9-across – <i>Big Bang Theory</i><span>’s third on – spoil end of Netflix broadcast</span> : EXPLOSION

10-across – Refuse very noisily,with a look back around : OFFAL

11-across – Dance about,get spotted : ACNED

12-across – Wrong bits used to make part of a weapon : BOWSTRING

13-across – Induce drummer to entertain battalion? Quite the reverse! : BRINGON

14-across – 29s from first principles,as on the 17 : EXCEEDS

17-across – Every so often,try and win on entertainment programmes here : RADIO

18-across – Award given to Taco Bell : OBE

19-across – Big build-up to the pair of us beginning to reconcile : TOWER

21-across – Delivers uniform? By one report,but not according to me! : SAYSYOU

23-across – <span>Oddie in front of </span><i>Goodies</i><span> line-up of stars</span> : BILLING

24-across – Deploring mis-alignment? : LAMENTING

26-across – Strong-smelling lubricant behind pleasurable activity : FUNKY

28-across – Hints and tips for Colin ‘let’s upset everybody’ Sell : CLUES

29-across – Go over Tim’s head and screen performance lacking energy : TRANSCEND

1-down – Brilliant contribution from Graeme Garden : MEGA

2-down – If you’re not sure,keep it! : OPENMIND

3-down – Twice turn round and,losing heart,deny being pious : GOODYGOODY

4-down – One of Barry,Robin or Maurice performing – what an animal! : GIBBON

5-down – When at first you are getting frisky,position doesn’t matter : ANYWHERE

6-down – Pale,stop messing around : POST

7-down – Position away from the freezer? : OFFICE

8-down – Tire jack : FLAG

13-down – Floods burrows : BORES

15-down – Slippery customer felt up in quite sweet surroundings : CUTTLEFISH

16-down – Spray a bit of scent on 3 : SPRIG

18-down – Those restoring sight with chicken’s heart and rabbit’s foot could be witches : OCULISTS

20-down – White offspring of stallions and donkeys sounds like a horse : WHINNIES

22-down – Esteban’s really,really upset Japanese schoolgirl : YUMYUM

23-down – One that writes about grams,a tonne,or an ounce? : BIGCAT

24-down – Spooner’s to drop some pounds somewhere in Scotland : LOCH

25-down – See 24 Down : NESS

27-down – ‘Green sage stems in yogurt’ and other delicious appetisers : YODA

1-across – Drewsteignton oddly with Whitehall address : DOWNINGSTREET

10-across – I go nuts arranging day trips : OUTINGS

11-across – Falls again,turning back with artist : NIAGARA

12-across – The dark man on board,it’s said : NIGHT

13-across – Very minor piece composed,it’s all in C : SCINTILLA

14-across – Heavyweight in charge of drink : TONIC

16-across – Newly canonised,very quickly : INASECOND

18-across – For instance,worker in business producing plant : EGLANTINE

19-across – Ineffectual compromise that a confectioner provides : FUDGE

20-across – Old BBC magazine’s ears? : LISTENERS

23-across – Sweetheart in saloons worries : CARES

24-across – <span>Cover turned back in fancy lace – as seen in </span><i>Façade</i> : CEDILLA

25-across – Quiet before long consumes northern river and sea area : SHANNON

26-across – French landmark damaged car he imported : ARCDETRIOMPHE

2-down – Like a stop sign a lot can go out of shape : OCTAGONAL

3-down – Group not heartless,embracing individual : NONET

4-down – Pries into one’s new suit first : NOSES

5-down – Group supplying material to newspapers announces two girls : SYNDICATE

6-down – Criticise complaint at Sunday lunch : ROASTBEEF

7-down – Communication of some parliamentary upset : EMAIL

8-down – How hands move 24/7? : ROUNDTHECLOCK

9-down – South African boy making smoother mayonnaise : SALADDRESSING

15-down – Revoked,when intoxicated in prison room? Quite the opposite : CANCELLED

16-down – I can go on about English drifter : ITINERANT

17-down – Vieux? : OLDFRENCH

21-down – Meal for Passover some organised erroneously : SEDER

22-down – Delicacy from his US cooking : SUSHI

23-down – Goldfinches in a group delight : CHARM

1-across – Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation : TICKLISH

5-across – I say purchase pasta,for example,that goes in kitchen cupboard : BICARB

9-across – One called up to study one’s lines : CONSCRIPT

11-across – Criticise minor injury in time at the crease : KNOCK

12-across – Possibly made radioactive,so no admittance,unfortunately : CONTAMINATED

15-across – Food for Nancy that may stick in the throat : FROG

16-across – Emphasise how one’s counted as a teenager? : UNDERSCORE

18-across – Irish saint almost laid out,harbouring unfatherly thoughts? : PATRICIDAL

19-across – Avoid attention : SHUN

21-across – Lack of guile in what may be shown on the screen : TRANSPARENCY

24-across – Italian team doesn’t take the lead in some three months : INTER

25-across – From abroad obtain more unusual diet : EXTRADITE

26-across – Irritating person after wander about has to race away : GADFLY

27-across – <i>Pilgrim’s Progress</i><span> for example involves travel right through narrow lane</span> : ALLEGORY

1-down – Friar stabbed,not the first : TUCK

2-down – Calorie associated with single ice-cream : CONE

3-down – Reader in church sounds like Hannibal? : LECTOR

4-down – Emitting gasp,I staggered to see my double : SPITTINGIMAGE

6-down – Gathering family I head for black state : INKINESS

7-down – Mark address wrong too,perhaps : APOSTROPHE

8-down – Something on toast for hotheads? : BAKEDBEANS

10-down – Moody secretary taking age without using any paper : TEMPERAMENTAL

13-down – Disconcerting,to be away on the golf course? : OFFPUTTING

14-down – Signed up,but got less : CONTRACTED

17-down – Singer in large church lifting one hand,then the other : MINSTREL

20-down – Bad scare about parking: a scuff : SCRAPE

22-down – Cover over swimming pool : LIDO

23-down – Married over a year,so eyed as naive : DEWY

1-across – Way to produce order using 26 characters helping a bit as arranged : ALPHABETISING

10-across – Both parts of return trip in remote region : OUTBACK

11-across – Some flight flew there,returning before 13th : TWELFTH

12-across – Taking one of London’s papers : THEFT

13-across – Person taking part in historical pageants? Not to be confused with career : REENACTOR

14-across – French cookery expert,one of 13,possibly : CHILD

16-across – Line written in regret after another splits party – that can speed up division : SLIDERULE

18-across – For instance,din in arena is on the rise again : REGROWING

19-across – Frenchman who sculpted river-god : RODIN

20-across – I strolled haphazardly,like most aristocratic types : LORDLIEST

23-across – Cause for complaint from man in Latin America : VIRUS

24-across – Mediterranean islander backed as OK for nomination : NAMABLE

25-across – Punishment for player,one of 26 : REDCARD

26-across – Trump listened to group of 13 unsophisticated types : ROUGHDIAMONDS

2-down – Allowing to capture queen – writing on wall,perhaps : LETTERING

3-down – Middle one of 13 : HEART

4-down – One of three sea-going tradesmen who understates 13? : BAKER

5-down – Securing 13 at sixes and sevens? Good : TETHERING

6-down – Apparently was moved from hut over a rent : SHEDATEAR

7-down – Kind of diet contributing to reduction of a tummy : NOFAT

8-down – Shout out and sing in a part of US – one of 13 colonies : SOUTHCAROLINA

9-down – Like some Rugby matches I attend here,is mishandled : THIRTEENASIDE

15-down – Setter,for example,including double anagram for old weapon : DOODLEBUG

16-down – Farm worker has drink in piece of pottery : SWINEHERD

17-down – Less than 13 given to bidder? That’s dishonest : UNDERHAND

21-down – One of 26 on radio,partnered with one of 13 : ROMEO

22-down – Land part of Peter Rabbit : TERRA

23-down – Record second half for South American city : VIDEO

1-across – Concern with one about to leave – leaving partner in this? : SOLITUDE

5-across – Attempt to convey story about something refreshingly sweet? : GELATO

9-across – Odd man is sane,as shown in medical record : ANAMNESIS

11-across – Trick by five hundred members of religious sect : DRUSE

12-across – The latest answer involves this action in a river : BREAKINGNEWS

15-across – House with a sign of something wrong that fraudster perpetrates? : HOAX

16-across – Sad men could do this to atone : MAKEAMENDS

18-across – Social worker is embracing these opposite types : ANTITHESES

19-across – Alluring sparkle exuding energy : GLAM

21-across – Finer monster upsetting chaps living on the edge? : FRONTIERSMEN

24-across – Woman to change husband : EDITH

25-across – Nasty tear at front of furniture item that can be repaired? : TREATABLE

26-across – Review with snide remark is not British : DIGEST

27-across – Somehow sad,blue inside,being defamed : ASPERSED

1-down – Secure underwater line : SEAL

2-down – Article buried by burrower endlessly turning up in soil : LOAM

3-down – University gone round by number about to get secure position : TENURE

4-down – Running down daughter,is dad with anger unkind,wasting a bit of time? : DISPARAGEMENT

6-down – Finish with love,having spirited sort of marriage : ENDOGAMY

7-down – A cunning viewpoint that maths teacher may explain : ACUTEANGLE

8-down – Old writer’s English unchanged,words having magical effect : OPENSESAME

10-down – Lack of courage that is evident in wormy types : SPINELESSNESS

13-down – Agricultural land to flourish,absorbing warmth with minimum of frost : WHEATFIELD

14-down – Activity of artist,showing concern about Newcastle? : CARTOONING

17-down – Fibrous products obtained from sewers? : STITCHES

20-down – What river rises,producing foam? : SEETHE

22-down – Bird – one beginning to breed on island : IBIS

23-down – Trade very limited? Then pack up : VEND