9-across – Take care of appearance subsequently : LOOKAFTER

10-across – Greeting the guy will love : HELLO

11-across – Old, old city with pro­hibition from stockbroker belt : EXURBAN

12-across – One garment near to another : NIGHTIE

13-across – Man of authority in re­lation to woman and bird : REEVE

14-across – Glees composed in romances with no superior : LIEGELESS

16-across – * Night all get into trouble : NOTTINGHILLGATE

19-across – Ball carrier on bird’s back in the sun need­ing polisher : STEELWOOL

21-across – * Hybrid goose? : BRENT

22-across – * Sea without money : ARSENAL

23-across – Isle is a new region of Europe : SILESIA

24-across – See 21 : CROSS

25-across – * Number at opera said farewell : MAIDAVALE

1-down – Takes the edge off storing ripe fruit for models : BLUEPRINTS

2-down – * Unchanged in point of time : MONUMENT

3-down – * Proceed without having water in the eye : MARBLE

4-down – * Boy for Sir Thomas : STAN

5-down – * Limits in fat on plates : GRANGEHILL

6-down – * It’s cold around the G-Guardian : CHIGWELL

7-down – Happy to be born supple : BLITHE

8-down – See 4 : MORE

14-down – Joints with : LEGSOFLAMB

15-down – Man with brush grabbing time to copy king’s wrapping : SWEETPAPER

17-down – Pansy’s love in it – nothing doing? : IDLENESS

18-down – * Hesitation and silence between mornings : AMERSHAM

20-down – * From the US to Northern Ireland : EUSTON

21-down – * Some laughter in a healer : BALHAM

22-down – See 3 : ARCH

23-down – Fishy move around Buckingham Palace by my leader : SWIM

1-across – 28 and 29 dabble and dawdle : POTTER

4-across – Fellow actor and director in Big Apple : COSTARD

9-across – Hole cut in poor side at Twickenham : TOUCHLINE

10-across – Rolls in hay for a 1 across : HARRY

11-across – Some worried about parking in race venue : EPSOM

12-across – A 1 across : OSULLIVAN

13-across – A 1 across thumped old farceur : BEATRIX

15-across – Salad ingredient is hard to chew : RADISH

17-across – See 29 : TAYLOR

19-across – Gather about a pound for old weapon : HALBERD

22-across – Result has old fellow in the wrong order : OUTOFTURN

24-across – Pots remodelled to hide unknown errors : TYPOS

26-across – A 1 across’s special poem : SPODE

27-across – Father demolished housing before, following this : HEREAFTER

28-across – Females on stage forget their words for a 1 across : STEPHEN

29-across – Almost all royalty grievously erred in backing a 1 across : DENNIS

1-down – Basil, say, is not the same when in the lead : POTHERB

2-down – Punctuation expert offers support : TRUSS

3-down – For a short while, divers help me breathe in time : EPHEMERAL

4-down – Man on board Queen’s in good mood : CHEQUER

5-down – Oasis a help crossing this : SAHEL

6-down – He’s ambitious to get exceptional site in Riviera resort : ARRIVISTE

7-down – With no bird, 19 down’s at home with golf on line, perhaps : DRYING

8-down – Trinkets cannot possibly produce a junction box : BIJOUX

14-down – A sample receives rare approval in one go : ATASTROKE

16-down – 1 across’s product’s feet not accepted in US state : DELFTWARE

18-down – Scratch rear end enough to need surgery : ROUGHEN

19-down – See 28 : HENDRY

20-down – They’re hot and dry courses, not small : DESERTS

21-down – Meats go off when brought in on sabbath : ROASTS

23-down – Chilly novel : FRESH

25-down – Opportunity for 12 to give plant a better chance of success : POTON

1-across – Those following a star with cool clobber : FANCLUB

5-across – See 4 : PUDDING

9-across – Mixed colour, including white, for tree : ROWAN

10-across – 5 across taken alone, containing hamster, say, stuffed with last of gerbil : APPLETART

11-across – Without restraint from unscrupulous Sun rep­ort­er, took the initiative : UNSHACKLED

12-across – Don’t go from lentils to pizza : STOP

14-across – Potentially tricky food items? : HOTPOTATOES

18-across – He sang, as singer did to cuckoo : OTISREDDING

21-across – Unfinished cut of beef pie : FLAN

22-across – Mince redolent in cut of meat : TENDERLOIN

25-across – Fine in head, figure not entirely right for mind : LOOKAFTER

26-across – Earliest Greek character’s Eureka, pressing disc : ALPHA

27-across – Cornish author Christopher, short of wood, finding branch in the wind? : SWISHER

28-across – German company reaching peak finances authority : AUDITOR

1-down – Is the lowest tide so unconventional? : FAROUT

2-down – Most recent two or three points? : NEWEST

3-down – 24 or chipolatas, then traditional dish : LANCASHIRE

4-down – Want to take pride initially in developing traditional dish : BLACK

5-down – Meat — go with Argentina’s favourite one : PEPPERONI

6-down – Source of meat, or honey, say : DEER

7-down – I cannot, I suspect, show idleness : INACTION

8-down – One with an opener starts to play ambitious shots to get out : GATEPOST

13-down – Traditional dish requiring passion, ­having bondage during party : BANGERSAND

15-down – Old MCC president with whom phone tapper catches English theologian : TEDDEXTER

16-down – These should rise, so being half full, raised : SOUFFLES

17-down – European capital moving into Italian food : RIGATONI

19-down – See 3 : HOTPOT

20-down – So is redhead a bit thick? : UNFAIR

23-down – Skin apparently sore, coming up to a degree : DERMA

24-down – See 13 : MASH

7-across – Way with throw-in to right? : LANCASTER

8-across – Pole coming in presently : ANSON

9-across – See 4 : CHOCOLATE

10-across – Arab brains turned after change of air : IRAQI

12-across – How to cook fish inside without having to pay : FREELY

13-across – Fight for an apple : BLENHEIM

14-across – One minute’s silence for the French museum man : ASHMOLE

17-across – Person without energy — former minister : TYPHOON

20-across – Find record complete : DISCOVER

22-across – Big pot given to gossip : CHATTY

24-across – What’s going on in the Yard? : AFOOT

25-across – After a lot of haste I get to stick : HURRICANE

26-across – Unintelligible participant in tug of war : GREEK

27-across – Add weight here for a thematic eighth — it will dry : TOWELLING

1-down – Preventer of leak used to be female : WASHER

2-down – Setter’s crying out loud for sweet : ICECREAM

3-down – Confine sovereign under tree on field in Shaftesbury : ASHLEY

4-down – Translate from French: tobacco healthy, dessert fatal : DEATHBY

5-down – Promoter of chaos with a spanner : ANARCH

6-down – Doctors abandon oxygen : MOSQUITO

11-down – A lot of larks mean drink : BEVY

15-down – High church feature: object to female intruding : SPITFIRE

16-down – Troops in 11’s rhyme : LEVY

18-down – _____ ? Then wear a woolly hat! : HEADCOLD

19-down – Heavy defeat in scam leaves one in the soup : CROUTON

21-down – See 3 : COOPER

22-down – Former president on the wagon? : CARTER

23-down – Householder permitted article under canvas? : TENANT

9-across – Cause trouble with high heels, boarding type of transport : RAISEHELL

10-across – Inhabitant of water butt : ROACH

11-across – O’ ___ men, as Burns almost said in Chinatown? : MEISSEN

12-across – Try to chuck Little Bird : GOSLING

13-across – European treaty establishing discrepancy between calendars : EPACT

14-across – Bordeaux, say, is in peace with orthodoxy : CALVINISM

16-across – Head of state’s minders ordered to do eg Ra-Ra-Rasputin without head of state : PRAETORIANGUARD

19-across – Formerly meeting sticky ends — those of Emperor Trajan, Nero, etc? : RENCONTRE

21-across – Island going west in Prufrock : CORFU

22-across – Sun exposes party leader taking weed on public vehicle : PHOEBUS

23-across – Trough engulfing a boss : MANAGER

24-across – Politician who’s into huntin’ ’n’ fencin’? : PALIN

25-across – Fighter’s pleased a riot’s erupted : GLADIATOR

1-down – One bellyaching about daft mare’s death : GRIMREAPER

2-down – Bird raised plant, needing a lot of water : TITICACA

3-down – What gardener does to mature plant’s humble dwelling? : BEDSIT

4-down – Slight incline : LEAN

5-down – Perform sex act on prisoner in bondage, as dominatrix may : FLAGELLATE

6-down – Have songwriter up for having dates : TRYSTING

7-down – Island that’s upholding another one : TAHITI

8-down – Time to show affection for hoodie, perhaps? : THUG

14-down – University fees take the Liberal out of party leader — which is not all bad : CURATESEGG

15-down – Bloody compiler! Lousy, keeping union member up : MEDIUMRARE

17-down – Music maker’s sort of disc cutting sort of steak : TROMBONE

18-down – Reverse decision to encase small sibling in mineral : ABROGATE

20-down – Spoon about to be dropped by fool : NOODLE

21-down – Frank has the ability — and proved it : CANDID

22-down – Less than mature mammal on top of a less than mature insect : PUPA

23-down – Drink and drug necked by loony : MEAD