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

1-across – Holding up the Dark Lady’s hat, giving remodelling : DAYLIGHTSAVING

9-across – Not so virile as Gerard Hopkins, say? : UNMANLY

10-across – Send back Swedish settler after the others : RESTORE

11-across – Bloomer one’s seen during return visit to the Old Vicarage : LILAC

12-across – A loud and complicated matter with hard consequences : AFTERMATH

13-across – Finding out by practice : DIAGNOSIS

14-across – Composer of Wordsworth’s Solitude : BLISS

15-across – Such TV has us in stitches : CABLE

17-across – Accompaniment variations al Tito Gobbi? Not it! : OBBLIGATO

20-across – Almost unable to construct a register the wrong way. Capital! : ULANBATOR

22-across – Prince of Hearts demands a drink. It’s his round! : RAJAH

23-across – Travesty when actions speak louder than words : CHARADE

24-across – Oblate loves valid convert : OVOIDAL

25-across – Heavy-handed state of le fast food sent wild : FLATFOOTEDNESS

1-down – With the French badly clued and in doubt, Switzerland might make a change : DOUBLEDECLUTCH

2-down – Putting up a grand chimney. Yes! With a lid for the synagogue : YAMULKA

3-down – Do not, in any wise, speak of Edith Wharton’s age : INNOCENCE

4-down – I hear two wise heads cracked with the times of their lives : HEYDAYS

5-down – Low cloud’s way over desert country : STRATUS

6-down – Without it a guest might lose face! : VISOR

7-down – Resurgent racist borne on a zimmer frame : NEONAZI

8-down – He helps me to sip with the Devil! : MEPHISTOPHELES

14-down – I produce a pipe? That’s right, with wife and family around : BRIERWOOD

16-down – Spending one’s time in a punch-up: it would be boring : BRADAWL

17-down – Full of vigour, but not perhaps hot on self-confidence : ONTHEGO

18-down – Poop of vessel involved in battle : BURNOUT

19-down – Declare a draw with Samson, for one? : ADJUDGE

21-down – Explosive expletive : BLAST

9-across – A link man practising 14 across? : NETWORKER

10-across – Girl painter holding carrier : RHODA

11-across – Operative was first to dance, a touch illegally? : HANDLED

12-across – Time for the news – I left wrapping the food : TINFOIL

13-across – Riding 20 for appeal after appeal : THIRD

14-across – Tree surgery follows a spasm, 1 of 11 : CRICKETER

16-across – Walker at the gate to grow feeble changing 14 across’s heart : LEGBEFOREWICKET

19-across – Ventures into water to see how the land lies? : SOUNDINGS

21-across – C-covering for 20 by 21 down, one may say, not among the 14 acrosses : CHAIR

22-across – House where Peter, drunk, used to flavour American beer : HOPTREE

23-across – Was fast circulating inside, being unable to solve the clue : STUMPED

24-across – Repeat broadcast about 14 across’s achievement : RERUN

25-across – Composer slightly involved with waterway, being in a drunken revel : BACCHANAL

1-down – Revelling overhead? : ONTHETILES

2-down – Very rich and very drunk, which is not to be sniffed at : STINKING

3-down – The front was where it should be: insert egg for bandy : BOWLED

4-down – Child of the South makes an uncontrolled movement : SKID

5-down – Small-minded character without the right to good looks : PRETTINESS

6-down – A tinker’s cursed in former Bantustan : TRANSKEI

7-down – Neither 3, 21 down, 16, 23 across, nor 11 8 etc – I won’t sell you a ticket : NOTOUT

8-down – See 11 : BALL

14-down – China’s royal race : CROWNDERBY

15-down – Dress again with herb: OAPs 23 down, more often 22 down, 7 permanently : RETIREDILL

17-down – Directions in the course of being permanent : ENDURING

18-down – £1,000 for a way to be 21 down breaking stones : KNAPPING

20-down – He won’t raise a finger if you’re 7 : UMPIRE

21-down – Beast saying he feels 23 down inside in a trap : CAUGHT

22-down – Damage to John, the player : HURT

23-down – Not so well written as it should be to a king : SICK

9-across – He plays piano and conducts because Misty inspires knowledge : ASHKENAZY

10-across – Extremist in the sinful tradition : ULTRA

11-across – Ask Pole to change title on letter : ESQUIRE

12-across – Daily newspaper’s gone out of business? : EXPRESS

13-across – Den sounds like hen : LAIR

14-across – Fagin’s boy, Dickens’ Herbert, gets on Dickens’ wick : PICKPOCKET

16-across – Common sight in the park: toe broken with rake : OAKTREE

17-across – Shake a lot during large drink : TREMBLE

19-across – See 2 : THELAZYDOG

22-across – Desert means to leave twice? : GOBI

24-across – Glass flipper : TUMBLER

25-across – Gray’s Inn almost turned lilac : SYRINGA

26-across – Frequently decimal? : OFTEN

27-across – Down these tubes vessel shot – one nil! : CANNELONI

1-down – Faltering train too slow at English end of Channel rail link : WATERLOOSTATION

2-down – In practice, comprehensive type of characters : THEQUICK

3-down – TV and newspapers offering Ken Dodd’s No Con : MEDIA

4-down – Stop for a few minutes jazz by Brubeck : TAKEFIVE

5-down – My word shows where initially to place C for Constraint : BYHECK

6-down – See 2 : JUMPSOVER

7-down – Run out of gear : STREAK

8-down – Isaac N. hit tree; it shook: what : RAISETHETITANIC

15-down – 500 sheets amongst 550 – and that’s heaven in bed : DREAMLAND

17-down – South goes west and Motorway sign’s the same : THOUSAND

18-down – See 2 : BROWNFOX

20-down – Bad feeling of mine aggravated gutless Tony : ENMITY

21-down – Shakespearean character this year in city : YORICK

23-down – Colour of mint with a hole, of course : GREEN