Across
Entering water, I function for a very short time (10)
Try and catch (4)
Bring down five hundred and three on slides (8)
Entering sustained campaign, contest comparatively less flat (6)
Rank element in space above (6)
Initiate action on a plane, perhaps? (6,2)
What big, mean delinquent has time for diminutive fighter? (12)
Starter had type of liquid served with a little bread (4,2,3,3)
I didn't quite get that dance (6-2)
Separate taste, as some wines drunk (6)
Second musical yarn (6)
Pitch a collection of works, overwhelmed by theatre award (8)
Advantage held by seed, generally (4)
Turn creative — work on Picasso, primarily (5,5)
Down
He perhaps gets spattered with rain (5,3)
Bear scratching head well! (3)
Under root of tree, spare wood (5)
Look after complete bishopric (7)
Complete day throwing fits (9)
What queen might do — panic! (4,7)
A place for walk (6)
A duck an alternative to minced meat? (3,1,7)
Plan to cover place in our mouldy cheese (9)
Numbing cold crushing Scott's heart, Amundsen ultimately coming first (8)
Very basic home situated in row (3-4)
Eight nil: football team, one short, cross (6)
Bent wings of bluejay? (5)
First signs of limp elastic in some worn bloomers? (3)
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