1-across – Guarantee securing a boy for a limited period : SEASONAL

5-across – Model put on a slipper, displaying charm : AMULET

9-across – Store of Latin gathered in by outdoor worker : GARDENER

10-across – Onset of pain in the kidneys set back marksman : SNIPER

11-across – Artists apply to less than saintly monk : RASPUTIN

12-across – The slag has manners, officer admitted on reflection : SCORIA

14-across – Emperor Pan devised special appellation : PROPERNAME

18-across – Waving too much, having secured a promontory : UNDULATORY

22-across – Sponge for dessert sent back with sigh of relief : LOOFAH

23-across – Labourer covering a Test drops note of support for bowler? : HATSTAND

24-across – Dodgy, squire : RISQUE

25-across – Rupture received in the same place in Ireland : HIBERNIA

26-across – Look at bird : GANDER

27-across – Strike second-best attendant : STOPPAGE

1-down – Brought up American lad to be sentimental : SUGARY

2-down – Topless Antipodeans going to Thailand make Greek tense : AORIST

3-down – Dishevelled blouse bears the mark of the printer : OBELUS

4-down – America’s finest take gold – a change for the better : AMELIORATE

6-down – Cosmetic treatment for hyperactive waterway : MANICURE

7-down – Clear up mess left by wild party : LUPERCAL

8-down – Seem likely to be devoured after god drops round : THREATEN

13-down – Revolutionary BNP member from Bath concealing Tory origin? : SPARTACIST

15-down – Pond-dweller’s edict finds king in no condition for driving : BULLFROG

16-down – A decadent poet admits verse by churchman’s right : ADVOWSON

17-down – Response to accusation certain to give delight : PLEASURE

19-down – Euphemistically dead fish gobbled up by snake : ASLEEP

20-down – A country raised to conceal name of fictional realm : NARNIA

21-down – Imagine being fed to the fish! : IDEATE

4-across – Spy master after one in European peninsula : IBERIA

6-across – Rousing up, regarded so good! : DROPDEAD

9-across – Set down a record in what’s prescribed : DEPOSE

10-across – See 6 : GORGEOUS

11-across – Link silence with high air speed and stick around? : CASHMACHINE

15-across – They foster redevelopment of Surrey Dock, connecting North and South : NURSERS

17-across – Clues to magnificent Spain and Portugal, I understand : TENFOUR

18-across – Are these the main reasons for afternoon business in cafe, increases in naps? : TEASELLINGS

22-across – Titanic performance from this man, outrageously repaid in Colorado : LEONARDO

23-across – Stand and turn after backing Enigmatist’s setting : MILIEU

24-across – See 22 : DICAPRIO

25-across – Blackbird torn apart by hound : BEAGLE

1-down – Asian beginner totally challenged intellectually? : DIMSUM

2-down – Medic to make small talk at zoo? : DRDOLITTLE

3-down – Go to the Scotch Pine – a form in outward appearance grounded : EPIGAEAN

4-down – Offence taken from seeing what develops in a dark room? : INDECENT

5-down – See 4 : EXPOSURE

7-down – Dress up for York : EBOR

8-down – Crush ostentation – damn! : DASH

12-down – Missile thrown in car dispute? : CUSTARDPIE

13-down – Extra work for picture-framer the source of some stress? : MOUNTING

14-down – See 13 : PRESSURE

16-down – Play, then work on heat content : ENTHALPY

19-down – Wait for something Dot Cotton always carries? : LOITER

20-down – Very likely this chap he’ll have used the stakes! : VLAD

21-down – Necklace worn by tutor casually : TORC

1-across – Vow made by page left on one side : PLEDGE

4-across – Article on foreign currency – about one no longer current : ANCIENT

9-across – Transient arrangement needed right now : INSTANTER

10-across – The subject of progeny : ISSUE

11-across – Part a lush grassy slope, part a scree : TALUS

12-across – Gentlemen of the press making cracks? : REPORTERS

13-across – Blame the salesman taking stroll : REPROVE

15-across – Flashback : SECOND

17-across – Daren’t, maybe, get fiery : ARDENT

19-across – A couple of beasts uniting could present a problem : ANAGRAM

22-across – Traveller vandalising train without point : ITINERANT

24-across – The Spanish swimmer is like a little fairy : ELFIN

26-across – Drink the health of a high-minded person? : TOAST

27-across – Cleaner hiding joint she’s stolen : PURLOINER

28-across – Book – something to fall back on : RESERVE

29-across – Recall a peer newly created by the sovereign : REPEAL

1-down – A director’s tip : POINTER

2-down – Over 50, still making a stand : EASEL

3-down – Prime Minister lets go and goes to pieces : GLADSTONE

4-down – Stay on the large side after a fit : APROPOS

5-down – Announcer gets little credit and that is right : CRIER

6-down – Oriental feature about 8 : EASTERNER

7-down – He believes he is entered in certain races : THEIST

8-down – A writer who could be quite uncompromising, note : STERNE

14-down – Champions quiet workers : PARTISANS

16-down – Providing tea for single companion : CHAPERONE

18-down – Crush tribal leaders with large following : TRAMPLE

19-down – Get-up that makes a sober individual rage : ATTIRE

20-down – Mixed in among relevant matter : MONGREL

21-down – Have offspring and, inevitably, a mess! : LITTER

23-down – A consumer bearing with a change of rate : EATER

25-down – Guard for a malefactor : FENCE