Clues

9-across – Set for scan? Why? : READY

10-across – Yoko has no news about being solo : ONONESOWN

11-across – Before start of race, punter is richer : BETTEROFF

12-across – Get rid of 500 yen : DITCH

13-across – Swiss city takes in one Italian artist : BERNINI

15-across – Crazy blunders involving knucklehead : BONKERS

17-across – Airy-fairy? : SYLPH

18-across – Not quite a royal family : KIN

20-across – Exemplary poser : MODEL

22-across – Transport me with large hamper : TRAMMEL

25-across – Paddy has so much French spirit : TANTRUM

26-across – Shoot a descendant : SCION

27-across – Colour that’s in, in inn in France : AUBERGINE

30-across – Plastic switch needed for telephony : POLYTHENE

31-across – A star of professional golf : ALGOL

1-down – Lacklustre send-up of Shakespeare : DRAB

2-down – Country work that’s also part recreation : PASTORAL

3-down – Twenty pence contribution? That’s kind! : TYPE

4-down – Robert Oppenheimer’s first association with a songbird : BOBOLINK

5-down – Deceive with terrific talk : CONFAB

6-down – I am England’s new star : LEADINGMAN

7-down – German writer introducing German article about Old English : GOETHE

8-down – Advance slowly and cautiously, or steal quietly away : INCH

13-down – Prince finally among the creme de la creme. Harry? : BESET

14-down – Heartlessness and senselessness about olfactory offensiveness : INHUMANITY

16-down – Port in northern Massachusetts, beer in southern Massachusetts, initially : SALEM

19-down – Worthies revealing why schoolchildren are innumerate? : NOTABLES

21-down – Wendy’s family pets : DARLINGS

23-down – Failed to move away from home : AFIELD

24-down – Well-heeled or well-oiled? Such a question is unfair : LOADED

26-down – Silly ass holding head of pin for pinheads : SAPS

28-down – It’s 5.5 yards, going round one way : ROAD

29-down – Fish see reflection over lake : EELS

1-across – Tough German conceals neurotic fear : GANGSTER

5-across – Create new ballet position : ECARTE

9-across – Converge on brave private : BEARDOWN

10-across – A way of cooking meat in France and Spain : FLAMBE

11-across – The chances on getting good service : EVENSONG

12-across – Satisfy a joiner in person : PANDER

14-across – Many marshals handle part of an engine : CRANKSHAFT

18-across – Noon ordeal troubled heroine : LORNADOONE

22-across – Powerful plane reaches unknown height : MIGHTY

23-across – Fielder desperately wants spinner : LONGSTOP

24-across – Turned colour? See, barely! : NUDELY

25-across – I’m Bill and I’m not what I seem : IMPOSTER

26-across – Oscar co-ordinates knowledge of gas : OXYGEN

27-across – Supporter hoarding available books : ADHERENT

1-down – Mining waste allowed in vessel : GOBLET

2-down – Order a measure supporting cattle : NEATEN

3-down – Cruelty with fireman holding Pluto : SADISM

4-down – Man of mystery makes journalist turn cross : EDWINDROOD

6-down – Break down everything that’s sprung up in the wood : COLLAPSE

7-down – Soldiers’ standard restorative : REMEDIAL

8-down – Curse old banger at bottom of river : EXECRATE

13-down – In the dark about knight wearing regimentals : UNINFORMED

15-down – Soldier supports sweetheart in the dance : FLAMENCO

16-down – Pilot’s inherently strict and without warmth : FRIGIDLY

17-down – Dough-covered, sickly sweet : PASTILLE

19-down – Pass over devastated region : IGNORE

20-down – Expound about superior work of art : STATUE

21-down – The meaning of life : SPIRIT

1-across – Bartender needing a wad chopped up for the plainest food : BREADANDWATER

10-across – Case of the former Liberal : EXAMPLE

11-across – Cookery writer knocks back gin with jazz singer : NIGELLA

12-across – American berry grower’s moving along : LOGAN

13-across – This female warrior’s bust ain’t in bra : BRITANNIA

14-across – Midshipman called about the crash : PRANG

16-across – Encouraged to embrace a bishop when heckled : BARRACKED

18-across – Not even a soldier on strike could be called a misfit : ODDMANOUT

19-across – The best of the Carmelites : ELITE

20-across – Good-looking lad with scar and sinus damaged : NARCISSUS

23-across – Praise for Elizabeth when going round the lake : BLESS

24-across – Final stage when death reaches wild animals for sport : ENDGAME

25-across – Nearly suffering as a substitute : STANDIN

26-across – Envious, getting identified as Charlie Dimmock : GREENFINGERED

2-down – Protective train buffer? : REARGUARD

3-down – Anglo-Saxon writer trembles in the wind : ASPEN

4-down – Brother got up after getting best bitter : ACERB

5-down – Insignificant fellow spattered panda with dirt : DANDIPRAT

6-down – Incense in silver tomb, about a ton : AGGRAVATE

7-down – Actress Terry is well endowed, but not completely : ELLEN

8-down – Source named with all the necessary equipment : WELLAPPOINTED

9-down – Sarah concentrating on sauce : SALADDRESSING

15-down – Life in the fireplace and sink : GRAVITATE

16-down – Standing place for objects with hard back and strange flesh : BOOKSHELF

17-down – What the chef uses in a tense situation? : KNIFEEDGE

21-down – Cyclist’s qualification : RIDER

22-down – She keeps us in the sanatorium : SUSAN

23-down – English poet and artist born over the water : BLAKE

1-across – Angry about a famous huntsman mostly requiring one to give way : MAJORROAD

6-across – Little fool on the plus side? : ASSET

9-across – Businessman takes stewed fruit right round an American walkway : COMPANYPROMOTER

10-across – Drag the swag : HAUL

11-across – Silver for a boy, endless fount of inspiration : AGANIPPE

14-across – Ransack barrel to find a piece of weaponry : RIFLEBUTT

15-across – Sunburn dispenser? It takes 2 : TANGO

16-across – Little boy with a metre-wide hole : CHASM

18-across – Organ playing during journey out of Mexico : RIOGRANDE

20-across – Hanger-on at location of Red Devils? : PARASITE

21-across – Lubber employed at the theatre : SWAB

25-across – With student and petty officer separated in prison, I can do anything : PLENIPOTENTIARY

26-across – Smack in the snoot, as technically it is known : TASTE

27-across – Note: see about part of speech I’m withdrawing : SEMIBREVE

1-down – With see-through material, it’s hard to be a prophet : MICAH

2-down – Traffic not moving? Let off steam and it’s a piece of cake : JAMPUFF

3-down – Travel to capital, say : ROAM

4-down – Alternative unknowns: this is an antelope : ORYX

5-down – Belittling of a good interchange : DEROGATION

6-down – Trouble on-line about doctor, a fool, giving instructions : ADMONITORY

7-down – Attack the arrangement continuously : SETUPON

8-down – Triumvirate you need time to look up in a book : THREESOME

12-down – Liberal by letter? : PERMISSIVE

13-down – Suitor with unit adapted to be good for him : NUTRITIOUS

14-down – Bird giving offence during firework noise : ROCKPIPIT

17-down – Stuffy and far from ‘irsute : AIRLESS

19-down – Modern way to get into prison : NEWGATE

22-down – Man of law, not yet man to the French : BOYLE

23-down – Light wood? : BEAM

24-down – Attempt crazy rising : STAB

1-across – Illusionist takes quiet breather: I like it reaching a peak : PRESTIDIGITATOR

9-across – Promote model following Queen’s Counsel outside : ADVERTISE

10-across – Plant supporter turned into homely xenophobe : XYLEM

11-across – Varsity? It’s difficult to incorporate part of one : HARVARD

12-across – Run with complacent delight, almost : SMUGGLE

13-across – Be prone to romance : LIE

14-across – Stash in quarter of the island : SECRETE

17-across – Nasal passage involving the foreign god : SILENUS

19-across – Regressive seed is a sure thing : NEMESIS

22-across – Counter-arguments about hen with lice : ELENCHI

24-across – On account of colloquial island : COS

25-across – Suave sort of popular singer carrying weapon : CHARMER

26-across – It can be converted into a cupboard : CABINET

28-across – Live alien holding 6 back : EXIST

29-across – Flower crower? Piffle! : POPPYCOCK

30-across – Red spice mix in big house brings on mental instability : MANICDEPRESSION

1-down – 22 down came to hand out healthy complexion : PEACHESANDCREAM

2-down – Always accepting meal ticket for fresh fish : ELVER

3-down – Balcony supplying clue without hesitation : TERRACE

4-down – Shrink gets led off, restraining flatulence : DWINDLE

5-down – Shots in the dark being pumped into theatre cat : GUESSES

6-down – Re writing – rewriting? – lute tax : TEXTUAL

7-down – Neglect that’s designed to be appealing on box : TELEGENIC

8-down – Dwarf to rear the Spanish height-enhancer’s family : RUMPELSTILTSKIN

15-down – Take care of politician later, including one with a sidekick : COMPANION

16-down – Endlessly follow Japanese fish : TAI

18-down – Sick of one with plates : ILL

20-down – Arab, say – so it says here – is about to give out : SEMITIC

21-down – One in a fix with a disease : SCRAPIE

22-down – Fugitive points to tasty bud : ESCAPER

23-down – Developing creatures measure unknown quantity in the fraternity : EMBRYOS

27-down – Campbell may be one to grumble about : NAOMI