1-across – A sticker was successful outwardly : WOBURN

4-across – Attack the small quantity of flood protection : SANDBAG

9-across – Left at start of jubilee for a month in US city : LJUBLJANA

10-across – Corruption, alternative for agent of revolution : ROTOR

11-across – Example of capital growth in Hardy novel : HYDRA

12-across – A relay to set people on fire? : TORCHRACE

13-across – A honey flower : MELROSE

15-across – A little bit close : WHITBY

17-across – A good girl with a gun – hard article : AGATHA

19-across – A little portico a la princess? : DISTYLE

22-across – A fast union causing waters to rise : FOUNTAINS

24-across – See 5 : ANGER

26-across – A heartless date on packaging : SELBY

27-across – A : NIGHTMARE

28-across – American plant : TARWEED

29-across – Soldiers detain a deserter for nothing : GRATIS

1-down – A bad actor under Disney? : WALTHAM

2-down – Spring is certain : BOUND

3-down – Podgy lot, Labour’s progeny : ROLLABOUT

4-down – Fights with a bird : SPARROW

5-down – A : NORTH

6-down – Spa building where bachelor concealed the baby? : BATHABBEY

7-down – Place for The Flowers of the Forest with good overture : GARDEN

8-down – A teetotaller in some hay near Hastings : BATTLE

14-down – Off-cutter’s antithesis? Don’t believe me! : LEGPULLER

16-down – Transient effect within 24 hours : INSTANTER

18-down – Dressed on one side? : ALIGNED

19-down – How much to take to perform the wise man? : DOSAGE

20-down – Deaf, it might be supposed by a noblewoman? : EARLESS

21-down – Compensated for by printing? : OFFSET

23-down – Herb that sounds unfriendly? : THYME

25-down – General permission : GRANT

1-across – Henman’s outgrown his favourite surface… : TIMOTHY

5-across – … overheads sorted by one who’s charming : SMASHER

9-across – Character excluded by committee? : CARDBOARDCUTOUT

10-across – Stan’s mate’s happier when Junior’s not around : OLLIE

11-across – Keeping it dry, badly lose patience : SOLITAIRE

12-across – I’m seen on the Lagoon far too pickled with gin : FRIGATOON

14-across – Nobody kept one! : DIARY

15-across – It’s yellow or red and right in the line of fire : OCHRE

16-across – Take best 9 variations from this composer : BERNSTEIN

18-across – One such as yourself left cracking The Listener : EARTHLING

21-across – Vulgar fellow inhaling drug : CHEAP

22-across – Unplanned jet carries their sign : SPUROFTHEMOMENT

23-across – Few survivors on board now the battle’s nearly done : ENDGAME

24-across – Sage Derby, say, Mum’s swallowing : MAHATMA

1-down – Check and dress down : TICKOFF

2-down – The view is not so good from up here : MORALHIGHGROUND

3-down – Grade and transitive rating put over it are set at meal times : TABLEWARE

4-down – I’m certain arrival will be in 730 days, minimum : YEARS

5-down – Inverted danger sign is taking in African runner – this man withdraws competitor : SIDELINER

6-down – 18, generally, had ultimatum spelled out : ADULT

7-down – Vanadium and aluminium would not individually be so called : HOOLIGANELEMENT

8-down – Pre-piper Hamelin defection? : RATTERY

13-down – Here when one’s imprisoned, be let out with difficulty : OUBLIETTE

14-down – Is hospital in Washington reluctant to get cleaner? : DISHCLOTH

15-down – Presumably some work by Spenser, say, to superintend : OVERSEE

17-down – Thleepth thoundly, having taken a distillate : NAPHTHA

19-down – Fuss caused when one surprised expression interrupts another : HOOHA

20-down – Flash Gordon’s top male operative : GLEAM

1-across – Rabbit eating stew reportedly turns pink : ANGOSTURA

6-across – 3 heard in 5 : WOOL

10-across – Permission to go : LEAVE

11-across – Beast finds coin opening with hard black spike : SLOTHBEAR

12-across – Where cadets learn to get some help, returning many times : OCTUPLE

13-across – Spirit-backed races on brick : FLETTON

14-across – Crown in Chelsea endlessly in trouble: title lapsed in 1960 : NEWSCHRONICLE

17-across – Royal establishment keeps right to own public relations company vessel : CROWNPRINCESS

21-across – Conductor using buzzer at church before 12 : BEECHAM

22-across – Deprived of intelligence : WITHOUT

24-across – Duke John swallows a fish : ELLINGTON

25-across – Flier : BATHE

26-across – Makes no real attempt to eat oysters – not the lot : TOYS

27-across – King’s held a fool and queen a dish : CASSEROLE

1-down – Drinks ____ – pegs as well as holes? : ALLROUND

2-down – Outsize specimen of soldier insect : GIANT

3-down – See 5 : SHEEPSCLOTHING

4-down – Abjure blue berets? : UNSWEAR

5-down – Disguised villain goes 20 22 10 with flippers for Uriah, namely – see article : AWOLFIN

7-down – Obvious where we are? Far from it : OVERTHERE

8-down – Cat grasping a rabbit’s head needs a breather : LARYNX

9-down – Force runner to be main painter : CHIEFCONSTABLE

15-down – Playwright hesitating between tree and meadow? : WYCHERLEY

16-down – A job the Guardian’s producing, so to speak : ASITWERE

18-down – Neither wet nor dry, which stirs the cat in me : NEMATIC

19-down – Success among revolutionaries gets you back to the start : REWINDS

20-down – Jack told to go away : ABSENT

23-down – XL, to utter an unfashionable note : OUTDO

5-across – Tartan cape putting one in shade : WRAITH

6-across – State line question dividing temperance movement : ALASKA

9-across – Vote Democrat, I see : DIVIDE

10-across – Combined forces around Nile port : INTERPOL

11-across – Dried flower bed with a deep irrigation from the roots : WADI

12-across – Labour creator, bitter one in Ireland after work finishes : KEIRHARDIE

13-across – Decent property cages raving maniac : SAVINGGRACE

18-across – Can one cleave the brand in the Caribbean? : MARTINIQUE

21-across – Saucers suspended, some say, without handles : UFOS

22-across – Cruel fate trapping colt by first bet : PERFECTA

23-across – Catalytic converter’s frenzy, methane emitted : ENZYME

24-across – Stylish women quitting sewing circle abroad : SOIGNE

25-across – Flog on the butt : RETAIL

1-down – Sybil’s consort, as viewed I see before a church : BASILICA

2-down – Run for cover? Hardly! : STREAK

3-down – But he had no quarrel with Beaumont, apparently : FLETCHER

4-down – Shark found in American rivers : USURER

5-down – Why, as Hitler might have said, deface the old republic? : WEIMAR

7-down – Beau ideal falling in love during the commercials : ADONIS

8-down – Is this my farewell party?: FAQ during one’s execution : FIRINGSQUAD

14-down – Pope freed by Inquisition? : INNOCENT

15-down – Church put a resolution about introduction of Zionist brass : CHUTZPAH

16-down – Who-dun-it?, she asked. Saint Henry of Uluru? : SAYERS

17-down – The foreign soldiers retreating without a gong from their field marshal? : ROMMEL

19-down – Tin provided that female inside with lunch : TIFFIN

20-down – See old rock topped : EXETER

1-across – Marry but don’t be having children, the pestilential creatures : SPLICE

4-across – He’s accustomed to bark : SEADOG

9-across – It is not what he is that makes our planner snoop : PERSONALPRONOUN

10-across – 2 of 3 in boat taking on 1 of fab 4 : GEORGE

11-across – See 10 : HARRISON

12-across – Look with mine in view? : PROSPECT

14-across – Not fancy one that tangles with a cancelled performance : MATTER

15-across – See 14 : OFFACT

18-across – Start game with tyrant on holiday : BULLYOFF

21-across – Saint : STALLONE

22-across – Say what you may say is a decorative force : TORQUE

24-across – Dividing 9s – don’t tell anyone! : BETWEENYOUANDME

25-across – King of Persia bringing about raid on America : DARIUS

26-across – Automatic response to law enforcer’s law : REFLEX

1-down – Ursa, non-U version, entertaining cupbearer : SHEBEAR

2-down – Light in a pencil, as erasable? : LASER

3-down – Grant formerly given in successive notes : CONCEDE

5-down – A murder detected by sensitive listener : EARDRUM

6-down – Depression is the attempt to revert to the oral stage? : DENTISTRY

7-down – It’s sweet to stick around 19 : GLUCOSE

8-down – Dated tile? : OLDHAT

13-down – Broadcaster holding barrier to swordsman, as it were : SWALLOWER

16-down – Dad tailed and topped goose : FATHEAD

17-down – American writer for the Thunderer said O! : THOREAU

18-down – Farewell to extras : BYEBYE

19-down – Some salad, shall we say? : LETTUCE

20-down – Puzzle: cor! Nearly eaten by earth-dweller : FLUMMOX

23-down – Children always like a bit of kidney : RENAL