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Business is key; spin is ultimately futile (10)
enterprise
Humber is no longer where pressure's high - express good wishes about it (10)
bridgeless
Monstrous woman who could be petrifying (6)
medusa
Apostle, a model, had a Roman god (8)
thaddeus
Keeping one in parental affection (7)
storage
Pants and straightens up, you might say (5)
trews
Furniture assistant for actor (7)
dresser
Line of soldiers prepared for offensive (4)
rank
The teenager making a scene and told off (10)
adolescent
Bill gets a million marketing water (5,3)
adams ale
Fight with a bird that might be highly strung (3,4)
box kite
Ape rushed into marsh, head disappearing (5)
orang
Winner audible at last? (5)
trump
Fail to drain udders before court d-drama (5,4,4)
under milk wood
Place for tender date by houses (7)
bedside
Controversial mineral left under post (9)
polemical
Get docked sailor aboard old tub (6)
obtain
Smart case for a tool (7)
cleaver
Perfectionism comes from short education in the butler's domain (8)
pedantry
"It's good to be French!" (a line from a wake-up call) (3,4)
get real
Car demo to be organised - for a president? (9)
motorcade
Son is against being involved in secret trysts (12)
assignations
How Polonius was covered in embarrassment (5)
arras
A short stretch of time criminal tries to reduce gradually (8)
amortise
Unaffiliated to Welby for the present? (5)
nonce
Useless person declines sweets (5,5)
lemon drops
Summer snake? (5)
adder
I'm unhappy! I have a deficiency (5)
alack
Yield to joint French and German articles (7,5)
knuckle under
Brisk corporal punishment (8)
spanking
Girl to see the light after stripping (5)
ethel
In less than ten years you went to rack and ruin (7)
decayed
Given inferior status, daughter displayed strong feelings (7)
demoted
Temporary flight in summer carrying large pets up (10)
stepladder
Still no place for tart (4)
acid
Newborn issue given Welsh name (7)
bronwen
'T and T' is abroad - a long way off (7)
distant
Stupid person, possibly a fool (7)
pudding
Mac, the gunner, in officer's 'eadgear (8)
raincoat
Cut down bust, "Chesty"! (6)
scythe
Fix novel, after bending back cover (7)
dilemma
Horse in wet weather returning to Indian islands (7)
nicobar
Locks for fortress not in favour (5)
tress
Hearsay over footer scrimmage before this (10)
heretofore
Butterfly allowed to follow band (7)
ringlet
Sound of involuntary personal outburst in dispute you might hear (7)
atishoo
Put on society clothing, or track suit? (10)
sportswear
Concerned in the thinking re environment (5)
green
Drug in wrong receptacle for narcotic user (7)
ashtray
Pope rash to change punctuation (10)
apostrophe
Status detailed for substitute (5,2)
stand in
Be idle when reciting short narrative poems (4)
lays
Very best main attraction? (3,6)
top drawer
Strong drink producing severe wind (3,6)
nor wester
Trim binder initially presented by recordproducer? (4,4)
tape deck
Diminutive creature getting hold of king's headgear (5)
mitre
King free to eat fish (7)
richard
One is in nave, wide-eyed (5)
naive
One jerk in game, who operates on right or left wing? (8)
politico
Intoxicating drink from the right prophet (4)
amos
Dejected when name is not top of the bill? (8)
downcast
Wanting a cigar, one can perhaps be at risk from this (10)
carcinogen
Paddy's mood (6)
temper
In the morning king is haggard (5)
drawn
Scottish minister no longer has temperature, doctor (7)
surgeon
Bird, mythical one, with seed among equipment (4,5)
rock pipit
Dreary routine produces depression (3)
rut
Skin's skin (9)
epidermis
Leader of Leeds in the Sun - wrong part of Leeds (7)
hunslet
Supports brother facing champions (6)
braces
Brought up breakfast cereal, bypassing the beginning of stomach and small intestine (5)
ileum
Refined expression of distaste one thousand raised for tribe (6)
kikuyu
Wine waiter's river (5)
somme
It isn't done to fabricate a complaint (10)
tendonitis
During audition, amateur is most uninteresting (6)
tamest
Artist, and so on, female (6)
etcher
Note about recluse making incendiary (8)
thermite
Carla goes round eastern sultanate (6)
brunei
Encourage moderate transport for the young (9)
pushchair
Little child carries gun, like it or loathe it! (7)
marmite
Certainly not a form of credit (5,5)
never never
Poor to riot in Portuguese city (6)
oporto
Mean to smother a cry of disapproval, being shocked (9)
horrified
Name for a pet (female) in the Orient (9)
catherine
Feeling common to language (6)
pashto
Result of not using you loaf? (5)
crumb
Go wrong dealing with pub drink - being taken short within walking distance? (9)
mishandle
Geek from small school (4)
spod
In fancy, prepares to fight alien over ranch (9)
farmstead
In France, the east is in the west (7)
lorient
Well turned-out NCO's skill (5)
smart
Officer protects fool, one in role of lieutenant (6)
cassio
Responsibility lies with you and me (4)
onus
Charge marked on drug (8)
stampede
This class is certain to be kept in idle fashion (8)
leisured
Native Americans from Ohio refuse to go on to Washington (6)
ojibwa
Gay girl on the bottle (6)
jovial
Engineer's western view (6)
wangle
Successful footballer who's made an impression? (6)
scorer
Monster is seen - possibly! (6)
nessie