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2down.O???b??. Time for revolution: company turns on future King.
3d.H???y. Comic actor and writer's tough, tough year.
8a.S?????i?e. Gloomy enclosure in which to hit the hay.
9a.E?h??. It embraces decency, honesty and this, for brutus.
10d 2words.6.7. ??a?p? ??y???s. Top horse with second place in Cambridgeshire eyes route to The Arc.
13a.2words.5.3. D???y ?a?.Classic occasion,so claret's knocked back from dawn to dusk .
17a.A?a?u?. Bill a passenger? You can count on it!.
19a.?u?k????.Girl divides nearly all of tip for nothing.
20d.2words. ??n?? ?n. Requiring active involvement is a bit much -- and so needless.
21d.2words 3.3. ?o? ??t. Old Biblical pair collected sale items together.
25a.2words.4.5. ??i? W????. Mobile detail was completely destroyed.

2d October
3d Hardy
8a saturnine
9a ethic
10d champs elysees
13a derby day
17a abacus
19a buckshee
20d hands on
21d job lot
25a laid waste

Thanks Bunty, your Fantastic,

Can anyone fully parse 9 across & 17 across, they seem a bit vague to me

et hic is Latin (so for Brutus) for "and this"?

As no other answer has been given Les, I can only see 'AC' (acoount/bill) inside 'A BUS' (passenger).
but surely a passenger is the traveller and a bus is the conveyor. If this is the correct parse (and I very much doubt it) It is not a good clue. Hopefully someone will enlighten us.

I'm in the same way of thinking Shooty and still can't get 'A bus' from passenger

Thanks AB for the Latin lesson, I did look it up but it didn't give that, so i thought of checking on here. it gives something totally different on Google Translate.

A few tricky ones this week in this grid chaps

Oh, forgot to mention, n 3d, is the 'writer's tough' in the middle of the clue redundant

Comic actor = (Oliver) Hardy
tough = Hard + Y (year)

Is it a triple and referring to Thomas Hardy? If so, why the first 'tough' in the clue?

Sorry Les, I do not have this xword. Can you give the full clue and number count. I will try to help if I can.

3d.H???y. Comic actor and writer's tough, tough year.