Clues

1-across – Following end of address, enchanted girl returns swiftly : ALLEGRO

5-across – Virtuoso transposed ariettas, dropping intro : ARTISTE

9-across – Old Yank’s escaping from blind alley : PASSE

10-across – Get several opinions of ska? : ASKAROUND

11-across – Kinky hairstyle takes Go-Gos’ leader far : LIGHTYEARS

12-across – Skin complaint of cockney lithographer : IVES

14-across – Street performer who produces liver pâté? : ORGANGRINDER

18-across – Sexy great tit flying way out : EXITSTRATEGY

21-across – Sit alongside big brass that’s left-leaning : ABUT

22-across – Expert on ports, 90, stripped in embrace of profligate spender : WINETASTER

25-across – After banishing corrupt cop, secret police ransacked Midlands town : LEICESTER

26-across – Old English character’s annoyance : THORN

27-across – I cry aloud, then check out : EYEBALL

28-across – Screw that will be ready for use : TURNKEY

1-down – Horrifies, a setter’s heard : APPALS

2-down – Wild Eagles dramatist : LESAGE

3-down – Big, fat cube : GREATGROSS

4-down – Old enough for cigarette, in Old England : OFAGE

5-down – Cabinetmaker said to turn conservative : ARKWRIGHT

6-down – Run, in reverse, battery, perhaps : TORT

7-down – Animated videos about American method of cooking : SOUSVIDE

8-down – Consumers’ revolting rudeness : ENDUSERS

13-down – Circus star Quasimodo? : RINGMASTER

15-down – Governess publicised crack pilots’ weapon : AIRPISTOL

16-down – Former president cried ‘some nerve!’ : DEGAULLE

17-down – Worthless item: wee carving : FIGURINE

19-down – Busy group : ATWORK

20-down – Spirit’s trademark unknown : BRANDY

23-down – Wish you hadn’t decapitated bird : EGRET

24-down – Character travelling north in temperate zone : ZETA

1-across – The hours oddly spent churning over and over secret : HUSHHUSH

5-across – Stokes derides shifts : SMOCKS

10-across – Vertex of Summer Triangle – dependably evident nightly – essentially blue at the outset : DENEB

11-across – Scintillating 7, in my flying visits, representative of the bigger picture : METONYMIC

12-across – New lander first to penetrate alien world : REDPLANET

13-across – Ara represents this single missing blue-green star : ALTAR

14-across – Evidence of fall, meteoric for one boxer : CRATER

15-across – Returning carrier ship receiving earth pictures, not immediately decipherable? : REBUSES

18-across – Pounds, shillings and pence, steel warped : PESTLES

20-across – One helps out leading characters : ALEPHS

22-across – Sample from traveller in G-suit, features of Saturn : RINGS

24-across – Buzz’s first problem after shortage – result of huge collapse : BLACKHOLE

25-across – One new member of quartet, Tim Peake, gutted Virgin : INVIOLATE

26-across – As an alternative, cut celestial path : ORBIT

27-across – Cherished by SpaceX – Eternal City : EXETER

28-across – Linesman’s not one for stress plugging in Empire State : TENNYSON

1-down – What about launching a Soviet climber? : HEDERA

2-down – Standards slipping, we fly at night : SANDDARTS

3-down – See Phoebe, Bull and edges of 7 flying in astronomical equipment : HUBBLETELESCOPE

4-down – Discussion group remains animated : SEMINAR

6-down – People on radio to instruct landing outside Belgium are sadly cracking up : MENTALBREAKDOWN

7-down – I circle the sun bed occupied by mining engineer : COMET

8-down – Most assuredly ground-to-air ceasefires will include confines of space : SECUREST

9-down – Having visited e.g. 10, astronaut’s back home at last, he says : STATER

16-down – It takes a lot to learn : SCHOOLBUS

17-down – Characteristic of fans not winning game : SPORTIVE

19-down – Group aboard last couple of rockets set up midnight rendezvous : SABBAT

20-down – University types created cycles in unit : ACADEME

21-down – Hardly the sphere of the old-fashioned scientist! : NEWTON

23-down – Stars suddenly brighter and twinkly on average, before storm : NOVAE

1-across – Flavour enhancer that’s stored in tabernacle? : SODIUMCHLORIDE

8-across – Choose frames painter knocked over for 1960s works : OPART

9-across – Give a different view of Everton’s no. 1 punching his rival – penalty! : REDEFINE

11-across – Clement Attlee oddly put away nine crackers : LENIENT

12-across – Maybe May queen returned small, boring articles : THERESA

13-across – Country’s popular backing, after a revolution : INDIA

15-across – Nursing funny person, strips back hospital bed : SLEEPWITH

17-across – Brilliant partner of blind, extremely unusual fellow : EFFULGENT

20-across – New books with leading detective – this may be qualified as “noir” : PINOT

21-across – A river over to the left? A river in the Americas : NIAGARA

23-across – It’s used to pass water Arthur Ashe finally ordered : URETHRA

25-across – Sign Pinocchio’s fibbing about current VIP : BIGNOISE

26-across – Touching some butter from the east that’s available : ONTAP

27-across – Criminal case of infraction – hundred euros pinched : UNDERNOURISHED

1-down – People who sing gospel – it soon rocks! : STOOLPIGEONS

2-down – Quaff drop of Drambuie, and chuck it down : DRAIN

3-down – Winning big, about to cut bananas : UPTHEWALL

4-down – They have imperfect eggs you reportedly put in boxes : CURATES

5-down – Coffee cups Debbie emptied – she might get rowdy : LADETTE

6-down – Perhaps Winchester student gets in everywhere : RIFLE

7-down – It has a clock dial one fixed in vacant den : DANDELION

10-down – Poor US singer way ahead of what Jay-Z did? : CASHSTRAPPED

14-down – After a reshuffle, failed to note cause of unemployment? : DEFLATION

16-down – Picaroon gets shower working at first, which is perhaps topping : PEPPERONI

18-down – Ducking and running under one bar swung around : EVASION

19-down – Kind of cross, hosting unmannerly PM : TRUDEAU

22-down – Tomorrow singer from 13 must be introduced to Queen : ANNIE

24-down – Where to keep bucks, perhaps, for a US detective : HUTCH

1-across – A sexually fluid work I see announced? Not necessarily : BIOPIC

5-across – Nearby, very angry with oneself : BESIDE

8-across – A consequence of bad hearing? : RETRIAL

9-across – Information on boy getting cheaper drug : GENERIC

11-across – One’s success is in the balance : TIGHTROPEWALKER

12-across – Idle head : LOAF

13-across – Start one’s piece, but not wait for the signal : JUMPTHEGUN

17-across – Old-fashioned medium broadcast modest aria : STEAMRADIO

18-across – Clean up US state briefly : WASH

20-across – In novel, a short section an idiot misread : APASSAGETOINDIA

23-across – Test: cut back the one for me : EXAMINE

24-across – Bewildered by how badly business is going : ATALOSS

25-across – After exercise bring back fish and a sort of butter : PEANUT

26-across – Idlers said to go for the bright lights : LASERS

2-down – Assimilate where fire may be lit, if not hot : INTEGRATE

3-down – Solid support for Rhodes’s statue? : PLINTH

4-down – Seminars using slang endlessly : COLLOQUIA

5-down – One calls for the Army : BUGLE

6-down – Ashen, but work thus to get some colour : SUNBATHE

7-down – Mike redubbed, turning up bearing another name : DEREK

8-down – Dangerous creature, a kestrel – ant is pulverised : RATTLESNAKE

10-down – One or two of these appear in the New Testament : CORINTHIANS

14-down – Mock battle in which the losers are the more decorated? : PAINTBALL

15-down – Educational journey to old city, under £1K : GRANDTOUR

16-down – Discharge online assignment? : EMISSION

19-down – Exams that French speakers often miss out : FINALS

21-down – A barrier of stone : AGATE

22-down – Hotel patron gets out uniform packed away : GUEST

1-across – See 23 Down : PALACE

4-across – 20’s 19 announced? : BRIDGE

9-across – Bit of gossip in group email : PING

10-across – Autocracy, but Somalis demanding reform : ABSOLUTISM

11-across – 20’s singer of biblical teachings? : RIALTO

12-across – 20’s team event’s beginning : ARSENALE

13-across – Mark of throne room’s occupant? : PRIVYSEAL

15-across – Reportedly finished off – where did Cameron and Johnson go? : ETON

16-across – Rings initially lost – that was an accident : OOPS

17-across – Register lies on bed wrapped in petition : SUBSCRIBE

21-across – Piggy in mixture of suet, nothing for Napoleon to eat? : ESURIENT

22-across – Criminal gaoled for the last time? : OLDAGE

24-across – Echo found beauty in Narcissus : EGOTRIPPER

25-across – Charge for butter? : GOAT

26-across – An icon of fictional intelligence? : SMILEY

27-across – Garment I see on delinquent : ONESIE

1-down – Oscar clasped by good, class actor from the ‘60s : POITIER

2-down – Right, supporter takes two-thirds? : LEGAL

3-down – Cloth damp, bottom wiped under drink : CHAMOIS

5-down – Fancy food on the side? : RELISH

6-down – Lists of duties observed when switched around, triggering mechanism : DETONATOR

7-down – Suspect one has come across Greek letter, fifth in total – here? : EPSILON

8-down – Spear parts, as those? : ASPARAGUSTIPS

14-down – Hole in vessel, it capsizing – transport in 20 : VAPORETTI

16-down – See 4 Across : OFSIGHS

18-down – Subject of back page shortly published, might there be money in it? : SPORRAN

19-down – Shooting target in Cup Final? : BIGGAME

20-down – Railway absent in exquisite European city : VENICE

23-down – 20’s enchantress originally imprisoned by friend of best friend, wizard : DOGES