Clues

1-across – Cold yeast formed enzyme : CYTASE

4-across – Main power for 9, visited by 28 2 on a 16 : NEPTUNE

9-across – 4 Across, 29, 2, 18 or 19, for example, having a say in the plot : SATELLITE

10-across – European banker keeps right company : ORDER

11-across – 9 knight in charge of old style : IONIC

12-across – Wantonly bit escort referring to childbirth : OBSTETRIC

13-across – Call one back about note for fuse : IGNITER

15-across – Mug kissing endlessly : NOGGIN

17-across – Independence in India, South Africa and Japan involving conflict : SWARAJ

19-across – Constant check : STAUNCH

22-across – Golfers seek course’s trophy : SWEETSPOT

24-across – Work keeps Bob grubby : DUSTY

26-across – African parent’s first class : MASAI

27-across – Retro failure to intensify shock : TERRORISE

28-across – 5 is a pervert, switching European leaders for a time : VOYAGER

29-across – 2’s father 9, visited by 28 2 on a 16 : URANUS

1-down – Conspirator gives us up for Ulster 5 : CASSINI

2-down – Half-hearted artist, object of 20 : TITAN

3-down – Marsupials climb over authorised professional : SOLICITOR

4-down – Lenin’s wrongly harbouring English composer : NIELSEN

5-down – 28, 1down or 20 present decoration : PROBE

6-down – Gunner Sid contrived to make his mark in the end : UNDERSIGN

7-down – Man gets hold of new hotel to develop : ENRICH

8-down – Power of Spanish port – an ancient city : VIGOUR

14-down – Discovered cattle in the US : NEWJERSEY

16-down – Money invested in car on our educational journey : GRANDTOUR

18-down – King over 4 Across, 19 and 9, visited by 1 Down and 28 2 on a 16 : JUPITER

19-down – Agricultural power and 9, visited by 1 Down next and 28 2 on a 16 : SATURN

20-down – Foolish guy tucked into fowl on way to 2 : HUYGENS

21-down – Writer’s articles I recommend being cut : ASIMOV

23-down – Poor girl’s first obsession : THING

25-down – Shoot many in Israel : SCION

9-across – It measures the speed of the wind, etc : METRONOME

10-across – Each clever youngster’s possession : EVERY

11-across – Very old description, in part, of some hymns : ANCIENT

12-across – French cars use this oil : ESSENCE

13-across – Evidence of Peel’s successes : KILLS

14-across – Simple girl nearly rode back on donkey : UNADORNED

16-across – Shocking! That’s their anger out of control : EARTHSHATTERING

19-across – Where Horatio asked for the kiss of death? : TRAFALGAR

21-across – Drink absinthe, perhaps : SHRUB

22-across – Blow up in the darkroom : ENLARGE

23-across – Trees do provide strength for a Danish physicist : OERSTED

24-across – Band of greenery? : OASIS

25-across – Power over the drunkard : INFLUENCE

1-down – 8 London Road : EMBANKMENT

2-down – One letting nothing go has a second difficult problem : STICKLER

3-down – An old poet’s pigeons : HOMERS

4-down – It is pushed out on the Spree! : BOAT

5-down – One who raised the foundation : BENEFACTOR

6-down – Jacinth, possibly, of sapphire’s shade : GEMSTONE

7-down – Writer with name on flag : PENNON

8-down – 23 made this king in colour : DYKE

14-down – Dirty, wretched guy in niche : UNHYGIENIC

15-down – Doormats where shadows fall on institutions : DOGSBODIES

17-down – Safety device heartlessly shattered in crash : HEADREST

18-down – Rita is at the heart of this nuisance : IRRITANT

20-down – The most effective notes in case : ABLEST

21-down – Cloud cover near Stroud! : SHROUD

22-down – Touchy about a familiar London statue : EROS

23-down – King brought up in Staffordshire : OFFA

1-across – Brook’s sequel to Psycho? : BABBLE

4-across – Ordinary sort of lamp : STANDARD

9-across – Rustic beau with son on cart : SWAIN

10-across – Can impute suffering to being blown up : PNEUMATIC

11-across – Servant in country going to America with name of flower dear to 17 : BLACKEYED

12-across – See 11 : SUSAN

13-across – Buy factory – any hesitation? Reportedly, we’ve just begun another one : BIMILLENNIUM

17-across – Little fabric in Asian country for flower dear to 11 12 : SWEETWILLIAM

20-across – Retaliation beginning from the right in due course : LATER

21-across – Dylan’s answer likely? : INTHEWIND

23-across – More pompous part of 7’s workshop : STATELIER

24-across – Nanki-poo’s sequel to spring flowers : TRALA

25-across – Facial hair on landscape gardener in central Asia : TASHKENT

26-across – Exercise in translation: our German doesn’t end in French : UNSEEN

1-down – Primate’s presidential project? : BUSHBABY

2-down – American right : BEARARMS

3-down – Probe some unlikely consequence : LUNIK

5-down – One standing a round – around students out of town on Cromarty Firth – making no progress : TREADINGWATER

6-down – Ass anaesthetises selective slaughter, say : NUMBSKULL

7-down – When he turns up, it’s a model he needs : ARTIST

8-down – Quite good translation of 100 : DECENT

10-down – Box for money? Navy pilot I see will arrange it : PAYTELEVISION

14-down – Some flowers to beautify ratings’ quarters? : LOWERDECK

15-down – The scandal of dreamer Walter? They say not to take it so seriously : MITIGATE

16-down – Irish 6, love-crazy one taken in by barbarian : OMADHAUN

18-down – Near time to be outed from it? : CLOSET

19-down – Aids for drinkers 21 : STRAWS

22-down – John with candle 21 : ELTON

1-across – Free water : SPRING

5-across – Waste of a key public service : FUTILITY

9-across – Man rises above it : IRISHSEA

10-across – Snooping, a small number make notes : NOSING

11-across – An order for despatch : DEATHWARRANT

13-across – Destructive bore in Spanish river : EBRO

14-across – Complete cancellation of a golf match? : ROUNDOFF

17-across – Confine Brown without leave to military HQ : PENTAGON

18-across – Grain of discomfort : CORN

20-across – Abandon Britain, say, to live in isolation here? : DESERTISLAND

23-across – Wrongly admits to being at the centre of things : AMIDST

24-across – One has a job to get money from one : EMPLOYER

25-across – Odd doctrine obtains goods without paying : ONCREDIT

26-across – The game’s finished without a team : NOSIDE

2-down – A state of pure chaos : PERU

3-down – Changed round when batting team has been dismissed : INSIDEOUT

4-down – Yet his talk is far from uplifting! : GASBAG

5-down – How one may get down to make money dishonestly? : FEATHERONESNEST

6-down – Mythical king who never quite got what he wanted : TANTALUS

7-down – Runner defeated in close race : LOSER

8-down – Pitcher on the table? : TUNINGFORK

12-down – A meal’s been cooked for sailors : ABLESEAMEN

15-down – Such trees are barely recognisable in winter : DECIDUOUS

16-down – Shaken and upset : AGITATED

19-down – Does it secure tile to shingle? : HATPIN

21-down – Dis duck – or dat? : EIDER

22-down – Guide to the first card : LEAD

1-across – Baddy and goody have a share – it goes to show! : DEMONSTRATION

10-across – Tripe, if turned out by journalist when stoned : PETRIFIED

11-across – Set of nine or ten on reflection : NONET

12-across – Rule of restraint without force : REIGN

13-across – It may go down before a fire : HEARTHRUG

14-across – Tarmac damaged by first road vehicle : TRAMCAR

16-across – Not even little by little, a traitor infiltrated : ERRATIC

18-across – Native unrest starting massacre in the Far East : VIETNAM

20-across – Field doctor treated bowman : FIDDLER

21-across – Perhaps Californian Guardian is more rigorous : WESTERNER

23-across – Shade said to facilitate vehicular access : KHAKI

24-across – Joint feature of Zoroastrian ritual? : ROAST

25-across – Authorising publication about falsehood : RELEASING

26-across – Summit meeting? It could go with a bang! : HEADSTOGETHER

2-down – Trace exit – unusual way to get out : EXTRICATE

3-down – Vegetable for one caught up in forbidding situation : ONION

4-down – Hitler’s uncontrolled progress? : SLITHER

5-down – It’s binding on official intelligence : REDTAPE

6-down – Put in solution as instructed – no second turn : TINCTURED

7-down – Some children, women and dogs upset the proprietor : OWNER

8-down – Promise shown by a workman – there’s the nub : OPERATIVEWORD

9-down – One bears with dramatic bearing : STAGECARRIAGE

15-down – Happy little girl and boy, about 10 : CONTENTED

17-down – Chatty chess champion, a girl about 4 : TALKATIVE

19-down – A short time down and age going up – time on the tower : MINARET

20-down – Limb singled out for elegance – not half! : FORELEG

22-down – Least fresh? : STALE

23-down – Serpent – old craft put up with it : KRAIT