Clues

1-across – Wacky plan involves spinning a disc : MADCAP

5-across – Edward”s about to receive what”s left over from wreck : DERELICT

9-across – Third generation pianos playing : GRANDSON

10-across – Highly narcotic drug several get into : POTENT

11-across – : INTHEMIDSTOF

13-across – See 11 : LIFE

14-across – Model trains in front of container : TEACHEST

17-across – Lug crone to Eastern city of yore : CARTHAGE

18-across – He”s said to display humility : NEIL

20-across – See 11 : WEAREINDEATH

23-across – Old-fashioned place in France : SQUARE

24-across – Greek character to shock bird : NUTHATCH

25-across – Dandy making unseemly haste to tee off : AESTHETE

26-across – Leaderless war engine impeded by chain : ANKLET

2-down – Bringing a brother round for a hairdo : AFRO

3-down – Season puts silly mid-on in the money : CONDIMENT

4-down – Prepared to split vegetable with old coin : PESETA

5-down – Bow and scrape when news is broadcast between balls : DANCEATTENDANCE

6-down – Voting system is interfering with effective counter-attack : REPRISAL

7-down – Plenty flanking underground flower : LOTUS

8-down – So NHS price-fixing needs regulation? : CENSORSHIP

12-down – Episodic resentment involving nurses : PICARESQUE

15-down – It”s a shrewd idea to gamble on one with a handicap : HUNCHBACK

16-down – Inhabitant of the Orient Express initially chasing graduate on railway : BALINESE

19-down – Invocation causing upturn in cunning little war : MANTRA

21-down – Zoroastrian”s source of Sunday lunch? : ROAST

22-down – Hurt the billman : ACHE

1-across – Place soldier as a non-professional : LAYMAN

4-across – Small bird with spotted beak : SAWBILL

9-across – Great to hear about the girl – maybe settle down? : GRAVITATE

10-across – Man without work returning to base : DEPOT

11-across – What’s the weight of this animal? : OUNCE

12-across – Written in elegant style: To a Wild Rose : EGLANTINE

13-across – Almost scary in the fog and dramatically ill-judged : MISCAST

15-across – Anyway, it’s a girl : HANNAH

17-across – Comparatively deranged plant : MADDER

19-across – Energy needed to exercise with trains when it’s very hot : PEPPERY

22-across – Shrill, even for the upper echelon : HIGHLEVEL

24-across – Foreign article contains a whopper! : ALIEN

26-across – Stick to first degree of speed : BATON

27-across – Belt designed by teacher without a wife, so it’s said : SURCINGLE

28-across – Right game is back in the money flow : CURRENT

29-across – One came in over the top; one’s ears are burning! : OTITIS

1-down – Space for the French newly-wed? : LEGROOM

2-down – Long tale about the East : YEARN

3-down – Ribbon worn by Girl Orchestra? : ALICEBAND

4-down – Furtiveness in the last movement : STEALTH

5-down – God of Welsh poetry given name : WODEN

6-down – Involve mischievous child with story about 11? : IMPLICATE

7-down – Young family’s mess : LITTER

8-down – Cultivated, the good man is most biddable : TAMEST

14-down – Critic sounds full of disgust at the bloodshed : SLAUGHTER

16-down – Abstainer to swan up to the Prince is tense : NEPHALIST

18-down – The vicar, is it? Call back : REVISIT

19-down – It’s mean to be nosey about an officer : PALTRY

20-down – Look for the state that’s home to a rising baseball team : YANKEES

21-down – Obsessed with getting little imp into photo : PHOBIC

23-down – Drop suddenly, missing the first thrust : LUNGE

25-down – I got put out of northern bar : INGOT

1-across – Needles’ formation is supplying sea with wee one : STOCKINGSTITCH

9-across – Normal to have one in a record that”s blissful : PARADISIC

10-across – In Truro, remove the old city for a start : INTRO

11-across – Simpson’s attitude turned without wine : RIOJA

12-across – Beast that’s 13 is a pushy one : BULLDOZER

13-across – : SLEEPING

14-across – Longboat’s carrying quills : SPINES

17-across – Foul is done behind the ball : ONSIDE

19-across – One who designed everything in Flat 10 : PALLADIO

22-across – Endearing syrup? : GRENADINE

24-across – Vegetable to do for start of dinner : CHARD

25-across – One’s brief trade with a Mediterranean isle : IBIZA

26-across – Grouse about Grampian town’s 10 : PTARMIGAN

27-across – Write English essay without a hint of colour, energy, or insight : PENETRATINGEYE

1-down – Drink to press organisation’s free protection against those charged : SUPPRESSORGRID

2-down – Ceremonious posturing without us in poet’s triumph : OERCOME

3-down – Child was 13 in this story : KIDNAPPED

4-down – Told what roadie does for a bit of tack : NOSEBAND

5-down – Feeble king usurped by one from this island : SICILY

6-down – Paper detailed one uplifting epic : ILIAD

7-down – Incite rioting to protect last Roman, say : CITIZEN

8-down – Post-match, of course : CORRESPONDENCE

15-down – See 13 : POLICEMAN

16-down – Hasten to stay? : MAKEFAST

18-down – No issue is sure when this queen is in step : STERILE

20-down – Gargled with hiccups to make a wet mess : DRAGGLE

21-down – One 13 with the fish : KIPPER

23-down – A festivity for one 13 that’s not 13? : AWAKE

1-across – Opening consulting room with minimal intrusion : KEYHOLE

5-across – See 1 : SURGERY

9-across – There’s a hole in sister’s things : NOUNS

10-across – Type of claret not finished, having no date attached : CLARENDON

11-across – Fair Susan holding love back, being virtuous : RIGHTEOUS

12-across – It takes a second to split up honest funds : PURSE

13-across – The wife’s language! : DUTCH

15-across – Type of service is shortly to be prepared for war : UNDERARMS

18-across – Type of dress with belt getting smaller : STRAPLESS

19-across – Assess university in depression : SUMUP

21-across – Subject to pretty intensive cross-examination initially : TOPIC

23-across – Unusually, men go cash for this dress : CHEONGSAM

25-across – Start unit that’s different for opposing monopolies : ANTITRUST

26-across – Pipe obtained from branch that is by river : BRIER

27-across – Influential group using cookhouse cupboard : KITCHEN

28-across – See 27 : CABINET

1-down – Warm wine for the family : KINDRED

2-down – Child from New Street touching the Queen : YOUNGSTER

3-down – Start to break up a stone : ONSET

4-down – One gets ulcers put right for a pound : ENCLOSURE

5-down – Must I drop from the stairs to see them? : STARS

6-down – Sends back statements about former spouse : REEXPORTS

7-down – Senior to exhibit part of red letter upside down : ELDER

8-down – Americans travelling in southeast Kenya : YANKEES

14-down – Bound to need whisky for the game : HOPSCOTCH

16-down – Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly : DYSPEPTIC

17-down – Forgiveness concerning a self-imposed duty : REMISSION

18-down – Bad bet shatters Harry, which is a disappointment : SETBACK

20-down – A sweet cleaner put up with worry : POMFRET

22-down – Cat or dog, say, needs it to be small in Montpellier, say : PETIT

23-down – Child has a tea-maker, but where might the milk be? : CHURN

24-down – Not applicable to Geldorf, who’s a wealthy person : NABOB

1-across – Party to divorce case agreeing on involvement of redhead : CORRESPONDENT

10-across – Use therapy : TREATMENT

11-across – Snap providing quiet hoot, perhaps : PHOTO

12-across – Dog track : TRAIL

13-across – What bride may want from leading theological writer : TROUSSEAU

14-across – Show including one actor of renown : OLIVIER

16-across – Birds following one with rodents : TITMICE

18-across – Make about a thousand burn : CREMATE

20-across – Monkey restrained by some low wall : PARAPET

21-across – American student getting nothing extra from new shop : SOPHOMORE

23-across – Nurse, for example, presenting vehicle to the Queen : CARER

24-across – One Meat Ball sent back in Nebraska : OMAHA

25-across – Duck captured by dissolute rakes : SHELDRAKE

26-across – Keep in mind ant that is wandering about, regardless of others : INCONSIDERATE

2-down – Workman in action : OPERATIVE

3-down – Animal put out by the ear : RATEL

4-down – Loud-mouth gets back to start riot : STENTOR

5-down – Letter sent to a remote station? : OUTPOST

6-down – Poor diet”s effects on banker : DEPOSITOR

7-down – Informer trapping nothing in snare : NOOSE

8-down – Say when at Buckingham Palace, for instance : STATEOCCASION

9-down – Paper sign to produce factual programmes : DOCUMENTARIES

15-down – Boyfriend getting girl doctor to change rota : INAMORATO

17-down – Bring in a book of great consequence : IMPORTANT

19-down – Self-centred people whose energy is set to run out? : EGOISTS

20-down – Aspire to be a suitor : PRETEND

22-down – Scheme to get one into flat : PLAIN

23-down – Tree in terraced arbour : CEDAR