9-across – Plan to demonstrate mountain rescue, with many abseiling Pyrenean summits : RELIEFMAP

10-across – Sage bush given oxygen: at last, green leaves : PLATO

11-across – State briefly you’ll reply to everyone by degrees : ALABAMA

12-across – Degrees of the ocean, you might say? : CELSIUS

13-across – Depose members from Guangzhou State : OUST

14-across – About making a game of something : RECREATION

16-across – Get the full story from chap on American defeat : HEAROUT

17-across – Church is in a state about the result of Industrial Revolution : MACHINE

19-across – Midday service abolished by Conservative despots on management : SECONDPOST

22-across – Bring about change of state using billions to take a precious commodity : BOIL

24-across – Alleged drug usage by leading lady : HEROINE

25-across – Appeal to dissolute tart: end indolence : ATTRACT

26-across – Experience a change of state : TASTE

27-across – Old Jacobean tragedy of realities? : ISRAELITE

1-down – Go on oath, perhaps, bent on such as cricket’s nemesis : ORGANOPHOSPHATE

2-down – Boatman may be in a state? : ALLATSEA

3-down – Painter of French state : DEGAS

4-down – Menacing sounds all around : IMMANENT

5-down – Restates briefly about means of separation : SPACER

6-down – Perhaps iron man : APPLIANCE

7-down – State briefly: Boatman’s at bottom of trap for a beast : WAPITI

8-down – Epistle torn open in a state : POISONPENLETTER

15-down – Spooner’s upper-class type saluted, booted : HOBNAILED

17-down – A bit of a state over some land to mow down : MASSACRE

18-down – Under the same pressure as Biro : ISOBARIC

20-down – Church leader after an hour is in a state, briefly : CHRIST

21-down – State briefly using crisp reworking around central theme : PRECIS

23-down – Perfect state : UTTER

1-across – Ascertain boffins’ choice of poison — and I shall follow suit : SEEWHATTHEBOYS

8-across – See 1 : INTHE

9-across – See 1 : BACKROOM

11-across – Life for a Romany with a lot going for him : ZINGARO

12-across – Void unchanged — complete reversal unknown : NULLIFY

13-across – Code for get hiccups : ETHIC

15-across – Former merchant, preserver of formal religious book, say : DRYSALTER

17-across – Hesitation on my account disrupts the internal problem : TUMMYACHE

20-across – Cat: plant one for the royal family : GENET

21-across – Dismiss person with money : CASHIER

23-across – Overshadow orientals keeping film extracts : ECLIPSE

25-across – See 1 : WILLHAVE

26-across – Latin American movement prisoner to the state? : CONGA

27-across – Milk : THIRDTIMELUCKY

1-down – Cheats on credit — no use to James Bond? : SWIZZLESTICK

2-down – School said to be rusty? : EATEN

3-down – Yesterday, across the water, Marquis’s cockroach’s ranking : HIERARCHY

4-down – Bad lot, I discovered in the paper : TABLOID

5-down – O for a horse painter! : HOCKNEY

6-down – Stone on live railway line : BERYL

7-down – RNAS station that’s about to live dangerously : YEOVILTON

10-down – Author Philip in Clarendon to pray wildly for what spa provides : HYDROTHERAPY

14-down – Half a line I make in embroidery lacking time : HEMISTICH

16-down – Heavenly candy left : ANGELICAL

18-down – Bush product — dog took part in race against time : CURRANT

19-down – Glance at detective on side of joist, say : EYEBEAM

22-down – Who’s who on the French right that does nothing : IDLER

24-down – Fear his follower will be Latin American : PANIC

8-across – Suspicion about bank backing closure of each plant : HYACINTH

9-across – A general on a foreign field? : ABROAD

10-across – It’s manufactured round : EDAM

11-across – Arm with bottle : WINCHESTER

12-across – Designated mine ending in disrepair, as old : FORMER

14-across – Beheading extreme through evidence of wound — did this do it? : SCIMITAR

15-across – Large fruit repeated in song? : NEWYORK

17-across – Square seen circling square, sort of square : SIXTEEN

20-across – Pass rope from behind mammoth : COLOSSAL

22-across – Cries of joy, as there’s been a little accident? : WHOOPS

23-across – See 4 : RESTAURANT

24-across – Nothing unadapted’s secured : NADA

25-across – All signs showing charity’s cut because in recession : ZODIAC

26-across – How do I damage my car’s bodywork? By removing British name : IDENTITY

1-down – See 4 : SYNDROME

2-down – Computers set up for deception : SCAM

3-down – A state of Australia and its head of state return : ANSWER

4-down – Food poisoning seen by her nurse, dessert 13 24 down : CHINESE

5-down – One border lifted after king remains in a disputed territory : KASHMIRI

6-down – Butcher cut strip off at first, duck becoming cured meat : PROSCIUTTO

7-down – Source of lead required, severe blow getting sodium : GALENA

13-down – Parts within could prove harmful, as can tiny amounts, potentially : MAYCONTAIN

16-down – Potential supply rose unexpectedly, a shade up : RESOURCE

18-down – Rush through power change, filling river : EXPEDITE

19-down – Knock a magical creature over, finding hole : FLEAPIT

21-down – State to which 7, perhaps, has been taken, unfinished : OREGON

22-down – Dry humour not his : WITHER

24-down – See 13 : NUTS

1-across – See 24 : CABINET

5-across – Orgasms are impossible with Paul; might rubber work here? : MASSAGE

10-across – Struggle with enemy nation has Enigmatist out to catch one : RACE

11-across – Tripping on a slippery surface? : ICEDANCING

12-across – Tongue in cheek, swallow audibly : INJEST

13-across – Heading for tavern with an attempt to follow sport in absence from school : TRUANTRY

14-across – Faulty Fawlty’s first hotelier to seek alternative employment : OTHERLIFE

16-across – Surface put forward : TABLE

17-across – Vessel’s lip — or vesel’s li? : SPOUT

19-across – Good-for-nothing gay liberal with claws out : SCALLYWAG

23-across – Escape from Baker? : BREAKOUT

24-across – 6s Shed won’t reshuffle — though Cameron may : SHADOW

26-across – No fixed abode? : MOBILEHOME

27-across – See 10 : TIME

28-across – Pediment turning East, West or Souf? : FRONTON

29-across – Fool maintaining high note’s expedient : STOPGAP

2-down – See 10 : AGAINST

3-down – Peace of Tenerife upheld : IRENE

4-down – Defunct arm of the law secured repeal of decree : EDICTAL

6-down – A system for paying contributors across union counter : ABACUS

7-down – See 8 : SECONDARY

8-down – Araucaria’s golden efficiency detector: Eton result obtained in passing : GENERAL

9-down – See 8 : CERTIFICATEOF

15-down – See 8 : EDUCATION

18-down – See 5 : PARLOUR

20-down – The female in heat is most prolific : LUSHEST

21-down – Having a defective nose, I am at fault : ANOSMIA

22-down – Everyone stays, which is the philosopher’s object : NONEGO

25-down – Bill Rammell’s beginning to be troublesome : ACTUP

7-across – B-barking mad in Eccles, say : GOODMAN

8-across – B’s demise in ninth hour? : HENDRIX

9-across – B-boxer’s glove insert and boot gone west : DUKE

10-across – See 9 : ELLINGTON

12-across – B-Bud : BILLY

13-across – B-blues 19 : TEDHEATH

15-across – What 17 across might say is child’s play? : ISPY

16-across – Helps a B with order of set : ABETS

17-across – Tie I dropped by the beach : BOND

18-across – Disinclined? Determined! : HELLBENT

20-across – B-bone a cut is off : COUNT

21-across – Item burnt once with a little zest, then crushed until it can be used in muesli : BRAZILNUT

22-across – B & B type : BILK

24-across – Show contempt for 10’s era, sadly : SNEERAT

25-across – B-blogs talked of bereavement : JOELOSS

1-down – Part of plant of use as foodstuff : TOFU

2-down – B-British snake on straight line : ADDERLEY

3-down – Rampant male — see Viz : NAMELY

4-down – Delia’s no cooking king! : LEONIDAS

5-down – Girl regretted opening up a little : ODETTE

6-down – Second B leaves capital for rugby international : LION

11-down – B-butcher three times lonely? Humph! : LYTTELTON

12-down – See 20 across : BASIE

14-down – Opinion going up and down : TENET

16-down – Man crazy about a girl from Boston, say : AMERICAN

17-down – Bloomer, an obscene clanger : BLUEBELL

19-down – See 21 : LEADER

20-down – See 12 across : COTTON

21-down – The definitive B is a wicked thing going topless, bared bust stuck out : BAND

23-down – B’s bottom : LAST