1-across – Hardy hero taking good puff before award : ADJUDGE

5-across – Subsequent article left on one side : LATERAL

9-across – Verrucas repelled Jack : STRAW

10-across – Virgin is indifferent? : UNTOUCHED

11-across – The outcome of a big splash out o-on flash do? : NOAHSFLOOD

12-across – Rubbed shoulders, maybe, with state elder : MASS

14-across – Sound of a ship’s cannon? : ARMOFTHESEA

18-across – One is opposed to bishop greeting trade union? What a bloomer! : ANTIRRHINUM

21-across – See 12 : AGED

22-across – Unbalanced and unhappy star takes back TV trophy, sick at heart : ASYMMETRIC

25-across – Spaniard is given a part: the continental Scotsman? : CASTILIAN

26-across – Ne plus ultra, so far as this region goes! : THULE

27-across – Blue wine is a washout : SADSACK

28-across – In hall, grand parties promenade ¿ every one of them : CONCERT

1-down – Agree to a rise, we’re told : ASSENT

2-down – River ordinance incorporated within the month : JORDAN

3-down – Where scullions knew their place : DOWNSTAIRS

4-down – Gain the same standard uniform : EQUAL

5-down – Amusing items in the auction? : LOTSOFFUN

6-down – Utterly wrong tense : TAUT

7-down – Do a dry run? Here goes – bottom’s down! : REHEARSE

8-down – Doctor Dylan’s MA presented to Don Giovanni : LADYSMAN

13-down – The French left Munich man in time to reach Burgundy : CHAMBERTIN

15-down – One’s taken up by the painter with a handshake : MAHLSTICK

16-down – Airline cuts revealing sums of spare cash : BALANCES

17-down – 6 is underlined : STRESSED

19-down – Beef and game : GROUSE

20-down – Grant is held up by student peccadilloes : ACCEPT

23-down – Elated, magnetic? Get away! : MANIC

24-down – Prima dona taking into her veins something impounded by state prosecutor : DIVA

9-across – Language from woman’s hard to follow : IRISH

10-across – Choose time for entering – I have key : OPERATIVE

11-across – Match-goer dissolving in the mass : HECTOGRAM

12-across – Unhappy about baked dish – not entirely tasty : SAPID

13-across – Quarrel in which wife has right perspective : WRANGLE

15-across – Detective being a man of many words : DICKENS

17-across – Given a fair treat or treated unfairly? : TAKEN

18-across – See 17 : FOR

20-across – See 17 : ARIDE

22-across – Embrocation with no name working like a machine : ROBOTIC

25-across – Grubby little area? : DINETTE

26-across – Smartness of soldier in coat : MAGIC

27-across – Chaps at the very top ruling cricket? : OVERLORDS

30-across – Meat and drink – first and last items of picnics by tree : RUMPSTEAK

31-across – A street in American city can be frightful : NASTY

1-down – Top level achieved by worthy, which is evident when paper comes to light? : HIGH

2-down – Shoddy plane ascending with sign of metal fatigue? : GIMCRACK

3-down – Endless rush – don’t hang around! : SHOO

4-down – Fine female on colt crossing our meadow and meeting sweetheart – a lucky discovery? : FOURLEAF

5-down – Supposed river would join sea : DEEMED

6-down – Future bride on bike – companion with a trendy floral decoration : DAISYCHAIN

7-down – Ordinary concern for money made from investment? : SIMPLE

8-down – Leader’s policy, which dominates the front page : HEAD

13-down – See 1 : WATER

14-down – A sort of biologist, I get insect dissected : GENETICIST

16-down – Screen is put up on day before festival : SIEVE

19-down – Reactionary types – are they getting hot under the collar? : REDNECKS

21-down – See 7 : INTEREST

23-down – Great little woman’s participation in more than one match : BIGAMY

24-down – See 4 : CLOVER

26-down – See 1 : MARK

28-down – See 8 : LINE

29-down – Water below doesn’t move audibly : STYX

1-across – Game F1 driver : PIQUET

4-across – Encouraging remark made by Hannibal initially in Carthaginian retreat : CHINUP

9-across – Opposed to sloth around midwinter : ANTI

10-across – Flexible ape or rigid rodent : PRAIRIEDOG

11-across – Contribute by givin’ up? : KICKIN

12-across – Regular issue and good service : EVENSONG

13-across – A singer can use the arrangement : CHANTEUSE

15-across – Use gentle persuasion – providing drinks, by the sound of it : COAX

16-across – What attracts bishop? Getting introduction to actress with sex appeal? : BAIT

17-across – Arctic prison for Spooner’s dance : JITTERBUG

21-across – Head may be head of fox or antelope : FORELAND

22-across – Precision in Germanic etymology : NICETY

24-across – Discombobulated acid-head means to join cast : THROWNAWAY

25-across – Wise men from Michigan collecting silver : MAGI

26-across – Bent back in response to stimulus : REFLEX

27-across – On the borders of Zimbabwe there’s many a fanatic : ZEALOT

1-down – Pinter play set on top of hill in Cumbria : PENRITH

2-down – Living like a bat out of hell? : QUICK

3-down – Stretch or break up in river : EXPANSE

5-down – He made the bloody discovery before Wallbanger : HARVEY

6-down – A physicist and his Nobel work on source of radiation : NIELSBOHR

7-down – Rara avis in Arizona? : PHOENIX

8-down – Film about alien in naval vessel that’s out of action : WATERSHIPDOWN

14-down – Stage direction sounds bad : NOISESOFF

16-down – Monk getting Russian leader into trouble? : BROTHER

18-down – Old photograph of tiny pet, perhaps : TINTYPE

19-down – Strait-laced university professor first getting drunk : UPTIGHT

20-down – Indian putting hand on knee : PAWNEE

23-down – Beast found in Cornish river : CAMEL