Across
Like Canute's race to secure popular backing? (6)
Purchase drink, having left for Belgian capital (8)
French writer having an impact in Uzbek city (9)
Injury keeping son in wood (5)
Place of confinement debt collector has no say about (7)
Get better play area completed (7)
Old cavalryman retreating in exceptional humiliation (5)
Art school board accepts first of etchings, subject to evaluation (8)
Street clubs not long established around south (8)
Most of capital knight put together for monument (5)
Casual worker following start of race (7)
Second French article whose content is inferior? A bit (7)
A device for fastening back climbing plant (5)
Speech made by new president during month by Russian river (9)
Girl Guide leader touring quiet place in Canada (8)
Like goo finally slithering round the bend (6)
Down
Woman's strong dislike for compound (8)
Token loan arranged to enclose most of pit (7)
Soldiers using new range in groups (9)
Respected politician's condition accepted by presbyter's staff (5,9)
Have limited intelligence, sacrificing ends for moral principles (5)
Appearance of a Republican challenger (7)
Complete set of books written in the country (6)
Prohibitionist had row about English paper's screamer (6,8)
A switch between opposing sides in port (9)
Subject to bet, it could be inferior to Axminster (8)
Burden match official with announcement of rule (7)
Big fire I observed primarily consuming northern plant (7)
Way in which old Liberals must enter valley (6)
Appearing in drag: a military trumpeter (5)
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