1-across – Miscellaneous collection by little girl with bad mark : JOBLOT

4-across – Not so much cocaine in flower? : SNOWDROP

9-across – Messenger from brain to cheek? : NERVE

10-across – Report of solid figure on high ground across the Thames : KEWBRIDGE

11-across – Accompaniment for Bilbo struggling with wild goat : OBBLIGATO

12-across – Love in its present form is a bit green : OASIS

13-across – Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour : SOCIOBIOLOGY

17-across – Phone call transferred in Greece has 21 quality : BELLIGERENCE

20-across – 21 people called Howard : HAWKS

21-across – Thoroughly investigate original inhabitant’s beheading, wanting to make something of it : COMBATIVE

23-across – Doctor, very keen one, with article on Indian language : DRAVIDIAN

24-across – 21 behaviour returned as 21 embraces royal queen : SABRE

25-across – See 24 : RATTLING

26-across – Saw suffer detention : BEHELD

1-down – Gin cocktail drunk by wooden supporter, a 21 fellow : JINGOIST

2-down – Unsaddled? Raise taxi during breakout : BAREBACK

3-down – Daggers taken from pillar : OBELI

5-down – Spooner was a fresher and cardinal got round his team : NEWCOLLEGEMAN

6-down – 21 person, not far off, possibly a goner : WARMONGER

7-down – Very handsome artist in salad : RADISH

8-down – Polite request for quiet tenancy : PLEASE

10-down – Canal turned to ice during prince’s appeal to 21 voters : KHAKIELECTION

14-down – Bowlers’ efforts with ball relocated from inner city : OVERSPILL

15-down – Directions that work: I wish I had them! : ENVIABLE

16-down – Parson’s always the last to follow the right : REVEREND

18-down – Hot drink goes round: I issue reproof : CHIDER

19-down – Requirement of diplomat keeping up pained comment on play : TWOACT

22-down – Drink is included in passageway : AISLE

9-across – Little fellow’s house sending many a relative round the bend : HOMUNCULE

10-across – Foreign friend holding a square violin : AMATI

11-across – Grassland on which navy loses heart to flier : LEAFLET

12-across – Return of fabled bird vexed Scottish pirate : CORSAIR

13-across – Leave note on painful condition : GOUT

14-across – Way finder with an atom of sympathy : COMPASSION

15-across – Container for drink – mother’s ruin? : THERMOS

17-across – Proposition third parties receiving aggregate : THEOREM

19-across – Strange free goal in strange communal decision : REFERENDUM

22-across – Love to shove Unfinished Symphony, say : OPUS

23-across – Festival owned by knight : GALAHAD

24-across – Battered old tabloid model’s gone on the game : DIABOLO

26-across – Depicted looking stressed : DRAWN

27-across – It’s unimaginative of ants to take heart from gulag : FORMULAIC

1-down – Chargers get drunk, grabbing Loki’s girl, and old god’s covered with cheese : THELIGHTBRIGADE

2-down – Shut up about a time to be green : IMMATURE

3-down – A love for indigo : ANIL

4-down – Glistening passions half-roused inwardly : LUSTROUS

5-down – Incompletely train up as drink carrier : TEACUP

6-down – Game casserole almost cooked : LACROSSE

7-down – Exciting excursion for a fellow in women’s clothing : SAFARI

8-down – Artist unexpectedly buys Cornish home : HIERONYMUSBOSCH

16-down – Business person’s Gallic sea shanty? : MERCHANT

17-down – Sultry old solver’s kept below : THUNDERY

18-down – Original recipe to overlap with admonition : REPROVAL

20-down – Stuff about one article from the Sun, reportedly : FILIAL

21-down – Remove number beforehand and slip into oblivion : NODDFF

25-down – Plant held up by Samurai : ARUM

1-across – Occasional butt from goat following girl : APRILFOOL

9-across – Easter display – of troops? : PARADE

10-across – Fast finish : EASTERDAY

11-across – Capital investment for Easter : BONNET

12-across – Retaliation concerning April’s odd tricks ultimately : REPRISALS

13-across – Cuts and shares out : SHEARS

17-across – A fool to be taken for a ride, not only today : ASS

19-across – Equivalent to 15 : VIRTUAL

20-across – A Look Back in Anger sort of play? : PASSION

21-across – Non-professional way to provide a 31? : LAY

23-across – Fierce storm on the coast of Brazil : RECIFE

27-across – Five hundred wrongly laid off on Sunday – they are out now : DAFFODILS

28-across – Stored face backwards in the end : LAIDIN

29-across – Marsh plant providing a variety of materials : MARESTAIL

30-across – Second thoughts about offensive jokes played today : PRANKS

31-across – Segregate something that may be present : EASTEREGG

2-down – Plea to the pleader : PRAYER

3-down – Confine one after another, we hear : INTERN

4-down – Softer sort of wood : FOREST

5-down – Carole’s making announcements : ORACLES

6-down – He takes pains to provide pleasure : MASOCHIST

7-down – Cook’s vessel, one seen in rain, beam obscured : BAINMARIE

8-down – Fast plane is not re-ordered, so initially gets rid of the cargo : JETTISONS

14-down – Did not turn out as intended : PRACTICAL

15-down – Realistic sort of joke for today : CUFFLINKS

16-down – Belt buckles worn by men : ALL

17-down – A couple of pounds for the lot : SPY

18-down – Look for a mole : ALABAMA

22-down – State of a student gaining a degree, then another : AFFECT

24-down – Pretend to have influence : EDITOR

25-down – He’s in charge, but has a leader : FLYING

26-down – Taking flight, running fast : OVERSLEPT