1-across – Rock turning to fragments: new pictures : BIGSCREEN

6-across – In which good shots come out with boodle and girl, and poor with hearse : HORSE

9-across – See 6 : OPERA

10-across – Junction where Brits get back with Italian 6 9 : SPAGHETTI

11-across – Short run on 22 part 1 at home among sorrows : MINISERIES

12-across – 4 due to give tongue : URDU

14-across – Pinch a bit : SNAFFLE

15-across – Being larger than 1 across there’s room for cuts here : THEATRE

17-across – Quiet quirky queer student in sort of flashback : PREQUEL

19-across – See 10 : WESTERN

20-across – I agree with article about myself : AMEN

22-across – Fight for chocolate cake with picture maker : BOXBROWNIE

25-across – Physician, posh one with a degree, one for 1 across or 22 part 1 : DOCUDRAMA

26-across – What happens to English when blower is French : EVENT

27-across – Stop inside : COLON

28-across – Ill and without a bit of energy, superseded and with nowhere to go? : DRESSEDUP

1-down – Cleaner shrub : BROOM

2-down – G-give job back for fruit : GREENGAGE

3-down – Father Christmas notes the Guardian’s death warrant to privatisation : CLAUSEFOUR

4-down – Railway cut short road in place of 1 across : ELSTREE

5-down – Kin to engineers being eaten by kine : NEAREST

6-down – Defence? You must be joking! : HAHA

7-down – Moving part will make gold perish : ROTOR

8-down – Pleasure-seeking but heartless film no Scots get upset about : EPICUREAN

13-down – Writer’s one among teachers to put another type of 9 head to tail : PENSIONERS

14-down – Jewish variety of spice with tough inside : SEPHARDIC

16-down – Perturbed spirits needing time on top, including nude option : THEUNDEAD

18-down – Spotted one form of 9 between 5s with noughts : LEOPARD

19-down – Accessible file born in back seat before time : WEBPAGE

21-down – Score more than 40, say : EXCEL

23-down – Don’t permit 11 to play a part : ESTOP

24-down – God of peace? : ODIN

9-across – Noted great support returning by the dawning of 16 7, finally! : BEETHOVEN

10-across – Game of betrothal, marriage : HALMA

11-across – 9’s moderate pro missing both headers : EMPEROR

12-across – Free credit attached to weapons, non-starter : UNSTICK

13-across – Outspoken claims addressed initially in book : VOCAL

14-across – Cut gains for East London area : DOCKLANDS

16-across – High above London, Britain hasn’t one ugly side : BRIGHTONANDHOVE

19-across – Conductor, in waiting, took the bus, perhaps : ELECTRODE

21-across – Doctor on call seeking overnight accommodation : MOTEL

22-across – Bear shot, bizarrely, stealing computer : STOMACH

23-across – 9’s effortlessly moving poem recalled : FIDELIO

24-across – State money reserve : CACHE

25-across – See 8 : LAWRENSON

1-down – Order to keep incredibly brave leaders from last season in sight : OBSERVABLE

2-down – Explorer among scorers Charles and Giacomo? : VESPUCCI

3-down – 9’s hot in the shade : CHORAL

4-down – Declare a clergyman should stand : AVER

5-down – Proclaim queen should keep a tunic that’s ornate : ANNUNCIATE

6-down – What the ref did as the game went ahead? : WHISTLED

7-down – See 16 : ALBION

8-down – Workman learns about old footballer : MARK

14-down – Fruit fly making aphis drool : DROSOPHILA

15-down – Make J-U-M-P in wonder : SPELLBOUND

17-down – Trouble letting off steam? : HOTWATER

18-down – Better, having dismissed students : OUTCLASS

20-down – 9’s heart lifted, I gathered, over 7’s opener : EROICA

21-down – Sheep slow rearing little one : MIDGET

22-down – Boot camp’s first to cut benefit, though not entirely : SACK

23-down – Bird, why ref has 6 aloud? : FOWL

1-across – Battered maid regretting this? : GETTING

5-across – Country folk written in song : ARMENIA

10-across – Live wire’s second season of Sex and the City : BEIRUT

11-across – Sick of true hope getting dashed : UPTOHERE

12-across – Now I’d suppose union with a handicraft artist … maybe beats writing? : IFA

13-across – Select man from which thousands escape — it’s easy! : PICNIC

14-across – Paris’s affluent society dropping E’s in part of London : RICHMOND

15-across – Falls back dropping painter once more : AGAIN

16-across – Testes in translation, producing sweet sins : WITNESSES

19-across – See 12 : ATHOUSAND

21-across – See 12 : WORDS

24-across – E=mc², say, as one struggling with it comprehends : EQUATION

26-across – Taline’s uneasy settlement : ENTAIL

27-across – Miss The Tempest’s lost ending? : GAL

28-across – Is it played by Paul and me, perhaps, suppressing a little giggle on the road? : MINDGAME

29-across – See 12 : PAINTS

30-across – See 1 : MARRIED

31-across – See 12 : PICTURE

2-down – It’s a bit late in the day to be getting things straight : EVENING

3-down – Director’s pitch opposing gainsayer : TARANTINO

4-down – Public information spot : NOTICE

6-down – Timid yet fresh, keeping it up : RETICENT

7-down – Town in West is Wells, viewed from the ground? : EGHAM

8-down – Seconds out! Batty grannies baggable! : INRANGE

9-down – A Ugandan Girl Guide’s last out with dedicated minder : GUARDIANANGEL

17-down – Introduction to shirt-lifter holding hands with the chosen few : SHORTLIST

18-down – Like corsair, it’s lacking in honour and honesty : ASPIRATE

20-down – Quite uneasy over City of Angels short : TEQUILA

22-down – Bum cleft pinched by Marxist revolutionary : DRIFTER

23-down – Source of wise words from Rodney’s bruv highly acidic : DELPHI

25-down – Snake topping its opposite : ADDER

1-across – A rotten rotter? : BADEGG

4-across – Cricket sides seen occasionally : OFFANDON

9-across – Polynesian islands populated by small Indian grub : SAMOSA

10-across – Something living in whom sin a grotesque recollection : ORGANISM

11-across – What may suggest I get an illness : EATINGDISORDER

13-across – Day ran short during strike for final action : LASTHURRAH

14-across – Harmony, say, in act evens out : SYNC

16-across – Weakness that grips strongly? : VICE

18-across – Sweet shop guarantees hot toffee fudge, unsurprisingly lovely, for starters : DELIGHTFUL

21-across – Tory minister back on the drink reaches valleys, through which views magnified? : CONVERGINGLENS

23-across – Promise to wrap box, to say the least! : ITELLYOU

24-across – Endless bend or yew, crafted by him? : BOWYER

25-across – Put off, as Heath’s volte-face went wrong : DETERRED

26-across – Don’t go down river during drink : STAYUP

1-down – Chest requiring reparative surgery? : BUST

2-down – Jerk brings pariah’s name up with low voice : DUMBASS

3-down – See 19 : GASLIGHT

5-down – Sensation of ants crawling on skin I see in an arranged pattern : FORMICATION

6-down – Athletic female runner : AMAZON

7-down – Pressing unnecessary key, grave message sarcastic : DRIPDRY

8-down – Take lid off global power to fill void, at last going digital : NUMERICAL

12-down – Barking dog with green man, funny little chap outside : GARDENGNOME

13-down – Bastard lived locally, friendless, broken, imprisoning husband : LOVECHILD

15-down – Relax with honourable Ivy League leaders in power : CHILLOUT

17-down – Happy matter : CONTENT

19-down – Hollywood’s behind God-awful ghastly big old film : FANNYBY

20-down – Cashier, snitch? : TELLER

22-down – Taste relegation : DROP

1-across – By the time that I leave my own work for entertainment : COMEDY

4-across – Hot water carrier returns, never mind what the revelation : EPIPHANY

9-across – Standard error illuminated setter — about a pound — the way actors appeal to voters : PARTY

10-across – See 9 : POLITICAL

11-across – See 9 : BROADCAST

12-across – Translated, I fly, pursuing round moulding : OVOLO

13-across – Logical function for type of prison and judicial decision : OPENSENTENCE

17-across – Firm attachment to doctor with pain re-treated : INCORPORATED

20-across – Put in all you can to give to the dog : TOPUP

21-across – Taking in fodder, eking out critical situation : KNIFEEDGE

23-across – If challenged, put back on the hearth : FIREPLACE

24-across – Outstanding and too conscious of it? : PROUD

25-across – On what can be obtained from the net I depend altogether : ENTIRELY

26-across – Pain with everything? Apply plaster : GYPSUM

1-down – Perfect example of a Spoonerism from the turf accountant/policeman : COPYBOOK

2-down – Two surpluses, too? : MOREOVER

3-down – 19 poster disparaging 19s? : DRYAD

5-down – How to get 19-er beheaded? Puzzle given award : PULITZERPRIZE

6-down – Traveller on the beat with little change from that using conventional fuel : PATROLCAR

7-down – A lot of fish right on the seabed? : ANCHOR

8-down – Scream with pain, not being brave : YELLOW

10-down – Little man eating river bird following starter : PRAWNCOCKTAIL

14-down – Bird of rubber in vulgar parlance : SANDPIPER

15-down – Notes on ornament for the nose keeping it to the grindstone? : STUDIOUS

16-down – Slander and briefly myths brought up as an afterthought : ADDENDUM

18-down – Suppress loud : STIFLE

19-down – One in climbing jaunts needs mettle : SPIRIT

22-down – Try without head, yours having nothing in it : EMPTY