1-across – Bad dress rehearsal? Then there’s another thing – l-light’s out! : ALLRIGHTONTHE

10-across – Prepared to drive without trousers, for all the world to see : TELEVISED

11-across – See 1 : NIGHT

12-across – Recently elevated to indoor post : NEWEL

13-across – Provide me with 50-tonner for the making of joined-up characters : ENROLMENT

14-across – Religious revellers – this includes one American : THIASUS

16-across – Drink embracing a couple returning from fertility god : PRIAPUS

18-across – First lady’s got meat in place of plums : EVESHAM

20-across – Co-operation to show New York’s grey : SYNERGY

21-across – Fabulous bird on the hill: time for Tommy, perhaps : ROCKOPERA

23-across – Bill’s in employment with sheep : JACOB

24-across – Lanolin at a loss in Virginia : WOOLF

25-across – Composer to put on inches and a greater measure : ADDINSELL

26-across – Say part of the word for special delivery : EXPRESSLETTER

2-down – … for the boys I yell with horribly : LILYWHITE

3-down – … for more than this 5 in retreat from below : RIVAL

4-down – … for their makers: leave a lot of enchantments : GOSPELS

5-down – Die, sadly, during excursion – a current affair : TIDERIP

6-down – Large number or small number, nothing to a celebrity : NONILLION

7-down – William of Orange? : HAGUE

8-down – Exclamation applied to scenes worth broadcasting : STONETHECROWS

9-down – Standing at the door after 2, 3 and 4, they are shown off : STATUSSYMBOLS

15-down – Some fish forks partly caught in a shoe by the 3s’ companion : SCHOOLFOR

17-down – Let Dad run round with spirit : PARACLETE

19-down – Despicable commercials for audience of 14 : MAENADS

20-down – See 15 : SCANDAL

22-down – Pastry? Tell it to go away! : CHOUX

23-down – Article grasped by black girl : JANET

9-across – Member of sect on New Year’s Day receiving Oriental coin : JANSENIST

10-across – Make up for scoundrel get-ting his innards in a twist : ROUGE

11-across – Different crowd at the old jail : NEWGATE

12-across – Avenger divinely ordained by god : ELECTRA

13-across – Vegetables turned the boat round : OKRA

14-across – Live for a limited period under canvas and make progress : BETTERMENT

16-across – Articulate at high speeds : EXPRESS

17-across – Harp on about deceased, or about their intentions : PROBATE

19-across – Sort of mollusc that can scratch and rub chin : NUDIBRANCH

22-across – Army entertainer : HOST

24-across – Means of displaying pictures from top gallery : ACETATE

25-across – Easy-going Tenniel creation : LENIENT

26-across – Scottish medic gets religion : DORIC

27-across – Literature for a misguided drug user? : POTBOILER

1-down – Presenter, an American politician, in for a difficult time with guitarist : DJANGOREINHARDT

2-down – Cultivated pond with rows of blossom : SNOWDROP

3-down – Wild about the foreign judge : FERAL

4-down – Knowledge penetrates falsehood and points to true image : LIKENESS

5-down – Vouch for a team’s first match : ATTEST

6-down – Jealous Othello, perhaps, retired thither? : GREENROOM

7-down – Ladies’ padding creates hubbub : BUSTLE

8-down – Major retailer to leave with guide, taking the way east : DEPARTMENTSTORE

15-down – Something like a thousand pounds raised during weird encounter : SEMBLANCE

17-down – Illicitly accept currency in silver : PECULATE

18-down – Agreement about letter – concealing note without hiding it? : AVOWEDLY

20-down – The old finish behind the young beginner – it’s not very exciting : DREARY

21-down – Where Othello strove for love-apple : ALEPPO

23-down – Get goat for two years : ANNOY

1-across – Transport from Hastings to hustings? : BATTLEBUS

6-across – Some are muscling in on being suckled by a wolf : REMUS

9-across – Range with directions : ANDES

10-across – Needlewoman embroidering a top with right lace : CLEOPATRA

11-across – Hallmarked piece of pewter makes sense on South American river : TOUCHPLATE

12-across – Don’t start long journey round Scots island from the back row : REAR

14-across – Brought the other Dutch firm for tunnel construction: it’s lying at the limit : NOTHING

15-across – : COULDBE

17-across – : FURTHER

19-across – : FROMTHE

20-across – See 12 : RANK

22-across – Very bad beer – old pal’s drunk : DEPLORABLE

25-across – Dylan’s answer is coming soon : INTHEWIND

26-across – See 14 : TRUTH

27-across – Eyot has a tenant : ISLET

28-across – Call motorway police: a learner’s causing a fatality : HOMICIDAL

1-down – Animal on which to venture about a shilling? : BEAST

2-down – Victorian mathematician in pursuit of fox turned due north on time : TODHUNTER

3-down – Come down from odd holes with a number : LOSEHEIGHT

4-down – 12 piece of wood that should have been done : BACKLOG

5-down – Thomas Carlyle’s head in a tank : SCEPTIC

6-down – See 24 : ROPE

7-down – Episcopal joint : MITRE

8-down – Spooner to get hold of cheese – it comes to land : SEABREEZE

13-down – Act I – our act – shows domineering : AUTOCRATIC

14-down – One bird’s note on marsh raised by 10’s predecessor : NEFERTITI

16-down – Obliged to make a tax leap : DUTYBOUND

18-down – River bird spilling his wine : RHENISH

19-down – Hollywood has a dog’s name, keeping left, mile on mile : FILMDOM

21-down – South African by birth : NATAL

23-down – Solver’s in line for alcohol : ETHYL

24-down – Guy with 10, a figure of speech : TENT