1-across – One with a peculiar attachment – perhaps she fits it : FETISHIST

6-across – Representation of one small party : ICON

10-across – Soul reflected in a bird : ANIMA

11-across – Domestic mouse had one shattered : HOUSEMAID

12-across – What play school is for? : SCANDAL

13-across – A nice version – New Testament and Old : ANCIENT

14-across – Dinner, tea – time is variable : INDETERMINATE

17-across – Reduced need for reform after warning to Clare : FORESHORTENED

21-across – Piece of bread – fellow almost consumed one : CHAPATI

22-across – Cats lie in order to be able to spring : ELASTIC

24-across – Like Mr Plod – ignorant, lacking direction : UNIFORMED

25-across – Pejorative term for a foreigner – maybe a Turk : KRAUT

26-across – 2/3 of one in the Middle East and half elsewhere : SEMI

27-across – Reel drunkenly in game lacking spirit : CHEERLESS

1-down – Hood’s place once in Iris’s joint? : FLAGSHIP

2-down – Animal heard in Russian forest : TAIGA

3-down – One thinks on the hoof – that seems obvious : STANDSTOREASON

4-down – Trendy, healthier kind of smoker? : INHALER

5-down – Wave fashionable in Matins service : TSUNAMI

7-down – Unusually clean home makes a colourful change : CHAMELEON

8-down – Fresh air, they say, and this should expose you to it : NUDITY

9-down – Take dodgy tenner back and harm his trade : MERCHANTBANKER

15-down – Lack of hope for achievement through religion? : DEFEATISM

16-down – Trains to understand about absorbing common currency long ago : EDUCATES

18-down – Such an effect is seen in house starting to collapse : SEISMIC

19-down – Finished, owing to being late : OVERDUE

20-down – They should be prepared – to cuss? : SCOUTS

23-down – It’s a traditional English pursuit : TRADE

9-across – To foil strike, say something! : OUTWITHIT

10-across – See 1 down : CAROL

11-across – Sir John’s draught, but it’s rarely blown in the wind : SACKBUT

12-across – Fruit here, or vegetable : ORCHARD

13-across – Bread made by 19 : NAAN

14-across – Ms Malone, Claire and Penelope in Dublin : MOLLYBLOOM

16-across – What do naive characters make of a beauty spot? : NAEVOID

17-across – College fellow swallowing drug substance : POLYMER

19-across – 13, say, where one of Monty Python’s Flying Circus took off? : PALINDROME

22-across – 19 from employee at the court of King Mongkut : ANNA

24-across – ‘E’s getting sound credit for pay outs once in Lisbon : ESCUDOS

25-across – Tho’ race might go so far : REACHTO

26-across – One of Harry’s stiffeners? : SINEW

27-across – Herod’s son to gain entree to Rome ? : ANTIPASTO

1-down – Ca-can’t spell? O! No reason to make a demand on 15 : CONSONANTPLEASE

2-down – The pen of the Judge Advocate General : STOCKADE

3-down – Where the unbaptised bend over backwards? : LIMBO

4-down – The first transport for the masses in Norfolk? : THETFORD

5-down – Second dwarf to take the air : STROLL

6-down – Like a poised anchor, or a tap on the beak : ACOCKBILL

7-down – A king starting Much Ado with the Spaniard in Love’s Labour”s Lost : ARMADO

8-down – Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunk : VLADIMIRNABOKOV

15-down – Declining introduction to space programme : COUNTDOWN

17-down – Fish confused from keeping pets? Quite the reverse! : POMFRETS

18-down – One called to the bar shone excitedly in the Cambridge institute : MINEHOST

20-down – Gap left by English king escaping nuclear explosion : LACUNA

21-down – Limb emerging from Hera’s calf : RASCAL

23-down – Frank audition of TV controller : ZAPPA

1-across – The artist might exclude the light : DRAWTHECURTAINS

9-across – Fruit to move – wreckers might upset it : APPLECART

10-across – Robert Browning’s young girl gives father the pip : PIPPA

11-across – No longer greeting completely frozen rain : ALLHAIL

12-across – Savings book : RESERVE

13-across – Before going this way and that : ERE

14-across – Old tin can found damaged round back of theatre : ANCIENT

17-across – Outrage is good when dirt is around : DISGUST

19-across – Perhaps I’d no tax for this agent : OXIDANT

22-across – It”s wise to change panties : SAPIENT

24-across – First woman to be seen in the vestry : EVE

25-across – New pensioner about to take flag to king : RETIRER

26-across – Satisfy ugly person eating vegetables : APPEASE

28-across – Ring a large number in the locality : ARENA

29-across – Engage, as crossword solutions do : INTERLOCK

30-across – Kill a guardian and he, staggeringly, can just fall about : LAUGHLIKEADRAIN

1-down – Like Old Marley, unproductive as a stud : DEADASADOORNAIL

2-down – Horrify a Scandinavian nomad when he gets up : APPAL

3-down – Samantha, embraced by you once, is unchanged : THESAME

4-down – English letter writer and French getting US decoration : EPAULET

5-down – Unqualified editor could be let out : UTTERED

6-down – Qwerty characters? : TYPISTS

7-down – Plead with umpire not to be wrong : IMPORTUNE

8-down – Heavily taxed when getting to the crust and dripping : SOAKEDTOTHESKIN

15-down – Exotic creation for all – a liqueur : COINTREAU

16-down – One sister, or none by the sound of it : NUN

18-down – Air composed by Gershwin : IRA

20-down – Look over tub where substances are dried : AIRBATH

21-down – Stops half-sister getting a skirt : TERMINI

22-down – Where to find Frasier, one engaged in clinch : SEATTLE

23-down – Parisian father is found in home that is decorated : PAPERED

27-down – Bouquet for a gypsy first : AROMA