Clues

1-across – Big boat in the distance on quest for business study : MARKETRESEARCH

9-across – Crushed revolutionary leader, anomalous in 10 : TRODDEN

10-across – Bread plant : BLOOMER

11-across – A reasonable chance of 7 beginning at the end : EVENS

12-across – Saint carrying diamonds – diamonds for hair grip? : ALICEBAND

13-across – Firework from island full of music at start of Tempest : SKYROCKET

14-across – For dental hygiene on Eliot’s river : FLOSS

15-across – Plug 50-odd characters experiencing minor swelling : PUFFY

17-across – Famous spy, no thanks to his confused teacher : MAHARISHI

20-across – Regret model has no transport to return storyteller : RACONTEUR

22-across – A Bronte comes back from hospital with added colour : HENNA

23-across – Medical expert’s locum taking both ends off register : OCULIST

24-across – Is Priest chasing Sun God in the National? : ISRAELI

25-across – Company receiving wine press held by boy operator : PLASTICSURGEON

1-down – Insect astir in the language of teaching scripture or religious leader : MOTHERSUPERIOR

2-down – Joey’s opener crossing Robin’s first breeding ground : ROOKERY

3-down – Complete oversize replica of internal investigation : ENDOSCOPY

4-down – The answer lies in torture and plunder : RANSACK

5-down – Get by on loans at first : SUBSIST

6-down – Molly’s topless solo : ALONE

7-down – Firm sent round to preserve incomplete old instrument : CEMBALO

8-down – Immutable decree established before journey’s end? : PREDESTINATION

14-down – Promoter to pelt the king and queen : FURTHERER

16-down – Strong current that’s not been invented : FACTUAL

17-down – One’s right to join up with the band leaders : MAESTRI

18-down – Chore is transformed into thrilling activity : HEROICS

19-down – Meant to go wrong with wax : SINCERE

21-down – Fixes Norway’nailss troubles : NAILS

1-across – Natty little theatrical residence achieves comeback : DAPPER

4-across – Trouble with a bit of basil? More likely parsley : POTHERB

9-across – Hurry up your appearance and go on and on about it : LOOKSHARP

10-across – Music presenter at pub takes spirits : DJINN

11-across – Insect from the heart of the earth? : MIDGE

12-across – Riding train? Beware a poorly clad gatecrasher : CAVALCADE

13-across – A bad spirit: for example, Monday shall be nameless : ASMODAY

15-across – Two lines by playwright: Anthony, or Charles II when old : ROWLEY

17-across – Creator of chaos in a bridge : ANARCH

19-across – Trouble about royal relative : BROTHER

22-across – Maximum sentence pursued by police is what keeps them going : LIFEFORCE

24-across – Depart from house next door to hell : HOPIT

26-across – Not carrying anything one shouldn’t? Absolutely! : CLEAN

27-across – Scattered bits of deja vu in 25 exhibited by 6 7 : PREJUDICE

28-across – Dead? Yes, possibly, and near to tears : SADEYED

29-across – Change sides, which is a bad thing : DEFECT

1-down – Cover up Miss 16, creating a problem : DILEMMA

2-down – Sticking out for what 8 was said to be : PROUD

3-down – Leisure reduced by kind of singular soap : EASTENDER

4-down – Father : PAPAVER

5-down – The wave that laid much of Mount Ida low : TIDAL

6-down – Giving teeth a nibble, Zen practitioner of Jane’s ended up with … : ELIZABETH

7-down – See 6 : BENNET

8-down – … the sound of a bustle being heard : DARCEY

14-down – Midland town of short story writer and misspelt humorist : MANSFIELD

16-down – See 14 : WOODHOUSE

18-down – For writing a stiff note requiring the vet? : HARDPAD

19-down – Former note on short-time commission : BREVET

20-down – Give another party and retire : RETREAT

21-down – Cinema detectives hold £1,000 : FLICKS

23-down – 14 Park girl in infancy, prearranged : FANNY

25-down – See 23 : PRICE

9-across – Telephone receiver will provide a form of protection : RINGFENCE

10-across – Inclined to speak fast : LEANT

11-across – I have innate artlessness : NAIVETE

12-across – Calm sea : PACIFIC

13-across – Give way under pressure : YIELD

14-across – But players may be seated here in the park : BANDSTAND

16-across – Offering no resistance all the same : NOTWITHSTANDING

19-across – A fictitious nomination : PSEUDONYM

21-across – Run out of pictures to back : EXTRA

22-across – A grizzly infant? : BEARCUB

23-across – Neat attendant : COWHERD

24-across – Conservative-Labour rift : CLEFT

25-across – Journalist’s work needs to be bang on time : REPORTAGE

1-down – Spirit photograph that takes the biscuit? : BRANDYSNAP

2-down – The sort of speech that gets reported : INDIRECT

3-down – Insult by leaving a tip : OFFEND

4-down – It’s bent on submission : KNEE

5-down – Sly-looking chap : PEEPINGTOM

6-down – Makes a timely entrance? : CLOCKSIN

7-down – A binding affair, perhaps : RAFFIA

8-down – Notice part of the ear : OTIC

14-down – Where publicans may be locked up : BEHINDBARS

15-down – He is used to holding the lead : DOGHANDLER

17-down – Cat Enid and I groomed for show : INDICATE

18-down – Sacked, no doubt : INTHEBAG

20-down – Gloss over title in the Spanish style : ENAMEL

21-down – King – Lear, perhaps? : EDWARD

22-down – Please start : BUCK

23-down – A head on one’s shoulders : CAPE

1-across – In France I become a member of a religious order : JESUIT

4-across – Clap first person to beat disability : HANDICAP

9-across – Stops taking Lofty on board : STALLS

10-across – Work with very large amounts of animals : OPOSSUMS

11-across – Gallic husband starts getting old – a bloomer! : FRENCHMARIGOLD

13-across – Unhappy to rest, am swimming with the current : DOWNSTREAM

14-across – Border on a boat going astern : ABUT

16-across – It’s hard for the holidaymaker to bring back : ROCK

18-across – Distributed about mid-July, admitted man : CIRCULATED

21-across – Very sick when broadcasting: sing really loud : DANGEROUSLYILL

23-across – Using instrument on hill, one’s breaking the law : VIOLATOR

24-across – Anne drops article in bottom half of hat : BONNET

25-across – One standing in the street, light-headed? : LAMPPOST

26-across – Reliable tin-opener, discoloured by age : TRUSTY

1-down – Project to include first spring fair : JUST

2-down – Bird box on a line : SPARROW

3-down – Sloth in den lies around a pole : IDLENESS

5-down – Looks for canapes, mixed with fruit filling : APPEARANCES

6-down – Extract from an opera by Verdi still played : DISTIL

7-down – French physicist, right off colour, treated by doctor : COULOMB

8-down – Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques : POSTDATED

12-down – Grass-eating man cured boor with virus : HERBIVOROUS

13-down – Challenged wicked stunt man : DAREDEVIL

15-down – Theatre patron wants musician to move in : PLAYGOER

17-down – Fit in No. 100 standing on a bench : CONFORM

19-down – Stories about good books making money once : TALENTS

20-down – Run off with a politician after last month : DECAMP

22-down – Stop and speak about a junction? : STAY

1-across – Devil about to spoil one do-gooder : SAMARITAN

6-across – Something else’s turning point : HINGE

9-across – Concerning dance put in new arrangement : REJIG

10-across – Time out keeps communicators present : IMMEDIATE

11-across – Trapped in Italian city bearing plant oil : TURPENTINE

12-across – Close-knit, thus : SHUT

14-across – She’ll miss a sitter? : ARTISTE

15-across – Hide European in foam : LEATHER

17-across – Smoke of revolutionary origin : CHEROOT

19-across – Cross is metre longer, roughly : MONGREL

20-across – Food for bats : NUTS

22-across – Charmed Bee – oh, you and ‘e are heard to do so : SPELLBOUND

25-across – Fetters sound pottery : IRONSTONE

26-across – Reverse of a happy conclusion : UPEND

27-across – Drink, say, swallowed by star turn : NEGUS

28-across – Caught in flying machine’s accident : MISCHANCE

1-down – Spar with one out of enthusiasm : SPRIT

2-down – Stick with her on parade? : MAJORETTE

3-down – Area circling about vessel’s retreat : REGRESSION

4-down – Another Lettish national emblem : THISTLE

5-down – So-called lion-man unmasked : NOMINAL

6-down – He’s self-centred in cloak : HIDE

7-down – Under nine at half-term : NEATH

8-down – The foreign material raised around peak of voting : ELECTORAL

13-down – It could finish off a redcoat : PAINTBRUSH

14-down – Uplifting isle : ASCENSION

16-down – Woman’s copper – thin and mighty : HERCULEAN

18-down – Make fast stroke raising bar : TAPROOM

19-down – Coin once in circulation turning wheels, we hear : MILREIS

21-down – Strap in leaving nothing loose : THONG

23-down – Kansas City bypass : DODGE

24-down – This island’s deity : ISIS