1 Buddhist leader has a Tamil cast (5,4)
10 Carelessly stored in this part of Wessex (6)
15 As much as or more than a motorcycle race round the meadows? (2,5)
21 Bird of prey found in countries that have no eminent features (8)
28 High tone of a subaltern (3)
29 "Heretofore" is "previously", these days (6)
30 A seabird will eat one with an eel (8)
32 Bert's in a disturbance in bar (8)
34 A barrier to economic prosperity (4)
35 One who's opposed to concealing a letter of credit (5)
36 Gives up in fierce despair (5)
37 Golf as it used to be played? (4)
38 I'm beginning to stain this and be around, are you? (6)
39 He doesn't win and there's a row (4)
40 Colleague loves to go round very quietly (4)
41 A crone wickedly covering one of her eyes (6)
42 Wanted, not initially, and made a bet on it (5)
43 One usually has a box for such a show (5)
44 A medium sought after by many artists (4)
46 A fleeting encounter with a bushy tail (5)
47 Adele enters piggery slowly, with dignity (8)
50 A chapel for Scrooge (8)
51 Carries out repairs right in the middle of a sandstorm (5)
52 Callas lost a pound moving around the opera-house (5)
53 In Eastern philosophy, almost a minced oath (3)
54 Love's a goddess? A god (6)
56 An agent for upholstery material (3)
58 A Frenchman raising fruit (4)
61 Old examination some undergo in making centuries (3)
63 "Before the Roman came to ***, or out to Severn strode." (Chesterton) (3)
64 Agents ring to give greeting abroad (4)
65 Information one has about the body chemistry (5)
67 A furtive look leads to murder in New York city (9)
72 This service uses a variety of cars (4)
74 Type of record requested erratic, or unusual number one? (10)
76 Announce levy on gambling rules (6)
78 A blow that was the undoing of Nero (4)
79 Leave in some haste - that's the answer (4)
80 Despite being motorised transport, it seems, I go by foot (6)
82 A Minoan overturning collection of everything (7)
85 Be inclined to pay heed (4)
86 Best route perhaps for a lady's maid (9)
88 Puffs pipe filled with last in jar, bit of shag (6)
91 American white infuriated by left-wing audacity (7)
93 "Turn of the Tide" - prepare for publication (4)
94 Chooses Les, in turn, to join the new sect (7)
96 Take a chopper to wear out a personal nuisance (6)
98 Regrettable, having to include her (4)
99 Boadicea's lot reversed in an industrial giant Obs. spelling (5)
100 A century being a long time in confinement (4)
102 Chinese philosopher appreciated by audience (5)
103 Being a judge is also instrumental (8)
105 Andean shrub; in the East drug-making (4)
107 Shaking, spilt her drinks with magical powers (8)
109 Border in Italian resort (6)
110 A little one, a really tiny one, is handy (4)
111 Least space to wash one's hands? (8,4)
113 Iranian bread (5)
115 Square pilaster seen in an Italian tabernacle (4)
116 Controls dreadful little courts (7)
117 A little beast seen by sailors - that's right (7)
120 Some ciliary material connected to the thigh-bone? (4)
121 Additional note I add to a letter (3)
122 Some currency stingily put in bag? (6)
123 Met up on the way to see the river (4)
125 Devious spares we came up against in the Suez crisis (6)
127 Without Queen this bid would not be on (5)
131 Sheila maybe in topless costume (5)
133 A line of communication for hookah (4)
134 Former enemy of American navy vessel right to the end (1,1,1,1)
137 Fumed wildly, but agree to include 500 (5)
138 Irish writer is reckless they say (5)
139 The territorial detachment under Ulysses's command (6)
140 From China it developed, not new as martial art (3,3)
143 Bill only is in deadly earnest (2,3)
144 Buoyant broadcaster? (2,3)
145 Scots teach Spenser's to learn (4)
146 A dash for the river (4)
149 A pound invested in food for spread (5)
150 Red to make an early start in knocking back drink (5)
151 Muddles in catering establishments (6)
154 A small island of grey Otranto (4)
155 Leslie and I go southeast to find the,white-flowered unbelliferous plant (6)
156 "Mens ***" signifies evil intent in law (4)
157 Expert without former indication (4)
159 They are proverbially much like wet soap when squashed (3,4)
163 A neck of land is like this, covering a mile (7)
164 Cause turbidity in river with greasy liquid (4)
165 A Rhodesian declaration cipher put together with such frequency? (5)
166 Where you can save when a cycle starts (7,5)
168 An English County Garden! (4)
169 Haggard heroine with an agreeable answer this year (6)
171 John ****** - Irish-American hammer thrower par excellence (8)
172 Head of Maths leaves lesson for exam (4)
174 An awkward rider before and behind (8)
175 Hear two letters in Germany (5)
176 Upcountry there's a large expanse of water (4)
177 Divan ordered for a Russian cross country runner (5)
179 Highballs (4)
182 Pipe round projection not starting to be hooked (6)
185 Predate hurriedly having been re-recorded (7)
187 A Hundred possessed : Where? In N'Djameena? (4)
188 Closes together right in the set (7)
189 Store fodder? Senile, perhaps (6)
190 Echoing to change some nineteenth century architecture (9)
192 A backward force often flying this off (4)
194 Ancient magistrate gets the wife in the air (7)
197 "O! for a falconer's voice, To lure this gentle *** back again" (Romeo & Juliet) (6)
198 Bulb has produced heads of crocuses, one richly marked (4)
199 Disheartened boxer domiciled in South Africa (4)
201 Order nothing French for Irish writer (6)
203 Alert and trying to look big (2,4,4)
206 Get cracking challenge to the doctor (4)
210 Hire organ and listen (4,2,3)
211 A Buddhist shrine one enters backwards (5)
213 I cheer mythical princess (4)
215 A might get nothing like this to die, by the sound of it (3)
217 'Tis alternative (3)
218 His wax troubled Caesar less as this? (4)
219 Always for a poet partly cheerful (3)
221 A street that's a thoroughfare of some antiquity should be walked over (6)
224 A strong feeling one gets in retirement (3)
225 Creating sheer chaos in town (5)
226 Bumps felt in Northern Lines (5)
229 This was to Verdi what Joe is to Green (8)
232 He's put up the money to set one temporarily free (8)
234 A cent may be exchanged for decree (5)
236 Escorted back to large valley (4)
238 The magpie will swallow the end of cone from the spruce (5)
239 A couple of kings as depicted in tapestry (5)
241 A minor's trophies? (6)
243 Berliner's odd bits of cheese (4)
245 First Lady's backing golfer (4)
246 I'm the vicar sent back to name some despicable people (6)
247 " A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the *** " (Kipling) (4)
248 A stock phrase in circulars for part of S.Island (5)
249 "An isle under *****n skies, Beautiful as a wreck of Paradise" (Shelley: Epipsychidion) (5)
250 Popular singer keen to make a come back (4)
251 Chuckers-out of dud cheques? (8)
252 Lasts longer than expected - like a poor guest? (8)
253 I attend to reeking chimney? What an idea! (6)
254 A line from the timetable (3)
255 One's path is made rough by drunken butler (8)
256 Does she make some lad crazy? (7)
257 One had a wife hit the nail on the head (6)
258 That place in Belgium's all out of order (9)

1 Drum stick twirled by soldiers (5)
2 A diamond set back behind a fancy opal is what makes a crown very noticeable (8)
3 Cease using plug (4)
4 Sound active (3)
5 Ambushed whilst travelling by carriage (2,1,4)
6 "None of your live *** for Miss Blimber" (Dickens) (9)
7 Be a witness at that canopy (8)
8 French sea shanty the crew put together sailing the trade routes (11)
9 A South American city so pronounced in song (6)
10 An order may be made by a competent authority incorporates a set of opinions on the subject in the Orient (6)
11 Without pause or interruption (2,3)
12 By the sound of it went boating - on horseback? (4)
13 More in need of a shower after making adjustments rate-wise (8)
14 "About the woodland ride Wearing white for **** tide" (A.E. Housman) (6)
15 Pain of some writing a column (5)
16 This hound drives deer out of cover (6)
17 Rings to offer support, in the main (9)
18 Abridge cover between similar notes (5)
19 A charitable person, but no end of a nut, the monarch (7)
20 As used for the cutting of a rail system in the southeast? (5)
21 A fitting shrub for a champion and suburban Victorians (6)
22 Oprah's top, never heartless? expert (3-2)
23 Connected in weird fashion (5)
24 A non-drinker's anger swallowed when dresses appeared (7)
25 Be prepared to pray, let us say, for a man (4)
26 Addicted to habits? (6)
27 A step taken before conservationists can get clamorous (8)
31 Union involved in printing articles (1,1,1)
32 Bizarre sort of charcoal burner (7)
33 Bird said to get stuck into the joint (4)
45 A sheepish expression (3)
46 Endlessly obstruct international union (4)
48 A sane, moderate group of countries (5)
49 Fifty one on ship going to ancient Irish fort (4)
52 A man writing copy in quarters (6)
54 She works heartlessly (4)
55 Vapour trails on the horizon? (8)
57 Something written as an afterthought about slower, inferior horses (7)
59 Part of well-known suite broadcast I slate as a confection (8)
60 Mass movement gained us representation (5,3)
61 Bishop breaks into song in church grounds (5)
62 Thriller writer's vehicle, we hear (4)
63 Take a double role in part of play (3,3)
66 Agreeing by chance? (11)
68 This study of body movements doesn't need anything said (8)
69 It may be used to start something (10)
70 Can you take nothing from the underground and make a nonsense of what is left? (4)
71 Our last letter to the Greeks (4)
73 Filthy stuff making stomachs churn over (4)
74 It's beneath a youngster to take out-of-date measures (6)
75 The girl in a famous Hindi radio play (6)
77 Woody tissues and fibres with lignified walls (6)
81 Almost all object. That's parliament for you! (7)
82 Establishing one's position in circle letting one in (9)
83 Belonged to Hieronymus Bosch (6)
84 For the meantime there's a small depression over where the mud is turned over (2,7)
87 Close inspection of what pupil may sit (11)
89 Driving competition (US style) (6)
90 Scrabble score (5)
92 Make the inside of clay (4)
94 A fiddler, perhaps, who could be of use outside a house (7)
95 Cabbage and king (4)
97 "In this part I steal the show" (stage performer) (7)
101 Sunflower once found in exotic seraglio (8)
104 You have no longer to separate and remove the top of excessively crude oil into tin (6)
105 Bang goes financial ruin (5)
106 Angular? One of a pair of small stenographers working in tandem have an interest in a Down clue (5)
107 Royal priest recreated by R. Jones, Perth (7,4)
108 Emerge from the ranks and make speedy progress (4,3)
112 A dope consumed it and became mentally dulled (7)
114 Synthetic material used in cranial surgery? (7)
118 Deliverer going back to his pledge (8)
119 Made by tiles from Russia? (3,4)
124 A square one should go round easily enough! (4)
125 A bit mad to keep on all those bolts! (4)
126 A costly catering course but it's not at all well done (4,5)
127 Abnormally slow predators (4)
128 Brandy and short fizzy drink succeeded as culinary additive (5,6)
129 Beat the girl round the corner (4)
130 Leisure? It might be used again - use again (9)
132 Are they produced by screwy spinners? (7)
133 Clown not to return with energy for him (6)
135 The eccentric seek and find so it's told (7)
136 Makes a great fuss and prepares to use the stick, we hear (6,4)
141 Scare once getting fellow in area flustered (5)
142 Horse with shortened head and long at the back (5)
147 They're the things routines are made up of (6)
148 Easily-folded piano subject (7)
152 How the saint, together with his boy, puts his foot down (6,2)
153 Hard agreement secured in a way that's extremely cautious (6)
155 Lanes meander in pleasant Boyne Valley village where Ledwidge the poet was born (5)
158 River bird seen in Mediterranean city of Etruria (8)
160 Attend on carol singer (4)
161 A bloomer no dealer made (8)
162 By the agency of a style of architecture seen on the right-hand page (3,3)
163 Red shins could also be lacerated (2,6)
164 Arm bone coming out from the centre (6)
165 A courtesan, Anastasia, has pineapples from Guadaloupe (6)
167 Bales moved round both ends of the entrance can be observed (7)
170 ... schoolmaster among an undesirable crowd (3)
173 A dictum devoid of principles (6)
178 Never to muse can appear enterprising (11)
180 French bird loses gold tail in river (4)
181 A stock of wine, so it's said, will provide something popular with the customers (6)
183 A note on the age ... (4)
184 Revised notes for public schoolboys? (5)
186 Country arousing oriental wrath (4)
191 A fraction more than nothing about a person who is late (4)
193 You can say what you like but your paper won't be charged (4,5)
195 Aegean island's sound tracks (5)
196 Anger about a point in the matter (2,2)
197 Type of High Lama confused in golfing accessories creating such Wheelers of Trolleys? (3,6)
198 Argues about expenses, grabbing note nonetheless (8)
200 People waiting in line, right, in pigtails (7)
202 Boy takes a girl from India (4)
204 Romance can bring a strange elation in addition to onset of nerves (8)
205 Given the opportunities, ring, write and sing out (8)
206 A demand for silence ..... (4)
207 Bitter though better halves of fish? (8)
208 Approach somebody, but not in a direct way (5,2)
209 White metal: use mica if worried (7)
212 A P.C. entangled with vice - classic admission of guilt (7)
214 A measure of resistance (3)
216 Badly behind, missing third payment, ultimately still owing (2,4)
218 An orator who's often typecast - if heading North East, could act as his audience's guide! (6)
220 About to reprimand class again (6)
222 A girl turns up after six: capital! Brose I made into sugar (6)
223 Bill returns with a part of her (6)
224 The foreigner taking one in - and badly (6)
227 Piedmont college is lone innovator (4)
228 Star speaker, we hear (5)
229 A piece of rag I've now obtained without payment (5)
230 A bird once found in New Zealand, on South Island (5)
231 A vowel to get to Christmas entertainment (5)
232 A degree to little Sarah is fundamental (5)
233 The primate of Gibraltar (5)
235 A fine writer, though as yet unfamiliar (5)
237 Some take over turnover with a glad cry (4)
240 A beastly place-in the most yucky state (3)
242 Dried-up watercourse needing western aid, possibly (4)
244 Eastern V.I.P.'s come-back is a bit of a frost (4)
250 Israel's John o' Groats? (3)