Across
Bill promises to pay after new dog first becomes aggressive (10)
Missile Soviets introduced — something to chew over? (4)
Bridge players tremble receiving intelligence agency's note (10)
Precipitation beginning to settle at present (4)
Noble widow's party bet, mostly payable before game (7,7)
Novelist bringing Worthing's alter ego way to the front? (6)
Eg Brunel's technique ultimately, never without spirit (8)
A better article in French about S American mammal (6)
Keeping register back, risks joint state office (14)
TV award this writer rejected? Goodness! (4)
Tufted material originally clicked with Shetland, town right away (10)
Not any composition left unfinished! (4)
Touch down on river following try-out of plane (4,6)
Down
Classy naval NCO's husband (4)
Yellow ducks, for example, seen around marsh (7)
Contact — a whimsical-sounding one touring north (12)
Woman identifies with first murder victim (6)
High-class writer with tailless dog, standing erect (8)
Acknowledge record formerly held by English (7)
With the current duke, have new master (10)
Weakness in a country novel the Spanish girl finally digested (8,4)
Shield university kept in battered chest once (10)
Revealing falsehood suppressed by one of the Archers? (8)
Officer's servant engaging old person in row, perhaps? (7)
Enduring a heartless injunction (7)
Help tidy up school appeal? (6)
Meet round rear of Garrick for burlesque (4)
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