8-across – Good, if one is a saint : BONIFACE

9-across – Nanny doubly immersed in cookbook, did you say? : AUPAIR

10-across – Scorer a little flabbergasted : BERG

11-across – Complain about superior line taken by Conservative in competitive association : BRIDGECLUB

12-across – Bird caught by end of bill : LINNET

14-across – Bread done, more dough for the better? : ROLLOVER

15-across – Killer instinct’s back in Asian commander : SHOTGUN

17-across – Cover very exposed lesion for starters in open wound : ENVELOP

20-across – Last of the jam with remarkably outstanding coffee : ESPRESSO

22-across – Bird with chicken’s head, chicken : CRAVEN

23-across – At sea, triple-pace vessel : TEACLIPPER

24-across – Success with organ encapsulated by member for Labour? : LEFT

25-across – Ornament journalist found in stream : BEDECK

26-across – Judges nailing down contracts : TREATIES

1-down – In disgust, leave town to thieves out to steal money : VOTEWITH

2-down – See 24 across : WING

3-down – Good reach for opening move : GAMBIT

4-down – Depravity in plain mischief : DEVILRY

5-down – Flag bearing African, not an anteater : PANGOLIN

6-down – Aesop caper rewritten as sci-fi story : SPACEOPERA

7-down – Paul’s salamander said to be microscopic : MINUTE

13-down – Bird, singularly doubly cuckoo? : NUTCRACKER

16-down – Flying bats move : UPSTICKS

18-down – See 1 : ONESFEET

19-down – Appear to claim prize money — sweet! : COMPOTE

21-down – Reportedly, a route north for the country : SWEDEN

22-down – Tilt dangerously always, when placed upside down in container : CAREEN

24-down – Behind roofing slab, roof missing : LATE

9-across – Writing in sounds — The Simpsons frame lost in translation : PHONETISM

10-across – See 2 : BOARD

11-across – School with a sound in 9? : SCHWA

12-across – They blow up both sides — died from grenades exploding : ENLARGERS

13-across – Box has repeat of old comic’s work? : CARTOON

14-across – Introduction to Krusty — where 21 and 22 across are found turning over channels? : NETWORK

17-across – Small job outside Springfield? : DUSTY

19-across – Recall comic rabbit : YAK

20-across – Need animated film to finish : USEUP

21-across – We pick off clips to cover TV series : SNIPERS

22-across – Homer Simpson’s endorsing characters? He wanted to phone home with this? : HANDSET

24-across – Thatcher with Home Secretary’s number : MAGGIEMAY

26-across – Question published in book : QURAN

28-across – Lisa Simpson’s right about slow person : SNAIL

29-across – Custom to record The Simpsons, for example : TRADEMARK

1-down – Topless American dad on American creation : OPUS

2-down – Do Bart and Homer play a bit on computer? : MOTHER

3-down – Drunk male — unknown prisoner returned to the empty cell : MELANOCYTE

4-down – Homer’s time to gorge : PIGEON

5-down – Poles protect spy — ask one to leave Russian city : SMOLENSK

6-down – Lift Simpson boy’s bottom first : TBAR

7-down – Chops tablet to get fix : CAKEHOLE

8-down – Pop in America lifted flaps : ADOS

13-down – Puts in Morse lines during Lewis? : CODES

15-down – Winding round quite tightly, primarily restricting vessel with this? : TOURNIQUET

16-down – Ask Apu? Two bottles smashed : KAPUT

18-down – TV animation artist close to pen : STINGRAY

19-down – Yankee, small child following ring on banks of skate park : YOSEMITE

22-down – A man wise in conversation around daughter on American prime time? : HEYDAY

23-down – Marge, maybe, before wearing down : SPREAD

24-down – Mum quiet in TV series : MASH

25-down – Man perhaps is on shortly : ISLE

27-down – Armani keen to show designer label : NIKE

9-across – In binary numbers, go and shape new tubes : OESOPHAGI

10-across – Sailing all over the place : ATSEA

11-across – Always 111? : EVERTON

12-across – Sauce in vessel, finished : KETCHUP

13-across – Smelt so suspicious? : FISHY

14-across – Measure of insulation wrapping effectively in bathroom robe material : TOWELLING

16-across – 23 — 24 or 25, perhaps? : CARDINALNUMBERS

19-across – Music genre really a breakthrough : DISCOVERY

21-across – With zero following, tended to dismiss a belief : CREDO

22-across – Header missed in game after trial for Roman defence : TESTUDO

23-across – Untidy bed in castle, work of the former chairman? : REDBOOK

24-across – Russian food left discarded? Italy going after it : BLINI

25-across – Wife into estate, or funny small car perhaps? : TWOSEATER

1-down – Bag containing pig, hurried to secure first of farrow, giving nothing away : POKERFACED

2-down – Judge beauty coming up to claim second after fool : ASSESSOR

3-down – Inconsistent ceiling in shrine, cracked : SPOTTY

4-down – Darn Madam Nefertiti’s stocking : DAMN

5-down – Black bat carried by tiny wings, a triangular antenna on his head : TINKYWINKY

6-down – Rare metal in brown and white powder, not carbon : TANTALUM

7-down – Connecting areas, this diverse motorway : ISTHMI

8-down – Some jazz siren? : VAMP

14-down – Avenue for traffic in diverted road, utter catastrophe, ultimately : TRADEROUTE

15-down – Kitchen equipment creaks, so go for a refit : GASCOOKERS

17-down – Native American goddess touring old capital, then leaving it : IROQUOIS

18-down – Solvers overly protected by the barking canine : EYETOOTH

20-down – Finch is in hide : SISKIN

21-down – Club member, French nobleman ascendant : CUDGEL

22-down – Name on jug for sale, less posh : TOBY

23-down – Hiding in bunk, I scream : RIOT

8-across – Fragments tire 5 out : DETRITUS

9-across – Hallucinatory endeavour to keep one very quiet : TRIPPY

10-across – A Roman character embracing Greek one in street : AVENUE

11-across – Dependable left-wing sort of university? : REDBRICK

12-across – Take notice of shop’s stocktaking : PSST

13-across – Pig gobbling wood and brass, maybe, from adjustable aperture : SASHWINDOW

15-across – Photographer of fish : SNAPPER

16-across – Artist’s little image: Fool With Nothing On : PICASSO

18-across – Returns south in reversion to type : THROWSBACK

19-across – Send message that’s offensive about 10 : TEXT

20-across – One pound return on ship with energy-free fuel — that’s heavenly! : BLISSFUL

22-across – Kindness to a 5 in 4 : FAVOUR

23-across – Jar containing new unpleasant smell that’s yet to come : UNBORN

24-across – Garlanded United, nursing broken heart : WREATHED

1-down – Folios under threat? : LEAVESONTHELINE

2-down – Not starting 20 spoof? : WRONGTYPEOFSNOW

3-down – Skinhead, as one leaves the hairdresser’s, lacking emphasis : STRESSLESS

4-down – Garments adopted by dry emperor’s champ­ion : TSARIST

5-down – Virile character’s incomplete investigation : STUD

6-down – Rang Tim? : MIGRANTACTIVITY

7-down – One having nooky with copper in river, all wearing glasses : SPECIOUSEXCUSES

14-down – Supposing setter enters beaten and boozy? : WHISKIFIED

17-down – Chicks holding down place of execution : GALLOWS

21-down – Typeface in which to acquire a name? : FONT

7-across – Nowhere is unimportant : NEITHER

8-across – Particle of iron needing minor change : FERMION

9-across – Colour associated with Aphrodite : CYAN

10-across – In modest clothing, greetings bursting out : DEHISCENT

12-across – In the dark, guide just terribly defective : USTTE

13-across – Tight-fisted party — in Britain, the left : NEARSIDE

15-across – Like some friends to be given food, including slice of apple : FEAD

16-across – See 7 : THERE

17-across – One swimming alone? : SOLE

18-across – What the Observer does: keep following the Guardian : WATCHDOG

20-across – A day good to be in : AMONG

21-across – Caught with drink, one’s beaten : SNAREDRUM

22-across – Don’t reveal much at first — try to find out? : MASK

24-across – See 7 : HERENOR

25-across – One now not seen in pub, having gone missing, drunk? : ASHTRAY

1-down – A number of girls live very superficially : BEVY

2-down – Homosexual couple adopt son, just landed here? : STANSTED

3-down – Sound of gong and fiddle : MEDDLE

4-down – Sunday get away, taking in a picture : SEASCAPE

5-down – Fragments making appearance on board vessel : SMIENS

6-down – Heavy drinker gets in another round — hence black mark? : SOOT

11-down – No agriculturalist, old tribesman diverts great river : HUNTERGAR

12-down – United male assembly : ULEMA

14-down – Leaders of domestic football get behind Jeremy’s anthem : DFLAG

16-down – Extremely desirable fox that is in favour : TODIEFOR

17-down – Most made out knight’s winning move : SMODMATE

19-down – Cable to our boss patiently worked on : COAXED

20-down – In St John’s Island, head right to the end for air : ATMOSP

21-down – Relative defends European views, not orthodox : SIES

23-down – Pour water on small tree : SOAK