Clues

8-across – Doctor John was his assistant for many cases : SHERLOCK

9-across – Serious fear leader in Times has something wrong with it : TERROR

10-across – Going back, identify old man as one of our ancestors : APEMAN

11-across – Getting behind wheel with added energy : DERIVING

12-across – Overturn function of multinational organization : UNDO

13-across – Warrant for admission is missing from home inspection : INVITATION

15-across – Garden shrubs – or try elms for a change : MYRTLES

16-across – Do some artwork – in the blue, lacking detail : SKETCHY

18-across – Testing periods as result of strange absorption : PROBATIONS

19-across – Start of spectrum initially rearranged for rave-up : ORGY

20-across – Unable to face house or pad guest trashed : UPSTAGED

22-across – Be tediously persistent as battleaxe : DRAGON

23-across – Artist in relation to one of his colours : RENOIR

24-across – Mistakenly download – it might contain old chestnuts : WOODLAND

1-down – Epiphany came as our smallest denomination financially declined : THEPENNYDROPPED

2-down – Totally how to enter answer for this clue and the one before : FROMTOPTOBOTTOM

3-down – I’d connect somehow with another one falling at the same time : COINCIDENT

4-down – Indulge in free fall as part of risky diversion : SKYDIVE

5-down – Performer at the top or scoundrels rising to it : STAR

6-down – How one’s brought back to earth in field : GRAVITATIONALLY

7-down – Completely prone to face this way? : DOWNTOTHEGROUND

14-down – Has a wee dram, replaces ball on course : TAKESADROP

17-down – Inside story appropriately placed, doubly so : LOWDOWN

21-down – Outfit starts off game at rock bottom : GARB

1-across – Letter or card : CHARACTER

6-across – Polish king receives one Cubist : RUBIK

9-across – Nothing in key signature at first for singers : ALTOS

10-across – Preconceived view of special trip through capital : PARTIPRIS

11-across – Claudio always on time through two days and one more : MONTEVERDI

12-across – Cross, missing most of bank holiday : ANKH

14-across – A white child of the upper classes is left behind : CHABLIS

15-across – Irish girl in hospital in Bosnia with convulsions : SIOBHAN

17-across – They strum quietly before tragic heroine executed : PLECTRA

19-across – Army section sound busy – I agree to return : HUMERUS

20-across – Apparently noisy food : NOSH

22-across – Archbishop given porridge not a moment too soon : JUSTINTIME

25-across – It stumps our cousin: he did you? : ARAUCARIA

26-across – Courts large family all at once : QUADS

27-across – Not quite sober, show dissent : DEMUR

28-across – Sandwich and more substantial fare, a bit at a time : PIECEMEAL

1-down – Quark cheese, hardly any remaining from the first minute : CHARM

2-down – You had a late dinner we hear, to get thin : ATTENUATE

3-down – Ritual performed with zest in battle : AUSTERLITZ

4-down – Exposed without a spinner : TOPLESS

5-down – For the third time, decorate small screen? : REREDOS

6-down – Make hasty tour of one archaeological site? : RUIN

7-down – Peer round in store : BARON

8-down – Show love to workers, as some may on entering office : KISSHANDS

13-down – General dropping on unprecedented bulletin : COMMUNIQUE

14-down – Better being dealt with humbly : CAPINHAND

16-down – Hercules, say, one sent to prison in mythical time : HEROICAGE

18-down – A smack on the bottom for false charge : ABUMRAP

19-down – Hated to change potentially exciting meeting : HOTDATE

21-down – Ancient wood and a little metal in old instrument : SHAWM

23-down – Making a stand, wife deserts sly type : EASEL

24-down – Cliff is no end frightening : SCAR

9-across – French scientist is Spooner’s apprentice, some say : CURIE

10-across – Detest dogs initially peeing next to hospital compound : PHOSPHATE

11-across – Aged nurse upset those with a bib : DUNGAREES

12-across – Interesting savoury : TASTY

13-across – Former England footballer is type absorbed by victories : WILKINS

15-across – Soon I see one entering that’s negative : ANIONIC

17-across – Confess that hurts before Sally returns … : OWNUP

18-across – … and reviews vital instructions : DNA

20-across – Team the French finally vanquish, having turned the screw : HELIX

22-across – They might be curly sides I’ve cut : ENDIVES

25-across – Victoria’s finally amused about being taken for granted : ASSUMED

26-across – Lower wheel about uniform weight : BLUER

27-across – Building trust with cure arranged : STRUCTURE

30-across – Marketeers showing enthusiasm to drink beers : SALESTEAM

31-across – Credit check ignoring capital is a pain in the neck : CRICK

1-down – Peaceful place lacking bitter : ACID

2-down – Kite flyer getting plain, short string : FRANKLIN

3-down – Greek character in desperate bargaining set up : BETA

4-down – Performed Sunday instead of Friday the 2nd: satisfied? : APPEASED

5-down – Dance around square in native European republic : POLSKA

6-down – Spies with foreign plot involved have accents : SPOTLIGHTS

7-down – Detective’s assistant with a beginning of tricky issue : WATSON

8-down – Edward rejected the last of smelly refuse : DENY

13-down – Healthy swimmer old for gala’s final : WHOLE

14-down – Bankrupt rascal past his embarrassment : IMPOVERISH

16-down – 10 in school instructed from the back : COXED

19-down – Bad credit with debit card makes these : ANAGRAMS

21-down – Briefly hunting after Long Island cattle : LIMOUSIN

23-down – Possible university for Australian twin : DOUBLE

24-down – Relative turning up, is endlessly demanding : SISTER

26-down – Stand deep in pitch, say : BASE

28-down – Male that indicates the passing of wind : COCK

29-down – Deer overturned cask leaking contents : ELKS

8-across – Wasted daughter in prison? : MISSPENT

9-across – 21 from both sides? : LEVEL

10-across – 100, 21 figure : CONE

11-across – Saucy always in Irish musical : IRREVERENT

12-across – Message from berth in pub, perhaps, something sharp : BARBED

14-across – Ship’s biscuit in tricky way : HARDTACK

15-across – Vessel’s end of week scandal? : FRIGATE

17-across – Entertainer, i.e. star, lead in theatre performing? : ARTISTE

20-across – Particular case with pile for sorting : ESPECIAL

22-across – Little bird impression made on the radio? : CYGNET

23-across – Railway car where middle button pushed back to load posh goods, article squeezed in : LUGGAGEVAN

24-across – Reportedly something for fancy dress party individual, once? : WHIG

25-across – Thread on the subject of OT woman : REEVE

26-across – Tunnel discovered, communist admits very afraid : UNNERVED

1-down – Building of road in US 21 : DINOSAUR

2-down – Dogs, say, in setters and labradors, energetic initially : ISLE

3-down – 21, location of 21 in NY? : BEHIND

4-down – 21 hole through which seen architectural feature : STARCHY

5-down – Top off container, one pulling on handle quicker? : CLEVERER

6-down – 100% likely to break in for example? : EVERYTHING

7-down – Cotton on cut that’s bandaged in hospital : CLINIC

13-down – Fat cat sees gerbil with ague shivering : BIGLEAGUER

16-down – Their names are forgotten, taking nighties off : THINGIES

18-down – See 3 : THETIMES

19-down – Hint: where to go in 21 : FLAVOUR

21-down – 1, 4 or 9: 1, 4 or 9? : SQUARE

22-down – Semicircle and a 21 for setter, say : CANINE

24-down – See 12 Across : WIRE

7-across – Making do without love, fabricating about it : FORGOING

9-across – Stand on three legs? : TRIPOD

10-across – Catch son and keep scolding : SNAG

11-across – Long in debt, splashing out for dog : BEDLINGTON

12-across – One raising boundary marker for sportsman : FENCER

14-across – Returning mate slightly wounds birds : LAPWINGS

15-across – Dog that keeps sticking its nose in? : SNOOPY

17-across – Perhaps buttonhole old Catholic concealed : ORCHID

20-across – Promoted over a woman, like Rees-Mogg : HYPHENED

22-across – I’m quietly after small personnel; one this size? : SHRIMP

23-across – Sit in place as ordered, modelling material : PLASTICINE

24-across – The best? It’s groundbreaking : PICK

25-across – Sailor’s prominent feature : POPEYE

26-across – Shake beaker, at this? : TEABREAK

1-down – Exclusive people at club : BOUNCERS

2-down – In suspense as a horse eats nothing : AGOG

3-down – Clock fitted with black wood : TIMBER

4-down – One who is barely able to finish the act : STRIPPER

5-down – Bird takes gherkins, if desperate : KINGFISHER

6-down – Very protracted farewell : SOLONG

8-down – Wander about to escape tiny tormentor : GADFLY

13-down – It’s responsible for a holdup online : CLOTHESPEG

16-down – Two things found in the loo, one blown : PANPIPES

18-down – Man of the people takes up central part in star comedy : DEMOCRAT

19-down – A lot of snow, so unable to steer : ADRIFT

21-down – Like a cowardy custard? : YELLOW

22-down – Notices a wicket in children’s recreation : SEESAW

24-down – Football pitch, one in Richmond for example : PARK