Clues

1-across – President presents line of trees in slow motion : WOODROW

5-across – Montefiore forbidden to give horse its dinner? : NOSEBAG

9-across – A touch of the Cretan summit? : MIDAS

10-across – Another Blair babe on the way? : NEWLABOUR

11-across – 1 19’s plan for 12, a round within Hague’s capacity : FOURTEENPOINTS

13-across – Makes ‘ot food : EATS

14-across – One of the family? That would be telling : RELATION

17-across – Canterbury pilgrim continuing in the season : SUMMONER

18-across – A left hand writing for the present : ALMS

21-across – Europhile, perhaps, is tottering in a shambles : INTEGRATIONIST

23-across – Defamatory address to America on line with one phone call : LIBELLOUS

24-across – Plan in shade of doorway : HATCH

25-across – Loss of moisture – v.p. : SEEPAGE

26-across – Retribution seems in doubt : NEMESIS

1-down – The West Indian politician is a feeble fellow : WIMP

2-down – Ex-Tory supply clerk – I belt out one of the BEF : OLDCONTEMPTIBLE

3-down – Make another arrangement for holiday destination : RESORT

4-down – Colourless boy, probably a criminal : WANTED

5-down – Being shown at present: danger arising and I’m not surprised! : NOWONDER

6-down – Beast carries a child according to the time of year : SEASONAL

7-down – Gordon, followed by Frank, strangely, is set to find building land : BROWNFIELDSITES

8-down – There’s glitter as she rings off : GARISHNESS

12-down – Palace’s following of vice: dispose of one on the way up : VERSAILLES

15-down – Day when giant nearly reached the Eastern region : MONGOLIA

16-down – Araucaria’s space poem, The bird with big feet : MEGAPODE

19-down – See 1 across : WILSON

20-down – Song from Iolanthe : ANTHEM

22-down – How do you put something between gold and myrrh? : THUS

1-across – Notes stammer when speaking to a debt dodger : DEFAULTER

6-across – Painter’s in bilge, we’re told : BOSCH

9-across – Climbs with limbs special to these insects : CLEGS

10-across – Tossed out this sort of clue about sport : AUTOCROSS

11-across – Military unit seeking engagement? Quite the opposite : DETACHMENT

12-across – Sad blow : BLUE

14-across – Not a shoemaker’s tool heard in making clever clogs : KNOWALL

15-across – Honourable, this Roman and others around : ETHICAL

17-across – Falsifier of records given fresh start – and still he cheats : DIDDLER

19-across – Bare all over the head? That’s his hair all over the bed! : SPOONER

20-across – Old writer having ritual drink in retreat : AMOS

22-across – Barrier to free speech? : IMPEDIMENT

25-across – Girl taking first puff without a smoke : PANATELLA

26-across – Slow passage of old ship on lake : LARGO

27-across – Stalky and gannet-like, except for head : REEDY

28-across – Flushed game in partly forested area of London : REDBRIDGE

1-down – Chanced getting a hat trick of diamonds : DICED

2-down – Naval unit, heading for Deal, say, makes port : FLEETWOOD

3-down – A club is one place out of order for this type : UNSOCIABLE

4-down – Handicap by turning right and heading back : TRAMMEL

5-down – Put up ally in Queen’s Suite : RETINUE

6-down – Blood money paid in Chicago : BUCK

7-down – That is low – could be lower : SCOWL

8-down – Largely low shelter restyled for this person : HOSTELLER

13-down – One has The Times ordered : CHRONICLER

14-down – Criminal traced to Leatherhead : KIDNAPPER

16-down – Exchanged views? That’s taken for granted! : CONFERRED

18-down – Rover plant : RAMBLER

19-down – Crew member checks mounting fear in different ways : STEWARD

21-down – Animal, one of many in the pound : OUNCE

23-down – Tea, say, lying on pit of stomach : THOLE

24-down – Tarry rope : STAY

1-across – Snooped round barrel central to exclusive function : PRIVATEDINNER

10-across – Street cry on Mars? : OLDIRON

11-across – Slags render one coarse : SCORIAE

12-across – Mill-bearing strands? : FLOSS

13-across – Vicar with hairstyle that’s burlesque : CHARIVARI

14-across – Sailor on edge, unable to take any more : ABRIM

16-across – Possibly infectious message passed round at church : CATCHABLE

18-across – Look back on skirt received by Ceres, perhaps : REMINISCE

19-across – Many a musical moderator : CHAIR

20-across – Co-ownership of paper jumper : TIMESHARE

23-across – Compare with boy holding thousand back : LIKEN

24-across – Get round to being pompous : OROTUND

25-across – Trump nets king; North leads: it’s an ideal situation : NIRVANA

26-across – Venice’s leaders take up heresy of shunning the flesh : VEGETARIANISM

2-down – Player/broadcaster in love with endless Mardi Gras : RADIOGRAM

3-down – Man : VIRUS

4-down – Far from dominant mixer : TONIC

5-down – Break up book with gloomy oriental covering : DISMANTLE

6-down – Wandering into Chile in bygone age : NEOLITHIC

7-down – Lady Heath : ERICA

8-down – Fire from Tory Standard – put on a percentage : CONFLAGRATION

9-down – Correct mistake, one in narrow stretch of water : MEDITERRANEAN

15-down – Very small students with copper in the distance : MINISCULE

16-down – One with dire forebodings about oaf and artist : CASSANDRA

17-down – Nefarious ritual made Banquo’s head want substance : BLACKMASS

21-down – Animal of low bearing : MOOSE

22-down – Garden nuisance inducing boredom : ENNUI

23-down – Actress learning name : LOREN

1-across – Get ready for the Spring : CROUCH

4-across – A service attended by ancient head of Rugby : ARNOLD

9-across – Drink, knock it back as a starter : ASTI

10-across – Slit the envelope; it’s not a private communication : OPENLETTER

11-across – Mum, listen for a change! : SILENT

12-across – Press for a reduction? : DECREASE

13-across – Plea to one to be agreeable and provide financial backing : BEANANGEL

15-across – Mole has something to eat by river : PIER

16-across – Fine stuff for sitting on in Summer! : LAWN

17-across – Rigid line taken by hospital department : STRINGENT

21-across – Travelling after the game : ONSAFARI

22-across – A division of the church : SCHISM

24-across – Hope to stay involved in medical practice : OSTEOPATHY

25-across – Abraham Lincoln, to start with, was murdered : ABEL

26-across – Club for a field athlete : PUTTER

27-across – Fetching follower of the game : GUNDOG

1-down – I entered dream home – in Spain, suitably enough : CASTILE

2-down – Oil producer under pressure has a heart of stone : OLIVE

3-down – One of the toasts that may be offered with a meal : CROUTON

5-down – Churchgoers guarding priest’s remains : RELICS

6-down – Flying up and down the touchline? : ONTHEWING

7-down – A shelved medical assistant : DRESSER

8-down – No racehorse alive is one! : DEADCERTAINTY

14-down – He provides regular press handouts : NEWSAGENT

16-down – Queues seen on washing days? : LINESUP

18-down – Do you agree? I don’t believe it! : IASKYOU

19-down – It’s intended to encourage laying in a little money : NESTEGG

20-down – Bird in the bull-ring : MAGPIE

23-down – To save is difficult with nothing coming in : HOARD

9-across – The buzz from the pub? : LOCALCALL

10-across – Turn up at college in London for a pound : PULSE

11-across – Not easily disturbed when it leaves fair : EQUABLE

12-across – Seat unfinished in part of curve is antique : ARCHAIC

13-across – Fame record : NOTE

14-across – The prospect: chat mainly in flat : HORIZONTAL

15-across – English politician in match play : TEMPEST

17-across – Dish is hot; it could be addictive : HASHISH

19-across – Vast US rail trips to see painting, sculpture, etc : VISUALARTS

22-across – Move to produce mix in jug : STIR

23-across – Idol far off in America : FLORIDA

24-across – Glut in French Cheddar, say : ENGORGE

26-across – Pair missing from overture produce dodgy performance : ELUDE

27-across – Pelt the unknown dump in retreat : HIDEYHOLE

1-down – Flue, for example? Certainly no petrol involved : ALTERNATIVEFUEL

2-down – Get used to the cat taking most of blame : ACCUSTOM

3-down – Staff society : CLUB

4-down – Understands fares : MAKESOUT

5-down – Chemical that’s partly chalk – a little soft : ALKALI

6-down – Soup with ices? Unusually plausible but wrong! : SPECIOUS

7-down – Easily influenced by one in the factory : PLIANT

8-down – I get points for writing and drawing : PENCILSHARPENER

16-down – One taking part in the Test : EXAMINEE

17-down – She had to set in order the impetuous ones : HOTHEADS

18-down – Cretin possibly raised doctor by calling on this : INTERCOM

20-down – Governor’s to turn back and avoid going round : SHOGUN

21-down – Invested with this, there’s little interest : APATHY

25-down – Artist’s year in part of India : GOYA