Across
Male warmonger carrying a fighting-axe (8)
Parisian gangster quickly seizing hostage at the outset (6)
Scot's weird longing to follow presbyter, not English (8)
Archer's old wife meeting maiden in bar (6)
Hear a pal in rap, changing bits and pieces (13)
Fellow hiding current shame (5)
Like Tom, confused about measure of distance (9)
Aim of Bill's deed followed by chaps in hospital department (9)
Glorify Good Queen providing accommodation for fifty (5)
Dam river in Kent perhaps, the place of one's birth (6,7)
Increasingly accepting nearly everyone's state of mind (6)
Obstruction demanded to protect part of canal (8)
Income, sad to say, taken back by railway (6)
Poet's mature relationship with nature, for example (3,5)
Down
Intruder very dated in French resistance (10)
Bad name for a soft earthy substance (3)
Musical security device protecting the locks? (7)
Player on pitch, one hanging on to gate (12)
Sound out head of maths about ultimately equivocal sum? (7)
Observation about trick over small storage area (11)
Predatory type seen in Inverness (4)
Clinically carving up Italy, visit in any case (12)
Naval officer adapted drama, initially recasting Ariel (4,7)
Woollen cloth Irish plunged in Kentucky lake (10)
Former PM endlessly surrounded by regularly stark gossip (7)
Club employee, a lively, energetic individual! (7)
Birds Greek character captured in French art (4)
Some article — extremely newsy! (3)
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