4-across – Accept view in court : TAKEUP

6-across – Spare server output that’s not used for protection of digital assets? : GAUNTLET

9-across – Correct wordplay is what’s essential to authors : PUNISH

10-across – Increase dependency on drugs after taking cocaine : ADDITION

11-across – This may obscure view of comic cycling around Berlin drunk : ROLLERBLIND

15-across – Part of service broadcast can’t work out clips : SANCTUS

17-across – New interpretation of Mother Earth Hypothesis : THEOREM

18-across – Calculated information about state delaying start of attack : INTENTIONAL

22-across – What provides opportunity for better way to collect rent? : ROULETTE

23-across – Servant left in fearful state by closure of company : FLUNKY

24-across – Express doubts about quotes in novel : QUESTION

25-across – Explanation for each set of points raised originally : ANSWER

1-down – Doctor lets us struggle : TUSSLE

2-down – Ruthless factory worker resentful having swapped starts of next rota : HARDBITTEN

3-down – Lingered around ring : ENGIRDLE

4-down – People who have the authority to sanction British boards : TOPBRASS

5-down – Family lazing around initially avoided being roused : KINDLING

7-down – Secular socialists taking part in revolution : LAIC

8-down – Can opener used for extracting sharp object : TINE

12-down – Transport hub close to Paris isn’t about to be demolished : BUSSTATION

13-down – Unused husks end up yellow eventually : BRANDNEW

14-down – Who might use manoeuvre to stop army division retreating? : EMPLOYER

16-down – Unusual tactic ignoring final third hedges widespread betting system : TRIFECTA

19-down – European country just east of France is far from sea : INLAND

20-down – State is instrumental in connecting reservoir to aqueduct : IRAQ

21-down – Cross and upset baby may do this audibly : MULE

9-across – A country jailing 11,000 for life? : ANIMATION

10-across – ‘Relligious’ rock-and-roll star? : HOLLY

11-across – Extremists in Hades finally going brown : HAZEL

12-across – Shows European film scene being translated : EVIDENCES

13-across – Might they be worn by large judges and powerful people? : BIGWIGS

14-across – Success in Yorkshire, other than returned appliance : TWINTUB

17-across – Card game during bathroom break : OMBRE

19-across – Colour on diamonds : RED

20-across – That person’s next in line after, at last, regent : THEIR

21-across – Car replacement, it’s used for exploration in the main : MINISUB

22-across – Second husband holds end of flower like a plant : SHRUBBY

24-across – Henry quit, Don inhaled, smoking weed : DANDELION

26-across – Welcome Penny on board vessels : SHIPS

28-across – Drink with tea prepared right : WATER

29-across – Dancing teacher carries books on ballet move : ENTRECHAT

1-down – Barman starting to hail taxi travelling north : BACH

2-down – Topless US rock band hires one good ace guitarist at first: ‘Snake’ : ZIGZAG

3-down – Tense situations for onychophagists? : NAILBITERS

4-down – 18s day of victory hidden by trees : FIVERS

5-down – Demanded one’s nosh, not even on crash diets : INSISTED

6-down – You once put helium into empty tube : THEE

7-down – Noddy Holder’s dairy-free cuppa in evening wear? : BLACKTIE

8-down – Delivered votes to observers : EYES

13-down – Loud noise overwhelms head of road sweeper : BROOM

15-down – Deeply concerned? Share with journalist : INTERESTED

16-down – Fruit put in the ground, say : BERRY

18-down – Outlaw king’s Eton mess that’s used as bread : BANKNOTE

19-down – Talked with religious leader about advent regularly : RABBITED

22-down – Unruly teens picket a governing body : SENATE

23-down – Run into large hospital with tip of thumb glowing : BRIGHT

24-down – Blue feathers : DOWN

25-down – King, losing crown, left noble : EARL

27-down – Satisfy philosopher having his rights taken away : SATE

4-across – Accept view in court : TAKEUP

6-across – Spare server output that’s not used for protection of digital assets? : GAUNTLET

9-across – Correct wordplay is what’s essential to authors : PUNISH

10-across – Increase dependency on drugs after taking cocaine : ADDITION

11-across – This may obscure view of comic cycling around Berlin drunk : ROLLERBLIND

15-across – Part of service broadcast can’t work out clips : SANCTUS

17-across – New interpretation of Mother Earth Hypothesis : THEOREM

18-across – Calculated information about state delaying start of attack : INTENTIONAL

22-across – What provides opportunity for better way to collect rent? : ROULETTE

23-across – Servant left in fearful state by closure of company : FLUNKY

24-across – Express doubts about quotes in novel : QUESTION

25-across – Explanation for each set of points raised originally : ANSWER

1-down – Doctor lets us struggle : TUSSLE

2-down – Ruthless factory worker resentful having swapped starts of next rota : HARDBITTEN

3-down – Lingered around ring : ENGIRDLE

4-down – People who have the authority to sanction British boards : TOPBRASS

5-down – Family lazing around initially avoided being roused : KINDLING

7-down – Secular socialists taking part in revolution : LAIC

8-down – Can opener used for extracting sharp object : TINE

12-down – Transport hub close to Paris isn’t about to be demolished : BUSSTATION

13-down – Unused husks end up yellow eventually : BRANDNEW

14-down – Who might use manoeuvre to stop army division retreating? : EMPLOYER

16-down – Unusual tactic ignoring final third hedges widespread betting system : TRIFECTA

19-down – European country just east of France is far from sea : INLAND

20-down – State is instrumental in connecting reservoir to aqueduct : IRAQ

21-down – Cross and upset baby may do this audibly : MULE

7-across – Lesser array of heavenly bodies melting in our arms : URSAMINOR

8-across – Actor only 26 27, unable to light up though, just not winning : CLOSE

9-across – Trials coming in cycles for literary villain : BILLSIKES

10-across – See 8 : BUTNO

12-across – See 11 Down : NEESON

13-across – 26s hosts as it happens ideal, though superficial and emollient : OLIVEOIL

14-across – See 4 Down : ABURTON

17-across – Background music’s first beat in impromptu : AMBIENT

20-across – Jumpsuit for example, open flies, cooler with breeze finally coming in : ONEPIECE

22-across – Actor only 26 27, winning cry’s stifled as well : OTOOLE

24-across – See 8 : CIGAR

25-across – Film great only 26 27, problem geezer : HITCHCOCK

26-across – Americans’ nod to another, and on one’s dramatic failing, with no mad reactions, unfortunately – when only this? : OSCAR

27-across – See 26 : NOMINATED

1-down – Actor only 26 27 in easy win? : CRUISE

2-down – Roles seemingly manufactured, one’s less than gracious : BADLOSER

3-down – McKellen, say, as a star? : SIRIAN

4-down – Selected, an actor only 26 27 lost : GONEFOR

5-down – Bee, insect in shirt : BLOUSE

6-down – Capital I invested in a tabloid scam : ASUNCION

11-down – Actor only 26 27 returning only unopened letters? : LIAM

15-down – Most crooked, with one opening prize : BANDIEST

16-down – Sign captain up : OMEN

18-down – Unquestionable note in Nordic novel : IRONCLAD

19-down – Meat thus coated with toxic substance : VENISON

21-down – Delay before mountain climbing of a particular mode : PLAGAL

22-down – Purple light skimmed over personal documents : ORCHID

23-down – Beaten, when lapped : LICKED

1-across – Woodwork that Tennyson finally expected to do : CROSSBAR

6-across – Shrivel, bringing tail well forward to coil : WRITHE

9-across – In a daze, replaces nothing right? : STUPOR

10-across – Raised V-sign as greeting? : HIGHFIVE

11-across – Conference perhaps in shade to change leader of attack : SPEARHEAD

13-across – Slow down as short pause announced : BRAKE

15-across – Stupid old bat doesn’t have a purpose : OBTUSE

17-across – See a list with nothing in it : VACANT

18-across – Under the influence no leader is strong : RUGGED

19-across – Trunk internally dry, water may be here? : BOTTLE

21-across – Hot island … and another … and half of another : HAITI

22-across – I approve hotel ad : BEMYGUEST

25-across – Listens, as composer gets into harness : GIVESEAR

26-across – Oil company executive’s ending in cell : MOBILE

28-across – Nervous, especially if one has vertigo? : ONEDGE

29-across – One shuts up gun and reclines to relax : SILENCER

2-down – Become weak from endless repetition : ROT

3-down – Pigment, one chimps perhaps gather up : SEPIA

4-down – Having less on round the trunk in novel location : BARCHESTER

5-down – What to put in the back? Try again : REHEAR

6-down – Amusing people, other halves : WAGS

7-down – Six-footer playing well, he tells me : INFORMANT

8-down – Drop litter and show anxiety : HAVEKITTENS

12-down – Incorporate mistakes in starting off a new generation : PROCREATION

14-down – Fitting substitute comes across a little short : PAROXYSMAL

16-down – Drunken schoolmaster seen in the front row : TIGHTHEAD

20-down – Wreckage as bride’s partying : DEBRIS

23-down – Pope’s headgear, not the topper : URBAN

24-down – Just the sea at Calais, close to Dieppe : MERE

27-down – Believe guards aren’t honest : LIE