6  Insults of little significance on board (7)

11 Who leads those dealing with Xmas cards, stamps, angel or tree, weirdly (10-7)

12 Lamb developing nudges in machine learning (5,3)

13 Links CEO to driver’s end (4-4)

15 Elderly relative that’s outwardly daft (5)

16 Behind top of head, a central aspect of angelology (4)

17 Take in a lot of French vessels, initially belonging to us (6)

19 Carol acknowledges song I composed (4,4,9)

23 Georgia has meal, then boundless pud and cake (6)

25 Heartless lothario with satisfactory appearance (4)

26 Democrat’s reportedly not in question (5)

29 Song of Solomon drastically shortened – cut by recording company (1,4,3)

30 He knows all the angles to emerge at sea (8)

32 Film reformed Mensa characters mixing in marquee (5,2,10)

33 Poet writes to queen after opening of stanza (7)

34 Dutch location he had included in redrafted scene (8)

 2  Girl’s uplifted, and – oh, joy! (7)

 3  Some beef when mark-up set incorrectly (4,5)

 4  Boxing Day poultry’s supporting two streets: a record! (2,8)

 5  Sort of Bible associated with monarch, say (4)

 6  Mark (more than once) is upset with lassies right away (6)

 7  Base in globe’s ruined (7)

 8  Hooter’s noise of distress includes awful drone (6,3)

 9  More substantial piece of toast I’d turned over (7)

10 Canute, perhaps, under his disloyal subject, accepted power in full flow (8)

14 Work on club – it’s made of glued layers (7)

18 Hotel staff beheaded transgressors put in castle tower (10)

20 Use third party supplier that’s frightfully courteous (9)

21 Done differently, plasticine character could be round-bodied figure (9)

22 Soak plonked himself down, a true degenerate (8)

23 Excessive content of large French department store Santa locations (7)

24 Sterile state of little relative after a month (7)

27 Prudent change gives welcome sight on business performance graph (7)

28 Disagree if match official reversed initial decision up-front (6)

31 Formerly held in detention centre (4)