1-across – Shown way to take Mexican snack back and put in place : LOCATED

5-across – Ferry followed 1 down with lout drinking red brew : THEDRUG

9-across – Effective against a cover : VALID

10-across – Prison boat’s failure without second trial period : PROBATION

11-across – Cool when commanding one’s son as a substitute : IMPERSONAL

12-across – Hardly a mummy’s boy? : ADAM

14-across – Noble idea of 1 down gets time on man’s small trial with night off : THESWEETEST

18-across – Sewer reportedly hides small broom : NEEDLEFURZE

21-across – Be inclined to become well spoken : HEEL

22-across – Complaint originally started by two girls : SCARLATINA

25-across – Presley clued Alloa with final twist after 1 down : ALLAROUND

26-across – See 14 : THING

27-across – Modifier or qualifying part of whale : RORQUAL

28-across – Mickey & Sylvia track 1 down with way to roam : STRANGE

1-down – Young hit when nothing’s up? : LOVEIS

2-down – Islamic leader’s state with one pub : CALIPH

3-down – Elizabethan time’s desultory outcome? : TUDORSTYLE

4-down – Drunk from lower well : DIPSO

5-down – A horse was present in this : TROJANWAR

6-down – Dash if leaving once climax is over : ELAN

7-down – Towers in the north : REINDEER

8-down – Colt’s one stung him badly : GUNSMITH

13-down – Patron of restaurant erected in Twin Peaks : BENEFACTOR

15-down – Euphemistically **** off at clue being successful : EFFECTUAL

16-down – See 1 down : INTHEAIR

17-down – Old republican means to exert pressure over old measure : LEVELLER

19-down – Favourite’s wearing revealing dress? : MINION

20-down – Ring for British point of view : BANGLE

23-down – Travels at right time of month : RIDES

24-down – Language provides way to enter universities : URDU

1-across – Oz’s wet blanket makes an impression on American casualty! : WOWSER

4-across – Counterfeit coin? : INVENT

9-across – Recreate over the river : ODER

10-across – Entreaty impossible from Le Tin Man? : CRIDECOEUR

11-across – Was dubious theologian the Unknown Soldier? : SWADDY

12-across – Sour grapes from Modena when black Islamic avenger goes East for a conversion : BALSAMIC

13-across – Tergiversation going for a Burton? But that’s not British! : ABOUTTURN

15-across – Do as you’re told, you old b—, and ring back! : OBEY

16-across – Have daily involvement with the scriptures : VEDA

17-across – In truth, American tramps are given to circumlocution : VERBOSITY

21-across – Art lines badly drawn from William Wallace, were they? : ENTRAILS

22-across – Briefly, the biographer to the Franco-British-Spanish king : AUBREY

24-across – Brewing fifty Grade A tea bags : AGREATDEAL

25-across – High time Will Kane faced Frank Miller : NOON

26-across – Poor assistance for cartographers? : RELIEF

27-across – Recognition proverbially inherent in 20 : REWARD

1-down – See 2 : WIDEWEB

2-down – Mad idea from a bewildered widow; could be available to all for three short weeks! : WORLD

3-down – Steganographer will call for pint measure first : ENCRYPT

5-down – Engraving that is with lines in the negative : NIELLO

6-down – Shakespearian singers at the Coliseum bristle at the Guardian : ENOBARBUS

7-down – Sound sense in church, if replacing sad characters during the day : THURIFY

8-down – He 4-ed the 2 1down, investing Swiss capital in steel rim production : TIMBERNERSLEE

14-down – No corruption with this beneath the signet : UNDERSEAL

16-down – See 12 : VINEGAR

18-down – A touching sight? : BRAILLE

19-down – Strength or depth in the Scriptures : THEWORD

20-down – Soundly chased before losing it, was she? : VIRTUE

23-down – With America supporting opening of Battle of Hastings : BANDA

1-across – : COCKOFTHEWALK

10-across – : UPEARLY

11-across – : SOLDADO

12-across – : ZELDA

13-across – : NUMBERTEN

14-across – : REMIX

16-across – : VENDITION

18-across – : GETSTEADY

19-across – : ELVIS

20-across – : ANTIPHONY

23-across – : BALER

24-across – : MARTINI

25-across – : PALETTE

26-across – : JEKYLLANDHYDE

2-down – : OVERLIMIT

3-down – : KARMA

4-down – : FLYNN

5-down – : HUSHMONEY

6-down – : WOLVERINE

7-down – : LEANT

8-down – : QUIZPROGRAMME

9-down – : DOWNINGSTREET

15-down – : XETOPHILY

16-down – : VIATORIAL

17-down – : INVOLUTED

21-down – : THREE

22-down – : YAPON

23-down – : BELCH

8-across – How to avoid paying for a platypus? : DUCKBILL

9-across – The full measure of Australia : OUNCE

10-across – Kangaroo, say, poetically heard in passage : ISLE

11-across – The Voice of the Highlanders? : SUTHERLAND

12-across – Brit takes headless cat back in to tree-dweller : POSSUM

14-across – Mats laid out in bundles for dancing? : MATILDAS

16-across – Snap up a mixture of northerly 13 : PAPUANS

18-across – Making fast, low sound : MOORING

21-across – Can an airline go wrong internally and make capital? : CANBERRA

23-across – Chunder-making! Quote me! Send it back! : EMETIC

24-across – Did you redecorate : DIDGERIDOO

26-across – Magda you’ll find inside, morning and afternoon, I’d say : GDAY

27-across – Wolf down chow mein with no starter; William drops out : HOEIN

28-across – Ken who served well, or as badly : ROSEWALL

1-down – Sad Aussie detailed to bury digger’s tool inside mountain : SUISYOLA

2-down – Mislaid keys of the cooler : YKSE

3-down – Dr Seuss heartless to, that is, a whiner : EISSOM

4-down – Broken Hill team misses opening: what a record! : ALLTIME

5-down – Man at bay : COVE

6-down – Film star Harris takes out Wilde’s topless Mrs : NNYLFLORRE

7-down – Odds of a French team being seen in Northern Territory’s land : MEHNRA

13-down – Soap he rubs on, GI-style : SRUOBHGIEN

15-down – Cry heard by 28 when not in court? : TUO

17-down – One that 20 made scores of : NUR

19-down – Nationality of a citizen from Western Australia : NAINABLA

20-down – Don underwear? Damn ridiculous! : NAMDARB

22-down – Be quiet and lie back with a bird! : ALIEHS

23-down – Where Cook put a horse to work : EROHSA

25-down – Australian sailors and I find a princess : RANI

26-down – Has Wagga the heart for such a man? : GAWS

1-across – Almost arhythmic songsters : BEATLES

5-across – Arrangement of Bach – one to live with : COHABIT

9-across – Poet’s sea bird circling road by right : LORDBYRON

10-across – Conscious of sun god recoiling in admiration : AWARE

11-across – Try to wound : STAB

12-across – See 4 : HEARTSCLUB

14-across – Cell for nerve gas outside the old city : NEURON

15-across – Earthy sea bird keeping soldiers to the point : TERRENE

16-across – Back legs deliver sharp blow to vegetable : PARSNIP

18-across – See 4 : LONELY

20-across – It’s extremely silly to put axe in the way of a maniac : PSYCHOPATH

21-across – Piece of wood concealing origin of Norwegian pine : LONG

24-across – About to receive sort of poet : RILKE

25-across – Calling up a vet with voice breaking : EVOCATIVE

26-across – Gets limp Buddhist principle in Proverbs : SAYINGS

27-across – Most blue seats left out by model : SADDEST

1-down – Look into loan raised as a lump : BOLUS

2-down – Where to find flight controllers and graduates in a rage : AIRBASE

3-down – Part of ear revealed at topless ball : LOBE

4-down – Upset UN’s applecart: render Help : SERGEANTPEPPERS

5-down – Fruit of aunt’s toil after getting right into dance – well done! : CONGRATULATIONS

6-down – Wilful bird welcomes modern way to gain weight : HEADSTRONG

7-down – It’s not for sight-reading : BRAILLE

8-down – Many in the inner circle quake : TREMBLE

13-down – Product of northern ranch – beef and vegetable : FRENCHBEAN

16-down – Some Treasury papers brought up for writing on : PAPYRUS

17-down – Author’s cut by leading family : ROYALTY

19-down – There’s nothing in the Communist East like a cat : LEONINE

22-down – Welcome cry in the North : GREET

23-down – See 4 : BAND