9-across – Perfect 1-wood : IDEAL

10-across – Communication system is common kind for Spooner : MORSECODE

11-across – Wales played by captain’s physical principle : HOOKESLAW

12-across – Hotel entertained by country backing group : SHOAL

13-across – Sweet Caroline’s opening fight in Madison Square Garden : CRUMBLE

15-across – Heather in Shropshire borders close to the heart of Percy Thrower : SLINGER

17-across – <span>Agree Machiavelli partly reflected </span><i>The Prince</i> : AMEER

18-across – 1 main partner : SEA

20-across – Fat detective wearing hat : LIPID

22-across – Harry Lime drinking tea for 1? : MICHAEL

25-across – <span>Shivering </span><i>après-skier</i><span> may finally put new coat on</span> : RESPRAY

26-across – Ashe regularly missed out in Court No.1 : WAHOO

27-across – See 7 Down : ANDTHANKS

30-across – See 7 Down : FORALLTHE

31-across – Flat 1 has entrance in Shepherd’s Bush? : SKATE

1-down – See 7 : FISH

2-down – Determined 1 cycling is overtaken by true rogue : RESOLUTE

3-down – Down-and-dirty : BLUE

4-down – Metal producers manufactured steel frames occasionally : SMELTERS

5-down – <span>Thoroughly investigates tips from </span><i>The Repair Shop</i><span> to cover boring item</span> : TRAWLS

6-down – Words in song embracing trouble ending for Crystal Palace : VERSAILLES

7-down – Flash Gordon in on the talks with Flash Liquid to produce a novel quote : SOLONG

8-down – Strip from page 1 : PEEL

13-down – Allure of 1 million : CHARM

14-down – Spanish players delivered part of song : BARCAROLLE

16-down – Amber perhaps originally yellowish-red : RUDDY

19-down – Potted game eaten by Bill : ABRIDGED

21-down – 1 brief period gripping nation : PIRANHAS

23-down – Group of hot men in bed : COHORT

24-down – Shed Seven essentially leaving the Eastern Mediterranean with nothing : LEANTO

26-down – See 18 Across : WIFE

28-down – Pikachu’s sandwich contains dog meat : HUSS

29-down – Clairvoyant brought up on drugs : SEER

1-across – Just as orgasm prompts poem by Yeats … : THESECONDCOMING

9-across – … wrongly read note by misfortunate Keats : MISTAKE

10-across – For example,Keats and Yeats : RHYMERS

11-across – See 25 : THE

12-across – Heretics are punished for unfaithful acts : TREACHERIES

13-across – You might slip on this bats blood : BANANASKIN

15-across – Light’s non-binding energy : NEON

18-across – E … e : ECHO

20-across – Bible teaching wrongly maligns Eve : EVANGELISM

23-across – Gordon’s starter presented to massive foody? : GASTRONOMIC

25-across – That man follows backwash of river froth : SEE

26-across – Playing bingo,the French are mean : IGNOBLE

27-across – Beast of burden returned to castle : CAMELOT

28-across – Fascist leader controlled Houston with rumba master general : FRANCISCOFRANCO

1-down – Backup part of database liable to corruption : TEMPTABLE

2-down – Sea-sick seabird from China? : EASTERN

3-down – Challenging former lover on stage : EXACTING

4-down – Huge honour to sit on banks of Seine : OBESE

5-down – Re-entering language course : DIRECTION

6-down – Gone wild with axes splitting something needed for fire : OXYGEN

7-down – Provide detailed account of quite miserable passage : ITEMISE

8-down – Donates,as replacing 4,6 and 15 : GASES

14-down – International waters still surrounded by dumb-asses : SEVENSEAS

16-down – Dropping dead,wrote frantically : NUMBERTWO

17-down – Fresher report of any toilet more sullied : NEWCOMER

19-down – Take end from communion wafer – on reflection,an exaltation! : HOSANNA

21-down – Slight temperature dropping off with cool hormone : INSULIN

22-down – A right-beginning,dotted-letter-including alphabet : ARABIC

23-down – Sadness as building terminally fire-damaged : GRIEF

24-down – <span>Like </span><i>Top Gun</i><span> pilot’s taxiing speed : MACHO

1-across – Cheers one who’d expect to be paid to be an MP? : PROSIT

5-across – Light material suffering more snags if not new : GOSSAMER

9-across – Safe getting hot as Venus in the Louvre : HARMLESS

10-across – Official Aussie pick-up counter : REFUTE

11-across – Putting two lots of uranium into affected corpuscles is dim! : CREPUSCULOUS

13-across – Marine fish in abandoned clay : MARL

14-across – Oval’s pitch initially breaking up till ice melted : ELLIPTIC

17-across – Opera section with city situation : SCENARIO

18-across – Frame in which beauty pageant winner appears? : SASH

20-across – A fibre carpet used to make flatpack kit,say : PREFABRICATE

23-across – Wow,performing with a cigar! : CORONA

24-across – Very into fancy lingerie but right off sweet-talk : INVEIGLE

25-across – Expert: ‘Nessie is mostly brass’ : PERTNESS

26-across – Cat circling a rocking lead vocalist’s equipment : LARYNX

2-down – Fancy knocking off leader for paper? : REAM

3-down – Mark’s house settlement’s not finished : SEMICOLON

4-down – Lulu’s half escaping depression in the old city : THEBES

5-down – Cynically proposing futile measures – a ‘two-fingered salute’ way of governing? : GESTUREPOLITICS

6-down – Lyricist dancing – time for one very popular show : STRICTLY

7-down – Foul’s legal – linesman’s heading off : AWFUL

8-down – Sushi: meant to be prepared with relish : ENTHUSIASM

12-down – End cut off cob stuffed with Parmesan cheese : MASCARPONE

15-down – Notice soldiers pinching one’s bottom : POSTERIOR

16-down – Church head one books into rave for a game : CRIBBAGE

19-down – Wonder if a motorhome’s possessed by a Spice girl? : MARVEL

21-down – US state not allowed to mock : FLOUT

22-down – Nut-covered Latin dish : FLAN

1-across – Sure indications,two of which are apparent in this puzzle : POSITIVESIGNS

10-across – Against being briefly affirmative in written opinion : OPPOSED

11-across – <i>Plus ça change</i><span> with European medicine</span> : CAPSULE

12-across – Shine with half-century in fluctuating game : GLEAM

13-across – Positive about asset’s small excesses : SURPLUSES

14-across – Soften line,something that artist can work on : EASEL

16-across – Setter’s beginning – isn’t fancy,or as good as Paul : SAINTLIKE

18-across – Revolutionary device for playing truant out of order – nearly ran : TURNTABLE

19-across – Go over something obvious left : CROSS

20-across – Indication to remove awful clue,not easy to see : MINUSCULE

23-across – Calm tips from positive pro : PEACE

24-across – Final points,one of which is negative in its conclusion : TERMINI

25-across – Visitor is interrupting perturbed tutor : TOURIST

26-across – Shooting with negative,then positive,results : PHOTOGRAPHING

2-down – Work on academic cancelling of tyrant : OPPRESSOR

3-down – By way of review,minus changes : INSUM

4-down – River trade subtracting tax at the end : INDUS

5-down – In kinky sex and vice you are audibly digressing : EXCURSIVE

6-down – Mostly rude,mostly unfriendly,totally foolish : IMPOLITIC

7-down – Parts of speech using negative pieces from Sun : NOUNS

8-down – More or less inaccurate guess upset this team in red : ROUGHESTIMATE

9-down – Remarks that may require revisions,up or down : REASSESSMENTS

15-down – Some overnight for this and others turning up quickly go : LATESHIFT

16-down – Adding fix minus bugs : SUBSUMING

17-down – One sequence of notes being performed in which person’s unaccompanied : ISOLATION

21-down – Somewhat unorthodox position of negative pole : NORTH

22-down – Positive contribution,taken out of context randomly : EXTRA

23-down – Luxurious and hot : PLUSH

1-across – Angel acts serene moving around following behind bachelor : BENEFACTRESS

8-across – Old organ trapping one actor : OLIVIER

9-across – Adult adores snorting cocaine in corners : ALCOVES

11-across – Regularly speak up about delayed plane : PLATEAU

12-across – Top priest embraced by transgressor? : SPINNER

13-across – In New York find rum bird : NODDY

14-across – Assemble silver work unit around entrance : AGGREGATE

16-across – European people starting to tire following a club in decline : ABATEMENT

19-across – Oracle dropping ecstasy gyrating to song : CAROL

21-across – Effects of decrees by one politician : IMPACTS

23-across – Froideur as I attempt to cover very large land mass : EURASIA

24-across – Bring up work about time by river : NURTURE

25-across – Perfect Lily crushed and caught by papers : IDYLLIC

26-across – Telling niece about tip-off : INTELLIGENCE

1-down – Group keeping kit for highwayman : BRIGAND

2-down – Disgustingly vain yet showing artlessness : NAIVETY

3-down – Create document university passed : FORMULATE

4-down – Men from church spring up : CHAPS

5-down – Right to turn down taking head rest : RECLINE

6-down – South American vehicle in front of North American ecosystem : SAVANNA

7-down – Novel poem contains correction : COMPENSATION

10-down – Watch Parisian on screen with weapon : SURVEILLANCE

15-down – Understanding assembly : GATHERING

17-down – Drug treated sprain around middle of thigh : ASPIRIN

18-down – Old sign across front of door to bar : EXCLUDE

19-down – Fuss over dead and rotting flesh we hear : CARRYON

20-down – Determination to relax : RESOLVE

22-down – Quietly entering market in interval : SPELL