8-across – Some roasted beef produces fruity flesh : MESOCARP

9-across – Means of making rate assessment, reverse of profound and so accommodating : SPEEDO

10-across – Passionate woman with plenty of hair but no heart : FURY

11-across – Gave Spurs 100: that’s how long we’ve lasted, ultimately? : ENCOURAGED

12-across – British inscribed in watchful old timer’s chain : ALBERT

14-across – Dry undercover for 747? : AIRLINER

15-across – A little tinned fly? : SMIDGEN

17-across – They can’t do without theologian, one dipping into one of his books : ADDICTS

20-across – Facing forward, but often far removed : AFFRONTE

22-across – Terrapins kept in academy desalinator : EMYDES

23-across – Way for bee or crow to avoid connections : DIRECTLINE

24-across – Fellow to observe correct stamp : MARK

25-across – Oddly this is about time in Staffs : THYRSI

26-across – Look after drunk’s outstanding feature : HIGHSPOT

1-down – Version of Sequel A: compere’s about to appear in court : EEQUALSM

2-down – Too many drugs taken in by the constitution : BODY

3-down – Mourn for morning in Church season : LAMENT

4-down – Sort of delivery for which you sign on the circled line at ‘4’ – it’s in from bank : SPECIAL

5-down – See 1 : CSQUARED

6-down – See 4 : RELATIVITY

7-down – Stick Great puzzles by Enigmatist at 7 down : ADHERE

13-down – Source of wine causes slip during Real-Atletico match? : ELDERBERRY

16-down – The great man’s thirsty: his in this! : EINSTEIN

18-down – See 4 : THEORYOF

19-down – Please observe curfew! : DELIGHT

21-down – Strong hint for Sally : FLIGHT

22-down – Go horribly green with envy, ultimately : ENERGY

24-down – Bumble’s Third Law – it was likened to such a 2 : MASS

1-across – H’s work at vice removal is affecting the brain : PSYCHOACTIVE

8-across – Small child holding a speaker wins the palm : TALIPOT

9-across – Holy person deserves to precede Eliot, the poet : STEARNS

11-across – Morning on film, going into Mexican port : TAMPICO

12-across – Grace in films became increasingly wet : RAINIER

13-across – Pester the prince : HARRY

14-across – Moderated and went on changing, keeping back eccentric : TONEDDOWN

16-across – H’s direction, its first part having got by : NORTHWEST

19-across – Do business with the wind : TRADE

21-across – One pound unit may be integral to the structure : INBUILT

23-across – Unquiet is the city, South American to North American : RIOTOUS

24-across – Droppings from an unknown create problem : EXCRETA

25-across – Roy, the golden beast of the prairie : ORBISON

26-across – Deceleration depends on gravity and air resistance : FALLINGSPEED

1-down – Royal resort between rivers in compound : POLYMER

2-down – Make over for heartless solvers, very quietly if you begin : YUPPIFY

3-down – Comforter in bed, consumption much exaggerated in space : HOTBOTTLE

4-down – Backwater for Irish and Norse gods : AESIR

5-down – Singular work of H getting hissed off stage : THEBIRD

6-down – H’s work naturally makes me turn green : VERTIGO

7-down – ‘Oly H, enemy of fashion, doesn’t lose 9, they say : STITCHINTIME

10-down – H’s work for arrogant interns, as composed : STRANGERSONA

15-down – Some note or notes on H’s work : NOTORIOUS

17-down – H’s 23 girl : REBECCA

18-down – Parasitic worm, caddish type, holding its breath? : HAIREEL

19-down – Time and money with 13 is H’s work : TROUBLE

20-down – Enraged maybe by diabolical road use : AROUSED

22-down – See 10 : TRAIN

8-across – 22 down was without faith in God, but converted : DOUBTING

9-across – 22 down, Welsh speaker for England : GEORGE

10-across – 22 down, poet, briefly going round and round : EDDY

11-across – 22 down Ñ you canÕt give his TLC : TANKENGINE

12-across – Growth promoter fills English church with Scottish water : CLOCHE

14-across – … which follows the said fruit, in no hurry : SLOWNESS

15-across – Scruffy nut, dishevelled without much of 19 : UNKEMPT

17-across – Mime artist among offspring could have people in transports : STATION

20-across – Enterprising affair beginning with about £1,000 : STARTREK

22-across – Six foot or so is the musical 22 down : TALLIS

23-across – See 3 : BLACKSAMBO

24-across – 22 down, the magic mountaineer : MANN

25-across – 22 down on call with maybe 20 character : BECKET

26-across – Where I saw Jeanie marinade fruit : INADREAM

1-down – Singer gives a shilling to 22 down, poet : BOBDYLAN

2-down – Take orders for decoration before you start : OBEY

3-down – Cat bit small bloke Ñ incorrect version of incorrect story? : LITTLE

4-down – Time keeping on islands causes worry : AGONISE

5-down – Note in Beethoven overture near St Bees : EGREMONT

6-down – Sympathetic about time from oneÕs birth : CONGENITAL

7-down – Spies obtain information among old women at war : AGENTS

13-down – Food requiring checker: Ray, possibly? : CHERRYCAKE

16-down – Live-in companion for knock-up, as it is with 18 : PARASITE

18-down – Poor relation from the realms of sunrise? : ORIENTAL

19-down – 22 down, Christian writer and politician, is supporting the end of 13 : AKEMPIS

21-down – Director of course in agriculture? : TILLER

22-down – Something of a concession to MummyÕs boy : THOMAS

24-down – Another 22 down : MORE

1-across – Puts one’s hands together audibly to applaud : PRAISE

4-across – Charges a charge, say? : ATTACKS

9-across – Order more stout and that’s the limit : OUTERMOST

10-across – Artist to eat … : MUNCH

11-across – … another for breakfast? : BACON

12-across – Artist can drink rum tot : CANALETTO

13-across – Artist not entirely devout, being without godhead : HOLBEIN

15-across – With hands on hips, king in the end gets the whiff of armpits : AKIMBO

17-across – Artist’s advice to angler having caught a minnow? : TISSOT

19-across – Bone in spuds in shreds : TATTERS

22-across – Not immediately after the alarm was raised? : OVERSLEPT

24-across – Two from the centre: if eleven were ten would broadcast : RADII

26-across – Artist needs reclining model to draw off : KLIMT

27-across – Cad wears glasses or is disguised for religious works : ORATORIOS

28-across – Artist’s marbles missing in some records : ELGRECO

29-across – Artist forged art? Sue! : SEURAT

1-down – Bear bleating sound from pompous official : POOHBAH

2-down – Athenian upper chamber : ATTIC

3-down – Aliens by the way, eleven in Glasgow : STRANGERS

4-down – One feels number getting squeezed by girl : ANTENNA

5-down – Tiger : TAMIL

6-down – Artist’s Boy in Blue? : CONSTABLE

7-down – ‘s not warm, we hear, for many fish : SCHOOL

8-down – Bird moving out with Billy? : TOUCAN

14-down – Girl with tie on loosely hanging about : LOITERING

16-down – Put one’s oar in and take one’s tripe out : INTERPOSE

18-down – Artist to draw game : TIEPOLO

19-down – Artist’s Colossus I framed : TITIAN

20-down – Shows contempt for its past performance : SPITSAT

21-down – Piece that is for a beginner : ROOKIE

23-down – French composer’s irony’s not right : SATIE

25-down – With going more firm, jockey’s heart goes to his head : DRIER

1-across – Battles in passage a month in advance : FORWARD

5-across – Green activity with one’s 17 22, 24 14, and 16 1across : PUTTING

9-across – ‘The Wizard’, an American periodical? : MAGUS

10-across – Sign of grain on an island : CAPRICORN

11-across – Likeness is due to change with the entry of some soldiers : SIMILITUDE

12-across – Bear a slight 11 to 9? : YOGI

14-across – See 24 : TOTHEPLOUGH

18-across – American entertainer causes safe-breaker holding tiller to lose his head : ETHELMERMAN

21-across – This strain exemplifies this ology : TAUT

22-across – See 17 : TOTHEWHEEL

25-across – Girls once ‘ad dollies when upset : OLDLADIES

26-across – See 1 : MARCH

27-across – Winds enveloping the island cause many, many harsh words : TIRADES

28-across – What elephants don’t have, strangely, is a name : AMNESIA

1-down – Donêt give food to those who drink outside breakfast time? : FAMISH

2-down – Diet and exercise for the government : REGIME

3-down – I agree with you – all bets off! : ABSOLUTELY

4-down – Money put first in passage : DUCAT

5-down – Page in black and white paper? It will never happen : PIPEDREAM

6-down – Minor branch of knowledge? : TWIG

7-down – Setter by himself with some guest that is equivalent but not identical : ISOLOGUE

8-down – Hung out with model holding illustration of the battle for the West : GUNFIGHT

13-down – Highland lassie bent nail, keeping things that attract a sultanate : CLANSWOMAN

15-down – Brute is on form: he was one of Caesar’s killers : TREBONIUS

16-down – Get cracking from low down with two and a half footballers : BESTFOOT

17-down – Get cracking from higher up: ought royal child to cut a cad? : SHOULDER

19-down – Friers give a name 22 : FERRIS

20-down – Girl who helps to heal the afflicted : ALTHEA

23-down – Army needs a plant : HOSTA

24-down – Get cracking from midway, within reach : HAND