Whiskey and port (3)
Island left by territorials touring a country (5)
Another convent resident hit? That's a problem (9)
22d
(and 22 Down) Best-selling author a shade pointless, giant in Croesus? (7,5)
Central character in custody has justification for crime (7)
Down
Waterproof articles protecting yellow cloak in the end (6)
Saucy county? (4)
Check viscous fluid including tar, possibly (8)
8d
(and 8 Down) Reptile in bottom of pit turned on Lucifer (6,5)
House gathering later than late in the evening? (10)
Noted art form piercing low area - add sparkle down there? (8)
German ship under mass of ice, finally disappearing (8)
See 4 Down
Narcotics failing to impress a Central American (5,5)
Meat sauce in that place, right on this spot (4,4)
Nick Henry, winger (4-4)
Separate outdoor drier with it, peg out clothes (8)
Crack fish found in river (6)
A centre on the other side (6)
See 27 Across
Yule like Yue, reportedly? (4)
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