1-across – Gore visible in explosion to give added weight : BALLAST

5-across – Book not telling you what’s what? : WHOSWHO

10-across – 27 23’s prop : LEAN

11-across – Note to drop back, discovering flammable substance : NATURALGAS

12-across – Fruit that’s red in story : LICHEE

13-across – Roman nation’s not finished with runner : POLANSKI

14-across – 27 23 with sailor and soldier in love : TARANTINO

16-across – 27 23’s gem : STONE

17-across – 27 23, top artist : CAPRA

19-across – 27 23 has problem getting raise : HITCHCOCK

23-across – See 27 : DIRECTOR

24-across – Farmer taking solvers to the country : YEOMAN

26-across – 27 23, great mind capturing extremes in scene : EISENSTEIN

27-across – Minister behind princess behind mist for 13, perhaps : FILM

28-across – Most fastidious to put away in home : NEATEST

29-across – 27 23 made a splash with Italy : FELLINI

2-down – Brave home has ’er housed in a rocky compound : AMERICA

3-down – 27 23 put to death without trial : LYNCH

4-down – 27 23 posted around the Web : SENNETT

6-down – A king in conduct is a king : HAROLD

7-down – Irritable client distraught about closure of trade, underlining price at the start : SPLENETIC

8-down – Try to know and listen : HEARKEN

9-down – It’s set up to make daily notes for paid magistrates : STIPENDIARIES

15-down – Bond, spy carrying on with English maiden : AGREEMENT

18-down – Silly, like one square : ASININE

20-down – Capital letters 11 and 14, say : CAYENNE

21-down – 27 23 upping record during series : CHAPLIN

22-down – Old police sergeant’s initial lack of activity : STASIS

25-down – Refuse old king over royal posterior : OFFAL

1-across – Concerned with teeth … : ODONTIC

5-across – … one dentally challenged : ANTBEAR

10-across – … Paradise Lost : EDEN

11-across – Coming back, but never coming back to unconsciousness : REENTRANCE

12-across – Record protection maybe for heart : SLEEVE

13-across – One of 10 27 gives a US university, topped and turned, £1000 : AARDVARK

14-across – One of 10 27, one right out of mind and sick with love : ARMADILLO

16-across – Wrong ideas concealed from rest of cast? : ASIDE

17-across – One of 10 27 is a sin : SLOTH

19-across – One politician, sound in record, falling suddenly towards the centre : IMPLODING

23-across – One of 10 27 from African country not complete in number : PANGOLIN

24-across – Subtle point for actor Tom to abandon extension : NUANCE

26-across – The last sin, journalists without money: we must try and save them : ENDANGERED

27-across – See 10 : TATA

28-across – Deprived people in favour of backing German : ORPHANS

29-across – See 26 : SPECIES

2-down – Cheat, full of holes with change of ends : DIDDLER

3-down – Chapel rather than church for the time being? : NONCE

4-down – Citizen is artist and priest : ISRAELI

6-down – Adverse decision of video referee without a lawyer : NOTARY

7-down – Take my tip: small ball’s against the other side : BEADVISED

8-down – Worm with most of a sidecar inside : ASCARID

9-down – Star of the bench takes part of course: the whole may ruin reform : LEGALLUMINARY

15-down – A tough problem assuming responsibility for signature : AUTOGRAPH

18-down – One making some money should have a plate put up : LEARNER

20-down – Speaker embracing nude characters one after another : LINEDUP

21-down – Ribbon development on isthmus needs link : NECKTIE

22-down – Continue to lose energy and bottle : FLAGON

25-down – Old American sleuth pursuing extremes : AZTEC

8-across – See 23 : REDSKINS

9-across – Setter almost back on the Guardian’s scent : ODOUR

10-across – Political item sees party doing U-turn between two of its leaders? : FOOT

11-across – 10 24 down’s police once maintaining rights, but wrong, by the way : PITTSBURGH

12-across – Look for winger : GANDER

14-across – Actor’s supporter must be more punctual? : PROMPTER

15-across – See 22 down : BRONCOS

17-across – 10 24 down’s hip, a mouth and other organs : CHICAGO

20-across – Coax ecstasy past first of guards, going through wearing mask : INVEIGLE

22-across – Tyrant making point about further perception : DESPOT

23-across – 10 24 down’s debatable answers kind about religion embracing godhead : WASHINGTON

24-across – Sculpture’s gone to the wall : BUST

25-across – See 17 : BEARS

26-across – See 11 : STEELERS

1-down – My boss used up oxygen in brain, struggling to be charming : DEBONAIR

2-down – Ship involved in exercises over here! : PSST

3-down – Breakfast in bed? : KIPPER

4-down – Elementary thing, the boast of a heavy drinker? : ISOTOPE

5-down – River bridges very old, in truth : FORSOOTH

6-down – Meaningless talk of point between rings penetrates so, after levitation : HOCUSPOCUS

7-down – Accent afoot? : BROGUE

13-down – One’s simple bed’s ending — with pillow here? : DUNDERHEAD

16-down – As region volatile, get map out : ORGANISE

18-down – Glitter obscures death list : GLOSSARY

19-down – Red newt filling roll : LEFTIST

21-down – Desire to hold underwear up close : NEARBY

22-down – 10 24’s got something to do, say, in corrupt business, company in dire straits for starters : DENVER

24-down – See 10 : BALL

1-across – Twitch? Preferably keep still and … : WATCHTHEBIRDIE

8-across – … look happy for a second’s length : SMILE

9-across – Cream upset around reverting flower of marsh plant : REEDMACE

11-across – Put container in here for fodder : HERBAGE

12-across – See 1 down : TERRIER

13-across – Wellington’s starter, soup : GUMBO

15-across – Alternative to 8 after 1 across, for example — brie, for example : SAYCHEESE

17-across – Assemble and help endlessly and assist : LENDAHAND

20-across – Put a back on an old storyteller : AESOP

21-across – Country in exchange with a lot of 23s? : NIGERIA

23-across – Much cold has its effect, my dear fellow : OLDCHAP

25-across – Anti-Mass disposition? : SATANISM

26-across – Girl as target, possibly? : AIMEE

27-across – Chlorophyll’s work in getting people together to 1 across etc? : PHOTOSYNTHESIS

1-down – Hi! Whistler granted possibility to lead the Queen’s dog : WESTHIGHLAND

2-down – The former Queen leaves 12 — for essayist? : TRIER

3-down – Scots have parent to master bruise : HAEMATOMA

4-down – Gear in which one can work together or die : HARNESS

5-down – Manner of speaking by heart, maybe : BREATHY

6-down – Old poet’s first book has page missing : RIMER

7-down – Spiteful behaviour : ITCHINESS

10-down – Ecological stimuli are hot stuff : GREENPEPPERS

14-down – Treatise on gas that turns up in cleaner hydrogen : MONOGRAPH

16-down – A new Ted in the old Ted? That’s how it will all end : HEATDEATH

18-down – I’m after a grandmother as a liar : ANANIAS

19-down – Porter or graduate in academic dress? : DOORMAN

22-down – Was he leaving the washer-dryer to cook? : ROAST

24-down – Sound of activity to American is good for the soil : HUMUS

9-across – Expression of delight in art deco wrought figures : OCTAHEDRA

10-across – Regimental man taking centre from smoking jacket : PARKA

11-across – Garland: love casual look : DECKO

12-across – Two-tongued iguana bats, no tail, having divided beak : BILINGUAL

13-across – Be splattered with micro material : CROMBIE

14-across – About to invade a controversial composer’s area : ACREAGE

17-across – Sailors trapped in overturned vessel : BURNS

19-across – Western American hacker : WAX

20-across – Underwear and skimpy dress : BRAND

21-across – Ives composed in the care of a doctor : ADVISER

22-across – Mobile plant that installs repetitive tune in the instruments’ data openings : TRIFFID

24-across – Lecture, as certain Scottish banks do : HOLDFORTH

26-across – Shakespeare’s fat? Awful cheek! : KEECH

28-across – Getting rid of sun’s solar gels : LARGE

29-across – Plant making goat cheese initially on a high? : BUTTERCUP

1-down – Conditional version of will is heard : WOOD

2-down – Wall covering reduces rising carbon monoxide : STUCCO

3-down – Result of clot grinding ribs smooth : THROMBOSIS

4-down – Lie-abed heartlessly disturbed should go down OK : EDIBLE

5-down – Duty keeps one in blue moving pictures : TABLEAUX

6-down – Sporting event stopped being without fixed limits : OPEN

7-down – Fuss when bishop mounts our makeshift, unobtrusive barrier : BROUHAHA

8-down – Chasing women, nobody excluded! : WALL

13-down – Horse artist’s a hooded killer : COBRA

15-down – Crack in brick tile construction over river : RIBTICKLER

16-down – See 6 : ENDED

18-down – They hate getting iffy sil­ver after gutless contest : REVILERS

19-down – Clothes store with a border around : WARDROBE

22-down – Thanks to rap, one’s tropical paradise? : TAHITI

23-down – Father charms : FRENCH

24-down – Hard and evil : HILL

25-down – Cable once put under floor : FLEX

27-down – Parking in garden : HOPE