1-across – Urge to go into action, though dispirited : DEPRESSED

9-across – Barmaid who argued about a pound : PORTIA

10-across – Charge sheet? : PRICELIST

11-across – Protection worn by king hiding in a tree : ANORAK

12-across – Criterion for judges to observe? : BENCHMARK

13-across – Rarely seen part of the French President’s residence : ELYSEE

17-across – Fuss after a party : ADO

19-across – Girl meets chap and starts talking – but doesn’t yield : ADAMANT

20-across – Poison scare in new development : ARSENIC

21-across – Creature with pointed small feet : EFT

23-across – The land of the living? : PARISH

27-across – Walkabout certain to be rated highly : TREASURED

28-across – Beating the retreat : HIDING

29-across – Flattery works in this kind of TV : SOAPOPERA

30-across – His job is to transfer stock : DROVER

31-across – Stand for soldier’s award : REPRESENT

2-down – Got out of doing something : EARNED

3-down – Gold goes up when two firms are after it for decoration : ROCOCO

4-down – Banger unfortunately overturned on motorway : SALAMI

5-down – Determined, though certain to come in last : ENSURED

6-down – Trying to write with such a pencil would be : POINTLESS

7-down – Now for a West End gift : ATPRESENT

8-down – Sailor on boat – he used to work with ropes : JACKKETCH

14-down – It reduces glare from headlamps : LAMPSHADE

15-down – Papal bull’s counterpart that’s beyond criticism : SACREDCOW

16-down – Weak team member transferred by coach, perhaps : PASSENGER

17-down – Took down a note : ATE

18-down – Changes to a cereal : OAT

22-down – It comes from a conifer, naturally : FIRCONE

24-down – He wrote for various papers : SAPPER

25-down – Raise drink after drink: result – uproar! : RUMPUS

26-down – Confused sunbather misses bus to capital : TEHRAN

1-across – Capital sum a lender’s first withdrawn from Italy, or Monaco? : PRINCIPALITY

8-across – What designer has put into slit dress? : RAIMENT

9-across – Driver missing in military action : WAGONER

11-across – Ball thrown by essayist may be found in bed : LOBELIA

12-across – Timeless weapons for military commanders : SHOGUNS

13-across – Mourning song at start and end of evensong in cathedral : ELEGY

14-across – Henry left Theresa outside – that’s not appreciated : THANKLESS

16-across – A flower that’s yellow and black, say, is given a prize : BUTTERCUP

19-across – Conductor exposed in the Sun with a couple of timpanists : SOLTI

21-across – Saint in front of station inside the city walls : SWITHIN

23-across – Saint with first-class return for the country : ALBANIA

24-across – Top bowler? : SPINNER

25-across – Gear in street and lane, not an item in an alley : SKITTLE

26-across – Champions of the aristocracy : TITLEHOLDERS

1-down – Docile and quiet subject : PLIABLE

2-down – In a perfect world I do business and play alternately : IDEALLY

3-down – Medicine found by little girl on a lorry : CATHARTIC

4-down – Puppets making pledges : PAWNS

5-down – Record leads to Lohengrin’s original German libretto : LOGBOOK

6-down – Shaving the head is in fashion, certainly : TONSURE

7-down – Byers’ sell-out affected current transport : TROLLEYBUSES

10-down – Test acid user, possibly given a quick fix? : RESUSCITATED

15-down – Dismay about curtailed increase in salary review : APPRAISAL

17-down – Capital leads to totalitarian bourgeois imperialism losing its social infrastructure : TBILISI

18-down – Athlone is a source of alcohol : ETHANOL

19-down – Magnificent tree planted by newspaper employee : SUBLIME

20-down – Medicine was our bond, we hear : LINCTUS

22-down – Bridge player taking unorthodox part : NORTH

1-across – Name that ‘Monaco-worth-a-trek’ bloke! NB He possibly means he got there! : THEMANWHOBROKE

9-across – Mix it with whisky, soda and ice, as they say in the East End : EYEBALL

10-across – One firm push in advance on Mexican port : TAMPICO

11-across – Shrink from seaman with utter strumpet : ABHOR

12-across – Thus I list Rodin’s silent retrospective of noted works : ORATORIOS

13-across – The other guide to India : KAMASUTRA

14-across – Offensive Italian-English mountain man? : EYETI

15-across – Meditation here from Massenet: ie wasting time once! : THAIS

17-across – Some measure of radioactivity where Montcalm failed to change halves on line : BOCQUEREL

20-across – Some tie and diehard : OLDSCHOOL

22-across – Fibre of dark lady eluding ref’s assistant : ISTLE

23-across – Carton sent for dispatch by this carrier : TUMBRIL

24-across – Great circle round last city in Australia : BENDIGO

25-across – Either Doris or Robin, eventually : ONEOFTHESEDAYS

1-down – See 1 across : THEBANKATMONTE

2-down – Off-Broadway location relieves Hamlet production : EVESHAM

3-down – Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can’t see Tyneside : AMAUROSIS

4-down – Derek, Clyde and Joe with Louisa May : WALCOTT

5-down – Large otter booked with a right turn on the tiles : OSTRAKA

6-down – A lover of phonetics : ROMEO

7-down – Fertilizer the shrew absorbs in one : KAINITE

8-down – Wily bobby’s sole error: admission of youthful indulgence? : BOYSWILLBEBOYS

14-down – European sinecure falling to rapacity … : ESURIENCE

16-down – … with a piece of the Indian islands : ANDAMAN

17-down – Manual indicating ‘Show yellow card for obstruction’ : BOOKLET

18-down – What it takes to make a bore : CALIBRE

19-down – Greek pines for this drink : RETSINA

21-down – See 1 across : CARLO