1 Lovers order as ordered (7)
8 Salmon, down at the rear (4-4)
15 Thaw out nearer goal (3,4)
21 Insert ad, rewritten, for used appliances (5-3)
28 Neither gets small number right (3)
29 Chance managed to have party leader in mess (6)
30 In moving, unearthed unfinished part of paint (8)
32 A battered hat and glove found floating in a river (3,5)
34 Giving pain in the eyes or ears (4)
35 Bad head cold initially hurt (5)
36 Dealing with the morning's paper (5)
37 Like a man who won at Wimbledon (4)
38 Make warmer, teapot style (6)
39 Dreary party at the old place (4)
40 Dental examination? (4)
41 Shakespearean King seen in a journal on some subject or other (6)
42 Don't go away when you get punishment (5)
43 Legally, it's relative (2-3)
44 Mother Shipton's? (4)
46 Prosperous-looking ships turned back (5)
47 Neither girl is going round to Hamlet's place (8)
50 Beginner at the races (7)
51 "The murmuring ***, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes" (King Lear) (5)
52 Dispatch reveals hostilities moving South (5)
53 It strikes one that this is unaspirated (3)
54 Article on lawbreaking in Russia (6)
56 Senior short of cash abroad (3)
58 Had information - fresh, by the sound of it (4)
61 Note source of illumination (3)
63 Crazy doctor will grab one (3)
64 The girl who has a break (4)
65 Laugh when the man is in place to use iron? (2-3)
67 Fear there could be loose parts - without attachment (5-4)
71 A bit of business that won't get you out of London with a Ford (4)
73 Combine two scenes in the last one of all (10)
75 Go by for drinks in midweek (6)
77 Heavy blow that is singularly effective? (4)
78 A quarter had the fish (4)
79 Entertains applications before lunch (6)
81 Frenchman designed a shirt to suit pagan god (7)
84 Ill-fitting suit from the Outer Hebrides (4)
85 Put forward parliamentary hearing for the French MP - it's very illuminating! (5,4)
87 Drives the wife crazy, too, being confined (6)
90 Scottish team's top performer - quite a card! (3,2,6)
92 Leading activist called out the mayor (7)
94 Evergreen entertainer of the silent screen (6)
96 Prefix which with a spoilt duet would reach some height, no doubt (4)
97 Big blow - put on a helmet (5)
98 All froth and bubble? (4)
100 Rump showing in passionate scene! (5)
101 Food taken aboard in a rough sea (8)
103 For its size it's a type of magpie (4)
105 A gamble that's permitted en route (8)
107 Do mine become rich? (6)
108 The main areas of the earth (4)
109 In a playful way? (12)
111 Bits of news from the Times (5)
113 Does what is only human (4)
114 In the Orkneys, an estate holder will be upper class radical, getting upset about everything (7)
115 Marks many a variety of fruit (7)
118 Swing because a killing was done (4)
119 Love of money (3)
120 It's good, they say, like the Gospel? (2,4)
121 'Rosy-fingered' - such a classical epithet (4)
123 They're out of this world! (6)
125 Band of ground mown showing what's amiss (5)
129 Crucibles some artisan testily rejected (5)
131 Fill up - seconds consumed (4)
132 Half-witted bird? (4)
135 Bird seen by river and lake (5)
136 What Kenyans, given their heads, uttered hotly under royal umbrella (5)
137 Is Rene - or was he - head of Disney? (6)
138 Looped rope will show complexity in a trail (6)
141 English flag over Scottish island (5)
142 Get hold of key file (5)
143 Old attempt starts to rule in error (4)
144 '*** with faint praise' (Pope) (4)
147 Armed vehicle crossing a formation of Japanese lines (5)
148 Cut and run? (5)
149 Hamburger substitute (6)
152 She'll be a fool if she turns up! (4)
153 Bad start to early letter I sent to sultanate (6)
154 War-time defence corps (3)
155 The college of the century in short (4)
157 Fool holding horse about to intrude (7)
161 Bank of Scotland? (7)
162 In the end a girl is confused (4)
163 A number get resin from a biblical tree (5)
164 East raids are diverted to where things have gone wrong (8,4)
166 Coming back, encounter swarm (4)
167 One absorbs each rotten German city (6)
169 He got the singer flustered, coming round to ask for an autograph (4,4)
170 Grey eminence for tea? (4)
172 Requires a mission statement (8)
173 First of early birds in this part of roof? (5)
174 In grammar a substantive sister swallows nothing (4)
175 Ghosts came after his doll's house (5)
177 Half the letters could go like a bomb! (4)
180 Horned animals with whom one horn's broken (6)
183 Noisy instruments possibly startle (7)
185 In capital city, high Anglican, initially, is bishop? (11)
186 Units of light coming from in a chimney first (6)
187 Trying to find, in the burning church (9)
189 A love outwardly secure (4)
191 Slowed down aloft and became less than perfect (7)
194 Not one of the idle rich, obviously (6)
195 Revealing shortage at the top? (4)
196 For the trip to Mecca, Henry nowadays takes Jack (4)
198 Legislation upset crank found in cabinet (6)
200 Shocking raging hell this TV school can be! (6,4)
203 Desert American serviceman died in (4)
207 Animals watch for beautiful stone (6,3)
208 "A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish **** " (Tennyson: In Memoriam) (5)
210 I'll get a shilling for my troubles (4)
212 A Finnish port reduced sea-man to nothing (3)
214 A British airborne visitor (3)
215 Did she find Siam small change from India? (4)
216 Guys with energy in high school (3)
218 Fishes from flat-bottomed boats (6)
221 To put a letter in a doctor's title will indeed honour him (3)
222 "The portrait of a blinking *** " (The Merchant of Venice) (5)
223 Broadcast to put down again (5)
226 "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is " (Proverbs) (8)
229 Prepares to resist attack from bears to the end (6,2)
231 Candidate removing me from Red Indian tribe (7)
233 Poetic circle I located in the District of Columbia (4)
235 Puritans use clothing depicted in Psalms (5)
236 Less draped about in silks (5)
238 Party has to breathe heavily using drugs material (6)
240 Fifty old books by one French novelist (4)
242 Arrangement of late carrying weight in China (4)
243 How to kick if you don't like this one! (3,3)
244 Bachelor about to be uncovered (4)
245 Chap gets a pole to chase the old king (5)
246 I love to own Scots retreat in the country (5)
247 Begin softly in one variation (4)
248 Dredged part of swimming pool around end of June (8)
249 Genuine item processed, going through computer immediately (8)
250 For example, I'm so besotted with pride (6)
251 Country where no land produces heat (3)
252 Marries - that means supports (8)
253 Came and stupidly related to a Greek man of letters (7)
254 Girl with little follower who helped paraphrase the Bard (4,4)
255 Tree surrounded by policy pressure group (7)

1 So Ann's going around with an old sailor (5)
2 Cross over and examine, hoping to burgle, part of the house (4-4)
3 Something odd to Sandy in a sporran (4)
4 Be sorry the French way (3)
5 Disturbed sleep at this resort? (7)
6 Makes new career, involved with different set (9)
7 Old Bob and the Companion of Honour have rows and scream (8)
8 Make a start in winter-time (5,3,3)
9 Distributes soup in fifty different deals (6)
10 Command given before the red carpet is laid? (6)
11 Make garden spots from a dense jungle (5)
12 Odd bits of biomass show up at shoulder level (4)
13 Murderer turning up with bullets in compound (8)
14 Habit creating patronage (6)
15 Old romantic tale somehow gets the point (5)
16 Itches to change the rules of conduct (6)
17 Horror of man beset by weird spectre (3,6)
18 Decomposed basalt of old (5)
19 Ask Nora to provide the jackets (7)
20 In tranquillity I have another shot at the exam (5)
21 Presumably a slower route to Scotland (3,3,4)
22 About time service is broadcast again (5)
23 Declares the class has been docked off wading bird : small Women's Service replaces (5)
24 Getting on in fact, senior to many (7)
25 A Russian soldier turns up with the gold (4)
26 Rejected an application with a feeling of disgust (6)
27 Dud horse hidden in more ways than one (8)
31 Artist's cape for an Abyssinian prince (3)
32 Smallest one in the home after item was returned (7)
33 In Ontario, a huge island (4)
45 No good for firewood - it's been there already (3)
46 Legal suspension of support (4)
48 Russian girl's anger with North America (5)
49 It must be incorporated in any future television network (4)
52 Was obliged to one parent only (6)
54 Actress dear to the French (4)
55 Excited by a small speculation (8)
57 Taken to the snuggery first and cuddled (7)
59 South African province supporting maybe one of newborn children (8)
60 The home of enthusiasts, rather than financial types? And they go round in cars (3,5)
61 Charming words put into letters (5)
62 Blood split by giant (4)
63 Dromedary for me and Mata (6)
66 Nymph - comparatively reliable measurer of depth of sea (4-7)
68 Manage once more to darn heel? (8)
69 Create a disturbance when you beat the carpet? (5,1,4)
70 Turned-up with mace (4)
72 Position tee and play delicate shot (4)
73 Waves said to be suiting (6)
74 Brooks has no right, yet loses his cool! (6)
76 Cockney man's taking vehicle and parking on the steep slope (6)
80 One may be inflamed by such a cocktail (7)
81 Doesn't handle kindly (9)
82 Leslie and I go southeast to find the,white-flowered unbelliferous plant (6)
83 College where one's held up by wild bears (9)
86 Stall recreation for an end of drinking (4,3,4)
88 Portent involving one large group of Texans (6)
89 Over-indulges as a possible asset (5)
91 Five hundred out of the money for sport (3)
92 Years possibly follow as a metal tester (7)
93 Halt in the making of fabric with gold threads (4)
95 His view of life is austere, one might even say sour (7)
99 Social intercourse is much ado about guile (8)
102 I say I'm inclined to favor her (6)
103 Pledges for puppets? (5)
104 Conclude it could refer to air (5)
105 Phone the bosses - they're responsible (11)
106 First of these, in a Beethoven symphony, is a rousing composition (7)
110 Advancing, Nina turned in account (7)
112 Catches a branch of medicine and strikes (7)
116 Parliamentarian commonly in diplomatic circle (8)
117 Seaside rope-makers (7)
122 Such engines gave uplift in Korea (4)
123 A river sheltered from the wind (4)
124 Dank merely brewed in the best way (9)
125 Olympian return to port (4)
126 One seen in a flap in the Royal Navy (5,6)
127 20% off Arab car (4)
128 A chap is coloured externally like the frog the princess kissed (9)
130 Improvises with a smoked dish (5,2)
131 An old Jewish spice, liquid Myrrh (6)
133 Play by Euripides disturbing to seers (7)
134 Repulsive article returned to us during a meal (10)
139 Courts in European country, not US (5)
140 Some Latin drug (5)
145 Potentially harmful, losing rare football team (6)
146 Not one to have regrets being locked up inside a cell? (7)
150 Sees, it's said, big baskets for fruit - or molluscs (3,5)
151 Like NASA trying out Yoga stances (6)
153 Bread roll bowled a member over (5)
156 Place in Scotland for a man with more than one wife (8)
158 Step entrance, reportedly (4)
159 German girl with information about attempt to throw up (8)
160 Again, run out (6)
161 Reduce the worth of French prize (8)
162 Isolate when becoming senile (6)
163 Book of the year (6)
165 The Egyptian wife of Joseph and mother of Ephraim and Manessah (7)
168 Chinese statesman from Manchu area (3)
171 Lira to change in Venice (6)
176 Ancient burial place - for queens? (7,4)
178 Not the man from the brass band! (4)
179 Devoted member of the congregation is in the market (6)
181 Excitement that knocks out the weaker runners (4)
182 Quiet! Noah's boat has a dangerous follower! (5)
184 Degrades Asian, miles out (10)
188 Cabbage as a teatime delicacy? (4)
190 A stranger found on an island got up to be transferable (9)
192 Reportedly settled (for old rope, in the nautical sense) (5)
193 Individualists? (4)
194 The fiery Celt can be so exciting! (9)
195 Ban Bond in formal dress! (5,3)
197 Degenerated to some extent when climbing, so went back (7)
199 It's wrong to raise the pace (4)
201 Precipitation not cheap, we hear, with this creature (8)
202 Is no pick-me-up but sounds very much the same nevertheless (8)
203 Some fascinating ideas presented by French novelist (4)
204 Fish left in straw hats? (8)
205 He held revolutionary views about the world (7)
206 Caught young girl with a dictionary (7)
209 Light fuel user? (3,4)
211 Lady from Long Island going to mid-Wales (3)
213 Norfolk women? (6)
217 Level deposits (6)
219 Windpipe will cause a bit of convulsion in bad heart (7)
220 Way a help is returned in places for games (6)
221 It can all be attributed to one thing, goes the theory (6)
224 One cover to surpass others (1,3)
225 Spry manoeuvres put new heart into Belgian settlement (5)
226 Cut off bits of fruit (5)
227 In Rome, stars in a humanities retrospective (5)
228 Set to the side, raising a smile (5)
229 It is among the passerine birds (5)
230 Film: "The River in the Sun" (5)
232 Dressing up? Clementine's shoes are the limit (5)
234 Cunning, in the main (4)
237 Radiation dosage seen while asleep (3)
239 Bess's partner loses his head in wild party (4)
241 Love-bird painter (4)
247 "Propeller" drawn on the inside of "Skiff?" (3)