Clues

1-across – Attitude struck by quiet social worker about dope : PASSANT

5-across – Rocky English beach : SHINGLE

9-across – Time for doing the ironing? : EVENING

10-across – Note beans are repellent : REPULSE

11-across – A promoter of drink – stout : SUPPORTER

12-across – Relationship established at entering a foreign port : RATIO

13-across – Provokes those supplying information : NARKS

15-across – Noted work of a minister, almost all with a point : PASTORALE

17-across – It’s not a minor change he proposes : NOMINATOR

19-across – Few in single situation have the answer : SOLVE

22-across – Some ancient Briton gained these islands : TONGA

23-across – A woman gets cold on standing : CONSTANCE

25-across – Fish catching old vessel not proceeding in an orderly way : LARKING

26-across – Copper taken in by a little crawler should make check : INSPECT

27-across – Directed trade in essential components : TRAINED

28-across – More colourful, though less experienced : GREENER

1-down – Don’t stop persons misbehaving : PRESSON

2-down – The dancer’s plain, right? : STEPPER

3-down – A friend will offer an American private backing within a very short time : AMIGO

4-down – Kitty’s after underwear – a tricky business indeed! : TIGHTSPOT

5-down – A Spaniard admitting running water is more reliable : SURER

6-down – High and mighty rascal with little hesitation incurred debts : IMPERIOUS

7-down – Girl!, scoffed a Greek maid : GALATEA

8-down – Overlooks nothing concerning a blight on the landscape : EYESORE

14-down – Feeling making an onset is called for : SENSATION

16-down – Skinhead running off, moving with some speed : SPRINTING

17-down – Brief message not allowed to include direction : NOTELET

18-down – An underground toiler opposing a goddess : MINERVA

20-down – Learn, maybe, about conservationists – see the light : LANTERN

21-down – The individual certain to make one cross! : ELECTOR

23-down – It’s about those of advanced years being committed to prison : CAGED

24-down – Discrimination shown – but not a lot : TASTE

8-across – Master card : ORIGINAL

9-across – Turn out a revised paper : APPEAR

10-across – Drop right out of the money : BEAD

11-across – Like cancelled debts sent by mail : WRITTENOFF

12-across – Raffia weaving could be cause of marital tangle : AFFAIR

14-across – Survival from the night before? : HANGOVER

15-across – Routes heading for Yarmouth in area of Norfolk : BYROADS

17-across – They hurl brickbats at the Prince of Wales, perhaps : CRITICS

20-across – Over-subtle partly defines punster’s wit : FINESPUN

22-across – Trade once common in Europe : MARKET

23-across – Transport used for getting to Coventry effortlessly? : BROOMSTICK

24-across – Gun with catches set back : STEN

25-across – Bishop-in-charge has time for hunting animal : FERRET

26-across – Man in converted coup? shows wealth : OPULENCE

1-down – Subvert knowing garden pest : GREENFLY

2-down – Old French artist when climbing loses direction : AGED

3-down – How to deal with Warne’s spin? : ANSWER

4-down – Vehicles Hunt found on board : SLEIGHS

5-down – Clipper’s quicker rounding two points : FASTENER

6-down – Such a spokesperson can turn a No, perhaps : SPINDOCTOR

7-down – Fudge cake made with iron : WAFFLE

13-down – Square on the high table : ABOVEBOARD

16-down – Stakes put on third from last : DEPOSITS

18-down – Readiness to forgive soldiers in cycle crash : CLEMENCY

19-down – It is put in the fire with goose : ANDIRON

21-down – Ariel’s new republic : ISRAEL

22-down – Prepare application for a nose job! : MAKEUP

24-down – Spotted a number, minus 5 : SEEN

1-across – Bit of a brain in a beastly university! : HIPPOCAMPUS

9-across – Lines by the Bard, the writer first to show malice : ILLWILL

10-across – Take special care with oil in heat unit : CALORIE

11-across – Choose diary product, as Spooner would say, or vegetables? : CHICKPEAS

12-across – Animal foreign character keeps in : RHINO

13-across – Side with competitive advantage : EDGE

14-across – Youngster going up in the world without handout : ADOLESCENT

16-across – Backing worker not keeping up in the job? : BEHINDHAND

19-across – Camera shot shows maiden at end of garden with animals : ZOOM

20-across – European engineer found home in States laboratory : TESLA

21-across – On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound : MERCAPTAN

23-across – Autumn detritus it’s a chore to bring into shelter : LEAFAGE

24-across – Heartless church worker is suspended : ABEYANT

25-across – Get a nest that’s suitable to have a meal in – one should never have a bad house! : ESTATEAGENT

1-down – Fast bowler gets hate working, dominating the proceedings : HOLDINGTHESTAGE

2-down – Stab pin, but not in haystack! : PRICK

3-down – What one associates with the rape of the countryside? : OILSEED

4-down – Charge Bill Clinton, not in fashion outside America? : ACCUSAL

5-down – Missile with onset of explosion split in two : POLARISE

6-down – Study area with tree on, making agreement for maintenance : SERVICECONTRACT

7-down – Vigorous argument in a nasty cricket match? : PITCHEDBATTLE

8-down – Admittance – one must somehow be free from polution : DECONTAMINATE

15-down – Boy coming in dreadfully thin gets medical preparation : INHALANT

17-down – Tho’ semi is falling apart, it’s most cosy : HOMIEST

18-down – Bliss in province prior to soldiers seizing advantage : NIRVANA

22-down – Girl making a mark on proofs : ADELE

1-across – One hears pins drop here in dish in kitchen : BOWLINGALLEY

8-across – Bill makes Chinese dynasty question doing away with bishop : HANDOUT

9-across – Woman in torment shows spirit : BANSHEE

11-across – Gas troubled newly-born child : NEONATE

12-across – Group keeps prey in cooking pan : SKILLET

13-across – Composer’s endless freedom : IBERT

14-across – Priestess is one Greek character Angie confused : IPHIGENIA

16-across – Chatter with fiddler in the kitchen : GASCOOKER

19-across – Should be invited without introduction : OUGHT

21-across – It produces fruit instead of vegetable : ORCHARD

23-across – A Frenchman interrupts pilot of vessel : STEAMER

24-across – Amelia’s awful illness : MALAISE

25-across – Old empress giving away last instrument : OCARINA

26-across – Trendy appears in badger film : BRIGHTONROCK

1-down – Group needs foreign currency for instrument : BANDORE

2-down – Need to capture beheaded outlaw – a six-footer : WOODANT

3-down – Batting record within reason? Very well! : INTHEPINK

4-down – Hat for serving man on public transport : GIBUS

5-down – Heather hugs joiner between flights : LANDING

6-down – Some of the creche long for order : ECHELON

7-down – Caught droppin’ curry in the sports pavilion : CHANGINGROOM

10-down – Supporter of dentist is a sucker : EXTRACTORFAN

15-down – Heartless oriental deprived of smelling salts : HARTSHORN

17-down – Lay a pound in broken saucer : SECULAR

18-down – Love Jack’s preaching : ORATING

19-down – Shakespearean girl rings round for herb : OREGANO

20-down – Boy supports chess expert retaining one intriguing device : GIMMICK

22-down – Lived and died on smack : DWELT

1-across – 24s retreat by road : GOBACK

4-across – Stone missing from plan for levels : STRATA

9-across – Peter and Paul upset Andrew? It can’t be done : PERPETUALMOTION

10-across – Josh gets scared : WINDUP

11-across – 24s could say, eg: The cooler was the Tower originally : WEWEREAT

12-across – See 1 : ALONGWAY

14-across – See 11 : SCHOOL

15-across – Group therapy started by doctor : THEWHO

18-across – See 11 : TOGETHER

21-across – North Cornish river encompassed by showman with flying colours : GONFALON

22-across – Do another one before the sergeant comes in! : ENCORE

24-across – Cancel a do strangely retaining odd bit of finale which is forgettable : OLDACQUAINTANCE

25-across – Composer going back to camp by the French river : MAHLER

26-across – British and French XI – and the third? : BRONZE

1-down – Find me a girl to sit on the bishop’s knee : GREMIAL

2-down – Ape beheaded in order to get Man : BIPED

3-down – Past effects during birdcall from the dreaded tool? : CATSPAW

5-down – It raised a catcall, as in the past : TIMEWAS

6-down – Subsequently one-footer gets to model millinery : AFTERTHAT

7-down – A number of eggs served up at a party as a starter : AVOCADO

8-down – Irish note, ever poetical, played on the flute : GALWAY

13-down – Modern 17, feminine at heart, with rapid report : NEWSFLASH

16-down – Cover for chimney is criminal : HOODLUM

17-down – Round, with brains in colour, not straight : OBLIQUE

18-down – Money has power and it preserves : TINCAN

19-down – Refuse collector, one dependent on string? : GLEANER

20-down – A problem for the listener, right one in every point : EARACHE

23-down – Feature containing a measure of pitch : CHAIN