1-across – It’s tricky when hot : POTATO

4-across – Shall I finish with half a dram? : WILLIAM

9-across – EC protocols had to be redrafted : CHOCOLATE

10-across – Gas enveloped this Roman : CHOCS

11-across – Notes negative feedback : AFTON

12-across – Bust heads? : CHESTNUTS

13-across – Swell to look over? : TOFFEES

15-across – Treatment for a bitten off tongue : NOUGAT

17-across – Sometimes a mickey-taking society … : MOUSSE

19-across – … filled old education department with fury : DRAGEES

22-across – Plus fours: five of them : ANDTWENTY

24-across – See 9 : DROPS

26-across – Cardinal cunning? : HEART

27-across – Hackman and First Lady hugged Violet : GENEVIEVE

28-across – Pages engaged by the Lords : PEPPERS

29-across – Read out document : DREAMS

1-down – Naughty dog, maybe, swal-lowed cricket club article : PECCANT

2-down – Red’s first in every French rainbow? : TROUT

3-down – Adjust short lens? There’s no point! : THORNLESS

4-down – Girl’s bathing in re-bottled wine … in what? : WHEREIN

5-down – Authorised lecturer, here for Proust on Time : LICIT

6-down – Built into a clue to give one the needle? : INOCULATE

7-down – Profane Calliope, for one, is taken in : MISUSE

8-down – A desperate chap takes up little time for capers : DANCES

14-down – It brightens up bad French party turning into a fiasco : FLOODLAMP

16-down – Pole vaulters aim for the door : UPANDOVER

18-down – Measures taken by printers seen working around old hack : ENNAGES

19-down – Older members accomplish their desires : DOYENS

20-down – They tend to involve one in unnatural stress : SISTERS

21-down – Count the receipts from first class? A pushover! : CASHUP

23-down – A go-between for smokers taking Ecstasy : WITHE

25-down – Work : OPERA

1-across – See special instructions : FIBBERY

5-across – See special instructions : SLIPPED

9-across – See special instructions : XERIC

10-across – See special instructions : GOODBOOKS

11-across – See special instructions : LANTERNLECTURE

13-across – See special instructions : USED

14-across – See special instructions : ZEOLITES

17-across – See special instructions : CLARINET

18-across – See special instructions : KOTO

21-across – See special instructions : WILLIAMWALLACE

23-across – See special instructions : TWOANDTWO

24-across – See special instructions : AISLE

25-across – See special instructions : ROSERED

26-across – See special instructions : NATASHA

1-down – See special instructions : FOXY

2-down – See special instructions : BARRAGEBALLOONS

3-down – See special instructions : EXCITE

4-down – See special instructions : YOGURT

5-down – See special instructions : SHOULDER

6-down – See special instructions : IMBECILE

7-down – See special instructions : PRODUCTIONCOSTS

8-down – See special instructions : DISPERSION

12-down – See special instructions : QUICKWATER

15-down – See special instructions : VISIONER

16-down – See special instructions : HELMETED

19-down – See special instructions : MAROON

20-down – See special instructions : OLFACT

22-down – See special instructions : JENA

4-across – Not assuming 12 : MODEST

6-across – Pilgrim and raconteur keeping in with the Hatter : MILLINER

9-across – Joint decision-maker, always reflective : REEFER

10-across – Place 10 yields 5 points : PENTACLE

11-across – Refitted steamer, introducing floor covering and purity gauge : SALINOMETER

15-across – Lab test rectified medication : TABLETS

17-across – Two types of stylised drama, the latter dropping a lost cause : NOHOPER

18-across – Work at home, having retired, and snoop around, being in the area : PROPINQUITY

22-across – Wholehearted hard man holds whore’s heart : THOROUGH

23-across – Marvellous food secures a less than specific date : MANANA

24-across – Crashes round city returning fliers : WRYNECKS

25-across – 0 – 0 / -1 phoney wind : ZEPHYR

1-down – Behind giving name to flower : ASTERN

2-down – 500 to 1 on Balt versus Amateurs : DILETTANTI

3-down – Nothing’s missed by underworld boss’s supreme biographer : PLUTARCH

4-down – Gloom in changing room – one in a hovel : MOROSITY

5-down – Fingerprint set concealed by a long garment : DJELLABA

7-down – Lift slammer : NICK

8-down – Sounded obscene and was sorry : RUED

12-down – Gross turnover received by pungent music man : MUSSORGSKY

13-down – Promise to absorb last words: I’m an old dog learning new tricks : OPSIMATH

14-down – Uninspired musical sequel to Goldilocks? : GREYHAIR

16-down – See right through incomplete specialist spacecraft : EXPLORER

19-down – Utter tremolo note : QUAVER

20-down – Put in storage for point-to-point : STOW

21-down – Belch prepositions : TOBY

1-across – Coming when promised, turned into myself : ONTIME

4-across – Musical attempt to keep snake to the point : SHOWBOAT

9-across – Got back and leg broken in an on-and-off affair : TOGGLE

10-across – Order a bed from the bakery? : APPLEPIE

11-across – The game continues: the same person bowls : ITISNOTOVERYET

13-across – Here are the rivals: study their offers : CONTENDERS

14-across – Fiddler gets a generous portion : NERO

16-across – Area of Israel : ACRE

18-across – Cause of trouble – little trouble included ã between 13 across : BATTLELINE

21-across – Effect of cubism on maverick Crisp – coo! As tiny as can be! : SUBMICROSCOPIC

23-across – The Great Lover can keep, like eggs : CASANOVA

24-across – Verse from South African country’s majority : STANZA

25-across – German regional currency is outstanding : LANDMARK

26-across – Flatterer’s tool : TROWEL

1-down – Coat hook left by chef and taken by 5? : OATH

2-down – Screw up till you hear the giant? : TIGHTEN

3-down – Follower of 5 finds girls sweet but not refined? : MOLASSES

5-down – Devotee of Asclepius makes transporters for pachyderms : HIPPOCRATES

6-down – Everyone in liquor can take notes : WALLET

7-down – How exciting! You can hear the struggle to reproduce ferns : OOPHYTE

8-down – Former majority produced by 3 and 7 : TWENTYONE

12-down – Song from 4 and Mr Turner appears in musical : OLDMANRIVER

13-down – Not the romantic fool, in the trite phrase he leaves to others : CLASSICAL

15-down – He keeps the press informed about drink : REPORTER

17-down – See 22 : ROBESON

19-down – I won’t! is possible sequel to 11 : ITISNOW

20-down – Adam and Eve turned up moving wood : BIRNAM

22-down – Friend’s about turn, having dressed, produced 12 : PAUL

1-across – Union leader comes in to bless deck : BEAUTIFY

5-across – Group to be followed by UEU : SESTET

9-across – Become familiar with single race area without high king at present : GETTOKNOW

11-across – See 3 : HARDY

12-across – 3 11’s place for sugar with game : CASTERBRIDGE

15-across – A lot of policemen take drugs : ACID

16-across – One of 3 11’s people, funny old article seen in amazement : WOODLANDER

18-across – Cross-fertilise, perhaps – try near rim? : INTERMARRY

19-across – Illness reported – I must let some air in : FLUE

21-across – Damage coin that’s damaged at base by an arithmetical concept : HARMONICMEAN

24-across – Musical from 27 25 : EVITA

25-across – See 27 : THENATIVE

26-across – They are held by 5 with one change in polarity : TENETS

27-across – 3 11’s made a profit frequently with female, a model I have cut : RETURNOF

1-down – A terror on the golf course was Humphrey, so I’ve heard : BOGY

2-down – Shaw said to be a culture vulture? : ARTY

3-down – He wrote, after his time, about some hot potato : THOMAS

4-down – Designer for use at work at a table : FUNCTIONALIST

6-down – Celestial quarter where duck swallows lady : ETHEREAL

7-down – Sailor, one to cheat and lie : TARADIDDLE

8-down – Playing by ear during attempts with soft fruit : TAYBERRIES

10-down – The very first performance of the Emperor, Wilder version : WORLDPREMIERE

13-down – Veto on one, with the monarch intervening, sent into exile : BANISHMENT

14-down – Biased account supplied by idiots to Royal Navy : DISTORTION

17-down – Old sailor in a groove has a drink – upset inside : ARGONAUT

20-down – Dome scene, 10 with a commercial turn : XANADU

22-down – One with pride at being a celebrity : LION

23-down – Joint complaint? : BEEF