Clues

1-across – Here person in pain could have been on stretcher : TORTURECHAMBER

9-across – Fat diva, if off to make a legal declaration : AFFIDAVIT

10-across – BBC head goes free : UNTIE

11-across – Join hospital department engineers in retirement : ENTER

12-across – Tenor performing in hut gets cut : SHORTENED

13-across – Sling dog into temporary accommodation : LODGINGS

14-across – Said you do wrong to go back on agreement : UNISON

17-across – Depression returns to the Franco-Italian city : NAPLES

19-across – Hard worm taken by gannet, an insectivore : HEDGEHOG

22-across – For mineral he’s moving into a coastal area : FORESHORE

24-across – She returns something useful : TESSA

25-across – Having brought nothing back, try tongue : LINGO

26-across – Writing about poor Orlando Heath : MOORLANDS

27-across – Engineer passes bill, then discloses something confidential : SPILLSTHEBEANS

1-down – Moving music from gypsies : TRAVELLINGFOLK

2-down – Fellow with an Australian pick-up in red is disproved : REFUTED

3-down – Emphasise where sleepers should be placed : UNDERLINE

4-down – Not many men face taking picture : ENVISAGE

5-down – Container with a lid on the inside? : HATBOX

6-down – Frame picture of horse? : MOUNT

7-down – During sex-change nurse gets presents : EXTENDS

8-down – Studying good girls – useful for improving your looks? : READINGGLASSES

15-down – Thing transported by driver could be for an entertainer : NIGHTCLUB

16-down – Both he and me turned into a huge person : BEHEMOTH

18-down – Vegetable from an average crop : PARSNIP

20-down – Landlord detailed to go with girl gives a joyful shout : HOSANNA

21-down – An ordered system in a disco’s most unusual! : COSMOS

23-down – Many standing round job centre looking for a seat : STOOL

7-across – Guy, as we see it, is grasping : COVETOUS

9-across – The French on a horse with a kind of crop : ARABLE

10-across – Have nerve and a bit of bottle : NECK

11-across – Very loud and disturbing, endless noise and natter : STENTORIAN

12-across – It takes pounds to keep one in drink, for example : LIQUID

14-across – Regard key : DISCRETE

15-across – Eats for a stag party? : NOSHES

17-across – Quite an expression of revulsion following one’s volte-face : ENOUGH

20-across – Long a head to a Greek department – reportedly a pain in the backside : SCIATICA

22-across – Point put about English and, fittingly, by academic : PEDANT

23-across – Collision involving Jumbo and Harrier, say : BIRDSTRIKE

24-across – Crackjaw : CHAP

25-across – Go home and go to bed! : TURNIN

26-across – Father and teenager at odds : GENERATE

1-down – Card trick involving ace, the same being turned over in advance : COMEDIAN

2-down – Take furtive look to observe rears : PEEK

3-down – Drunk? Turf out of employment! : SOUSED

4-down – Rabid fan of pop star in frenzy : PARTISAN

5-down – Clear floor to provide area for entertainment : FAIRGROUND

6-down – That may be bent grass, eg, covering island : PLIANT

8-down – Spot-checks English river rising fast : SPEEDY

13-down – Honest reputation succeeds in court : UPSTANDING

16-down – Living with death – machinegun nests in the interior : EXISTENT

18-down – Do without a man : HENPARTY

19-down – This proverb matches putting off with one stealing time : SAYING

21-down – Ingroup get on well together, by the sound of it : CLIQUE

22-down – Yard under pressure, taking long time to uncover plant : PAEONY

24-down – Beef or fish? : CARP

7-across – Strips to relieve stuffiness in galleries : LOUVRES

8-across – Plantagenet raised greens, perhaps, eaten by Miss Bawden : ANGEVIN

10-across – Mon Oncle, the film : FRENCH

11-across – Mother! Pi was concocted to describe an arc : TRIOMPHE

12-across – Nana’s dad is dribbling at Stamford Bridge : ZOLA

13-across – A type-face inspired by cultured Elian fabulist : LAFONTAINE

14-across – It’s novel, when woman backs this after 10 : LIEUTENANTS

19-across – See 10 : CONNECTION

22-across – He, one of the Loos : JOHN

23-across – Putting on the sauce : DRESSING

24-across – Designer launches out, leaving us behind : CHANEL

25-across – Blunder into kind of glass of water : PERRIER

26-across – Painter cut husband at the home of Frank? : CEZANNE

1-down – Whiskey and biscuits? : BOURBON

2-down – Lowry and 8 almost cultivated a control freak : SVENGALI

3-down – Vicious Lord 14 captured Frome, briefly : LETHAL

4-down – Flashes retreating Scots’ own soldiers at half nine : INSIGNIA

5-down – Girl’s end upset Lysander’s admirer : HERMIA

6-down – Cockney motto expressing dejection : SIGHING

9-down – They possess firm making quality starch and canvas : STIFFENINGS

15-down – No longer going round and round, cold drunk sits under a 10 : UNCOILED

16-down – Thanks to Barrie or Synge, who wrote on a prince building a mausoleum : TAJMAHAL

17-down – Taking off, at first, is not so easy for a squirrel : HOARDER

18-down – Smith’s job, they say, is telling folk to push off : SHOEING

20-down – Space travellers heartlessly ruined organ stop : NASARD

21-down – Take away top and bottom drawers for £1? : NICKER

1-across – There’s nothing in between the passenger and the road : THOROUGHFARE

8-across – Woman gets support for surveyor : EVEREST

9-across – I forged alloy in the hearth : FIREDOG

11-across – Business graduate in drag faces old complaint : LUMBAGO

12-across – Subversion lacks its initial impression : EDITION

13-across – The proportion of a square in a South American city : RATIO

14-across – Make a beastly noise before our local resident : NEIGHBOUR

16-across – Susie dies foolishly for a matter of lesser importance : SIDEISSUE

19-across – Merchandise keeps wife smart : SWELL

21-across – Wrongfully in charge? It’s criminal : ILLICIT

23-across – Insect eats fruit for food : ALIMENT

24-across – Goddess gets shrub in a place of torment : GEHENNA

25-across – Disagreement in the German fishing boat : DRIFTER

26-across – One puts words into the mouths of those to be shot : SCREENWRITER

1-down – Recluse carries tons of welding material : THERMIT

2-down – Herb loves holding Shakespearean : OREGANO

3-down – Expenditure one invested in unfashionable medals : OUTGOINGS

4-down – Boss endlessly making faux pas : GAFFE

5-down – Supply swimmer taking pot : FURNISH

6-down – Composer’s baton Igor smashed : RODRIGO

7-down – Proper sauce for traditional festivity : WELLDRESSING

10-down – Officers rent shop : GENERALSTORE

15-down – Fast runner tucks into rice cooked for northerner : ICELANDER

17-down – Tory supports change in capital of a Greek island : DELPHIC

18-down – Engineer breaking local’s key? Holy smoke! : INCENSE

19-down – Life cut short in travesty of transportation : SKILIFT

20-down – German aristocrat is English reader : ELECTOR

22-down – Wrench Bob away to keep fit : TRAIN

1-across – New topic: strange sticks! : UNKNOWN

5-across – See 1 Across : COUNTRY

9-across – Windbreak conceals marshy land in front of church : FENCE

10-across – What Billy Bunter had in cycle cape : ROUNDNESS

11-across – Love poem’s unfinished: to an unpleasant person it’s all too much : OVERSPILL

12-across – Small radiator touching two spokes : RADII

13-across – Bound to keep lady covered in the bathroom? : TILED

15-across – Lorna’s bum’s different and undeveloped : SUBNORMAL

18-across – Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave? : HIDEOUSLY

19-across – Boredom for everyone taken in by half-feminine dancing : ENNUI

21-across – Rushes of wind make Augustus join retiring saint : GUSTS

23-across – Flour’s sprinkled round street, which is sad : SORROWFUL

25-across – Inaccuracy is included in note for bully : TERRORISE

26-across – Also-ran won’t start to get closer : LOSER

27-across – Cause of envy and contention, messing up cradle with food pips : APPLEOF

28-across – See 27 Across : DISCORD

1-down – It’s paid in advance, standing on the promenade : UPFRONT

2-down – In the doghouse with Kenneth, Eleanor and the editor : KENNELLED

3-down – Chaps breaking very large signs : OMENS

4-down – Beautiful youth makes cassis run all over the place : NARCISSUS

5-down – Bad-tempered person has twist round top of head : CHURL

6-down – Lightly cooked, so left holding back some wine : UNDERDONE

7-down – Walk, having time to understand : TREAD

8-down – She can’t say ‘No’ : YESGIRL

14-down – Leave out, namely, a single griddle-cake : DROPSCONE

16-down – Partner, by concealing ring, meets objective after Friday : BOYFRIEND

17-down – Statement of inmates altered : MANIFESTO

18-down – Meal had off tailless duck : HIGHTEA

20-down – Discourteous and unhealthy king’s asleep! : ILLBRED

22-down – Drink to hide your excessive sentimentality : SYRUP

23-down – Female suits made up to be formal : STIFF

24-down – Go back, Leslie, with eyes like a flirt! : OGLES