Clues

1-across – Rover in boat, a dugout : GADABOUT

5-across – Grassy meadow provided pasture : LEAFED

9-across – It’s right by the map : EASTWARD

10-across – 20s’ music : SCORES

12-across – Is breaking polar ice not relevant to the Americas? : NEOTROPICAL

15-across – In to complain: customer with bone : INCUS

17-across – US policy reversal in SALT 2 : ABOUTFACE

18-across – Mixed soil to earth plant : HORSETAIL

19-across – Saddle horse – gelding to break in : RIDGE

20-across – A shade drunk after a tumbler : ROLLERBLIND

24-across – Gnawn perch caught in river tossed back : ERODED

25-across – Supervised 17 without incident : OVERSEEN

26-across – Lack of depth to soil : DEARTH

27-across – Pots with rest may produce kicks : PROTESTS

1-down – The go-ahead to settle with cash : GREENLIGHT

2-down – About to break record, fancied runner put out of his stride : DISCONCERT

3-down – Jack Ketch’s security device, perhaps : BOWER

4-down – No encore for such a performance? That’s gross! : UNREPEATABLE

6-down – Non-stop flight? : ESCALATOR

7-down – Which sex? See document : FORM

8-down – Con accepts hush money : DOSH

11-down – Gambling group bar, say, teenage type : SCHOOLLEAVER

13-down – Swans, odd dipper included, lost with shore birds : SANDPIPERS

14-down – Number of deniers, perhaps, depending on the silk? : DEFENDANTS

16-down – Drug found in very quick medical check : SMEARTEST

21-down – Elizabeth without Queen? Wear that? : BERET

22-down – Drop out of sight : BEAD

23-down – Put up first nine letters for a foreign one : IOTA

7-across – Offered an account that might have been altered : RELATED

8-across – Grow a number in running water, then cut : DEVELOP

10-across – Calling for private transport always : CAREER

11-across – Music tolerated when flying : AIRBORNE

12-across – In the jungle each new plant discovered brings joy : GLEE

13-across – He’s too calm, maybe, for a young peer : SCHOOLMATE

14-across – Taking turns to fix a race : ALTERNATION

19-across – Advise partner in a friendly way : INFORMALLY

22-across – The firm with little work is to shut up : COOP

23-across – Just the man to deal with the underworld problem! : DISPOSER

24-across – An ass over gear-changing : ONAGER

25-across – They invariably take the first lady into this : THIEVES

26-across – Making some advance, left before the finish : LENDING

1-down – X has powerful following that can be maintained : TENABLE

2-down – Enjoy a sumptuous meal before parting : FAREWELL

3-down – The badly-bred one’s trash! : DEBRIS

4-down – A member gets nothing in the break after all : REARMOST

5-down – Correct concerning fashion : REFORM

6-down – Study neat model – it’s only natural : CONNATE

9-down – American beggars having food to cook? : PANHANDLERS

15-down – English working men, made redundant, snarled : ENMESHED

16-down – Where one may raise fruit or vegetables : ORCHARDS

17-down – Perception of the popular view : INSIGHT

18-down – Rules to be observed about a German analgesic : CODEINE

20-down – A predatory bird’s large kill : OSPREY

21-down – The one-time warning given by the farming community : YEOMEN

9-across – Cheek to have one in pub before church : INSOLENCE

10-across – Wool drops a point in the market : AGORA

11-across – Fancy silver in one place of gold, perhaps : IMAGINE

12-across – Where lots go despite rising prices : AUCTION

13-across – Robin Hood’s favourite sweets? : TUCK

14-across – No cause for rejoicing when standards are this low : ATHALFMAST

16-across – Truth awkward, try a lie : REALITY

17-across – Cast pie out, though it’s germ-free : ASEPTIC

19-across – Early morning 9 across today : FIRSTLIGHT

22-across – Planned mode of protest : DEMO

24-across – A growing attachment to climbers : TENDRIL

25-across – Goes flat out arranging tenancies to rent : LETSRIP

26-across – A capital investment : TIARA

27-across – Denis seen to be wanting : NEEDINESS

1-down – Senior politician’s in torment, if seat is in jeopardy : MINISTEROFSTATE

2-down – Local ranch where Incas ate, perhaps : ESTANCIA

3-down – Demand by miners after a strike : CLAIM

4-down – Any crest may indicate it : ANCESTRY

5-down – Chap seen in an uprising in deserted state : NEVADA

6-down – No intention of going to court : FANCYFREE

7-down – Lady bareback rider : GODIVA

8-down – Attractive range shown in traveller’s guide : MAGNETICCOMPASS

15-down – His contribution to knowledge is past understanding : HISTORIAN

17-down – Heroic Greek units holding an elevated position : ACHILLES

18-down – Speculations arise when he is accepted by the Conservative Party : THEORIES

20-down – Payment received by letter : RENTAL

21-down – Man is, whatever Donne says : ISLAND

23-down – Place for landing and take-off : STRIP

1-across – Light components add point to snaps : PHOTONS

5-across – Great article taken from Ornaments Design : MONSTER

10-across – Overlook the habit to swank? : BRAG

11-across – Rappers sat playing donated organs : SPAREPARTS

12-across – Turn this to become head over heels : TURTLE

13-across – Outspoken child rushed to 5. : MINOTAUR

14-across – Left Frome, going round by way of 5 : LEVIATHAN

16-across – Royal Prussian sportsmen? : BLUES

17-across – Hislop : PIANO

19-across – Where to play the mating game : CHESSCLUB

23-across – Training centre’s cleared for development : EDUCTION

24-across – Pass off the palimpsest as mine? : LIMPET

26-across – Thickening painful growths put end to gout on part of foot : CORNSTARCH

27-across – Drink 100 Guinness! : ALEC

28-across – Faces female force filled with flutter : ASPECTS

29-across – They say Hope is all tied up : TRUSSED

2-down – Reported a woman’s courtship? That’s rough! : HIRSUTE

3-down – To be drunk neat? : TIGHT

4-down – Incipient Northern rising : NASCENT

6-down – Indian is one of these announcing topless draughts : OCEANS

7-down – Clever Dick’s alter ego? : SMARTALEC

8-down – Push through Turkey, covered in sweat : EXTRUDE

9-down – Reformed ferryman trapping speed cultivators, for instance : FARMMACHINERY

15-down – In denial, express feeling for simplicity : INNOCENCE

18-down – This runs after ‘er to bring trouble and strife : INDOORS

20-down – It’s more than up to one Ben Brimstone : SULPHUR

21-down – A saint from head to toe, the continental European. : UKELELE

22-down – A harsh settlement for nipper coming up with gimcrack : DIKTAT

25-down – Designs instruments? : MEANS

1-across – Religion in spirit could be 23 or 16 across, or 10 or 19 : FACULTY

5-across – Polish article – name, a roll? : RUBADUB

9-across – How things began – well – but won’t end? : WITHABANG

10-across – Express regret at model spectacle : SIGHT

11-across – See 22 : ROCK

12-across – Afterbirth? You need support – mat, possibly : POSTPARTUM

14-across – Before the previous month, engineers outcome : RESULT

15-across – It’s probably not steam and possibly not electric : OLDIRON

16-across – It employs induction differently in unlubricated c-coil, see? : SCIENCE

18-across – It comes in for a cheap alternative to spinach : ORACHE

20-across – Spiritualist of unusual quality’s not well done : MEDIUMRARE

21-across – Half-Polynesian garment of liquid 11 : LAVA

24-across – The way to be behind : TRAIL

25-across – Talk a lot to the queen and make a meal of the material : GABARDINE

26-across – Singular church service including point for Sunday dinner? : MEATTIN

27-across – Flag officers? : ENSIGNS

1-down – Female goes to jug – there aren’t that many : FEWER

2-down – Talk to attractive little baby on the nail : CUTICLE

3-down – Spring appeared this February? : LEAF

4-down – Never mind the millennium: this is how to foregather on day : YEAROFTHEDRAGON

5-down – OK for lord to keep posh artist in the cabinet? : RIGHTHONOURABLE

6-down – A way for poet to go round pub with sinister band : BASTARDBAR

7-down – Stalk a celebrity, the brightest of the lot : DOGSTAR

8-down – Crazy fellow who doesn’t want to get out : BATSMAN

13-down – Name for male creature left in peace, one of many 12 : QUINTUPLET

16-down – Tommy’s upset about piano, which must mean something : SYMPTOM

17-down – Stately home for princess? : INDIANA

19-down – Audition not just for the bride these days? : HEARING

22-down – Monolithic philosopher’s music? : AYERS

23-down – Skills mastered by the 9 : ARTS