Across
One standing to split Democrats miles apart (9)
Really like the French poodle, say (3,2)
Fruit and vegetable box reduced by 20 per cent (7)
Romeo embraced by stage heroine who's hard to understand? (7)
Strange way river is diverted further east (5)
After a brief drink before party, ready to spin yarns (9)
Flipping tag attached to collar and boater? (8)
Contact former spouse time after time (4)
Yank apprehends hard criminal (4)
Old Communist's struggle with movement after unexpectedly big reverses (8)
Servicemen protecting the Western Isles with energy? Not so (9)
Dropping round, keep quiet, fool (5)
Noticed shilling put in pocket (7)
Terrible in-house squabbling (7)
Turned up lacking confidence? Hardly! (5)
Paper featuring clever people in part (9)
Down
Drinker gets into water, nothing more (5)
Soft furnishings The Curtain Co's arranged on board (7,8)
What's central to teaching, always, for high flyer (8)
South of cape, choice of routes for ill-starred traveller (8)
One stabs gang leader twice in overturned study (6)
Close to industrial area, reconstruct US city (6)
Get off! It's not that car that needs towing (4,3,5,3)
In film, a rat is caught somehow feeding off other animals (9)
Over in bar, drinkers finally saying cheerio (7,2)
First parts of this old Gershwin number in concert (8)
Actress slim? Hard to believe (8)
Rather dry inside quarry (6)
Victory over political party? That's some kind of joke (4-2)
Job one secured in advance (5)
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