Clues

1-across – Drunk? That’s rich! : LOADED

4-across – Brazier needs cooler to put ripe fruit in : FIREPAN

9-across – Happy about piece of cake I consumed being frozen : GLACIATED

10-across – Drunk at Christmas? : MERRY

11-across – Drunk, if there’s one more boat in pieces : EIGHT

12-across – Drunk without a squeak – boring being successful? : WELLOILED

13-across – Drunk: sleep may be induced in consequence : SOZZLED

15-across – Die on land which isn’t sufficient : DEARTH

17-across – Quite fair? : PRETTY

19-across – Dangerous stuff, gas: explorer retreats before it : TOBACCO

22-across – Drunk, ready to be painted? : PLASTERED

24-across – Change, etc, to 11 : OCTET

26-across – Drunk having floods? : LITUP

27-across – Drunk stuff to throw back – don’t hasten away! : BOLLINGER

28-across – Needing no brush, artist comes in to surveille : SPRAYON

29-across – Drunk artist on top of brush : BLOTTO

1-down – Drunk students entertain birds when there’s a shortage : LEGLESS

2-down – A tropical fruit, nothing less, amid Scots : AMANG

3-down – Short letter reveals exaltation of starter holding gun : EPISTOLET

4-down – Drunk ran away clutching posh theologian : FUDDLED

5-down – Lover with a capital ring : ROMEO

6-down – Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted : PARALYTIC

7-down – Total immersion is one day’s work : NOYADE

8-down – Drunk too long in the pot? : STEWED

14-down – Religious leader from Australia raised on a hot day : ZOROASTER

16-down – Relative enters salami cooked like divine bread : AMBROSIAL

18-down – Polish article that’s about to become Nigerian : YORUBAN

19-down – Drunk on winks? : TIDDLY

20-down – Black stuff found in the majority of root vegetables in Canada : ONTARIO

21-down – Fruit drinks, about twopence : APPLES

23-down – Drunk – lasts a year? : TIPSY

25-down – Drunk, but still tense? : TIGHT

1-across – Wear a well-styled beard : ABRADE

4-across – Balance fish plates : SCALES

9-across – Victoria thumbed by Jack for a lift? : PLUM

10-across – Hold hands? : STEVEDORES

11-across – It may be recommended as a sun resort : NASSAU

12-across – Place set aside for development : DARKROOM

13-across – Dangerous situation that frightened buccaneer to death : BLACKSPOT

15-across – It’s only fair : JUST

16-across – Emotional state low, with onset of depression : MOOD

17-across – Retired permanently on grounds of ill health : BEDRIDDEN

21-across – They’re lawless, a little grasping also at half-time : BANDITTI

22-across – Oriental vessel is a mile in length : SAMPAN

24-across – Examined and ploughed : TURNEDOVER

25-across – Squalid place where many people live, 50 in all : SLUM

26-across – Before this time in the past : ERENOW

27-across – Strict clergyman has a setback in the diocese : SEVERE

1-down – Not a sunny greeting! : ALLHAIL

2-down – Uncle who helped found city : REMUS

3-down – Dispute being second in field event : DISCUSS

5-down – Hurrah for good health : CHEERS

6-down – Peer about like Humpty Dumpty : LOOKROUND

7-down – Lengthen your stride, if a stair tread is missing : STEPOUT

8-down – Induce to become religious? : LEADTOBELIEVE

14-down – Wooden steps? : CLOGDANCE

16-down – Act or dance : MEASURE

18-down – Stock book : RESERVE

19-down – Removal time guaranteed : ERASURE

20-down – A Broadcasting House workshop? : STUDIO

23-down – Tricky shot manipulative female has no use for : MASSE

1-across – Chamber pot beside shelter bothered monarch : POTENTATE

6-across – A queen tucked into nut from tree : CAROB

9-across – Feature medicine in postscript to fundamental study : PARTICLEPHYSICS

10-across – Libertine makes love in the French way : ROUE

11-across – Dabbler consumes energy drink when on the waggon : TEETOTAL

14-across – Composer put plant beside hot cooker : BEETHOVEN

15-across – Cyril composed song : LYRIC

16-across – Relief for senior officer stuck in chimney : LOCUM

18-across – Act wildly, as Adam did : RAISECAIN

20-across – Coast road hotel embellished with projecting moulding : CORNICHE

21-across – Small amount in a small container : SPOT

25-across – Out of character, but not for a malt whisky drinker : AGAINSTTHEGRAIN

26-across – A couple working in protective clothing : APRON

27-across – Broadcaster here with the Queen : PRESENTER

1-down – Player finds promenade without parking : PIPER

2-down – Wild otter runs round old city in distress : TORTURE

3-down – Claw caused knight pain : NAIL

4-down – Offensive son lost friend : ALLY

5-down – Peril Annie let loose outside : ENPLEINAIR

6-down – Try and act less foolishly for the radio : CRYSTALSET

7-down – I roll about and make merry : ROISTER

8-down – Barium and another element in ointment : BASILICON

12-down – Advocate eats good northern mushroom : CHAMPIGNON

13-down – Alien in public dance is lacking in restraint : OVERTHETOP

14-down – The Parisienne wearing sweet headgear : BALACLAVA

17-down – Pirate’s pronounced vulgar manner : CORSAIR

19-down – Snake to stop on the road : ASPHALT

22-down – Catch up on alternative humour : TENOR

23-down – House in southeast Oxford, for example : SHOE

24-down – This fever is uncertain with onset unseen : AGUE

1-across – Housing settlement : ACCOMMODATION

10-across – Little girl to retain damaged box : CONTAINER

11-across – Informed some of the raw article is rejected : AWARE

12-across – Girl accepting object in goodwill : AMITY

13-across – Lay down as a rule before writer : PRESCRIBE

14-across – Person who retired before time, perhaps : EREMITE

16-across – Man has to buy drinks all round in that place : THEREAT

18-across – Stories about child are an understatement : LITOTES

20-across – Stole cattle, but made little noise : RUSTLED

21-across – Declaration of love for a saint : VALENTINE

23-across – Hastings group with one doctor? : BANDA

24-across – Almost average girl : NORMA

25-across – Unorthodox priest manged to infiltrate and become known : TRANSPIRE

26-across – Seer gets warning about barrel counter : FORTUNETELLER

2-down – Showing restraint in Europe, for instance : CONTINENT

3-down – Seal ring and attempt to swallow one : OTARY

4-down – Clothing for Roman foot-soldiers : MANIPLE

5-down – Gloomiest doctor takes a turn : DARKEST

6-down – Rural group whose purpose is to top the charts, perhaps : THATCHERS

7-down – Took a picture showing rare animal : OKAPI

8-down – What professional fiddler does just to get by? : SCRAPEALIVING

9-down – Make allusion to artist, suggesting lack of balance? : REFERTODRAWER

15-down – Public officer being mean to worker : INTENDANT

17-down – Brier in elegant profusion : EGLANTINE

19-down – Bird with no aversion to cheese : STILTON

20-down – Once again carry out direction in state of trance : REENACT

22-down – Left ship rather slowly : LARGO

23-down – Man giving note to girl on rising : BASIL

1-across – Funny man using martial art on clergyman : KENDODD

5-across – Paths laid out round a large pitch : ASPHALT

10-across – Composer given introductions to Busoni, Elgar, Ravel and Grieg : BERG

11-across – Newspaper getting money that’s prayed for : DAILYBREAD

12-across – County containing upper-class resorts : HAUNTS

13-across – Write to nag about military headquarters : PENTAGON

14-across – Dread sex manual translated from French author : ALEXANDRE

16-across – Moment that’s doubtful on the first of January : JIFFY

17-across – Wood has award sent back to New York : EBONY

19-across – A Greek king soon brought about plucky Ilium’s end : AGAMEMNON

23-across – Persistently question North African about where medicinal waters are dispensed : PUMPROOM

24-across – Like Croesus completely, Diana only partly : LYDIAN

26-across – It’s too far away from the stove : OUTOFRANGE

27-across – Muses initially help poetic young woman : MAID

28-across – One who doesn’t believe he is in a race : ATHEIST

29-across – Almost half of retailers imported wrong wine : RETSINA

2-down – You can see with this!, I shout to the auditor : EYEBALL

3-down – Start to eat and drink after I’d given up : DIGIN

4-down – Carroll really has to avoid losing last child : DODGSON

6-down – Saw, for example, in front of garage : SAYING

7-down – Here Flora preserved the metal she has… : HERBARIUM

8-down – … to start with metal not available… : LEADOFF

9-down – Speaking slightingly of mad gent and praise eccentrically : DISPARAGEMENT

15-down – English phone box designed for one who won’t speak to the French? : XENOPHOBE

18-down – Favourable comment elicited by the scent of wine? : BOUQUET

20-down – Extra cover for porky dramatist : MOLIERE

21-down – Speech made by opposition leader on official allowance : ORATION

22-down – Beautiful young women serving time on islands : HOURIS

25-down – See 14 : DUMAS