1-across – See special instructions : WILLOW

4-across – See special instructions : QUORUM

9-across – See special instructions : ARCHIEPISCOPATE

10-across – See special instructions : GLORIA

11-across – See special instructions : SQUARELY

12-across – See special instructions : CRATERED

14-across – See special instructions : HUSSAR

15-across – See special instructions : DVORAK

18-across – See special instructions : PUZZLING

21-across – See special instructions : FLAUNTER

22-across – See special instructions : IRENIC

24-across – See special instructions : XERORADIOGRAPHY

25-across – See special instructions : YESMAN

26-across – See special instructions : JITTER

1-down – See special instructions : WARBLER

2-down – See special instructions : LEHAR

3-down – See special instructions : OPENAIR

5-down – See special instructions : UNCOUTH

6-down – See special instructions : REPERUSAL

7-down – See special instructions : MATILDA

8-down – See special instructions : BIASED

13-down – See special instructions : TORTUROUS

16-down – See special instructions : VELVETY

17-down – See special instructions : KITHARA

18-down – See special instructions : PYRGIC

19-down – See special instructions : ZWINGLI

20-down – See special instructions : NEITHER

23-down – See special instructions : EXACT

1-across – It holds personalities with first half-second : VESSEL

4-across – Makes beast dirty as 1 across : MUDSCOW

9-across – Crop reared in sample 1 across : TWOMASTER

10-across – Bump into 1 across : BARGE

11-across – Ocean-going 1 across? : CANOE

12-across – The whole snake-pit contains 1 across : PILOTBOAT

13-across – In France she’s able to overturn obsolete little 1 across : NACELLE

15-across – Check design of 1 across : TARTAN

17-across – Strap on sole 1 across : SANDAL

19-across – Breach in sea capsized 1 across : DRIFTER

22-across – Day with idiot around at 1 across : FRIGATOON

24-across – 1 across from the right bits of water : SLOOP

26-across – 1 across needing a blow : SMACK

27-across – Vehicle returning jolly 1 across : SUBMARINE

28-across – Soundly strain with many sheets in 1 across : TRIREME

29-across – 1 across backed seat : SETTEE

1-down – Said to be the top level in those leading religious authority : VATICAN

2-down – Cut point on outgrowth : SHORN

3-down – Hair-raising! The Spanish were ahead with a smooth finish : ENAMELLED

4-down – Fair to allow a swallow : MARTLET

5-down – Went underground to come up for the first time : DEBUT

6-down – Diver gives expression of surprise at short time to go on : CORMORANT

7-down – For one the war destroyed? : WREATH

8-down – Principal way to fasten : STAPLE

14-down – One who does 4 to air differences causes discord : CHARIVARI

16-down – Put back to control civil power? : REINSTATE

18-down – Free to include king bearing gander : LOOKSEE

19-down – Name outlining an oriental flower : DANUBE

20-down – Full of sound tuck again : REPLETE

21-down – Compensation is out of line : OFFSET

23-down – Joint has no right to give continual pain : ANKLE

25-down – Poet’s childhood is truly content : ODIST

7-across – Maybe first or second row gets spoken about : ORDINAL

8-across – Upwardly mobile person must be more or less flexible : CLIMBER

10-across – See 22 : SENSES

11-across – Spinner and muscleman are ill-balanced : TOPHEAVY

12-across – See 22 : YOUR

13-across – 22 23 6 12 10? A penny for them : WHATAREYOU

14-across – Gardener’s aid to blackbird in fictional village : CLOCHEMERLE

19-across – See 13 : THINKINGOF

22-across – Every fool has easy avenue to nukes: organiser’s sanity is in question : HAVE

23-across – : YOUTAKEN

24-across – Refugee from alien regime : EMIGRE

25-across – Demeanour of singer captivating audience : BEARING

26-across – Nick’s not to play without a handicap : SCRATCH

1-down – Right to come in to eat, before time’s up, where there are no bars? : FREEDOM

2-down – Musician, a holy one, in devious Merlin’s grasp : MINSTREL

3-down – Martial epigram, perhaps, is capital : WARSAW

4-down – Wise man keeps speaker quiet, seeing the extent of failure : SLIPPAGE

5-down – Some current version of Dad after upsetting Mum : AMPERE

6-down – See 22 : LEAVEOF

9-down – Chaps who have cuppas take to booze in the home counties for a source of power : STEAMENGINE

15-down – Smart boys? Let them stand up before they are counted : CHICKENS

16-down – I had twice left off being refined : LAHDIDAH

17-down – Bird with a cough that faces work with uncertainty : WHOOPER

18-down – Covetousness is a bad thing without much art : AVARICE

20-down – Rugby score disallowed by intervention of a lawman : NOTARY

21-down – Deprive of money and escape from church : FLEECE

1-across – Wealthy woman, not healthy one, broadcasting during disorder : MILLIONAIRESS

10-across – Tell : RECOUNT

11-across – France’s good day down under unfinished by a stroke of luck : BONANZA

12-across – Scottish flower is out : FORTH

13-across – Random test to identify squared pattern : SPOTCHECK

14-across – Dostoievsky’s tale told the life of Macbeth : IDIOT

16-across – Wreck of the 15-a-side game by a type of Toryism : RUINATION

18-across – The West, going to flounder miserably, applied to Copenhagen : WONDERFUL

19-across – 15 man producing some-thing of an ego-trip : ROGET

20-across – Exposed again holding diamonds and hearts, so coloured on top : REDHAIRED

23-across – Architectural style from Greenland or Iceland : DORIC

24-across – French and British princess, the former foolish : ETOURDI

25-across – Looks at the Eternal City as Spooner did in the undergrowth? : RHIZOME

26-across – Royal chalice – his grammar needs correcting – of some age : MARSHMARIGOLD

2-down – Encroachment of over ten dogs into pub : INCURSION

3-down – Best end of crow? : LAUGH

4-down – Titus went off to sea : OATES

5-down – Do I learn about relations being divine? : AMBROSIAL

6-down – Film director’s children, one going off with chocolate cake : RENECLAIR

7-down – Introduce a note and nearly set fire to it? : SINGE

8-down – Deal with merry-andrew, who can give you … : TRAFFICWARDEN

9-down – … a parcel containing a royal sovereign – take it up : PARKINGTICKET

15-down – It housed the treasure of the Lizard : THESAURUS

16-down – Not a revolutionary creed, that is, of Mr and Mrs Turner : REFORMISM

17-down – US politician, admiral and watchmaker faking liner’s log : INGERSOLL

21-down – I leave 14 with a Greek vase : DIOTA

22-down – Artist that lasts? : DURER

23-down – Do it yourself, badly – no good for ending : DYING

1-across – Home counties, whatever their speed, have the marine spirit : SEANYMPH

5-across – See 18 : DEFEAT

9-across – Interval to find bear lost in wood : TEABREAK

10-across – 11 is here and here again with king replaced by aces in different places : BRECON

12-across – 11 shows king amid returning security : LAKES

13-across – Girl back later, possibly, crossing the circle : DIAMETRAL

14-across – Footwear from American football? : PIGSKINSHOES

18-across – Awfully kind offer to go in where Bobby may be almost finished? : ONTHEBRINKOF

21-across – Songs about detectives on return from soviet-style government : SYNODICAL

23-across – Confederacy on fire? : DIXIE

24-across – Spotted snake’s head in prude’s mouth? : MEASLY

25-across – It is not by way of encroachment following mother : MAINROAD

26-across – Would-be stripper causes hell among teachers : NUDIST

27-across – X-ray to remove top from around Indian city : SKIAGRAM

1-down – Agree to stop moving : SETTLE

2-down – You could say a nose-rag was a necessity for the Greeks : ANANKE

3-down – 11 gold sovereigns leased, with exterior locks : YORKSHIRE

4-down – 11 requiring obedience after vegetable upset kid : PEAKDISTRICT

6-down – Home for bird or fairy, say? : EYRIE

7-down – French food in the East containing a load : ESCARGOT

8-down – According to Lent’s use, rendered without melody : TUNELESS

11-down – Race to put your car here! : NATIONALPARK

15-down – 11 turned down when held by Mrs Gandhi : SNOWDONIA

16-down – Rider*s cape has the same turned in : HORSEMAN

17-down – The flag is nothing special : STANDARD

19-down – 11 used to play Othello? : EXMOOR

20-down – Models remodelled once in a blue moon? : SELDOM

22-down – See 3 : DALES