1-across – Greeting to bishop : HIPBATH

5-across – The relative proposition : THESIS

9-across – See 29 : RATTIGAN

10-across – He ran off with ex-king entering German river : ARNOLD

12-across – Shirley’s boy with root vegetables: am I going to interrupt? : LADYWILLIAMS

15-across – University man to disturb the peace with some power : HERIOTWATT

17-across – See 19 : OUR

19-across – Talk of the spirit of the Guardian : RUM

20-across – English father accepts French call to desk : ESCRITOIRE

22-across – Lilliputian, one of ten eliminated one by one if I replace energy : LITTLEENDIAN

26-across – Little girl is in Parliament and pays calls : VISITS

27-across – The odd one? : SINGULAR

28-across – Rat in the sand : DESERT

29-across – Cigarette? Tanner would get it for him : TERENCE

1-down – Hearts are associated with March : HARE

2-down – Arrange for your head to be contending with Ruth : PITY

3-down – I caused a stir with A Fool on a Hill : AGITATOR

4-down – Violent character not easy to read : HEAVY

6-down – 1 down’s right about former drink coming to him : HAROLD

7-down – That’s right about climber with a break he spends on addiction : SHOPAHOLIC

8-down – Byway, small, that is OK, say Geordies : SIDESTREET

11-down – See 6 : PINTER

13-down – Ephemeral revolts hid problem : SHORTLIVED

14-down – 1 down, 9, 11, 16, 21 and 29, having a drink, ordered ‘Sit!’, sat : DRAMATISTS

16-down – See 10 : WESKER

18-down – Canonised forester’s new baby? : STRANGER

21-down – See 24 : PLATER

23-down – Both sides of door have 12 inches leeway : DRIFT

24-down – He will make a plan in due course : ALAN

25-down – Such and 2 was said of Hamlet’s madness, giving time to repent : TRUE

7-across – Split atom in garden turned by worm : NEMATODE

9-across – Start with the in crowd? Hardly : OUTSET

10-across – Perforate flower : PINK

11-across – Home to bird holding back infestation of the bowel : INTESTINAL

12-across – Sea dweller’s far from generous about seafarers : MERMAN

14-across – Palette devised to capture Manet’s first model : TEMPLATE

15-across – Colour in cartoon character : TINTIN

17-across – Sunny on departure from resort : BRIGHT

20-across – Current keeping river hot : TROPICAL

22-across – Beer to please foreign king : BITTER

23-across – Hexed but healthy, taking lead, covering length : SPELLBOUND

24-across – Young mammal with a young insect : PUPA

25-across – Group relations offensive in Vietnam? : SEXTET

26-across – Difficult or easy to make squirm : TICKLISH

1-down – Hemmed in, receiving coin for crowning feature : PEDIMENT

2-down – Note in the old money : MARK

3-down – Cream’s to turn up in the cat : LOTION

4-down – Delicate but lively character securing return of service : GOSSAMER

5-down – Rude remark about Journey to Illumination : STRIPLIGHT

6-down – Historical meal? : REPAST

8-down – Being – supreme one – not beginning to absorb books about himself? : ENTITY

13-down – Handle partner holding a flower up : MANIPULATE

16-down – 10-1 debacle involving island brood : INCUBATE

18-down – It’s a sin to put hair in the bath? On the contrary! : TRESPASS

19-down – Relative was active before display : FLAUNT

21-down – See 22 : RIPPER

22-down – Dancer imprisoning gambler on island in racy novel : BODICE

24-down – What the ALF might do to fur? : PELT

8-across – Extracts from a national anthem are what I can’t abide : ANATHEMA

9-across – 10 boy : BASIL

10-across – Plant for 3, say, or her brother : HERB

11-across – Modern note struck by 23 and others : NEOTERICAL

12-across – Boy after 10 : ROBERT

14-across – 10 girl or girls : ROSEMARY

15-across – Acceptance speech to shellfish – I’m not sure … : WELCOME

17-across – Version of antigovernment activity without leader : EDITION

20-across – High-speed : METEORIC

22-across – Boy and version of one of 23, say : JACKET

23-across – Composer of piccolo part in Easter work : ERICCOATES

24-across – No waiter with 24 down back in 17 : TIDE

25-across – Genuine wrinkle for listener : PUKKA

26-across – Singular accompaniment to roast joint taken neat by Campbell : TRIMMING

1-down – Extra time again? : ONCEMORE

2-down – Try to turn crazy : STAB

3-down – Elizabeth’s boy catcher : BENNET

4-down – 10 sounds far from sweet : SAVOURY

5-down – Unable to forget love, Elizabeth retains second 17 : OBSESSED

6-down – One like St Francis with optical problem : ASTIGMATIC

7-down – Star is taken from boy : ALTAIR

13-down – Fruity food in piece of church soap, possibly : ECCLESCAKE

16-down – 10 girl docked both ways with little girl at centre : MARJORAM

18-down – No rare Shakespearean bawd : OVERDONE

19-down – Synthetic fibre makes the best pictures : ACETATE

21-down – Hanging is well prefixed here : EUROPE

22-down – Boy 10, say, at 11th hour : JUSTIN

24-down – See 22 : TIME

1-across – Bum runs into tree : BREECH

4-across – Optimistic conductor raises his baton for this : UPBEAT

9-across – So-called good walk spoiled over strike : FLOG

10-across – Is harbouring a little brief deception in strengthening system : ISOMETRICS

11-across – Stars show contempt for educational paper : BOOTES

12-across – 0 or 1 squared in small steps : BITBYBIT

13-across – Front man now here, he’s gone : PRESENTER

15-across – See 3 : TIDE

16-across – See 26 : ROSE

17-across – Being in uncomfortable position in pool woefully heightened bath bill : BEHINDTHE

21-across – See 20 : AMILLION

22-across – Like Helen of Troy, or the pride of London? : NONESO

24-across – Stresses, eg swapping for these subordinates : UNDERLINGS

25-across – See 17 : BALL

26-across – Playwright’s fallen into beer plant down the slope : ALPINE

27-across – Worship by consuming fish : PRAYER

1-down – PM’s 17 book 5 20 3 16 across : BALFOUR

2-down – See 17 : EIGHT

3-down – Remake of modernistic film : CRIMSON

5-down – See 22 : PRETTY

6-down – Up before most others, he barely troubled the writer on the way : EARLYBIRD

7-down – Touching behaviour concealed by hat : TACTILE

8-down – Innuendo from Belgium and one other : DOUBLEMEANING

14-down – Rope-maker’s little sibling on top of mountain, negotiating border : SISALHEMP

16-down – Oscar – person found in drowned valley here : ROMANIA

18-down – One is engaged in continuous action, making air cleaner : IONISER

19-down – One who perpetrates swindle right after sleuth’s elucidation : HUSTLER

20-down – A diamond grinding factory, in original – unusual – setting : GIRLIN

23-down – Smart old boy born in the Big Apple : NOBBY

1-across – Gloomy sergeant on 8’s put through the mill : BLACKPEPPER

9-across – Bag antique hidden in lobby : HOLDALL

10-across – Attractive extension flanks hotel : WINNING

12-across – Monarch’s implicated in articles in three languages after that : THEREUNDER

13-across – : BLUE

15-across – Bletchley Park guy’s rank not registered after last month : DECODER

17-across – Relax in card game, adding three points : LOOSEN

18-across – : RED

20-across – Mock scarlet-backed fish : DERIDE

22-across – Part of oil rig Adair bent over, getting back problem : DERRICK

26-across – Old book revealed by radioactive dating : VEDA

27-across – Wandering preacher or critic : REPROACHER

29-across – Catch sailor in his element – Sunday school! : SEABASS

30-across – Is it raised by suspicious East End intellectual? : EYEBROW

31-across – Feel very distressed about 13 disease : YELLOWFEVER

2-down – Short break in Yorkshire city when also occupying properties : LEASEHOLDS

3-down – Sort of filter, as Aldrin was with Armstrong? : COLANDER

4-down – Stalag resident’s radical uprising could be explosive : POWDER

5-down – : PINK

6-down – Food writer’s in bed, headto-toe with short man : EDIBLES

7-down – : WHITE

8-down – Disc protection makes Lee very content : SLEEVE

11-down – : GREEN

14-down – ‘Mourinho hides neural problem!’ in press-speak : JOURNALESE

16-down – null : RED

19-down – London leads it in song as broadcast by bum? : DERRIERE

20-down – : DAVIS

21-down – Bureaucracy got less significant, back to front : REDTAPE

23-down – Olympics boss clutches woman’s stick : COHERE

24-down – Observe present and past playground feature : SEESAW

25-down – : BROWN

28-down – Formal dance when alien leaves formal dance : BALL