Clues

4-across – Ali’s : LISTON

6-across – Explosive bits spoiled her plans : SHRAPNEL

9-across – Each dish is eaten by a champion : APIECE

10-across – Trouble at school? Dunce has to crawl about outside : CLASSWAR

11-across – See 18 : HAPPENATSEA

15-across – Consent to dismantle High Tor? : RIGHTOH

17-across – Badly ventilated returning from scene in Twelfth Night : ILLYRIA

18-across – Not an utter disaster, but it made an awfully hot saga in the 7 25 : WORSETHINGS

22-across – It’s simple to take in the little prince in a financial transaction : PURCHASE

23-across – Forty days with a forty-nine pulse : LENTIL

24-across – Grouse nearly arrived on the steppe : COMPLAIN

25-across – See 7 : PAPERS

1-down – Cold water poured over one to say Please be quiet? : DOUCHE

2-down – Report of high table in deal indicates a cultural ignoramus : PHILISTINE

3-down – Building after war – that’s why he aided us : MARSHALL

4-down – Field where the choo-choo is hard to chew : LEATHERY

5-down – Gas pipe left off – how much off? : SLIPPAGE

7-down – Press : NEWS

8-down – I get up early for fun : LARK

12-down – Sententious in referring to the past about the pub : APHORISTIC

13-down – Beast about to catch girl – not fair! : BRUNETTE

14-down – Work of Johnson the painter’s at auctions that are coming up : RASSELAS

16-down – Local authority has a pull with everyone on National Health initially : TOWNHALL

19-down – Comment by one in 10 and 14 on man : HEEHAW

20-down – Like Gone with the Wind for the picture industry? : EPIC

21-down – A proper rose? : PRIM

9-across – The only one in a suit wearing a vest : SINGLETON

10-across – Mature, or mature to a point : RIPEN

11-across – A new role in flight control : AILERON

12-across – Shattered hope and returning trouble robbed her of the will to live : OPHELIA

13-across – A piece of cake for a midshipman : EASY

14-across – Open and confined spaces for relaxation in school : COMMONROOM

16-across – Fall of rotter in lawsuit : CASCADE

17-across – It may identify the member leading the orchestra : ARMBAND

19-across – Soldiers in irregular wars need someone to provide intelligence : NEWSREADER

22-across – How about a call to slow down? : WHOA

24-across – Airs composed by priest in Hebrew : ISRAELI

25-across – Become weak, get nurse round for the final stage : TAILEND

26-across – Roots develop into a trunk : TORSO

27-across – Soup ingredient often includes eggs : BIRDSNEST

1-down – Those who should be inside out : ESCAPEDCONVICTS

2-down – They should be able to identify any salts in a mixture : ANALYSIS

3-down – Highlight of 70s’ fashion trousers? : FLARE

4-down – Phaeton’s rebuilt as a carriage for one : STANHOPE

5-down – Where teachers teach? : INFORM

6-down – Many cheer the reformation of Satan : ARCHENEMY

7-down – Sun-god took men to the moon : APOLLO

8-down – Barmaids need not give change for these machines : ONEARMEDBANDITS

15-down – Girl and boy flirted : CARRIEDON

17-down – Opening for a photographer : APERTURE

18-down – Runners allowed to enter various heats : ATHLETES

20-down – Call for action put out by the Salvation Army : WARCRY

21-down – A disposition of arms : AKIMBO

23-down – Climbing gear? : FIRST

1-across – Bird in a burst drain without water : BUSTARD

5-across – How the exploited patient felt? : ILLUSED

9-across – Oberon’s name for a bird : MERLE

10-across – Bird appearing in club poster : SPOONBILL

11-across – Bird outperforming an eagle : ALBATROSS

12-across – Rival lover from the East traps Irish sage : OLLAV

13-across – This ticket is ideal for elections : DREAM

15-across – Whirlybird in the kitchen? : EGGBEATER

18-across – Does Terry turn killer? : DESTROYER

19-across – Bird wife found in sieve : SWIFT

21-across – View first seen in outskirts of Vienna : VISTA

23-across – Bird – the first hornbill : THORNBILL

25-across – Bird half-covered in crumpled scrolls : CROSSBILL

26-across – Bird I name after US state : COLIN

27-across – Fast seducer at work : SECURED

28-across – Held up outside, Queen got lost : STRAYED

1-down – Assail doctor in committee : BOMBARD

2-down – Do they bristle when so called? : SCRUBBERS

3-down – Spy has inside information about alternative technology : AGENT

4-down – Find made by coy divers : DISCOVERY

5-down – Golf equipment once used in curling : IRONS

6-down – English capitalists? : LONDONERS

7-down – Eddy from SW Ireland : SWIRL

8-down – What a promising bowler has to do? : DELIVER

14-down – Bird swimming near germs : MERGANSER

16-down – They could get real soggy after a storm : GARGOYLES

17-down – Slightly adjusted: in the middle virtually changed : TRIVIALLY

18-down – Plans for mottoes : DEVICES

20-down – Some metal one designed with claws : TALONED

22-down – One who philosophically objects to beef : STOIC

23-down – Degree of punishment for low-achieving graduate : THIRD

24-down – New cake decorator is more finicky : NICER

1-across – Paper holder found in cheese – cafes devastated : BRIEFCASE

6-across – The method millions follow to get a computer device : MODEM

9-across – Reveal the French fashion : LETON

10-across – Memory showing strain, reportedly, after scripture lesson : RETENTION

11-across – Using detailed examination, I can’t allay worries : ANALYTICAL

12-across – The old labourer’s endlessly cheeky in return : SERF

14-across – Book the player on the bench? : RESERVE

15-across – Renovated turbo sale : TROUBLE

17-across – In this part I steal the show : ARTISTE

19-across – Made a vibrating noise? Sounds like conversation : WHIRRED

20-across – Glamour is a kind of security : GILT

22-across – Make worker pay – he’s leader of a group : CHARGEHAND

25-across – The Sir in Dear Sir? : ADDRESSEE

26-across – One possessing new switch in gold : OWNER

27-across – Shabby boat losing last bit of polish : DINGY

28-across – Attachment for hose : SUSPENDER

1-down – A second science room is erected in wood : BALSA

2-down – Stint worked with rain in passage : INTRANSIT

3-down – Like clothes in which one’s not oneself : FANCYDRESS

4-down – Broadcast story is provider of travel experiences : AIRLINE

5-down – To draw out concentrate : EXTRACT

6-down – Sparing mostly some ancient porcelain : MING

7-down – Conclude a bargain in a stroke : DRIVE

8-down – Find one English elm diseased in hazardous area : MINEFIELD

13-down – No fixed abode? : MOBILEHOME

14-down – Entrenched element in party to raise security : REARGUARD

16-down – Drinks supplier, having made profit, discussed terms : BARGAINED

18-down – Sheep’s roaming round university in ancient city : EPHESUS

19-down – Hostel heads fighting over muddled ends : WARDENS

21-down – With cargo on board, left port : LADEN

23-down – Painter/drawer taking in river : DURER

24-down – Refuse study year : DENY

8-across – Water jug put back in sink for so long : FAREWELL

9-across – Not sound advice if this tap gets stuck! : FAUCET

10-across – Reader’s plea for original expression : STET

11-across – Vessel serving as a cooler? : PRISONSHIP

12-across – Its members show appreciation for money : CLAQUE

14-across – Road-makers’ base : HARDCORE

15-across – Held back action about wager : DELAYED

17-across – Edward backs firm with spirit and dignity : DECORUM

20-across – Flings about and disturbs the cat’?s rest : SCATTERS

22-across – Where such dealers may end up? : INSIDE

23-across – Kind of folding chair and table : CHARITABLE

24-across – Cold running water is treatment for it : BURN

25-across – Barber-shop singer : FIGARO

26-across – It’s an indication for drivers, by the way : ROADSIGN

1-down – Plough into vile jail : BASTILLE

2-down – Withdrew labour : LEFT

3-down – The Pope goes out to meet the French nation : PEOPLE

4-down – Cunning action made with the French in view : SLEIGHT

5-down – It’s to do with the pursuit of game, naturally : OFCOURSE

6-down – Effectively demonstrates how one votes? : PUTSACROSS

7-down – No rise for those more advanced in service : SENIOR

13-down – A time to pay and a time to be lenient? : QUARTERDAY

16-down – A time when the populace is at cross-purposes? : ELECTION

18-down – UN agreed resolution, though lacking majority : UNDERAGE

19-down – Met lines of equal pressure : ISOBARS

21-down – He’s not the only one to succeed : COHEIR

22-down – Who cometh in play or cinema production? : ICEMAN

24-down – The finest – and worst : BEST