Across: 1. SI: Prissy MP to misinterpret revealing expression (7) 6. LMi: Paciest surgery is clean (7) 11. SSV: Figure sum, Bohr set (7) 12. SSV: John gets surprising win on top of dangerous peak (7) 13. SSV: More expensive sterilizers, less virulent, taken off (7) 14. NR: A saint upset about second apostle was the one who was burnt alive (7) 17. CO: Exclaim surprise, taken aback, by mammal having sex at home (7) 20. RL: World Series winner, naturally, is showing off! (3) 21. SA: Is Spanish to dart wildly across a Spanish road (7) 22. CFJ: Volume one: a point in fiction (3) 23. SA: A Spanish river's too short for old Italian poet (7) 24. MC: Snakes having a dump can be found in sewers, perhaps (7) 25. JJ: Mostly harmless person has ring of fire (7) 29. LMu: Shift seat around, leaving aside husband and model in carnivals (7) 33. RL: Madam found to be first programmer! (3) 34. RVB: Grand nut (or orator) in retirement is seen to be pompous (7) 35. SA: Here, heading off before ... (3) 36. SSV: Swimmer's starting to lambast claim of being a victim (7) 37. JL: Ran the show carelessly, in greed (7) 38. JL: Tarnish starts to come off -- rust remover usually promotes that (7) 40. JH: The rain falling - it's on my head (7) 42. JH: Foreign politician in New York before the Queen comes back (7) 43. SB: Tribal chief of South America, a Spanish dude and Master of Science (7) 44. SK: Endures, with sisters around (7) Down: 1. NB: Consult Anabelle about raisin (7) 2. CFJ: One known for night visitors was not in time, perhaps (7) 3. CO: Bad posture for groups of dancers, perhaps (7) 4. RL: Yes! Buckeye state loses one. (3) 5. RVB: Styles lead to Californian city (7) 6. VM: A bad actor followed a supporter of Lincoln perhaps (7) 7. NB: Briefly studied odd years-old accounting system in China (3) 8. LMi: Crazy English beast for Spanish crocodile hunter! (7) 9. RVB: He tilts amazingly for a Scottish honour (7) 10. SI: Santosh Iyer Gathers clues without an informer (7) 15. SSV: Fleet follows source of Nile river (7) 16. NB: A step in the right direction for dancer (7) 18. VM: A row about German woman's name (7) 19. SA: Atmosphere ok, they say, if we spend less on this? (7) 25. NB: Walks around city with stately homes (7) 26. CO: Starts to cover a modern crib strangely in fine cotton (7) 27. DMK: Serendipity for Melody (7) 28. CO: Wild! Animals are shy with dirty toes (7) 29. SI: Longer hair, with the hairpin in the middle (7) 30. RL: Enlightens and deifies, more or less (7) 31. CFJ: They rent for one night, initially, in portable shelters (7) 32. PGN: Calms by taking Selenium on appointments (7) 39. RL: Ant Man is in a happy mood (3) 41. VM: Exist in shared accommodation (3)
Key: CFJ: Chris FA Johnson, CO: Camelia Oberoi, DMK: Debbie Manber Kupfer, JH: Joel Hess, JJ: John Johnson, JL: Jeremy Landig, LMi: Luke Mitchell, LMu: Lata Muthanna, MC: Marcus Carli, NB: Neha Bhandari, NR: Neelima Rai, PGN: Phoenix Griffin Newton, RL: Roy Leban, RVB: Rhiannon Vivian-Bolt, SA: Steve Allen, SB: Sudha Bhaskaran, SI: Santosh Iyer, SK: Samit Kallianpur, SSV: SSv Avtaar, VM: Vaibhav Mathur
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CO: Rebelliously defies holding one who morally instructs (7) CO: Feast is cooked for carnivals (7) CO: So fancy - Riz naughtily having sex with the queen (7) CO: The powerful unravel or undo time (7) JH: Sounds like a pig's call to itself in Rome (3) JH: Wild, numberless Etruscan clergymen (7) JL: Prices for travel are including sketchy, unlimited tariff (7) JL: Half of arenas exist (3) NH: The French legislator really dropped everything for fish (7) NH: River has new fleet (7) NH: Selfies tastefully captured celebrations (7) NH: Queens, New York, previously engaged leading Tanzanian politician (7) NH: First, man curtailed woman perhaps? (3) NH: Exclamation of surprise from husband caught between 2 loves (3) RL: If I can start after a lobbying group, it'll be peaceful (7) RL: Father ties up Buckingham, Kensington, and others (7) RL: Scottish emblem ⇨ TLE (7) RL: Lots of money backing song (7) RL: Cafeteria mesh are laced with a trace of flavor (7) RL: Lynn would hear about an Antarctic peak (7) RVB: Hat covers a bit of the environment (7) RVB: Peaceful music if I capture returning feature (7) RVB: First man ran back to a river (7) RVB: Clerical assistants' rodent is surrounded by signs (7) SA: Foolish temptation, not apt strangely, to see old composer (7) SA: Duller? Introduce ecstacy! Lost, I returned and took charge (7) SA: Doctor takes crazy hours to get in shape (7) SA: More glamorous hotelier? (7) SA: PS Tommy played with something like a cough (7) SA: Confusingly, Saint Paul's not half a saint (7) SA: Cut off start of material, sew in start of material, hem with piece of cotton material (7) SA: Yes, coots almost become other creatures (7) SA: Underwear worn by poor actor in biblical role (7) SA: Crustacean cannot be cooked for some members of the clergy (7) SA: Group loses leader and is taken over by retrogressive group. Groups! (7) SA: Groups entertaining soldiers, I hear (7) SB: More than nine workers are boarders (7) SB: A support husband gets during morning from Biblical patriarch (7) SB: Tanzanian politician for New Year with King and Queen of England (7) SB: Move about say, on public transport that's in the form of quadrilateral (7) SB: Little sister without rest comes to grief and refuses to comply (7) SB: Wore the crown and showered, say (7) SB: Lady drops husband, goes on rendevouzs, puts to sleep (7) SI: She forced Madeleine to dump me (7) SI: Slam!! Boom!! Bam!! Maybe get people who can fix stuff (7) SI: While in Spain, Steven named hybrid bee-ants (7) SI: New position reached when good man exited turnstile (3) SI: American leaders placed a Swiss unit inside a German military group (7) SI: Insult a native inhabitant, answer to the queen! (7) SSV: Confronts some gymnasts I serenaded around (7) SSV: Blaise, mostly has love for US town (7) SSV: Commercial slogan about European woman (7) SSV: Price of song and food (7) SSV: Tainted President in depression follows God (7) SSV: Obscene, low sound, flipping in bed (7) SSV: Ministers had dogs’ collars (7) SSV: Lock-holder? (7) 4 SSV: Couple of points about king and prior (3) SSV: #fun Book about a CCs Admin (3) SSV: Expression of triumph from husband wearing glasses (3) SSV: Comic character starting to play “Return of God” (3) VM: Used a Tesla for concealing drugs (7) VM: A fair arrangement about price of tickets (7) VM: A saint perhaps, embracing Pergamum primarily (7) VM: A poet polluted air with powdered soot (7) VM: Revolutionary agency protected pets treated to be free of germs (7) VM: A dancer, i.e. a star perhaps (7) VM: Tommy's shaky, carrying silent sign of sickness (7)