Clues

1-across – Delegation which might make salesperson happy? : HIGHCOMMISSION

8-across – Trouble afoot, bishop going AWOL for wedding : UNION

9-across – The poor, befuddled sot following Oasis : HAVENOTS

11-across – Composer overlooking a novelist and painter : ELGRECO

12-across – Frenzied dancer very embarrassed-looking about his pants : DERVISH

13-across – Character twice in arena – national sports venue : ASCOT

15-across – Reformer grabbed by Schoenberg or Bach even : GORBACHEV

17-across – Republican admitted to hateful action and didn’t go straight : MEANDERED

20-across – In a declamation contest, school scoffed : EATEN

21-across – Having the least art, a composer books tours : NAIVEST

23-across – Like some faith in side playing with a lot of credit : DEISTIC

25-across – Great Italian player, one lacking belief in Picaroon : PAGANINI

26-across – Crack up first in Amsterdam, with drug problem returning : AMUSE

27-across – Tipsy trio of Englishmen missing soft sound of music : TIDDLYOMPOMPOM

1-down – I urge showman to organise moving celebration : HOUSEWARMING

2-down – Instrument maintaining current conditions at 13, say : GOING

3-down – Penning note, undercover journalist saw the light : CONVERTED

4-down – Game’s poor player from the south on run round north : MAHJONG

5-down – I’ve tangled with darn unwelcome individual : INVADER

6-down – Child artist, on the up, displaying sound technique : SONAR

7-down – Tell me where French nincompoop gets smacked : OUTWITHIT

10-down – Riot guards owning manscaping product : SHAVINGCREAM

14-down – Daily help for refs welcomed by ones producing match-day serenade : CHARIVARI

16-down – A doctor, filled with rage, upset container for drink : AMERICANO

18-down – Said why drunk seaman turns up in shabby fashion : RATTILY

19-down – Parent defends platform for provocative movement : DADAISM

22-down – Heartless, evil as well as horny bounder : ELAND

24-down – One in a powerful suit back in hot seat : TRUMP

1-across – Expert Latin speaker leading Northern Italy tour guides : CICERONI

5-across – Small boat in rough : SKETCH

9-across – Reviewed amount raised to secure medicine : SUMMEDUP

10-across – European city to repay, backing shifting a European position? : GENEVA

12-across – Tom sadly has ugly guffaws : BELLYLAUGHS

15-across – Detest sort of violent crime linked to soldiers : ABHOR

17-across – Most devious twist I found in exam : TRICKIEST

18-across – A neurotic drunk – on this? : COINTREAU

19-across – Sportsperson’s captain never showing pressure : SKIER

20-across – Old parrot cradling wing? One seeks assessment : OPINIONPOLL

24-across – Modern area in old yard not giving you a turn? : ONEWAY

25-across – Indicates surprised comments about backing tracks : GESTURES

26-across – Look – big Parisienne runs to the back : GANDER

27-across – I criticised keeping oxygen separated : ISOLATED

1-down – When aboard taxi, half of English county’s a more exotic place : CASABLANCA

2-down – Hide cooked meals inside item of furniture : CAMELSHAIR

3-down – Thin and hungry, disposing of starter : REEDY

4-down – Weakening nerves in the sauna, half-bare possibly : NEURASTHENIA

6-down – Reminders to look up benefits : KEEPSAKES

7-down – Seabird circling rocks at sea, finding tropical plant : TREE

8-down – Localised pain and ache from this rash? : HEAD

11-down – Russia begins transforming farming? : AGRIBUSINESS

13-down – One values the skilful male version of erotic art : MERITOCRAT

14-down – Unable to deliver sonnet, gutted – long to pen one line, on reflection : STERILISED

16-down – Reason Scottish island line brought in charge? : RATIONALE

21-down – Former colony, Australian, cheers being claimed by the Netherlands : NATAL

22-down – See 8 : LONG

23-down – See 7 : FERN

7-across – Moralist turning up in front of train wreck : PURITAN

8-across – Singer’s entertaining dad dancing in Somerset village : CHEDDAR

9-across – Start of silly season for Rishi? : SAGE

10-across – Wrecked boat at sea captured by revolutionary French artist : SABOTAGED

12-across – Might some garden warblers return? : BRAWN

13-across – No.7 in club team : IRONSIDE

15-across – Supplies side-splitting joke : QUIP

16-across – Fellows invested in Spanish couple’s tips : DOFFS

17-across – One Republican in US showing a bit of flex : WIRE

18-across – Mike goes inside to make a meal for PM : CREAMTEA

20-across – Spooner’s subdued fish : COLEY

21-across – Four contrary aliens welcoming a conversation : TETEATETE

22-across – OXO rejected fine : OKAY

24-across – What Jack Sprat’s wife did on counter holding fine cloth : TAFFETA

25-across – Staggering tax rise for comic character : ASTERIX

1-down – Department of Justice usually recruits awful leaders : JURA

2-down – Discharged current of gas : FIREDAMP

3-down – Masons arranged for someone to do the heavy lifting : SAMSON

4-down – American Dad! winning animated Oscar generates media events : PHOTOOPS

5-down – Proverbs in modern times? : ADAGES

6-down – He crashed out before the end of race – that’s bad luck! : HARD

11-down – Maybe attaché provides a clue for B.O.? : BRIEFCASE

12-down – Group accepting the ending of Parklife is more offensive : BLUER

14-down – The German boy exhausted in race : DERBY

16-down – Test card broadcast from Mars? : DETRACTS

17-down – Rules written up claiming pole dancing is PC in Australia : WALLOPER

19-down – Soldier provided that answer for political movement : ANTIFA

20-down – See 6 : CHEESE

21-down – Jack embracing Zulu king : TZAR

23-down – Greedy singer turns up : AVID

1-across – His reaction after masque dances? ‘Likely to feel sick’ : SQUEAMISH

6-across – Violent figure’s drink : PUNCH

9-across – In arrears? Ring branch : OWING

10-across – Misses out with Independent probing leader’s negative world view : PESSIMISM

11-across – Tom, ‘hot lay’, joins flash channel for retro TV feature : CATHODERAY

12-across – Male’s going to a hot place : HELL

14-across – Arrogant thug beaten up in grass : HAUGHTY

15-across – Thin swans almost cry out : SCRAWNY

17-across – Rodent hunter carrying large snake : RATTLER

19-across – One expects head to wear inferior underwear : PANTIES

20-across – See 11 : TUBE

22-across – Eastern USA pet cruelty affected koala feeding station : EUCALYPTUS

25-across – M. Poiret, no dud – but no Keats : MINORPOET

26-across – Similar to a sound made by dog : LAIKA

27-across – Sound means of accessing field technique : STYLE

28-across – Light accompaniment, darling? : SWEETNESS

1-down – Patient type planting narcissi border in raised beds : STOIC

2-down – Investment company gives military group credit : UNITTRUST

3-down – Who’s keen on England organising help in goal? : ANGLOPHILE

4-down – Irreverence of Zulu warriors yet to be trained : IMPIETY

5-down – Soldiers’ ‘quiet’ hospital eradicated respiratory disease : HUSSARS

6-down – Vessel’s power cut – trouble : PAIL

7-down – After one’s elevated one has to be ingenuous : NAIVE

8-down – Keeps restricting international language range : HIMALAYAS

13-down – Senior level extended family accommodation? : GRANNYFLAT

14-down – Novel association of Stern and UK newspaper : HARDTIMES

16-down – Loudly refuse length of cord for your girth measurement? : WAISTLINE

18-down – Caruso rudely interrupted by you at the end : RAUCOUS

19-down – Gas pressure shake : PRATTLE

21-down – Plastic stop put into butterfly wings : BENDY

23-down – Corsets originally traded in States : STAYS

24-down – See 22 Across : TREE

1-across – Players count bung in shed : CAST

3-across – Tell star playing in clubs about refreshing keys : CTRLALTESC

10-across – Arranged to spring a trap : NET

11-across – Feel up when nothing goes wrong : GOOSE

12-across – Politician takes a beat, cutting out dead wood : MAPLE

13-across – Primate holding bird in both hands : LEMUR

14-across – Feel sick about one child’s secret love affairs : LIAISONS

16-across – Big setback being a hundred and one before your first club! : SOCIETY

18-across – Revolutionary had a slip taking out power plants : DAHLIAS

20-across – Roast is missing hot stuff : OVEREAT

22-across – Soldiers and last bit of egg sent back on tea tray : CHARGER

23-across – Bake Off presenter has posh trainee replacing a line. Shade! : MULBERRY

25-across – Cobbled together a house in Washington : ADHOC

28-across – Bad luck dogs the finale : CURSE

29-across – Partial fraction : NINTH

30-across – Sit back, it is a contraction! : TIS

31-across – Power wielded by king amidst reshuffle? That hurts : MIDASTOUCH

32-across – Tramp’s fuzz : PLOD

1-down – Doctor Livingstone’s first cousin taking on Conservative for the final time : CONCLUSION

2-down – Dumb way to take heroin … bare dumb : SHTUM

4-down – Already coming back to take list : TROLLEY

5-down – Sir Christopher’s part of the hospital is on the quiet side : LEEWARD

6-down – Kids’ hits on the radio : LAMBS

7-down – Getting rid of former Russian president’s no good for Middle Eastern Gulf : EXPUNGING

8-down – Suggests lines to the audience : CUES

9-down – Upset, the first lady is on a horse ride half-cut : AGGRIEVE

15-down – Nasty racist does solitary : OSTRACISED

17-down – Up and down, like second column? : CHEQUERED

19-down – Ambassador on a date? What about back problem? : HEADACHE

21-down – Books mid-October to chase bull in Spanish city : TORONTO

22-down – Reading unknown, almost one Celsius above and one Celsius below frozen : CRYONIC

24-down – Calling for bill in this manner suggests one’s unwell – aww! : BLESS

26-down – Fellow has to back Student Raffles, for instance : HOTEL

27-down – Film about boring mathematical equation : SCUM