5-across – British award for democratic process : BALLOT

6-across – Fellow clothed in colour put back in custody : REMAND

9-across – Nameless tribe to employ a few words : CLAUSE

10-across – Traveller and female relation hiding in shed : EMIGRANT

11-across – Language,one set right to left : TUPI

12-across – Wandering as a pilgrim,using someone else’s words : PLAGIARISM

13-across – Branch of Christianity sending out manic signal when in trouble : ANGLICANISM

18-across – Construed as ‘ancient’,a biblical people : CANAANITES

21-across – First item under the hammer making money in Africa : LOTI

22-across – City somehow in good taste,not OTT : SANDIEGO

23-across – Romantic present : TENDER

24-across – I angered a lot,being revolutionary : DANIEL

25-across – See 24 : ORTEGA

1-down – A fancy thing leader demolished in passing reference : ALLUSION

2-down – Country girl in dance drinking water : BOPEEP

3-down – Cleric is one getting on – change needed : REVISION

4-down – More reasonable fliers heading up,suppressing anger : FAIRER

5-down – Advice to travellers in car? Say nothing! : BELTUP

7-down – Period lacking a horrible inadequate ruler : DYNAST

8-down – Female in business arrangement with what’s charged amounting to a financial crime : DEFALCATION

14-down – European article in medical journal shows marine animal : LANCELET

15-down – Malicious gossip when nothing’s found in that special box : SOLANDER

16-down – Tailless bird had,in short,to be a hoax : CANARD

17-down – Goddess at one time protected by road team : ATHENA

19-down – Piece of land not good over time – too hot,maybe : ARDENT

20-down – Enlightenment men found in fiery ritual once : SATORI

9-across – Sign of top hat scratching head : CAPRICORN

10-across – Job swap : TRADE

11-across – Happening as drums extremely deficient before Ringo’s discovered : ONGOING

12-across – Skin on show in retreat : HIDEOUT

13-across – Nomad found in area between two large US cities : NYALA

14-across – Rivers maybe on flood alert – Red Cross initially delivering heroic sort : JOANOFARC

16-across – Nice flat here has strange way to tell temperature : FAHRENHEITSCALE

19-across – Recall cars park outside,close to garage : REMINISCE

21-across – Secretary for a broadsheet? : PAPER

22-across – Back muscle stiff right away – using fingers : DIGITAL

23-across – Comic actor working in animation : CARTOON

24-across – In just seconds,conscientious objector declines class with daggers : OBELI

25-across – Explain worry about work European Union abandoned : ELABORATE

1-down – Represent Foreign Office visiting a cold region briefly : ACCOUNTFOR

2-down – New pie chart’s inscription : EPIGRAPH

3-down – Glass maker is rejected by student arts venue : SILICA

4-down – Pirate’s mistress,after removing old underwear,said ‘aye’ to get things going : LONG

5-down – Oddly the Arctic Circle in particular provides fuel : ANTHRACITE

6-down – Film companies – including Universal – eager to learn : STUDIOUS

7-down – Turnover seen when Konsa goes up against Mo Salah : SAMOSA

8-down – Side swapping ends makes game? : MEAT

14-down – See 4 : JOHNSILVER

15-down – School governors organised clubs in church – with small sanctions : CLEARANCES

17-down – Perhaps Albert Finney’s content with set I redesigned : EINSTEIN

18-down – Okay looking up somewhere to go or following Google Maps,say : APPROVAL

20-down – Metal drawer : MAGNET

21-down – Forgive you what? : PARDON

22-down – Nameless benefactor gets access : DOOR

23-down – See 5 : COAL

1-across – Boatman’s head abroad to retire : BOWOUT

4-across – Where to write in crossword grid after answer is set down : ALIGHTS

9-across – The herd passes its days by the sound of the clock : LIVESTOCK

10-across – Raised supports for lids of pans on display in armoire : PODIA

11-across – Not breathing,leap,neatly catching this : APNEA

12-across – Foolish to keep every other one of my scraps,no matter what : INANYCASE

13-across – Set of modifications to kitchen : THICKEN

15-across – Contrarily,say ‘a potty break’ : DAMAGE

17-across – Reports of can opener,extra small : COVERS

19-across – Alongside breakfast bar: cocktail function to be rescheduled : ABREAST

22-across – American Right are rebuked,including number one web users : ARACHNIDA

24-across – One endless tease with section misplaced. Boatman can be thus : ATSEA

26-across – Primate : CHIMP

27-across – Canvasses of Islay and Jura,for example,and Forth : SOUNDSOUT

28-across – Tap made of metal put back in rear-facing part of house : MONITOR

29-across – Mobilise,or Reform gain,re-enabled to move forward : INGEAR

1-down – Type of sink of which fables might be spun on completion of refit : BELFAST

2-down – Put together with kitchen appliance : WOVEN

3-down – Stripped out one slum dwelling,rented unfinished for free : UNSHACKLE

4-down – Decoration around worksurfaces: it’s fiddly! : AWKWARD

5-down – Suggest island unit of length to satisfy catering needs : IMPLY

6-down – Camouflage guide,say as a shrub : HYDRANGEA

7-down – Balance plates … : SCALES

8-down – … perhaps spinning on supports a short time before it tips up : MOTION

14-down – Loneliness is over: passionate about love : ISOLATION

16-down – Something of a charmer,Ma identified as a nymph : MERMAIDEN

18-down – Cross is vandalised and cut : SCISSOR

19-down – Counter with one incomplete support half-used : ABACUS

20-down – Kitchen appliance rotates while cooking : TOASTER

21-down – Before music begins,stop man from talking. See you listened to soft rock : TALCUM

23-down – Composer discovered tempo initially to be off : HOPIT

25-down – Cooker broke : STOVE

7-across – Couples go around it,vegetation covering the lot : BALLROOM

9-across – Business’s crushing bloody beliefs! : CREDOS

10-across – Colleague : ALLY

11-across – Variant of ‘Mao flu’ carried by US composer in disguise : CAMOUFLAGE

12-across – How to end a verbal communication problem : HANGUP

14-across – Enterprise,say,of burglars finally breaking into celebrity joint : STARSHIP

15-across – Pan’s range of talents : SKILLET

17-across – Ecstasy ring encouraged to carry injector : SYRINGE

20-across – Organisation with criminal department initially open to access : UNFENCED

22-across – Insect might escape : MAYFLY

23-across – Player isn’t playing with broom? End of concert! : TROMBONIST

24-across – Musical refrain led by Henry : HAIR

25-across – Short period before southern agency turns over decorative piece : MOSAIC

26-across – One of the Krays,possibly Reg,retired full of dread : GANGSTER

1-down – Distinctive feature of hot finale from Diana Krall improvised around Miles : HALLMARK

2-down – Compere’s toy army : PLAY

3-down – Criminal group takes cover – that’s old hat! : MOBCAP

4-down – True quality of a cold copper blue : ACCURACY

5-down – Schoolkids in worship – remove from security list? : DECLASSIFY

6-down – Trim foreign girl,not right for wild boy : MOWGLI

8-down – Bush maligned Maoism : MIMOSA

13-down – Lemonade drunk in gallon containers,the moderate way! : GOLDENMEAN

16-down – <span>The lead on Eddie Cochran’s arrangement for </span><i>Trespass</i> : ENCROACH

18-down – Traveller wants to carry back organ : GULLIVER

19-down – Creating a border,don’t start being non-committal : EDGING

21-down – Mean to get slimmer : NARROW

22-down – Greek character leading pocket uprising : MUTINY

24-down – See 2 : HOST

1-across – Society axed expert : SKILLED

5-across – Preserve carton to stuff full : JAMPACK

10-across – Man who will change sex if promoted : PAWN

11-across – In hole I repot flourishing plant : HELIOTROPE

12-across – To reporters,team expressed disappointment : SIGHED

13-across – Sort of saw letter being passed round : CIRCULAR

14-across – Bubbly Pam toying with change : CHAMPAGNE

16-across – Special aquarium betrayed lack of cleaning? : STANK

17-across – With violence eject unknown dog : SPITZ

19-across – Annoy detectives,if you will : DISPLEASE

23-across – Immature feelings for one of the herd? : CALFLOVE

24-across – Lifts very warm? Result! : UPSHOT

26-across – Still deadpan,without leader : MOTIONLESS

27-across – Enticement is a bit off : BAIT

28-across – The opposite – of ‘prosaic’? : INVERSE

29-across – Don’t travel far enough to suffer? : UNDERGO

2-down – Mischievous,like Jack? : KNAVISH

3-down – Set off without a meal : LUNCH

4-down – This animal can hide in disguise : ECHIDNA

6-down – Notice about pig on the bus : ABOARD

7-down – In turn quickly rue tiptoe manoeuvre : PIROUETTE

8-down – One who has more responsibility in the navy than in the army : CAPTAIN

9-down – Rash not well treated : ILLCONSIDERED

15-down – Forecasters got together away from freezing conditions : METOFFICE

18-down – Army group also opening map : PLATOON

20-down – Connects up advertisement wrong : PLUGSIN

21-down – Small job for gardener,and one for farrier : SHOEING

22-down – Regularly moving parts of railway line : POINTS

25-down – Little furry animal wild in Basle : SABLE