Clues

1-across – Carriage for the French female in the money : CALASH

4-across – A whale turning ocean-going craft over : ACROSS

9-across – Head of family, note : KING

10-across – They receive price set in fixed arrangement : RECIPIENTS

11-across – Admission course : ENTREE

12-across – Ignore superior air : OVERLOOK

13-across – The man’s leading one at a time in a derisory way : HISSINGLY

15-across – Bearing with average sound : MIEN

16-across – Amass support : PILE

17-across – Part is for Easter egg production : SEGREGATE

21-across – Academic takes exercise with daughter, the old buffoon! : PEDANTIC

22-across – Tender, relatively speaking : SISTER

24-across – No smart set would make such a selection : ASSORTMENT

25-across – Throw out some miscellaneous trinkets : OUST

26-across – A dramatist’s jejune retreat : DRYDEN

27-across – Not up-to-date, being retrogressive, but made progress : WENTON

1-down – Greek character set against Italian wine : CHIANTI

2-down – Glare madly when alcoholic drink is served : LAGER

3-down – Boy with an inner compulsion to become a medical practitioner : SURGEON

5-down – Mimics one in clerical dress : COPIES

6-down – Above all, too economical with the truth : OVERLYING

7-down – Catalogue company at a disadvantage : SETDOWN

8-down – The young director : SCHOOLTEACHER

14-down – An old sailor, a right-minded man, dancing : SALTATORY

16-down – Bore down on a leading journalist : PRESSED

18-down – Favour trees to affect a transformation : ROSETTE

19-down – Time to argue for disloyalty : TREASON

20-down – Astute misrepresentation of the figure : STATUE

23-down – Hard up and so brusque : SHORT

5-across – Nothing in the meter? Far from it : REMOTE

6-across – Take a bearing south – from Dunkirk, no doubt? : AMIENS

9-across – Spite found in many a girl : MALICE

10-across – For operation under cover one needs an insidious type : OPHIDIAN

11-across – Where to obtain some pottage : MESS

12-across – What train speed may turn out to be : PEDESTRIAN

13-across – Asiatic horse walks off with prizes : PRZEWALSKIS

18-across – Guests at Blair’s ball? : ATTENDANCE

21-across – Afternoon test : EXAM

22-across – To skive is bad in France and in parts of Germany : MALINGER

23-across – One taken aboard vessel for voyage : CRUISE

24-across – Dig up old philosopher : EXHUME

25-across – Where it’s cold riding in HGV : ARCTIC

1-down – Girl rejected by emperor in India : AMRITSAR

2-down – Peter’s trained as a film star : STREEP

3-down – Hemp derivative, as is used for stress : EMPHASIS

4-down – Kind of cedar used to construct dreadnought : DEODAR

5-down – You could be better prepared without one : READER

7-down – Pretend to be an Asian healer : SHAMAN

8-down – Company of superior snobs? : CORDWAINERS

14-down – Gay demon, unlikely to have sex with his own kind : ENDOGAMY

15-down – Actors have to be getting unfair treatment : INEQUITY

16-down – Fliers set out afresh to attack : STRAFE

17-down – Something to go on the drinks bill? : BARSAC

19-down – Priest has turned prophet : ELISHA

20-down – Before soldiers performed once again : ENCORE

1-across – Substitute for 4, 9, 10, 14, 19, 21, 27 or 29 : DOUBLE

4-across – Light fitting good for burning daylight : GLAZING

9-across – Contained counter counter counter-tenor : BARRELLED

10-across – Tool used time ‘n’ time again : AGENT

11-across – Sliced chicken : CAPON

12-across – Hammer demonstrator’s excessive claim to a London borough? : ISLINGTON

13-across – Final puff from stovepipe hat : EPITAPH

15-across – Triumvirate running the tundra? : TROIKA

17-across – Scott’s post: standing to in return journey : EDITOR

19-across – Articulate job-sharer with 17 : JOINTED

22-across – Made love with one from model police force : COMPELLED

24-across – Stone circles absorbing one : LAPIS

26-across – Petri dish! : TRIPE

27-across – The old man’s friend might take a breather : PNEUMONIA

28-across – Rick’s communication’s scrambled : HAYWIRE

29-across – One’s hand is in his : DEALER

1-down – Crash when taxi turns left into river : DEBACLE

2-down – Open a French 13 : UNRIP

3-down – How hunters behave without hearts; one’s in the right and one’s inwhat? : LIEINWAIT

4-down – Thought For The Day, say: The Fate of the Olympians : GODSLOT

5-down – At the Turk’s Head, in for another round, please! : AGAIN

6-down – Wanted features composed thus : IDENTIKIT

7-down – Wicketkeeper enforcing such confinement? : GATING

8-down – Bob’s on the skids : SLEIGH

14-down – Bond: ‘e’s out of his tiny mind! On the contrary, not his, unfortunately : INDEMNITY

16-down – Miss Woodhouse left sadly for one raising the standard : ORIFLAMME

18-down – Reverse talk of Raleigh’s failure : RELAPSE

19-down – Tries to find Deborah here : JUDGES

20-down – Literary giant in the cave of Trophonius : DESPAIR

21-down – Spike with spirit : SCOTCH

23-down – That’s Gibson in there, up a gum tree : ELEMI

25-down – Unsparing writer, Capp : PENAL

1-across – Number of singers about fifty : CHLORAL

5-across – From orphan to mother – that’s the spirit! : PHANTOM

9-across – Ecclesiastical title getting high honour is poison : VENOM

10-across – Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof : TARPAULIN

11-across – Male has trouble with note about female model in first boat : HEADOFTHERIVER

13-across – Love is painful when wrongly directed : EROS

14-across – Conclusive instructors of actors in film : LASTRADA

17-across – Shrub with 6 and I say, a moving grove : VIBURNUM

18-across – Tick over – no good? : IDLE

21-across – Union negotiator puts down indicator about one in fury with comrade : MARRIAGEBROKER

23-across – Old tiara bought initially off the back of a lorry : TAILBOARD

24-across – Comment of stable relationship among those next door? : NEIGH

25-across – Harlot has gold – which is in character? Not quite : LORETTE

26-across – Theme that has to be mastered : SUBJECT

1-down – Look out from hiding-place? : CAVE

2-down – Gunner with a stripe provides a cobbler with a minder : LANCEBOMBARDIER

3-down – Cure for extreme dyslexia : REMEDY

4-down – Don’t punish the French gentleman : LETOFF

5-down – Role call: solution, fiery exit line : PARTHIAN

6-down – Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right : ALACRITY

7-down – It isn’t given to us, they say: leave wooden bits out : TOLOVEANDBEWISE

8-down – One delving below the surface without fear – a psychologist? : MINDREADER

12-down – The big guns of rock : HEAVYMETAL

15-down – Flighty creature finds berries on the willow : FRUITBAT

16-down – Bellowed, kind of sneezed, and whistled : OUTGRABE

19-down – Homes for bloke in rising water : ABODES

20-down – Associate goblin with aristocrat : HOBNOB

22-down – See 5 : SHOT

9-across – Seamen scowl at the cards : LOWERDECK

10-across – Enter the office uninvited? : USURP

11-across – A coal-burning vessel : BRAZIER

12-across – Papers – the first editions : TISSUES

13-across – They may be held in revulsion : NOSES

14-across – Study secures present church agreement : COHERENCE

16-across – Yet it might have private wards : GENERALHOSPITAL

19-across – Discussion at board level : TABLETALK

21-across – Summoned after parking accident : PRANG

22-across – Collected reference books at jumble sales : ATLASES

23-across – Woodcutter is buried in peace : HATCHET

24-across – Engagement ring? : ARENA

25-across – An unfair comparison : UGLYASSIN

1-down – Untrustworthy advice for cheaper air travel : FLYBYNIGHT

2-down – Administers oath to witness showing unusual wariness : SWEARSIN

3-down – One’s characteristics begin holding one up : TRAITS

4-down – Hold up in Paddington, say : BEAR

5-down – In which to find an artist’s early work? : SKETCHBOOK

6-down – How to beat the streaker? : OUTSTRIP

7-down – The gold glow of chestnut : AUBURN

8-down – Love to drink up after work : OPUS

14-down – You may get it in the neck from this boss : COLLARSTUD

15-down – Teaches a number in English, perhaps : ENLIGHTENS

17-down – It may control the oven, when cooking the roast : RHEOSTAT

18-down – Box smart during trial : TEACHEST

20-down – Private accommodation? : BILLET

21-down – Track an Afghan tribesman : PATHAN

22-down – Absent abroad : AWAY

23-down – An overhead light : HALO