Clues

1-across – Failed to meet Rose : STOODUP

5-across – Leaves to support one piece of software : BROWSER

9-across – Wet day, not a minute earlier : WEEDY

10-across – Eel one’s holding first of electric collection : CONGERIES

11-across – Criminal’s weapo? : SAWNOFFSHOTGUN

13-across – Boat you heard in America : YAWL

14-across – In well-known study be surprised date’s missing on back : RENOWNED

17-across – I don’t remember cinema as free : AMNESIAC

18-across – Support power source, not initially atomic : STEM

21-across – As umpire, do nothing to support bowler? : NOTLIFTAFINGER

23-across – Return for pardon : COMEAGAIN

24-across – For us two farewells, not one : ADEUX

25-across – Left Wales, mad scene at first, like the Wild West : LAWLESS

26-across – Daughter after fluttering eyelid stopped resisting : YIELDED

1-down – Stitched up by random directions : SEWN

2-down – No women want me to change nursery rhyme : ONEMANWENTTOMOW

3-down – Failing to save river, lost for words : DRYING

4-down – Calm breaking fast, I start to feed : PACIFY

5-down – Rail stoppage I back, but not 100% : BANISTER

6-down – In love, Joanne and Eddie raised occasionally holy anthem : ODETOJOY

7-down – Taking principal role in musical, bearing with malingering : SWINGINGTHELEAD

8-down – Implied quietly crazy problem in-house : RISINGDAMP

12-down – Oppressive time in command, delving into your record : TYRANNICAL

15-down – What may have poisoned me mad doctor’s to suck out : ASPIRATE

16-down – Aliens from star one man shot : MARTIANS

19-down – I whizz round town now and then? I wish! : IFONLY

20-down – Close to Manchester, take the air : INHALE

22-down – Article Times editor ruthlessly cut : AXED

1-across – Film company boss and satellite : STUDIO

5-across – Controversial type of European film : POLEMIST

9-across – Activist gets rougher when going back inside : CRUSADER

10-across – Relative backing of measure that’s a relief : NEPHEW

11-across – Being corrupt, I twice try to conceal soldier’s malpractice : IRREGULARITY

13-across – Singer engaged in nepotism : OTIS

14-across – Top’s come off instrument? Then adaption needed for musical entertainment : IOLANTHE

17-across – Sly son, big and single : STALLONE

18-across – Never managed to turn at end of runway : NARY

20-across – Mosaic construction showing satellites on move : TESSELLATION

23-across – Traditionalist, one of a number on the board? : SQUARE

24-across – Fiesta, in body terms holds 4 : CARNIVAL

25-across – Abandon craft – it’s turning about! : JETTISON

26-across – Boudicca-style accessory chest moved around yard : SCYTHE

2-down – Name after Salt Lake : TARN

3-down – Is second to wear wretched sack : DISMISSAL

4-down – Dead city once covered by rock and dirt : ORDURE

5-down – Fast-moving hunter’s power rifle range, once set : PEREGRINEFALCON

6-down – Daffodil advanced by actor James? : LENTLILY

7-down – Gloomy sort of cleaner, about to retire : MOPER

8-down – Top Labour and increasingly rattled Tory leaders keeping quiet : SWEATSHIRT

12-down – Like David oddly equates US with Turkey’s capital? : STATUESQUE

15-down – Nothing’s achieved by being dominated by foreign dissent : NONENTITY

16-down – Unfeeling music genre? Not so much : SOULLESS

19-down – Knight, despicable type, turned back river : TIGRIS

21-down – Hardly satisfying read, Times leader : SCANT

22-down – Penniless poet’s strip : LATH

1-across – I say, why me, being sent back to a rogue school? : ACADEMY

5-across – How old clothes are rubbish! : GARBAGE

10-across – No member of an ethnic minority in America is a stinger : WASP

11-across – Mrs Sprat does talk : CHEWTHEFAT

12-across – She sang of a broken heart, with straight love rejected : ARETHA

13-across – See 12 : FRANKLIN

14-across – Unreliable obsessive hiding cryptic code finally left : ANECDOTAL

16-across – Dealt with coffee from the East : FACED

17-across – Analyse pretty top and bottom : PARSE

19-across – It’s rot! Solve the problem! : SORTITOUT

23-across – Intricate work or boys going berserk with spray can? : CORONARY

24-across – See 23 : BYPASS

26-across – One US city hospital with a misguided notion … : SANANTONIO

27-across – … to return gold in another’s RMB : YUAN

28-across – Revered creature that surprises me : HOLYCOW

29-across – Taken up in total, pot mixed with ecstasy : ADOPTED

2-down – Tea and a smile in distress : CHAGRIN

3-down – Spearhead stolen from tyrant’s warehouse : DEPOT

4-down – Holy place thumbs-down for old toys : MECCANO

6-down – Shaped primarily like a star : ASTRAL

7-down – Pause quickly for something to eat : BREAKFAST

8-down – Rock managed in-house : GRANITE

9-down – No need to make fun of such desperate pleas for demise : SELFPARODYING

15-down – Bag up very cautious bird : CASSOWARY

18-down – Save peeled grocer’s fruit : AVOCADO

20-down – The Sun, for one, may be a bit loud and non-U : TABLOID

21-down – Steal the show from further back : UPSTAGE

22-down – Decoration for military march is cheap stuff as well : TATTOO

25-down – Settle clue for bark : PAYUP

9-across – Observing what may happen to exam papers : REMARKING

10-across – Put down a foot : ABASE

11-across – Small, devout wish for one using a jet : SPRAYER

12-across – Level with a wild animal, runs into it : ABREAST

13-across – Probity not altogether necessary in valedictory notice : OBIT

14-across – Where president can’t be backed into a corner? : OVALOFFICE

16-across – Girl from Spain has to rely on soldiers : ELEANOR

17-across – Artist I see talking in broadcast soaps : PICASSO

19-across – A depth measure including temperature is extraordinary : ASTOUNDING

22-across – Fielder is a little short bloke : COVE

24-across – Asian national heading off to travel : LAOTIAN

25-across – Try Livingstone, and pay attention : HEARKEN

26-across – Two weeks by fort in darkness : NIGHT

27-across – Where spirits may be found, ghost troubled girl : SHOTGLASS

1-down – Short of water, holding up progress in repairing enclosures : DRYSTONEWALLING

2-down – Slowly pay off armies to disband : AMORTISE

3-down – Horses eat grass, I’m told : GREYS

4-down – Leeds to London traveller perhaps nowhere near a bank : MIDRIVER

5-down – Piece of skin torn by silver pin : AGNAIL

6-down – Give away pouch with grain, if hiding : SACRIFICE

7-down – Expedition hunting for browser : SAFARI

8-down – Get comfortable in Tennessee, tho’ far off : FEATHERONESNEST

15-down – Cause anger as I sat down to dinner wearing mink : INFURIATE

17-down – Heavily criticise article about the Roman church : PANTHEON

18-down – A smashing racing vehicle : STOCKCAR

20-down – After a time, bristly snout goes in here? : TROUGH

21-down – Democrat replacing nasty hereditary ruler : DYNAST

23-down – Loose horse in stall : BAGGY

1-across – Party symbol linked to US election showing full spectrum? : PRIMARYCOLOURS

8-across – Plan again, with money being invested in harvest : REMAP

9-across – Africans with American importing various guns? On the contrary : UGANDANS

11-across – I marry to secure sex and reproduce : IMITATE

12-across – It was sweet seeing broken legs finally very firm internally : GLYCOSE

13-across – Visitors dodging English gales : GUSTS

15-across – Red banana, exotic food item from Indian cuisine? : NAANBREAD

17-across – Blanches: a T S Eliot novel after completion of verse? : ETIOLATES

20-across – By implication, perhaps, start off being seen from the rear? : ENDON

21-across – Use up a shade found in middle of paeony : EATINTO

23-across – Official delay involving Democrat is a warning sign : REDFLAG

25-across – A bloke at sea covering East and West ultimately in yacht : KEELBOAT

26-across – I’m a success, producing form of insect life : IMAGO

27-across – Suddenly pay for attempt to win power around upland areas : ATONEFELLSWOOP

1-down – Standard chess piece encountered Queen once? Here’s not a place to stay indefinitely : PARKINGMETER

2-down – Statement of sexual status in poetic measures : IAMBI

3-down – Assessment reduced wage increase – there’s shock about that : APPRAISAL

4-down – Call from backstage? I accept the challenge : YOUREON

5-down – Note from lot again suffering earache : OTALGIA

6-down – Strangely hot drink losing temperature left inside : ODDLY

7-down – Be enough for top player to become exhausted : RUNTOSEED

10-down – British university with another’s publisher, hosting Greek book fanciers : READINGGROUP

14-down – Tries this out, becoming most annoyed : SHIRTIEST

16-down – Kitchen containers? Tin rejects : BREADBINS

18-down – Hit the jackpot and fled : TOOKOFF

19-down – Indication of decline in reduced size of certain genitalia? : SCROTAL

22-down – French refusal to accept unknown line in plastic : NYLON

24-down – Everybody upset on climbing American plain : LLANO