8-across – Silent call that might get picked up : DUMBBELL

9-across – Dry air essentially in air-conditioned room : ATTIC

10-across – Issue of magazine looking back : EMIT

11-across – Fixed ideas round band’s leader with periods in studio : OBSESSIONS

12-across – One holding camera to mostly hear music player : TRIPOD

14-across – Became excited after joining in for feeling : AMBIENCE

16-across – Rest on this: take pulse first : BEANBAG

18-across – Flash with these skirts in sexiest costumes : STROBES

21-across – Learning without advanced development : EDUCTION

23-across – Early lousy form? Briefly possessing dope : NITWIT

24-across – It might remove business title at work retaining old list : TOILETROLL

26-across – Fish in light streams : RAYS

27-across – Go off drink over two days : ADDLE

28-across – Once more lines up a single for release after end of tour : REALIGNS

1-down – Duck swimming at the bottom in lake by reserve : SUBMERGE

2-down – Join American next to bar : ABUT

3-down – Chart single? : RECORD

4-down – Famous horrible person stripped snorting lines : ALLSTAR

5-down – Overplays clear hits across both sides of album : HAMS

6-down – Come to show’s opening with known hits : STRIKESOUT

7-down – Celebrated: eat out with no starter when entertaining over : ICONIC

13-down – Drink a shot over two forms of pop : PINACOLADA

15-down – Finally succumb, call dentist: one’s called initially after the filling? : BLT

17-down – Musical instrument’s part for greatest hit-maker? : ALI

19-down – Broadening the mind with tablet: I find heartless guy when drunk : EDIFYING

20-down – Travelling in Britain? Hit road after playing : ONBOARD

22-down – Make love on date: I like that thing : DOODAH

23-down – Horny being in Girls Aloud: idol primarily after love : NILGAI

25-down – Stage rotating on it : TIER

26-down – 28 occasionally come down : RAIN

9-across – White female featured in article : ASHEN

10-across – Blood cell cycle out – rebooted with drug : LEUCOCYTE

11-across – Lawbreaker demanding tip to store working crane : LARCENIST

12-across – Policeman’s drink on retirement : SUPER

13-across – Northerner – I say! – bagging Dior creation : GEORDIE

15-across – Medieval instrument about to be given a novel name : REBECCA

17-across – No limits to returning serfs’ fever : LASSA

18-across – Singer, Jack, appearing in scholarly books : TOM

20-across – Cold English houses of the past : OLDEN

22-across – Bird caught outside one avian centre, which didn’t go down well : TITANIC

25-across – US state has scope to perform a dental operation : DESCALE

26-across – See 18 : JONES

27-across – Don’t jump the gun – hang on pending the computer experts! : WAITFORIT

30-across – Old PC from celebrated British designer, short of some memory : MACINTOSH

31-across – Staggering mythical bird at Killarney’s outskirts : ROCKY

1-down – Auditorium bag, not old : HALL

2-down – Old vehicles from church, with a bold, colourful display on Sabbath : CHARIOTS

3-down – Dramatist put away? No way! : INGE

4-down – IT broadcast with Naples’ most outspoken : PLAINEST

5-down – Horse you could tell the time by? : HUNTER

6-down – Youngster going round ship getting kicks – overbearing type : BOSSYBOOTS

7-down – Needing specs to see one’s old photograph : MYOPIC

8-down – Stag do evening eventually starts with Rex : DEER

13-down – Top soldier and officer going round Spain : GILET

14-down – Sound as a bell, taking in Saigon excursion, being a doctor? : DIAGNOSING

16-down – Musical sort of basket, open-ended : ANNIE

19-down – Doctor carries one thing around for a certain time : MIDNIGHT

21-down – Put your foot down : DRAGRACE

23-down – Flog a church set of Old Testament books : TANACH

24-down – Bully and lout backing up a dishonest tradesman : COWBOY

26-down – Stick with British post : JAMB

28-down – Passion tree with bifurcate tip : FIRE

29-down – Story about disposing of Roger’s trinkets : TOYS

9-across – Insufficient time for female investigator : DETECTIVE

10-across – Single bloke recalled bedding male icon : EMOJI

11-across – Silent picture : STILL

12-across – Revolutionary record by Steps needing no introduction for 19a : PLEASURES

13-across – Some junk now normal in X? : UNKNOWN

14-across – Spice Girl briefly in love with total animal : OPOSSUM

17-across – Sacred druid making regular sacrifices for Irish king : ARDRI

19-across – Jimmy Case trapping ball is a delight : JOY

20-across – Doctor eating in European capital – for example? : DINER

21-across – Lady in lingerie knocked back after endless sin and poison : ENVENOM

22-across – Lynx Africa oddly choking adult in California : CARACAL

24-across – Fly page in Paradise Lost : DISAPPEAR

26-across – Encouragement when Son gets amongst Chelsea? : BOOST

28-across – Henry and Jack holding fine catches : HOOKS

29-across – Echo article about timeless movie character devoted to 12 : EPICUREAN

1-down – Where to find drugs in Exeter … for a price? : ODDS

2-down – Cheers rising with game in danger : ATRISK

3-down – Islander’s local inn is heaving : SCILLONIAN

4-down – Dr. Livingstone finally getting leg over in Berkshire residence? : PIGPEN

5-down – Funeral maybe set up inside by no mere coincidence : CEREMONY

6-down – All-points bulletin : NEWS

7-down – See 27 : MORRISON

8-down – Fall head over heels for lager : PILS

13-down – Custom in states north of Georgia : USAGE

15-down – Bully to arrange a fight : ORDERABOUT

16-down – Decent interpretation of Amol Rajan’s starter : MORAL

18-down – Fool is working around current split : DIVISION

19-down – Actress rates lime juice cocktail : JAMIELEE

22-down – See 19 : CURTIS

23-down – Tighter bum following introduction to callisthenics : CLOSER

24-down – Hospital consumed by boy having elevated pulse : DAHL

25-down – Stick-up job : POST

27-down – Author with crazy notion to pinch old car : TONI

1-across – I accept to be treated for a heart irregularity : ECTOPIC

5-across – Catch Philistine turning round prohibition : EMBARGO

9-across – Bouquet over from Rotterdam or Amsterdam : AROMA

10-across – Dry celebrity architect : BRUTALIST

11-across – Understanding, when 19, to cross road : EMPATHETIC

12-across – LibDem ditching Lab extremists, same as before : IDEM

14-across – Boudicca and her ilk getting plaudits suppressing a disturbance : CHARIOTEERS

18-across – Embed spy to capture Eastern royal family : PLANTAGENET

21-across – Beowulf perhaps seen in the picture : EPIC

22-across – Helps me when fiddling with bra, I swear! : BLASPHEMER

25-across – Decent mouthful that’s memorable : SOUNDBITE

26-across – Stomach turning commercial precedes information item : DATUM

27-across – From this, perhaps, has burnt right away? : SUNBATH

28-across – Local current : TOPICAL

1-down – The French hair-raising finish : ENAMEL

2-down – Soldiers drained taxpayer – I made a mistake : TROOPS

3-down – It’s typical to reform with ease? : PLASTICITY

4-down – Wheel back up bearing message : CABLE

5-down – Surprisingly, idiot into rune deciphering gets scholarship : ERUDITION

6-down – See 1 Across : BEAT

7-down – Dancer, say, heard in reply to sweetheart – what should the King do? : REINDEER

8-down – Work is in time and perfect : OPTIMISE

13-down – Finished surgery and framed : STITCHEDUP

15-down – An attractive swimmer, she got entangled with a fling : ANGELFISH

16-down – Calms wild animals, feeding them vegetables : APPEASES

17-down – Understood tea maker will be withdrawn : TACITURN

19-down – Refer to compiler the wrong way? It makes one sick! : EMETIC

20-down – Early April, first of month stupidity : PRIMAL

23-down – W-H-E-A-T : SPELT

24-down – Thought of middleman every now and then : IDEA

1-across – One providing protection asked flighty daughter to house piano : DESKPAD

5-across – Exhausting – used to be time to grow old : WASTAGE

9-across – Generally decimal? : OFTEN

10-across – Mate with unit showing cups, saucers etc : CHINAWARE

11-across – Arranging one short city parade of children : PAEDIATRIC

12-across – Possibly clubs frantically use it to get rid of drug : SUIT

14-across – Unqualified Gaelic actor sacked : CATEGORICAL

18-across – Musical without a pronounced award, it’s a tragedy : CATASTROPHE

21-across – State program briefly produces panic : FLAP

22-across – A cargo ship transported coffins : SARCOPHAGI

25-across – American sportsman is extravagant gambler with record for trip : LOGROLLER

26-across – Somewhere to go before international show : POINT

27-across – Padres denouncing constituents in European city : DRESDEN

28-across – He left citizen, protecting city thief : BURGLAR

1-down – Dwarf lacking energy caught backsliding or limp? : DROOPY

2-down – 20 topless after introduction to super model : SITTER

3-down – Chest of drawers? : PENCILCASE

4-down – Old bread of French catholic lies on rug, unopened : DUCAT

5-down – Finishing PhD producing DNA-H? : WRITINGUP

6-down – North American gas rising for inspection : SCAN

7-down – Occupational employment after dropping into resort : ACAPULCO

8-down – Able to get firm to return pick broken by ground : ERECTILE

13-down – Fruit technically accepted for record in preliminary report : GREENPAPER

15-down – Boatman, compiler at home making cover : TARPAULIN

16-down – Fought Bob, collecting belt : SCUFFLED

17-down – Way to not start argument, hold back! : STRANGLE

19-down – Sort of recognition that spies are hidden by British river : FACIAL

20-down – Refuse less significant liberal, once dismissed : LITTER

23-down – Top of observatory blocking energy source for tree : CAROB

24-down – Clipped dog of revolutionary gets something to eat : FOOD