Clues

1-across – Last months keeping 99 in picture with a range of backgrounds : MULTICULTURAL

10-across – Tanks, as in song : AQUARIA

11-across – 23’s work’s wasted on monarchs : THINKER

12-across – Boat train : GRAVY

13-across – Bird receiving directions to an edible pod : GREENBEAN

14-across – Heretic going back for African currency : NAIRA

16-across – Shame about being rejected for an oath : PROFANITY

18-across – Headless nun found in well in part of France : FINISTERE

19-across – Wine and syrup reportedly unavailable to corps de ballet : KIROV

20-across – Change the decor after putting out brush fire : REFURBISH

23-across – Sculptor offering resistance to God : RODIN

24-across – Some reversible faults in an organ-grinder? : ONANIST

25-across – A male feature in North American woman : NATASHA

26-across – Big Issue for the third generation? : GRANDCHILDREN

2-down – Atonal opera turning into a strange howling noise : ULULATION

3-down – Stay sticky : TARRY

4-down – Overweight tribe making a noise : CLANG

5-down – Supple Green embracing alternative ethos : LITHESOME

6-down – Standard that’s OK in Cajun cooking : UNIONJACK

7-down – Joint not beginning to fester : ANKLE

8-down – Spoil dogsbody taking in bishop receiving zero tolerance : MARGINOFERROR

9-down – Vlad, maybe, giving Ann nasty viral disorder : TRANSYLVANIAN

15-down – Statement of charge after a lock-up : ASSERTION

16-down – Spiritual – Mondrian? Perhaps artlessly artistic : PIETISTIC

17-down – King travels wearing diamonds that glow : IRRIDESCE

21-down – Instinctive talent for raising Arabic and French money : FLAIR

22-down – Deer with one tongue : HINDI

23-down – Assessed drunk – only semi-teetotal? : RATED

7-across – Girl with talent, we hear, featuring in yearbook : ALMANAC

8-across – It’s quiet back round the world’s homely spots : HEARTHS

10-across – Run to get acceptance in Europe nowadays : SINGLE

11-across – See 10 : CURRENCY

12-across – Tea’s never-ending appeal : CHAR

13-across – Our bard out to reform lyrical poet : TROUBADOUR

14-across – The last stage is the drive to the house : HOMESTRETCH

19-across – Refer to the unusual rise, one to make public : ADVERTISER

22-across – Money means to make a comeback : LOOT

23-across – Lessons in the catering department? : SANDWICH

24-across – See 23 : COURSE

25-across – Colour left traces, perhaps : SCARLET

26-across – Place involved in current increase to spend money : SPLURGE

1-down – Artful trick sounds trifling : SLEIGHT

2-down – Kind of court for a bounder? : KANGAROO

3-down – Up-to-date news of city trial : LATEST

4-down – Live, suitable for crops and manageable : BEARABLE

5-down – Familiar road fine for jogging : FRIEND

6-down – Stop at university for medical exam : CHECKUP

9-down – Chose knitting with stitch as a social activity : SCHOTTISCHE

15-down – Called for hospital department and became unwell : ENTAILED

16-down – Mathematicians study this, possibly in a body : CALCULUS

17-down – Further improvement : ADVANCE

18-down – Commit prisoner to write name : CONSIGN

20-down – It’s different under English weather : ENDURE

21-down – One way to make it! : RECIPE

1-across – Bearded old party leader sat for artist : OPPOSED

5-across – Aerial missile or a submarine hazard : BOMBORA

9-across – An Irishman was Hitler’s favourite : ARYAN

10-across – An undertaker is found in this force : VOLUNTEER

11-across – Daughter encircled by books about a gila could be a pain : ODONTALGIA

12-across – Beginner speaking compliant words by the pool : LIDO

14-across – It transmits 10 in a core band, possibly : RADIOBEACON

18-across – She leads against Custer’s 500, perhaps : CONDUCTRESS

21-across – One being out of condition is disheartened : UNIT

22-across – How ill was the reviewer? : CRITICALLY

25-across – Legal offender : CONTEMNER

26-across – Where stock is managed by companion : RANCH

27-across – Mineral found in actual fish : REALGAR

28-across – He wrote Western Assassin : WHITMAN

1-down – He speaks of sports centre on a hill : ORATOR

2-down – Meets the cost of fight by telephone : PAYBOX

3-down – What the sick may resort to : SANATORIUM

4-down – Cook lived up to his name : DEVIL

5-down – City where East European had one extra : BALTIMORE

6-down – Kelly was a male, unknown : MANX

7-down – Worn at the 12 by a bishop, perhaps : ONEPIECE

8-down – Exhibit ‘B’ being gold and neon on the wing : AIRBORNE

13-down – Cambrian contralto or soldier seen with the Queen : WELSHCORGI

15-down – One in three-D version: King Stephen, say : DETHRONER

16-down – Kit Carson”s vehicle? : SCOUTCAR

17-down – Marks half inside one gain accidentally : INSIGNIA

19-down – Meeting of opponents in choice setting : PLENUM

20-down – Monty was killed by Apollo : PYTHON

23-down – Cast appearing in The Endless Column : THROW

24-down – A follower, for example, holding royal composer : BERG

1-across – Duck with drink trouble? : PINTAIL

5-across – One, for example, turning to group for cover : BANDAGE

10-across – Some cheap seats placed in recess : APSE

11-across – Appeal for supernatural aid in one’s business : INVOCATION

12-across – Soldier has to enquire about air : ASKARI

13-across – Tear about always, but not disrespectful : REVERENT

14-across – Establish correspondence, later suffering change in heart : CORRELATE

16-across – Figures point to being strained : TENSE

17-across – Stiff person in jam : STICK

19-across – Binding criticism : STRICTURE

23-across – Vehicle in which fairy queen returned with hooligan aboard : BROUGHAM

24-across – Article about facsimile cover for bed : CANOPY

26-across – Feelings of people involved in sin test? : SENTIMENTS

27-across – Country one managed to see : IRAN

28-across – Undergraduate makes boss throw out ten : STUDENT

29-across – Stuck at this point in total : ADHERED

2-down – Claim to be through with love – isn’t that laying it on a bit thick? : IMPASTO

3-down – Can’t he take the part of a Greek character? : THETA

4-down – Starting with a capital letter, usually : INITIAL

6-down – One with clove-hitch in shady retreat : ALCOVE

7-down – The cleaner has put a chap off : DETERGENT

8-down – Keeps airman from flying for good reasons : GROUNDS

9-down – Exaggeration about summary of financial position : OVERSTATEMENT

15-down – Enlisted soldiers performed crude rite : RECRUITED

18-down – Rome shattered by explosive shell, causing distress : TORMENT

20-down – Cut inside out, including first chapter : INCISED

21-down – Provide a substitute for two materials : REPLACE

22-down – Counterfeit article by priest : SHAMAN

25-down – Artless one in ecclesiastical passage : NAIVE

1-across – Inspector again involved in painful affair of the heart : ANGINAPECTORIS

8-across – A script given by physician for nightcaps? : DRAMS

9-across – Weapon with a jolly, blazing sound : ARMALITE

11-across – Show, a one-time hit, put over in the same location : EXHIBIT

12-across – Suffer from insufficient energy : UNDERGO

13-across – Stingy character of motorway service having lost its grip : MISER

15-across – Grub – could it turn men crazy? : NUTRIMENT

17-across – Baker’s selection of tacky pies? : TIPSYCAKE

20-across – Priestly wear for short medieval peasant : COTTA

21-across – Comparisons concerning the nose : ODOROUS

23-across – English reader of old High German : ELECTOR

25-across – Cheap fare always available in a coach : STEERAGE

26-across – More to be included in the next race at Doncaster : EXTRA

27-across – False pretences no sin – but they get the bird : PRISONSENTENCE

1-down – New warden with proposal for 10 : ANDREWMOTION

2-down – Snap of teeth with sound of bow on string : GNASH

3-down – Fruit of blunder in battle : NASEBERRY

4-down – No tea served up on local transport : PHAETON

5-down – Many bankrupt after company fire : COMBUST

6-down – Before getting this, bearings start to be heated : OILED

7-down – Ecumenical feature of the cross? : INTERSECT

10-down – A true tale adapted by US writer, or 1 down : POETLAUREATE

14-down – What one might do at a brasserie or brassiere : SUPPORTER

16-down – Rise in building material around last Easter : INCREMENT

18-down – Possibly ban Asti – and other drinks! : ABSTAIN

19-down – Interpreter, for example, in late summer abroad : EXEGETE

22-down – Prognostications provided by women’s magazine : OMENS

24-down – Giant free from taint : TITAN