Clues

9-across – Bill or Bob keeps batting : ORDINANCE

10-across – Walk accomplished around Maidenhead : AMBLE

11-across – Martin is reluctant to accept regressive legislation : SWALLOW

12-across – Electronic unit to deter corruption : TETRODE

13-across – A building in Slough : SHED

14-across – Snooker players stop in Hertfordshire? : POTTERSBAR

16-across – Ersatz meat loaf endlessly cooked for breakfast : OATMEAL

17-across – Shine having knowledge about table : GLISTEN

19-across – He’s an influence for a criminal : MALEFACTOR

22-across – It can be blown indiscreetly, producing a boom : GAFF

24-across – A good supporter works hard : GRAFTER

25-across – Boy returns after examination in disgrace : SCANDAL

26-across – Medical procedure shown in hygiene manual : ENEMA

27-across – Merchant and traveller displays the spirit o’ the game : MARCOPOLO

1-down – Has groom seen the settlement? Itês attractive : HORSESHOEMAGNET

2-down – Hoarding money retains German approval. That’s touching! : ADJACENT

3-down – British invader losing time in conflict : ANGLE

4-down – Bird of prey makes novelist cry : SNOWYOWL

5-down – Private is accepted within group of players : SEPTET

6-down – Lubricant for first woman MP squeezed by snake : CASTOROIL

7-down – Hold sailor’s globe : ABSORB

8-down – One prone to stoop finds variety of grape in Florence : PEREGRINEFALCON

15-down – Type of fungus strengthens wood : BEEFSTEAK

17-down – Cooper bears cost of lexicon : GLOSSARY

18-down – Rip parachute revealing well of emotion : TEARDROP

20-down – Drink when touring a circle of wagons : LAAGER

21-down – Metal provides revolutionary casing for digital memory : CHROME

23-down – Gas creates fuss among sailors : RADON

1-across – Politically correct steps to take : CONSTITUTIONAL

9-across – A shade of grievance : UMBRAGE

10-across – Rough long-haired dog taken out – for a breather? : INHALER

11-across – They may be game to take the helm, we hear : COCKS

12-across – Service vehicles : MASSMEDIA

13-across – So Lou and Mary got together in a loving way : AMOROUSLY

14-across – Not flush, but accepted by the social clique : INSET

15-across – Disunity seen in former Jugoslavia : SPLIT

17-across – Eve at sea? : FIRSTMATE

20-across – Remind one that it’s time for church? : RINGABELL

22-across – Time to muse : ERATO

23-across – Gave a caning – exhausted! : WHACKED

24-across – Spaniard at the centre is a politician : SENATOR

25-across – They stretch from pole to pole : TELEGRAPHWIRES

1-down – Young drinkers may seek desperate remedies : CLUTCHATSTRAWS

2-down – Rising West Indian company put on Verdi opera : NABUCCO

3-down – Joy ride? : TRANSPORT

4-down – It doesnt normally contain mother’s ruin : THERMOS

5-down – Feeling like a local visit? : THIRSTY

6-down – Old Irish characters around Omagh : OGHAM

7-down – Infers total used is incorrect : ALLUDES

8-down – What those with a walk-on part will do? : TREADTHEBOARDS

14-down – Having private information? No, we think otherwise : INTHEKNOW

16-down – Badly leaking connection : LINKAGE

17-down – Possibly slip up providing Spanish and German articles : FIELDER

18-down – Arrives with bread and drink : ROLLSUP

19-down – He makes work play, perhaps : ADAPTER

21-down – It’s over a foot : ANKLE

1-across – Right idea developed with a superior accomplice : AIDERANDABETTER

9-across – Wild flower also gathered by Dion : CELANDINE

10-across – Very little hostility between Germany and France : DWARF

11-across – Topping game involves one in a blood transfusion : DIABOLO

12-across – Spy may have been granted freedom : BURGESS

13-across – African leader is number one in France : MOI

14-across – Hole in one – possibly secures appointment : NOMINEE

17-across – Ice cream production out east in China : CERAMIC

19-across – Cockney isn’t ever turning poetic, of course : AINTREE

22-across – False plea men put to a jury : EMPANEL

24-across – A little drink – about 4 1/2 gallons! : NIP

25-across – Stamp severely on a Conservative? : DIEHARD

26-across – Treat that’s difficult to repeat : ITERATE

28-across – Withdrawal of saving scheme is an advantage : ASSET

29-across – Not the setting for a dry run : WETWICKET

30-across – Vandal turned out drawers ready for a long engagement : HUNDREDYEARSWAR

1-down – Verdict from account and the tale spun by investigators first : ACCIDENTALDEATH

2-down – Ideal cook? : DELIA

3-down – Score with tired humour on the Mersey : RUNCORN

4-down – No one takes part in what’s disgusting : NOISOME

5-down – Still having doctor in charge after drink : ALEMBIC

6-down – A little engraving by an artist – one that will last : ENDURER

7-down – Skilled hand – and master, perhaps : TRADESMAN

8-down – Withhold donation for one who calls for a tip : REFUSECOLLECTOR

15-down – Politician misled into taking mansion I had to leave? : MANDELSON

16-down – Wool producer in the Western Isles : EWE

18-down – Wood father left from cutting up maple : ELM

20-down – No end of a true blue property dealer : REALTOR

21-down – Aim to love and marry with a dowry : ENDOWED

22-down – Communication that is spelt incorrectly : EPISTLE

23-down – Blair gets quiet reminder, no date excluded : PREMIER

27-down – Crooked like a botanical garden : ASKEW

1-across – The first principle is to follow the bachelors : BASIS

4-across – Stand in to swear in : DEPUTISE

8-across – Supplier of juice, or an individual without title for a man of the upper class : ORANGESQUEEZER

10-across – Biological group for artists in a river of 3 : DEMERARA

11-across – Star of 3, one of four under the chair : CASTOR

12-across – English leaders, progressing in stages, entering the lists : ENROLLING

15-across – Slave-owner’s turned to tea producer : ASSAM

17-across – Provider of 3, the best of them all? : DADDY

18-across – Followers for musicians captained by John Gilpin : TRAINBAND

19-across – Fixed return of Greek islander : NAILED

21-across – Sort of 3 – beet, perhaps – as 3 of 10 and 17 : CUBEROOT

24-across – Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition : DISCOURAGEMENT

25-across – Take a bite in a love-feast as a fount of inspiration : AGANIPPE

26-across – Remained : STAID

1-down – Left out wood in a type of plant – Lorca’s work : BLOODWEDDING

2-down – Looked hard about m-me as I did so? : STAMMERED

3-down – Term of endearment for drug money : SUGAR

4-down – Discovery of dirt stain causes seizure of goods : DISTRAINT

5-down – Best after 3 : PLUM

6-down – But on the other hand the horse’s first to finish : THENAGAIN

7-down – Term of endearment like 3 : SWEET

9-down – Planned quietly and put right without the rubbish : PREMEDITATED

13-down – Church official possibly once a lady : LAYDEACON

14-down – Fiennes gives up pub during entry to make 3 : GRANULATE

16-down – Stripper when after 3 has work time on TV programme : SOAPOPERA

20-down – 3 getting cold? : ICING

22-down – Girl at the poles goes fifty-fifty : EVENS

23-down – 3 from 5 : LUMP

1-across – This menace not about to cause panic in club members : PUBLIC

5-across – The ambassador may occupy the high ground for his worship : THEMAYOR

9-across – See 1 : NUISANCE

10-across – Accommodating Japanese in garage is harmful : GEISHA

11-across – Plato’s martial air? Or John Brown’s? : BATTLEHYMNOF

13-across – Punch from British port : BRIO

14-across – Fanciful, sick or unknown country at heart : ILLUSORY

17-across – Would an antiquarian find this boring? : WOODWORM

18-across – Vault to head off a boundary : ARCH

20-across – 5 here had made a lot of his spouse : CASTERBRIDGE

23-across – Batten down the hatches: wait! : ATTEND

24-across – Current party take wrong road : LABRADOR

25-across – Intriguing types, namely border rulers : SCHEMERS

26-across – Cap for a pupil : EYELID

2-down – Primitive ox bear losing heart : URUS

3-down – Suffer a cut or a drop in circulation : LOSEBLOOD

4-down – He ruled no Britannia! : CANUTE

5-down – Monumental issue? Perhaps Athens regime’ll b– off! : THEELGINMARBLES

6-down – Finish produced with a layer : EGGSHELL

7-down – Monkey business worse in France in the morning : APISM

8-down – Might Jock’s declaration pass up risque crowd control! : OCHLOCRACY

12-down – As classical wool gatherers slaughter a runic goat : ARGONAUTIC

15-down – Working title, same agent unfortunately : STAGENAME

16-down – Sentence pronounced for a serial offender? : PORRIDGE

19-down – Nourished, I bless the food content : EDIBLE

21-down – Reassurance expressed; but not here : THERE

22-down – French novelist first to get hammered? : LOTI