1-across – Country soldiers in head-to-foot attire : CHADOR

4-across – Conservative members not seeking re-election? Divisive types : CLEAVERS

9-across – The source of news coming previously? : PATHE

10-across – Fellow joining farm workers – colourful? : PIGMENTED

11-across – Drunk scowled at – sign of panic maybe : COLDSWEAT

12-across – Hospital cut back? It makes you laugh! : MIRTH

13-across – Troublemaker Tom, sinner extraordinaire in detention : IMPRISONMENT

17-across – New attestors, one providing key to understanding symbolic language : ROSETTASTONE

20-across – Medication is the last word with energy minimal? The reverse : ENEMA

21-across – Attack some person’s laughter : ONSLAUGHT

23-across – Left one school with classical architectural feature : PORTICOED

24-across – Illness with nothing right? Get a mineral : FLUOR

25-across – Understand look said to be needed for floral decorations : NOSEGAYS

26-across – Amphibian getting on with bit of force : NEWTON

1-down – Monk offers top university feature : CAPUCHIN

2-down – Worker to abscond, the beast : ANTELOPE

3-down – Archdeacon invested in huge kitchen appliances : OVENS

5-down – I’m idealist and get changes brought within the law : LEGITIMATISED

6-down – See me in taverns getting drunk, making firm assertions : AVERMENTS

7-down – No longer wrong to provide force : EXTORT

8-down – Holy man, unhappy, starts to discard his uniform : SADDHU

10-down – Splashing money, go on and help to create a school of philosophy : PHENOMENOLOGY

14-down – Setting apart one so good, holding tongue no longer? : ISOLATING

15-down – What tall man wears for clubs, say? : LONGSUIT

16-down – Fifth old book order library finally overlooked? Something small being charged : DEUTERON

18-down – Tough female interrupted by English politician : HEMPEN

19-down – Old socialite has upset gentleman? Rubbish! : DEBRIS

22-down – A story about female and male in film : ALFIE

8-across – Religious organisations need to tour biblical hill : MISSIONS

9-across – About 100 left over individual giving latitude : TROPIC

10-across – Subatomic particle finally seen after smoke disperses : KMESON

12-across – Effort of flowing into two rivers to begin with : EXERTION

13-across – Soldier’s command – drop war game : GIN

14-across – Groups on boats discussed voyage : CRUISE

16-across – Drink-k? : COCKTAIL

17-across – Cook has break over trays by fire : ASHPANS

20-across – Tin storing yen, not European funny money or similar word : SYNONYM

23-across – In America, one making piece for Joe? : GUNSMITH

24-across – Unrestrained social worker now dancing outside : WANTON

26-across – Country captured by Marcus Aurelius : USA

27-across – Old black cat eating 6 in limbo : OBLIVION

28-across – Article on wine : REPORT

31-across – Golfer losing 1-0 takes sides in areas of interest : WORLDS

32-across – To make Stein president sounds thrilling : ELECTRIC

1-down – Stable company : FIRM

2-down – Enquires of jobs wanting leader : ASKS

3-down – Yearn to screen university debut of Eric Idle : LOUNGE

4-down – German city chose to be empty by nature : ESSENCE

5-down – Flexible cat described by pen : STRETCHY

6-down – Shrub from Indian state, extremely stout, in wild north : GOATSTHORN

7-down – I’m upset by Tory in Barking getting smaller number : MINORITY

11-down – Nice water regularly provided by Belarus : EAU

14-down – It’s offered during lunch and tea : CHA

15-down – Hopeless politician taken in by Number 10’s nasty lies about Belgium : IMPOSSIBLE

18-down – UK stood apart buying British horse’s record of descent : STUDBOOK

19-down – Most vocal that no-one has short nap in the afternoon : NOISIEST

21-down – Vassal turning handle three quarters : MAN

22-down – Starting to tremble hard beneath very loud bellow : THUNDER

24-down – Guardian in military bunker? : WARDEN

25-down – Lifting anything in Yorkshire for a couple : TWO

29-down – Former Prime Ministers, allegedly the worst? : PITS

30-down – What might flow through middle of downpipes? : RAIN

1-across – Coo! Perhaps it is time to put on ring : BIRDCALL

5-across – Minority backing a little Conservative chap following probes : THEFEW

9-across – Female we bet I will spoil with love : WIFETOBE

10-across – Substance secreted by oleasters, side by side : STEROL

11-across – Cycle around Herts town in the direction of Iron Age settlement : RINGFORT

12-across – Writing on edge of pot : HEMPEN

14-across – Start of briefing is not as in agenda: answer party with opening issue at table : BIGENDIANS

18-across – After heated clashes with many, agree fixture for big match : NAMETHEDAY

22-across – Say to a person : FORONE

23-across – Drunken evolutionary bar rant expressed heartfelt feelings : ILOVEYOU

24-across – Maybe excel with muscle, rippling amount! : OUTMAN

25-across – Such eliciting notice from potential addressees? : DESRESES

26-across – One’s first moved to travel on e.g. bus with three conductors? : TRIODE

27-across – Poor school rings out each time for a progress-checker : BRAKEPAD

1-down – Gathering with hostility in cave : BEWARE

2-down – Deliver clarification on penalty : REFINE

3-down – Isolate copper, in contact with fluorine repeatedly : CUTOFF

4-down – At Centre, valet is catching Wooster purloining last of garden rakes : LIBERTINES

6-down – Impetuous folk stop TV show’s interruptive material : HOTHEADS

7-down – American university academic merging upcoming pre-Congress activities : FOREPLAY

8-down – Good health points effecting switch in what paper shops do : WELLNESS

13-down – Was sorry about adopting writing system with no ‘B’ mechanism : DERAILLEUR

15-down – Reason a trip to the tobacconist is on and off? : SNUFFOUT

16-down – Lovers – bonkers – at it again indoors : AMORETTI

17-down – Ways to engage with a model : STANDARD

19-down – Admitting Arts Academy deserted very fine composer : DVORAK

20-down – Plant U-turning keeps of course wasting energy : HYSSOP

21-down – Planted smackers on breasts, so reported : BUSSED