Clues

1-across – Place for delivery at Gettysburg : ADDRESS

5-across – It could be used for assault and battery : CHARGER

9-across – Dressed in stole when bishop was away : ROBED

10-across – It covered the lines at Waterloo : REARGUARD

11-across – Consequence of running at the farm : AFTERMATH

12-across – Wide part of an extractor fan : EXTRA

13-across – It is given by the dismissive crook : ELBOW

15-across – Lessons learned when wrongly cautioned : EDUCATION

18-across – Where to buy drink in mid-Wales : ALEHOUSES

19-across – Kind of fruit plucked from a tree : EATER

21-across – Make contact by radio : RAISE

23-across – Harmony on 10-note instrument : ACCORDION

25-across – No boozer, when drunk, eats in bar : ABSTAINER

26-across – Angry leader left one singing in Penzance : IRATE

27-across – Force an entry into industrial plant : TANNERY

28-across – Australia’s military archaeologists! : DIGGERS

1-down – Poet left short of gold : AUREATE

2-down – Contentious Abe tabled amendment : DEBATABLE

3-down – Church officer : ELDER

4-down – They are quick to show themselves at sporting occasions : STREAKERS

5-down – Coarse material from chromium residue : CRASH

6-down – It sounds like some stuff for the concrete mixer : AGGREGATE

7-down – Give Ulysses his first name : GRANT

8-down – Meandering River Darwen given a new profile : REDRAWN

14-down – Massive depression in suffering Wales : WHOLESALE

16-down – Ecus under negotiation with no strings attached : UNSECURED

17-down – Entangled? Bundle it in crate! : INTRICATE

18-down – Be a star performing in the picture : ABREAST

20-down – The field once found at Bow Street? : RUNNERS

22-down – Playwright is Ben in disguise : IBSEN

23-down – Judge disowned jaunty relative : AUNTY

24-down – Regretting batting in toupee : RUING

1-across – 5 for one who is 9 12? : DIGITAL

5-across – Traveller with prospects turning turtle : SNAPPER

10-across – Good old British infantry starts to desert : GOBI

11-across – Where wines are put down in volume : CELLARBOOK

12-across – See 9 : THUMBS

13-across – Ribald French verses from Bali you say, translated in transmitted copy : FABLIAUX

14-across – Fall back north and point out justification : PRECEDENT

16-across – Work of 18 having spacecraft without directions : MISER

17-across – Stratagem fails to gain entry to sphere of influence : AMBIT

19-across – Might ‘elp to seal with this? : SELLOTAPE

23-across – So Clouseau’s no cruciverbalist? : CLUELESS

24-across – See 1 : CAMERA

26-across – Revival of the kidneys not left to science: not one! : RENASCENCE

27-across – Sally’s so shy : AUNT

28-across – Warhorse needing surgeon at near-disaster : VETERAN

29-across – Lewis Eliot, say, put up with the cold : SNOWMAN

2-down – Graphic indicator thus found in the divine fluid : ISOCHOR

3-down – Man following some subconscious speech pattern : IDIOM

4-down – How stands the defendant? : ACCUSED

6-down – Marshal bar members into close : NEARBY

7-down – Open one’s heart ultimately – to a Max Clifford? : PUBLICIST

8-down – Old electricians love to oppose change, naturally : EVOLUTE

9-down – Alters with fumbling hands; altered with fumbling hands : ALLFINGERSAND

15-down – Bent hairstylist’s reign of terror? : CRIMEWAVE

18-down – He wrote ‘A Man for all Seasons’ without exaggeration : MOLIERE

20-down – Hannibal, born to take the stand : LECTERN

21-down – Swimmer rushed into a hip replacement : PIRANHA

22-down – 15 over a one-time kingdom : MERCIA

25-down – Queen’s speech? : MIAOW

9-across – Such a discussion gives opportunity for falling out : OPENENDED

10-across – Provide some point to a joke : EQUIP

11-across – Wrongly presume it’s the highest : SUPREME

12-across – Retired Thespian appearing as Shylock? : EXACTOR

13-across – Fed up with being drilled : BORED

14-across – Lacking a game to play – or rivals : MATCHLESS

16-across – In which readers may find explosive articles? : MAGAZINESECTION

19-across – It is rough, could be smoother : SANDPAPER

21-across – Expedition has only half a tent : HASTE

22-across – Major transaction sarcastically acclaimed : BIGDEAL

23-across – Criminal gets Gill confused with ale : ILLEGAL

24-across – All the composer required : TUTTI

25-across – He plans the moves; I can act it out : TACTICIAN

1-down – Rising indications that one is frightened : GOOSEBUMPS

2-down – A golfer upset about pro’s first game : LEAPFROG

3-down – Fed up, having to stop on guard : DEFEND

4-down – A marginal advantage : EDGE

5-down – He has his own ideas on hoarding : ADVERTISER

6-down – Chips are heavenly served like this : SERAPHIC

7-down – A loose nickname for the BBC : AUNTIE

8-down – Knocks over box : SPAR

14-down – Use fingers to eat a plum in the break : MANIPULATE

15-down – North-east port – part is to come down : SUNDERLAND

17-down – Count as an old gasbag : ZEPPELIN

18-down – Status symbols? : INSIGNIA

20-down – Agent upset over point in dispute : NEGATE

21-down – Order still from a photographer? : HOLDIT

22-down – Barrel and stock of gun : BUTT

23-down – American business contract with a Peruvian : INCA

1-across – Talk to dancers on golf course? : ADDRESSTHEBALL

8-across – Do a dance : TWIST

9-across – Take every precaution to measure out potassium content : MAKESURE

11-across – Small man backing boss on sacred lotus : NELUMBO

12-across – Very important mines worked by a novice : SEMINAL

13-across – See about men getting fruit : MELON

15-across – Puzzling about giant mice : ENIGMATIC

17-across – Not paid to be changeable? : UNSETTLED

20-across – Smooth journalists : PRESS

21-across – He doubts if unruly Picts would accept church : SCEPTIC

23-across – Somehow air tele-workshop : ATELIER

25-across – Hunt round before going in to this point : HEREUNTO

26-across – Heath, for example, with a Spaniard? : EGDON

27-across – Quickest way out of Lot’s wife’s reach : ASTHECROWFLIES

1-down – Do something unpremeditated, ie consult map, perhaps : ACTONIMPULSE

2-down – Exercise that may bore : DRILL

3-down – Site meant for small café! : ESTAMINET

4-down – VIP and certain individuals going about a long time : SOMEONE

5-down – Japanese artist’s last sketch – agreed America gets one : HEKUSAI

6-down – Lazy woman gets the brush : BESOM

7-down – Eyeglasses with no letter ‘g’? : LORGNETTE

10-down – Girl’s extra message about ring found in Australia : ALICESPRINGS

14-down – They pay attention to auditors : LISTENERS

16-down – Feel a palm becoming a Canadian symbol : MAPLELEAF

18-down – In a few words, it’s conical shaped : LACONIC

19-down – A bid, perhaps, to get loo regulated as a game : DIABOLO

22-down – Some debate ethical choice for consumers : TEETH

24-down – Kind of lemur living in dripping forests : INDRI

9-across – See 14 : OUTOFMIND

10-across – Marry at a church which is on strike? : HITCH

11-across – No use getting upset after soldier retreats from fire : IGNEOUS

12-across – Literary wizard produces acceleration plus 50 per cent, vulgarly : GANDALF

13-across – Top man on commercial : HEAD

14-across – What the eye doesn’t see … – blind and crazy? : OUTOFSIGHT

15-across – Turn to numbers 1 and 50 – that should serve a purpose : UTENSIL

17-across – Moses fled after God started mad dispersal : GRANDMA

19-across – Booty left by destroyer of game? : SPOILSPORT

22-across – Where Henri IV succeeded the king in the bush? : IVRY

23-across – West African capital slightly changed … : YYOUNDE

24-across – … from the vowel sounds we make : YOUANDI

26-across – Consonantal sound of North American girl : NASAL

27-across – Weapon holder, a Southern term for an amphibian : SWORDFROG

1-down – Exit 16 to require no explanation : GOWITHOUTSAYING

2-down – The theatrical profession includes one from long ago : STONEAGE

3-down – Hairstyle for a revolutionary : AFRO

4-down – Piece of hair of the dog left under the buss : KISSCURL

5-down – A gadabout before 10 goes slowly : ADAGIO

6-down – Pacific area, home: hunt round it first : CHINASEA

7-down – Former minister: odd he didn’t finish : STRANG

8-down – Article in the Financial Times, sadly working in guineas, shows itês all over : THEFATLADYSINGS

16-down – Like an ass holding 10 oddly like a mouse? : SILENTLY

17-down – Warning to streetwalkers of Spooner’s fatty glutinous mess : GARDYLOO

18-down – Hence come waves without water round an opening : DAVENTRY

20-down – Player with piece of wood gets up to holding a French one : OBOIST

21-down – Request for quiet let? : PLEASE

25-down – Somewhat run-down ruin : UNDO