Maybe like a microphone trick to smother insolence (4-2)

Cut around soft spot (6)

Keen officer hugging ace soldiers (6)

Place where you’ll find people who are little and large – bad place for one to be in (8)

‘Moneymaker’ that may grow in the garden (4)

I’m dire pest to be given spray? (6,4)

Fitting a number into sheltered accommodation to the east of a very quiet old city (11)

Creep is dodgy when capturing photo? Don’t step too close to these! (10)

Sound asleep, having abandoned party (4)

Fellow introducing singer Bobby is a bigwig (8)

Correspondence from one in political organisation (6)

Reportedly top vehicle for winter conditions (6)

Uncultivated, like a Ted of yesteryear? (6)

Pharmacist stocking drug gets stars (6)

Rascal observed penning pages about gangster (8)

Element of hospital meal, mostly very dry, eaten by tramp? (6)

Brainboxes managed to penetrate spy agency (6)

Troubles in hotel with relatives (6)

Silence poet conjured up in a time long ago (11)

Act of sports official – superior male with holy anger (8)

Religious type with extreme characters in an uplifting ceremony (8)

Old coins found in grain (6)

Snobbish as pig away from home apparently! (6)

Club characters regularly coming in could get on well together (6)

The old man’s upset, a soldier (6)