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

1-across – The brain train? Putsch got her so involved : THOUGHTPROCESS

9-across – Here’s a rampant lion, with cry about setback to hand : ROYALARMS

10-across – Underground police take terrorist’s part : METRO

11-across – My stuff is redeemable, or I”m a Dutchman : UNCLE

12-across – Fields at cover point, gaining easy win : LANDSLIDE

13-across – Prince to go back round the border and become an urchin : HEDGEHOG

14-across – Vessel carrying pennant? : FLAGON

17-across – Creator of monster to live among fairies : HOBBES

19-across – Number appearing in feature? Yes, maybe, to go 1 down : CHIMNEYS

22-across – Had rowdy party and terrorised characters – not right : ROISTERED

24-across – From Bergen, or several other places : NORSE

25-across – Thus turns a graduate into a terrorist : OSAMA

26-across – Putsch to capture king’s the obvious course : CLEARSOUP

27-across – Not George Thomas or Michael Martin? : ENGLISHSPEAKER

1-down – Take into consideration protagonist of Where the aerial goes : THROUGHTHEROOF

2-down – Coax DIY freak into chemical substance : OXYACID

3-down – It’s the hereditary factor that constrains elderly solvers to duck : GOLDENEYE

4-down – Told harm would result from slavery : THRALDOM

5-down – Investigates about Conservative following rebellion – they may go 1 down : RISING

6-down – Writer of the century, humorous at first? : CAMUS

7-down – Context of musical arrangement : SETTING

8-down – Go 1 down with loose translation by Home Ruler, or not : LOSEONESTEMPER

15-down – The French-Canadian city almost has English source of fruit : LEMONTREE

16-down – Apostle, a model, had a Roman god : THADDEUS

18-down – Land of intelligence, including computing etc : BRITAIN

20-down – Ale fitted with cork once went to dandy”s head : EARLOCK

21-down – See 5 : PRICES

23-down – Hangdog : TRAIL