Clues

9-across – Boating clothes in Durham? : RIVERWEAR

10-across – Lover needs capital as well as love : ROMEO

11-across – Impressionist goes to poll with drunkard : MORISOT

12-across – Blue : ONECLUB

13-across – ‘Ave no one perceive one’s thought : IDEA

14-across – Raptor without wavering asks me to show in 18’s clue : KISSMEKATE

15-across – This is misplaced among the undoubted: it’s just a guess : SURMISE

17-across – Curtailment of a nice day shortly before becoming diabolical : SATANIC

19-across – Theology turning prophet’s heart, five times a dozen : THREESCORE

22-across – Live doctor’s rounds : AMMO

23-across – Standard party attended by Lily : LABARUM

24-across – Counter-tenors in bed with bird? : COALTIT

26-across – See 4 : STORY

27-across – Unable to swallow half psychology – a dig at 6s and 7s : DYSPHAGIC

1-down – All through change of form, trees need time to keep going : FROMFIRSTTOLAST

2-down – Catch what was said of Americans in Britain : OVERHEAR

3-down – The Queen’s circle’s in the Circus : EROS

4-down – Leading Conservative is briefly among the moderate ones with former date for show from 10 and partner : WESTSIDE

5-down – Slips are awful things – don’t start! : ERRORS

6-down – Franco-German cheese gala taking minimum time : BRIEFEST

7-down – Mrs Marcos says she isn’t so young : IMELDA

8-down – Puzzles with answers running 1 of lines and broad Scots clue I must solve : DOUBLEACROSTICS

16-down – Puzzler says he is wandering: find them in the fridge : ICETRAYS

17-down – Boys from here came from the 21 of 5, according to copper in Sayers’ novel : SYRACUSE

18-down – Spooner’s domesticated shrews aren’t wild horses with labels : NAMETAGS

20-down – Bone, most of which is thin : RIBBON

21-down – Buffalo Bill keeping me for fun : COMEDY

25-down – A cast beyond the pale? : ASHY

9-across – Two Good Friday participants against a scheme for peace? : EIRENICON

10-across – Tempestuous character – one found in Lear, perhaps : ARIEL

11-across – Like Britain’s past glory without a hazard : IMPERIL

12-across – Piano serves to transform the office : VESPERS

13-across – Girl from classical Greece : LASS

14-across – General service footwear : WELLINGTON

16-across – Screw holds a number in bird : TURNKEY

17-across – A palm may be, as in cupidity : GREASED

19-across – Offers to play lovers’ tune : VOLUNTEERS

22-across – Dunkirk began fightback from a no-win situation : DRAW

24-across – Outre student found in bed, the worse for drink : BOTTLED

25-across – Calls in question politician using spin : IMPUGNS

26-across – There’s many a drop down here : DRAIN

27-across – Charge for a snog with a bird? : SPOONBILL

1-down – A joint is essential when backing English group diet : LEGISLATIVEBODY

2-down – One moves, but it could be sore if lacking support : PROPOSER

3-down – Any king is bound to be cross : ANGRY

4-down – Domain of sly, cruel cook : SCULLERY

5-down – Bernard’s declining to whimper : SNIVEL

6-down – One is apt to be driven : PASSENGER

7-down – Wealthy type gets model to strip : DIVEST

8-down – After dancing in clogs, drinks up and all must go : CLOSINGDOWNSALE

15-down – Scrooge is broke without a couple of bob, or less : SKINFLINT

17-down – Keillor’s defence? : GARRISON

18-down – Al Gore is unlikely to keep concubines : SERAGLIO

20-down – Killing is all the rage! : LETHAL

21-down – He may feel destined to succeed in part : ELDEST

23-down – Odds and ends singularly unappealing to 15 : SPEND

7-across – Game soon involved king and queen : SNOOKER

8-across – They bet plate-layers drop dead : PLAYERS

10-across – It goes pear-shaped for self-centred person : EGOIST

11-across – The territory above a taxman’s scope : AIRSPACE

12-across – In Nepal, it’s a sacred language : PALI

13-across – Records found before Ezra : CHRONICLES

14-across – Big names in disarray: I cite rebels : CELEBRITIES

19-across – Where they might bring back the birch? : ARBORETUMS

22-across – Colour: mostly green with a hint of yellow : GREY

23-across – Free kind of house? : DETACHED

24-across – Exercising choice of imitation : ECHOIC

25-across – Slander male trapped in silly lunacy : CALUMNY

26-across – Colours moving slowly around Spain : YELLOWS

1-down – Harvester is one of the ravers : ANAGRAM

2-down – One hero in domestic murder : HOMICIDE

3-down – Irishman in charge of Scottish club : CELTIC

4-down – I am almost certainly played : CLARINET

5-down – My subject, Wasting Time, is short-sighted : MYOPIC

6-down – Game played by heartless Greig? : CRICKET

9-down – Lovely parks, places for shy and painted horses : FAIRGROUNDS

15-down – One big in the game, other than Pele : ELEPHANT

16-down – Thin paint : EGGSHELL

17-down – Club magazine : ARSENAL

18-down – Surveys about attitudes : REVIEWS

20-down – In chess, when to swop a queen isn’t clear : OPAQUE

21-down – Set out to marry drunk : STEWED

1-across – Setting including a large kind of triangle : SCALENE

5-across – A coat with line and wrinkles : FURROWS

10-across – Frank is allowing access : OPEN

11-across – Playful pets after Lawrence takes them out to play : THETEMPEST

12-across – Sort of zebra crossing, good for capital city : ZAGREB

13-across – Given food in Australia, Edward is exhausted in America : TUCKERED

14-across – Rental due to be revised is not revised : UNALTERED

16-across – Undergarment for a bear : TEDDY

17-across – Thatcher’s choice for home secretary : STRAW

19-across – Turning point when Tom Jones initially encounters flattery : TJUNCTION

23-across – Soap bar is misshapen – there’s a complaint about it : CARBOLIC

24-across – Flags displayed by doctor above heart operations : DROOPS

26-across – Letters from people in books : CHARACTERS

27-across – Date in Rome that is incomplete : IDES

28-across – A military expedition caused trouble, with king being captured : CRUSADE

29-across – To reduce consumption is futile : USELESS

2-down – Biblical character without fitting rank : CAPTAIN

3-down – Interior covering for passenger ship : LINER

4-down – Eminent aristocrat entertaining volunteers : NOTABLE

6-down – Some tunes composed for an international organisation : UNESCO

7-down – Stand for religious education here : REPRESENT

8-down – Stitch up nurse in part of London : WESTEND

9-down – Grub garb : LEATHERJACKET

15-down – Ballerinas missing a dance in Wales : LLANBERIS

18-down – Instructor having meal with singer and actress : TEACHER

20-down – Diana’s crazy about people without clothes : NUDISTS

21-down – Eurydice’s husband composed her opus : ORPHEUS

22-down – Calm policemen attached to port authority : PLACID

25-down – A college window : ORIEL

1-across – Town council carried advertising : SANDWICHBOARD

10-across – Harsh covering for gully : GRATING

11-across – Widespread custom after the port : DIFFUSE

12-across – Discover good side in heel : LEARN

13-across – Itinerant itinerants lose one itinerant : TRANSIENT

14-across – Lucifer’s equal : MATCH

16-across – Is over Midge Ure’s autograph : SIGNATURE

18-across – Land of Hope? : RURITANIA

19-across – In glee I derry down : EIDER

20-across – Structural geology, etc wasted stimulants : TECTONICS

23-across – Further society’s conventions : MORES

24-across – Queen replaces one in drug work : OPERATE

25-across – Place to inspire or heal, I suspect : AIRHOLE

26-across – Purge over-excited fool within time limits : DECONTAMINATE

2-down – Mineral tar as medium of exchange : ALABASTER

3-down – Think fit to speak European : DEIGN

4-down – Bar entered the other way round : INGOT

5-down – Head angry about bloomer : HYDRANGEA

6-down – Obscure order about female puma from America, perhaps : OBFUSCATE

7-down – Wake up – turn in – got up : ROUSE

8-down – Silver-r! See me share large pile : AGGLOMERATION

9-down – Drink Irishman tipped inside escort’s footwear : BEETLECRUSHER

15-down – A cooking problem? : HOTPOTATO

16-down – Male’s subconscious feeling? : SENTIMENT

17-down – Sole place for subjection : UNDERFOOT

21-down – Fabric of cloth in church : CREPE

22-down – Butter up quartermistress : SMARM

23-down – Fool’s gold’s seen midday : MORON