8-across – Packed Oslo twice up for development : POPULOUS

9-across – Get into a habit that is holding back career : INURE

10-across – No longer the thing,to retire? : EXIT

11-across – Means to go east of state road : EXPRESSWAY

12-across – Pretentious sitcom character nevertheless catches cold in this country : BUCKET

14-across – My name is – goodness – dirt! : IMPURITY

16-across – Date agreed? Possibly lower : DEGRADE

18-across – Musician reversing taxi,grabbed by the male police officer : CPEBACH

21-across – Key used in song of praise – a bugbear : ANATHEMA

23-across – Paper is,however,full of decay : PERISH

24-across – Now into April and start of Spring presidential reviews of troops? : MARCHPASTS

26-across – Give up blow? : KICK

27-across – Loud footwear is tacky : CLOGS

28-across – Paint bird and cat soaking up sun : EMULSION

1-down – Every reason you should order sex on cue! : NOEXCUSE

2-down – Clean break when book replaced by daughter : DUST

3-down – Follow the sun and be destroyed? : GOWEST

4-down – One month before electronic components will be contamination-free : ASEPTIC

5-down – Smart but somewhat inhibited : BITE

6-down – Paying member,inferior to writer,Regina : SUBSCRIBER

7-down – Caught ascending with loss of pressure to achieve take-off : DEPART

13-down – Handy means of felling oak with the car’s explosive power : KARATECHOP

15-down – Report the old man : POP

17-down – Something spotted when one had got up,eyes opening : DIE

19-down – Commercial produce around tree cut : CASHCROP

20-down – Stand is protecting England’s earliest plants : DAISIES

22-down – Parvenu ancestral housing shade : NUANCE

23-down – Hike – or gym exercise? : PUSHUP

25-down – Fool around with second hand : PASS

26-down – Klimt’s definitive work? Plonker! : KISS

8-across – Deduce gold found across island is substandard : INFERIOR

9-across – Market unpopular permit : OUTLET

10-across – Let’s rise up with unlimited energy : TIRELESS

11-across – Brigand put rodent in dish : PIRATE

12-across – Cellists forking out for small gifts : STOCKINGFILLERS

15-across – Jerk succeeded in plans to return : SPASM

16-across – Main setter’s disreputable : SEAMY

20-across – Ignored cyclist cycling around back of van alarmingly : DISCONCERTINGLY

21-across – God of love following a vote : APOLLO

23-across – Hotel with concept and means to provide refuge : HIDEAWAY

25-across – Sense one unit changed with time : INTUIT

26-across – Sorted out and replaced bottoms of shoes worn by Victor : RESOLVED

1-down – After eleven alien enters some concern : ANXIETY

2-down – Rearrange Colt pieces to be capable of retraction and protrusion : TELESCOPIC

3-down – Awful funeral song – not good : DIRE

4-down – Quiet about wise man making forecast : PRESAGE

5-down – Remark about pelvis regularly getting flatter : COMPLIMENT

6-down – Prison unrest I resolved partly : STIR

7-down – Saucy uniform heads of resources brought to upset : PERTURB

13-down – Tons unsaid about details : INSANDOUTS

14-down – Inadequate Los Angeles blokes on board : LAMENTABLE

17-down – I am trapped in unsuitable inverted drum : TIMPANI

18-down – Hear son running to Portuguese woman : SENHORA

19-down – Caught less productive maid perhaps : CLEANER

22-down – Oaf left unconscious : LOUT

24-down – Short dance record : DISC

7-across – Brief advice : COUNSEL

8-across – Figure in plane has spell with no end of bad pain : HEXAGON

9-across – It’s often attached to a post or similar : LIKE

10-across – In this state one is making a new life : MATERNITY

12-across – Obvious feature of Middle America : PLAIN

13-across – Tried to restore computer,and gave it another kick? : REBOOTED

15-across – Very angry playwright’s heard : WILD

16-across – Destroy some trees,a real setback : ERASE

17-across – Face relaxed? : DIAL

18-across – Open water is hateful: I may get left on the beach : SEASHELL

20-across – In Colorado,had encounter with visitor from space : COMET

21-across – Only Plan A flies for unquenchable optimist : POLLYANNA

22-across – John,who composed four notes : CAGE

24-across – Torment with base wickedness : BEDEVIL

25-across – Comprehensive classes,back to school : GENERAL

1-down – Go off one Caribbean snack : ROTI

2-down – One short order available when requested : ONDEMAND

3-down – I’m so obsequious,men say nastily : YESMAN

4-down – To live on farmland can be endured : BEARABLE

5-down – A better place : CASINO

6-down – Modest,keeping son comfortable : COSY

11-down – Waterproof sheet colleague and I dropped into lake : TARPAULIN

12-down – Group of cats,one among several that are deadly : PRIDE

14-down – Insist upon intercourse,but soprano refused : EXACT

16-down – The whole lot in English,with remarkable brevity : EVERYBIT

17-down – Legendary swordsman does calm exercises : DAMOCLES

19-down – One applying ointment from tray : SALVER

20-down – Haul into court to obtain small dwelling : CHALET

21-down – Expose the flesh of Prime Minister : PEEL

23-down – Keep chewing and not speaking : GNAW

1-across – Reform or Richard Tice’s getting a seat : DIRECTORSCHAIR

9-across – Fit soldiers with uniform after altering size : SEIZURE

10-across – Film-maker to capture clip about American : COPPOLA

11-across – Clear trees for building : RESET

12-across – Remarkable bird popping back to nest : STARTLING

13-across – They seduce with long hair: sweet things ditching fellow : MANEATERS

14-across – Perhaps ticks answer close to right one : ACARI

15-across – Appointed journalist to follow war : NAMED

17-across – Best to drink with me during break : SUPREMEST

20-across – Handy feature to capture image : THUMBNAIL

22-across – Stroke from American on Number 1 court : ICTUS

23-across – Weak résumé : RUNDOWN

24-across – Conservative success curtailed against a red : CHIANTI

25-across – Time to relax in living room : BREATHINGSPACE

1-down – Detectives mostly bent,politician is loaded : DISCRIMINATORY

2-down – Checks on son moving into stylish home : REINSIN

3-down – Jack perhaps to go out with caution during match? : COURTCARD

4-down – Look after extra on picture : OVERSEE

5-down – Primarily,sugar-free Cola is drunk in parties : SOCIALS

6-down – Get out of house – mine? : HOPIT

7-down – Battle of WWII: a major shot having lost war : IWOJIMA

8-down – Resetting a line for anagram: it includes colon : LARGEINTESTINE

14-down – Provision of services is welcoming couple after conclusion of prayers : AMENITIES

16-down – One at funeral more upset around holder of ashes : MOURNER

17-down – Loyal group of teachers standing to receive top grade in school : STAUNCH

18-down – Bird with inside of bill turned up to crack nut : PELICAN

19-down – State of Señorita going out having dumped Romeo : ESTONIA

21-down – British scrap with local animals in this? : BIOTA

8-across – Second fantastically safe and natural feature of California : SANANDREASFAULT

9-across – Scrape some cedar bark back : ABRADE

10-across – I speak badly of Robinson Crusoe,for example : ISLANDER

11-across – Mum’s heading inside to make a meal : CREAMTEA

12-across – Popular surfing location in those days ultimately became old-hat : THENET

13-across – Untidy spot packed with rubbish : SCRAPPY

16-across – Extraordinarily storied journos : EDITORS

19-across – Support crews somewhere in the West Midlands : STAFFS

21-across – Intricate pattern covering tip of sunbittern’s wing : TRANSEPT

24-across – Dude taking ecstasy with cheap beer? : HOMEBREW

25-across – Private place to find patients? : INWARD

26-across – Avoided dealing with horribly crude TV magician : CIRCUMNAVIGATED

1-down – Unsophisticated port found in pub and clubs : BARBARIC

2-down – Weapon stored in rack at an armoury : KATANA

3-down – Commercial opening some time in December : ADVENT

4-down – Southern British artist,completely,endlessly influential : SEMINAL

5-down – Remote institute scheduled to receive nothing : ISOLATED

6-down – Nice,redeveloped street around the outskirts of Ashington is Northumberland’s best : CANNIEST

7-down – Rip off winter clothing : FLEECE

14-down – Fancy loafers featuring stitching in the middle or outside : ALFRESCO

15-down – Cut of meat,done right,starts to absorb marinade immediately : PASTRAMI

17-down – Witty banter about standard hold-up for a driver? : REPARTEE

18-down – Small cloth soaked in water put over cooking pot : STEWPAN

20-down – Heard ‘please,eat!’ in Lancashire – and ate! : TOOKIN

22-down – In reality,Italian wine’s full of iodine : ASITIS

23-down – Very wide bowler? Yeah,and … ?! : SOWHAT