8-across – Impounded boat involved in coastal trade : CABOTAGE

9-across – Fellow that ran through Xanadu? : RALPH

10-across – Line of soldiers prepared for offensive : RANK

11-across – If cold in the country, use this fur : CHINCHILLA

12-across – Arrest rough after noisy outburst : COLLAR

14-across – Girl repelled by bloody tale : ALLEGORY

15-across – Witness for trial provided by Yard : TESTIFY

17-across – Get excited – son to enter into partnership : STEAMUP

20-across – Fuel produced from well sunk in ground : SHALEOIL

22-across – Agent receiving shelter is dormant : SLEEPY

23-across – Stauncher, being blood-related? : TOURNIQUET

24-across – For the doc, it’s a cinch : CERT

25-across – Top 40, say : EXCEL

26-across – Fitting term to use about one that’s retired : EMERITUS

1-down – Making a half-turn, colt has produced a clear round : CARACOLE

2-down – Chub, say, may be found in stretch of river : LOCK

3-down – Foreign sailor identifies a rocky mass, given longitude or latitude initially : LASCAR

4-down – Remains working class : SEMINAR

5-down – Handcuff pair over court obstruction : BRACELET

6-down – A fling with Pegasus’s sister? : FLYINGMARE

7-down – Nick verbally showing his anger : CHOLER

13-down – US city with only minor sway : LITTLEROCK

16-down – Girl taking sound control of one of the fleet : FLOTILLA

18-down – Part of shoe damaged – welt, perhaps? : UPPERCUT

19-down – Scoffed at boor about having eaten : FLOUTED

21-down – An owl’s beak? : HOOTER

22-down – The examiner’s a dog! : SETTER

24-down – Food counter : CHIP

1-across – Between chest and hips, I wander endlessly between the sexes : MIDRIFF

5-across – Where to find car in a state, having blown a gasket? : GARAGED

9-across – I was runner-up to 5 down – talk about service! : PATRAFTER

10-across – A novice embraced by Asian flower, embraced by fat one, former glamour model : LINDA

11-across – Something done both ways : DEED

12-across – Free call-back in charge reversal by the crown : EMANCIPATE

14-across – Bordering principality virtually rejected local edict : BYELAW

15-across – Most questionable visitor invited to museum? : VAGUEST

16-across – See 10 : LUSARDI

18-across – Caught in denial, perhaps : NAILED

20-across – Footballer requesting King’s bitter : GEORGEBEST

21-across – I say leave mum! : GOSH

24-across – Pulse demanded when making broth : THROB

25-across – Earwig in sea proved to be floundering : EAVESDROP

26-across – Threaten death by drink : PORTEND

27-across – A tasty bit of stuff for tea? : CRUMPET

1-down – Mooned from vehicle : MOPED

2-down – Uncertain if article right during homework : DITHERY

3-down – Terrible chap in bed, topless : IVAN

4-down – As an Olympian, I threw up stout and I”m in need of a beer! : FATIMAWHITBREAD

5-down – I can go in and serve almost entirely via annihilation – thus I won the championship! : GORANIVANISEVIC

6-down – Returning late from the pub carrying piano, something for evening out : ROLLINGPIN

7-down – Arm with head and a leg, but no tail, on part of ship : GUNWALE

8-down – Indict beer, the talk of the local? : DIALECT

13-down – Message about play, good for actor : CLARKGABLE

16-down – Have a cigarette and smile! : LIGHTUP

17-down – More bitter required, about a hundred – Brillo! : SCOURER

19-down – English books required in understanding narcissistic journey : EGOTRIP

22-down – Run off with single member? : HOPIT

23-down – In the Bible, Saul sold his birthright : ESAU

9-across – Bully lying beside a road with diamonds has a yellow streak : COWARDICE

10-across – Thrown out of bed to join crowd : UPSET

11-across – First-class chaps going back for single woodland plant : ANEMONE

12-across – The story of a nut cracked by a widow of Moab : UNTRUTH

13-across – Ensign positioned east of Santiago : IAGO

14-across – Boon companion’s choice eggs thus had about noon : BESTFRIEND

16-across – Bound to change, to be sure : NODOUBT

17-across – Musically brisk and organised by Miss Fitzgerald on return : ALLEGRO

19-across – Mournful guru catches bus with oil sprinkled around : LUGUBRIOUS

22-across – Slugs in the morning need a doctor : AMMO

24-across – Stage names include a substitute for Lassie : ALIASES

25-across – Salt lake where cold marine animal loses its tail : DEADSEA

26-across – Almost sluggish when capturing the governor in Bolivia : LAPAZ

27-across – Ballad ain’t clean when broadcast : CANTILENA

1-down – Piece of furniture makes rare present : OCCASIONALTABLE

2-down – Backhanded pair of editors with 1,000 pounds between them : TWOEDGED

3-down – Bachelor pad gets a brush : BROOM

4-down – Get up and go to box for safety equipment : LIFEBELT

5-down – Lustre could be the consequence : RESULT

6-down – Fat bluebottle, for example, is a not very serious being : BUTTERFLY

7-down – Take over when Australian birds go north : ASSUME

8-down – The old starting signal falls without delay : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT

15-down – Big Jack, the boss, in need of sticky stuff : JUMBOSIZE

17-down – Rich cake in advertisement supplied to worker : ABUNDANT

18-down – One who punts puts only the last bit of gas in meter : GAMESTER

20-down – Understanding exercise, but still getting flu : GRIPPE

21-down – Insignificant person turns out nicest : INSECT

23-down – Literary gang leader has cigarette at home : FAGIN

1-across – Choreographer’s position in the company : CRANKO

4-across – Sidearms : ARSENAL

9-across – Mosaic entrance passage at 13 : BARMIZVAH

10-across – Beg the question in a vacuum : AVOID

11-across – Here comes the bride for a man with capital : AISLE

12-across – Coolness of dodgy gas fire done out of energy twice : SANGFROID

13-across – Herein Radames, caught by his god, returning to a pastoral idyll : ARCADIA

15-across – A contentious issue from the continent : AUSSIE

17-across – A ghost on losing direction : ASPECT

19-across – Smooth character motivating the rest of the children : SANDMAN

22-across – Ideal place for society to suspend rail travelling : SHANGRILA

24-across – Jab from the weapon of El Cid? : ELBOW

26-across – Combination of sex with marriage : UNION

27-across – Flush to the heads of Conservative matrons? : BLUERINSE

28-across – Salt beef on the hoof with wings : OXALATE

29-across – Seduced by a French fellow. Ecstasy! : UNDONE

1-down – Welsh water taxi’s introducing hidden depths here : CABBALA

2-down – How Polonius was covered in embarrassment : ARRAS

3-down – Anchor, getting out of fine mess and into predicament : KNIFEEDGE

4-down – A more pretentious homonym? One can’t say : APHONIA

5-down – Duncan’s killer seen hanging by the neck : SCARF

6-down – Coinage in some lingo or other : NEOLOGISM

7-down – Affected foreign aid from the French department : LADIDA

8-down – A match for Thus Spake Zoroaster : AVESTA

14-down – Norma’s invocation: give the role to a Joan Sutherland? : CASTADIVA

16-down – Supreme Court’s inner sanctum initially had disturbance : SANHEDRIN

18-down – One to kick against the pricks? Let him bleed a little : THIMBLE

19-down – American eye has failed to sum up : SHAMUS

20-down – Two presents not present : NOWHERE

21-down – Buy sardines with it? Use cod fillets! : ESCUDO

23-down – Source of Columbus’s sail : GENOA

25-down – Don’t let the little woman play it! : BANJO

8-across – Reaching new position of authority : INCHARGE

9-across – Saved, but confined to bed : LAIDUP

10-across – Birds can do it with their eyes shut : PEEP

11-across – Seaport economy : PROVIDENCE

12-across – Editorial chief : LEADER

14-across – Chicken quarters : HENHOUSE

15-across – Accumulate shares that have increased in value? : STOCKUP

17-across – Disease possibly spread by water : SEASIDE

20-across – Inadequate legislation intended for the needy : POORLAWS

22-across – Stopped Edward chasing Henry : HALTED

23-across – Restriction on entry may be lifted : PORTCULLIS

24-across – Satisfied with a quarter measure : METE

25-across – Do in : ATHOME

26-across – Present for a licence holder : TELEVISE

1-down – Gain attention : INTEREST

2-down – Nick to administer a beating : WHIP

3-down – Right to support monarch : PROPER

4-down – Empty hotels converted in Africa : LESOTHO

5-down – Marriage makes a nice change after all : ALLIANCE

6-down – Government official making conclusive changes : VICECONSUL

7-down – They’re capped, but not for brilliance : DUNCES

13-down – Coordinate new colour scheme : DECORATION

16-down – Girl thought to be like Queen Victoria? : UNAMUSED

18-down – He takes part in an act of duplicity : DUETTIST

19-down – Cut off and also tie off : ISOLATE

21-down – Good centre to find wine in? : OPORTO

22-down – Lashes out in quarrel : HASSLE

24-down – Propose relocation : MOVE