Clues

7-across – Indeed a complicated case gets passed over : DECEASED

9-across – Baptismal name : NORMAN

10-across – A joint for Tuesday? : WELD

11-across – Doctor Spock, but he may enable you to get off cheaply : BUCKETSHOP

12-across – Male ideal raised on the farm : MANGEL

14-across – It was a hit when the devil performed : IMPACTED

15-across – Legal righteousness in one could harm another : DHARMA

17-across – Grabbing by the church of way-out cult : CLUTCH

20-across – Davis run in? That’s not fair : BRUNETTE

22-across – Line taken by turbulent cleric : CIRCLE

23-across – Earl without honour : YARBOROUGH

24-across – Dover, perhaps, rejecting excess of foreigners : PORT

25-across – Laurel’s pronounced averse : STANZA

26-across – In Yorkshire, Londoners make undue claim : ARROGATE

1-down – He got profit from opposing 9 immigration : HEREWARD

2-down – Bow could be sinister : BEND

3-down – Girl is first 7 : ISABEL

4-down – Top-liner trained to fight crime? : INTERPOL

5-down – His plain language leads to court order : PROSECUTOR

6-down – Al Gore gathered in abundance : GALORE

8-down – Bound up with the church in fraud : DECEIT

13-down – A knot to tie – it was an investment : GRANNYBOND

16-down – Like a mother could lose a point and gain one – it’s seriously relevant : MATERIAL

18-down – Gaiety : HILARITY

19-down – No beauty, but she was ill-used in some degree : MEDUSA

21-down – Rail trip to Venetian quarter : RIALTO

22-down – Stick with present company to begin with : COHERE

24-down – Call for a quiet time : PAGE

1-across – Second best hoot : SCREAM

5-across – Rover, in search of pleasure, takes false silver back and forth : GADABOUT

9-across – There’s not an island left that’s not based on fact : NOTIONAL

10-across – Frank guide : DIRECT

11-across – Chummy’s apt to be tight : CLOSEFITTING

13-across – Try to get information from shoe : PUMP

14-across – Pitiful epic that failed : PATHETIC

17-across – Disciple with heart of gold in bloom : FOLLOWER

18-across – Party clobber : BASH

20-across – Hobbies to interest these hobbyists? : BIRDWATCHERS

23-across – Expression of grief about note on sausage : SALAMI

24-across – University given tribute for being elevated : UPRAISED

25-across – Suppress onset of laughter in unfamiliar setting : STRANGLE

26-across – Country infiltrated by skinhead’s obsequious subordinates : YESMEN

2-down – Commander has to approve captain : COOK

3-down – Pepsi Cola, refreshment of bishops : EPISCOPAL

4-down – Skirt worn by favourite : MINION

5-down – Get huge pot and clear out with financial compensation : GOLDENPARACHUTE

6-down – Duchamp’s first on a platform, initially talking shop with Hans Arp, Man Ray et al. : DADAISTS

7-down – Central heating on stream as a kind of offering? : BURNT

8-down – Nice suntan all over? Most weird! : UNCANNIEST

12-down – Car was effective for one not needing instructor : AUTODIDACT

15-down – I seem prepared to hold singer responsible for missions : EMBASSIES

16-down – In a stew, in a stew, in a stew? Good! : SWEATING

19-down – Risk associated with fish shop : BETRAY

21-down – Princess in Edwardian attire : DIANA

22-down – Wilder make-up unit? : GENE

1-across – Circled the earth, say : WHIRLED

5-across – Well up in colour : SUFFUSE

10-across – US polar explorer – and aviator, by the way : BYRD

11-across – Devilish control? : POSSESSION

12-across – Crown jewels : TIARAS

13-across – Love of the past : OLDFLAME

14-across – Late payment? : DEATHDUTY

16-across – Female cotton spinner : JENNY

17-across – Silver down, but looks healthy : AGLOW

19-across – A cleaner at The Rover’s Return? : BAROFSOAP

23-across – It’s unusual to hear in broadcasting : ONTHEAIR

24-across – In school, put us at the end of the line : EUSTON

26-across – Misguided love is pity, really : POSITIVELY

27-across – Mount hotly tipped to run : ETNA

28-across – Hazel’s hangers-on : CATKINS

29-across – Unusual angle for a crank : ODDFISH

2-down – Disorganised rustic binder : HAYWIRE

3-down – Condition under which a horse races : RIDER

4-down – Shown to be vulnerable : EXPOSED

6-down – Tips university to spend freely : UPENDS

7-down – US rifle is adapted for infantrymen : FUSILIERS

8-down – They will run away when things warm up : SNOWMEN

9-down – Guard put on health risk in naval vessel : ESCORTCARRIER

15-down – A cleaner at work among the chatterers : TOOTHPICK

18-down – Canal boat : GONDOLA

20-down – Individual observed description of Polyphemus : ONEEYED

21-down – Not a sum that’s incorrect – sums : AMOUNTS

22-down – Defame a large number and get into a row : MALIGN

25-down – It’s bound to be a bit of a shock : SHEAF

1-across – Where prices fall, endless obligation on unhesitating poet is not ordered : DUTCHAUCTIONS

10-across – Unnecessary verbiage for weightless bear : PADDING

11-across – Pass – turn over a couple of pages first : APPROVE

12-across – Cast heard to be suffering : THROE

13-across – Cutting mat with scissors – all but the ends, strangely : OSTRACISM

14-across – Return to the point before long – it may be catching : NOOSE

16-across – Our ends may be : ROUGHHEWN

18-across – The regular custom of sponsorship? : PATRONAGE

19-across – A romp through Berlin? : SPREE

20-across – Theatrical musician and literary baron allowed back in : LYTTELTON

23-across – Student well informed on American disease : LUPUS

24-across – Genuine error by Wax? : SINCERE

25-across – Lower with awful dread, for example : DEGRADE

26-across – Sh! Tebbit is for reform? You’ll be lucky! : BESTOFBRITISH

2-down – Downtrodden like Old Labour? : UNDERFOOT

3-down – Wrong number for Frost? : CRIME

4-down – Silver starting to develop problems : AGGRO

5-down – Singer can use the letters : CHANTEUSE

6-down – Charges for a large quantity of fruit : IMPEACHES

7-down – One complaint raised by Old Testament character : NAOMI

8-down – Getting things just so, like Chopin after his love embraced mine : SPITANDPOLISH

9-down – Disease and its cause, an ego like the French : GERMANMEASLES

15-down – Running away with strange men to Peel : ELOPEMENT

16-down – Oven to be held by judge: that’s where it’s done : ROASTBEEF

17-down – Master Blair’s retained hanging for those in 1, 8, 9 and 26 : EUROPEANS

21-down – Present, maybe, making one uptight : TENSE

22-down – The lowest point in deception, a dirty business : NADIR

23-down – Not a load-bearing beam : LIGHT

1-across – Man with hat on touring US city : ANTHONY

5-across – Fruit in Africa’s a basic necessity : CASABAS

9-across – Arranged to hold man’s rope : SHEET

10-across – Classes hill as a gas producer : GENERATOR

11-across – So pub invoices a drunk having an honest reputation? : ABOVESUSPICION

13-across – Try to telephone back as arranged : LAID

14-across – Stand beneath a statue : PEDESTAL

17-across – Strike-breakers grow rebellious in plants : RAGWORTS

18-across – Concern for fellow listener : FEAR

21-across – Beer’s not sold – confused company admitted it’s not drunk at all! : STONECOLDSOBER

23-across – Discharging a French boy in Gateshead after taking a ring : UNLOADING

24-across – Volunteer leaving with Elizabeth : OFFER

25-across – Put Out of Order notes on kitchen stove : DERANGE

26-across – Having rest day arranged, wandered off : STRAYED

1-down – It’s no good girls wanting a ball to boot! : ALSO

2-down – Aspen is rocking to music with Los Angeles ready to start : TREMBLINGPOPLAR

3-down – days on the way, briefly making notes : OCTAVE

4-down – My go is ruined by a philosophical way of life : YOGISM

5-down – Is Lawrence right when following prison case? : CANISTER

6-down – Mixed rest with water in colander : STRAINER

7-down – Crazy bit by Len’s father needs re-writing : BATSINTHEBELFRY

8-down – High level fire fighters? : SPRINKLERS

12-down – Run lad to US doctor for this type of scan : ULTRASOUND

15-down – Because we stood up, taking a service tip off : FOREWARN

16-down – A protein dispersing poison : ATROPINE

19-down – Saws a girl’s taking back, for example : ADAGES

20-down – Not off in time for worship : HONOUR

22-down – Got 1,000 to deliver power supplier : GRID