8-across – Whence camels, carrying Egyptian leader, become a health and hygiene issue : BACTERIA

9-across – Fish drinks on both sides of the Channel … : ALEVIN

10-across – … at the sign of the Submariner’s Return : OMEN

11-across – Must come to an arrangement that’s perfect : CONSUMMATE

12-across – Backed examinations about King Penguins, for instance : SNACKS

14-across – Ocean dweller’s hoard includes bits of rock and frozen ice : STARFISH

15-across – Pole bedecked with lurid trimmings : GARNISH

17-across – Celebrate getting drug for hospital in Jericho organised : REJOICE

20-across – Agent given signal to impound student’s building block : MOLECULE

22-across – All in a muddle about dead letter dealing death : LETHAL

23-across – Looking forward from the deck? : CARTOMANCY

24-across – Bottom of the barrel : BUTT

25-across – Express disapproval about stray returning to tower : TURRET

26-across – A postgraduate diatribe by hothead is an all-time bloomer : AMARANTH

1-down – Island that’s the obsession of part-timers : TASMANIA

2-down – Page Three Girl, perhaps and what she’s supposed to do? : STUN

3-down – Winter garment given up without a fight : FRACAS

4-down – Make use of composer aboard hospital ship : HARNESS

5-down – Spotted couple holding a Frenchman up : MACULATE

6-down – Two hairdos on the way to the frozen base : PERMAFROST

7-down – Break strike involving a superpower : HIATUS

13-down – Work wonders without shocking treatment? It’s a hypothesis : CONJECTURE

16-down – Kindred spirit, turning somersault, spilled guts : SOULMATE

18-down – No sex but lots of speed in the City : CHASTITY

19-down – Ask to take an arty qualification in Casual Seating : BEANBAG

21-down – Ring and memorial plate missing? It’s unclear : OPAQUE

22-down – Priest adopting unknown name is no priest : LAYMAN

24-down – Pound, or what gets pounded? : BEAT

1-across – 6 1dn’s image first during break : HOSPITAL

5-across – Infant rumoured to be a hole in the head : ANTRUM

9-across – Emergency partner for police coming into a little money : ACCIDENT

10-across – Riding hat not hard on Dame Thora : ATHIRD

11-across – Break in 1ac task ruined when people start to discuss work : TALKSHOP

12-across – Reverse of 12ac in heaven : ZODIAC

14-across – Top 1ac? If not, do an U-turn : FOUNDATION

18-across – 1ac’s local authority is prodigal: holding back is the 8 man : WARDSISTER

22-across – Prompter’s back cover of Elements : EUCLID

23-across – Part of 25 is one part of 18: when? : INUNDATE

24-across – Servant of one being married, say, : GRUMIO

25-across – Lots of lots during getaway exposed : FLOODLIT

26-across – Scrape the bottom of 1 in 100 generally : DREDGE

27-across – Principal in 14 of 6 1dn with note about the old Eastern front : NYEBEVAN

1-down – See 6 : HEALTH

2-down – In poor 1dn when the King and I swap an island : SICKLY

3-down – Painfully treat 10 on the other side : IODISE

4-down – Hardly any use concealing what Santa says in Northamptonshire mansion : AYNHOHOUSE

6-down – Race to heal disease and halt corruption in the service : NATIONAL

7-down – Problem with 5? It is sequential to a cut flower : RHINITIS

8-down – Alberta hat for 1dn? : MEDICINE

13-down – How 1ac worker and friend could be marketed? : INTERNALLY

15-down – Ambivalent model stuck without love : TWOEDGED

16-down – Break time during renderings of brother priest : FRACTURE

17-down – 8 good for the ambitious? : ASPIRING

19-down – Some insect studies at B-Bury? : ENTOMB

20-down – Reactionary scientist starting reactionary book on gas? : PAVLOV

21-down – Dead ringer for Blake? : SEXTON

1-across – Having mismanaged rent, say, money collected from deposits : SEDIMENTARY

9-across – Swamp with cricketing terminology? : OVERRUN

10-across – To meddle in Germany incorrect? : INTRUDE

11-across – See 6 : OFPHYSICS

12-across – Fashion in gangsters sound : CRAZE

13-across – Winger, footballer Newcastle’s secured : ERNE

14-across – One holding back device that filters again? : RESTRAINER

16-across – Former African nation finished, for each potential unit having advanced : UPPERVOLTA

19-across – A spinner is on : ATOP

20-across – To be at this is on the whole great : LARGE

21-across – Hates to be working in trade where doing so is exploitative : SWEATSHOP

23-across – More flavoursome port? : TANGIER

24-across – Eleven arms here : ARSENAL

25-across – Sole with wheels : ROLLERSKATE

1-down – Bedfellow representing lap dancing : SLEEPINGPARTNER

2-down – Hat with two close sides? : DERBY

3-down – Male kin resolved to be so? : MANLIKE

4-down – Leveller reforms salient : NAILSET

5-down – Paul extols sacred oath: Hearts only for a tyrant : AUTOCRAT

6-down – Star Trek theory disproved by shifty, hapless cow? : YOUCANNOTCHANGE

7-down – Half-arrogant doctor’s no longer widely accepted article many held to be an issue for Anglicans? : HOMOSEXUALITY

8-down – Daily newspaper, The European, upright in communications : TELEGRAPHPOLE

15-down – Luxury contains, on reflection, little choice : FREEWILL

17-down – One tennis shot non-starter, then another gaining respect : OBSERVE

18-down – See 6 : THELAWS

22-down – Oral examiner covering for seed : TESTA

1-across – L to point to an act : SATURN

4-across – L’s sacking constricts relation, a radical : JUPITER

9-across – Gk one has a source of absinthe : ARTEMISIA

10-across – Put top to bottom and head to tail to be hung in Paris : UPEND

11-across – US state not in L : DIANA

12-across – Gk 24 has one Romano drinking hot tea endlessly : APHRODITE

13-across – L travelling in the tube? : MERCURY

15-across – A thousand people opposed to prayer? : MANTIS

17-across – Gk article subsequently repeated : ATHENA

19-across – With a face like a guru in a recording : VISAGED

22-across – Back Gk 4 across to preserve : SUEZCANAL

24-across – L from heaven, usquebaugh : VENUS

26-across – Call of French politician to make one’s hair curl? : CRIMP

27-across – California artist turned composer : SCARLATTI

28-across – Chained, sadly, being without teeth : ECHIDNA

29-across – Gk 13 from another mess : HERMES

1-down – Celebrity backed by doctor with mild expletives : STARDOM

2-down – Treat – cooked : TETRA

3-down – Engineering unit, one certain to check surveyor’s calculations : REMEASURE

4-down – Mary’s father takes the part of John, a tailless ape : JOACHIM

5-down – Gk submarine supplier : PLUTO

6-down – Summertime, and ___ – vicar’s got a sinecure! : THELIVING

7-down – Means of going straight to the right milk supply : RUDDER

8-down – See 6 : ISEASY

14-down – Slightly preferable to skin problem outside the smallest state : RATHERISH

16-down – Pole : NASHVILLE

18-down – Sick men are incontinent, which doesn’t happen to elephants : AMNESIA

19-down – L shows love, commonly got up, has the ability to follow : VULCAN

20-down – Push a girl’s girl : DISMISS

21-down – Further words to solvers about church by Gk : PSYCHE

23-down – … detectives holding top L : CUPID

25-down – The back of the chest? On the contrary, the stomach : NOTUM

9-across – Complete dependency when rescue’s very far westward? : VASSALAGE

10-across – In verse, the frog’s women could be interpreted in a naughty way! : WOOER

11-across – Accomplish 4 increase without the brewing of ale : REALISE

12-across – Fish sign mentioned in exam : TELEOST

13-across – In a hurry, as Billy Connolly in Wells : HYING

14-across – See 16 : WRITESAND

16-across – A certain emotional pointer’s an author and, once summonsed, puts setback behind him : THEMOVINGFINGER

19-across – 1960s’ comedy disputes stand-up turn : PLEASESIR

21-across – Belief in whatever God made is Man’s to apprehend : DEISM

22-across – See 16 : MOVESON

23-across – Winter travel time reduced with cunning : SLEIGHT

24-across – Left like Crusoe, producing long yarn : LISLE

25-across – Restless hick to live outside Jerusalem? : ARTICHOKE

1-down – Excessive work previously in the public eye raised temperature : OVERTHETOP

2-down – Single element in a set, reactive : ASTATINE

3-down – See 16 : HAVING

4-down – Carry on with payment : WAGE

5-down – Socialist experienced endlessly rising pain on his wrong side? : LEFTWINGER

6-down – Gwynedd resort will help with repairs : PWLLHELI

7-down – Do one in possession of gold crown : CORONA

8-down – See 16 : WRIT

14-down – Pentecost’s the reason for holding its United Nations poster up : WHITSUNDAY

15-down – Sinister affair that carries much weight universally? : DARKMATTER

17-down – Preoccupied bosses unsettled leader-writer : OBSESSED

18-down – Suspicious behaviour? Enter and get fantastic snog! : GOINGSON

20-down – Mishchievoush shinger? : ELVISH

21-down – Thoroughly wet Cleese character absorbed by M in new Bond films? : DRENCH

22-down – Gently acting plant disease you and I turned off : MILD

23-down – Glut of marinated meat on skewers : SATE