1-across – Onslaught from ethnic group on withdrawal of charity : DIATRIBE

5-across – Worker in pick-up vehicle achieves academic distinction : CANTAB

9-across – Person likely to fall for tourist : TRIPPER

10-across – End of public flogging as reprimand : CHIDING

11-across – Bone clusters of which human has two, fish one : CARPI

12-across – We finally totter on two legs, making progress : ONONESWAY

13-across – Wild apes with penchant for coincidence : HAPPENSTANCE

17-across – Doctor treats discontented lady here : HARLEYSTREET

20-across – Limit transport for internees : CONSTRAIN

22-across – Jack leaves wound to harden : INURE

23-across – Obscure cuttings placed in here from time to time : ECLIPSE

24-across – Glosses over title held by golfer : ENAMELS

25-across – Various rooms ultimately somewhat damp? : SUNDRY

26-across – Embracing couples heading off at sea around South America : ESPOUSAL

1-down – Loathed revolutionary guards about to take off : DETACH

2-down – Airline’s first change involving current restriction for flyers : AVIARY

3-down – Copy most of answers, admitting woeful act : REPLICATE

4-down – Traveller’s bid for extraordinary piece of text : BIRDOFPASSAGE

6-down – Active serviceman’s parting drink : AGILE

7-down – Appendage with curl that enhances one’s speed : TAILWIND

8-down – Bêtes noires, who score over par on the course? : BOGEYMEN

10-down – Top lady in waiting at palace? : CROWNPRINCESS

14-down – Ignoring Wagner initially, make do with baroque opera : THEMIKADO

15-down – Draughts in US premier’s residence spoken of : CHECKERS

16-down – Early US statesman’s free love rejected : FRANKLIN

18-down – Powerful men on board here in New York? : QUEENS

19-down – Ship from Latvia being loaded up : VESSEL

21-down – Get thinner and lighter : TAPER

1-across – As some stones of course ground, grit’s back : ROSECUT

5-across – Say what you might do with cheese for bird? : GREYTIT

9-across – Player referring to publication’s withdrawal : GAMER

10-across – See 28 : BROADCAST

11-across – Fruit: bloke gets one out : MANGOSTEEN

12-across – Be honest, singer flat: lack of effort about the same? : CALL

14-across – Fun with a tot never in doubt for abandoned child : ENFANTTROUVE

18-across – See 12 : ASPADEASPADE

21-across – Father held back by mother, I see : SIRE

22-across – Britain is split about one getting behind party — what might reward loyalty? : DOGBISCUIT

25-across – Laying off vodka in particular, atmosphere initially has turned sour : OVIPAROUS

26-across – Part needing no introduction, slow burner : EMBER

27-across – See 24 : KITTENS

28-across – Programme that’s tedious? : OUTSIDE

1-down – Ruling system, for example, welcomed by prince after revolution : REGIME

2-down – One day in solitary on the borders for religious offence : SIMONY

3-down – Stew seeing German city commer­cial: worry about that : CARBONNADE

4-down – Norman’s half-hearted uprising in Far Eastern land : TIBET

5-down – March, when bird with budgies and canaries flying north? : GOOSESTEP

6-down – Current dispute, sound and fury ultimately : EDDY

7-down – Where pain registered like that, a hit lodged? : THALAMUS

8-down – Wrecked, having carried round the entire load : TOTALLED

13-down – I go on trail that’s colourful : IRIDESCENT

15-down – Similar capital in Uganda, Angola so different : ANALOGOUS

16-down – Key pulling spring up in timing mechanism : CAPSLOCK

17-down – Role is in religious text for Riley, say? : OPARTIST

19-down – Asian metropolis offering relative security, briefly : MUMBAI

20-down – Go without eyeball having restricted vision, primarily : STARVE

23-down – Voice of albatross, a bird ascending : BASSO

24-down – Produce little balls of fluff and feel hair stand on end? : HAVE

9-across – Making flat denial at first, then have to reveal a U-turn in government policy? : LEVELLING

10-across – Said one was equipped for work in the Garden State : IDAHO

11-across – Nameless criminal and comic : GAGSTER

12-across – Heavily beaten by mistress : OVERRUN

13-across – Confuse with nonsense — initially, they wouldn’t leave : ADDLE

14-across – One may come up with ‘The Future’s Green’, also ‘Green Revolution’ : SLOGANEER

16-across – Conservative pals may coin it freely — that’s about right with this : CRONYCAPITALISM

19-across – One right suppressed among others — tough! : RESILIENT

21-across – Are talk shows being withdrawn next? : LATER

22-across – Talked of private grudge : RANCOUR

23-across – After year out, south coast team’s internationals destroyed City : POMPEII

24-across – Abandon a lot of mates outside America : WAIVE

25-across – On the job with lady occasionally entertained — which a certain politician aspired to be? : WORLDKING

1-down – One taking steps to record driver originally going through sign : CLOGDANCER

2-down – A good rave largely annoyed an Italian law man : AVOGADRO

3-down – Was effective around left — that bloke’s happy : BLITHE

4-down – Complain about one ‘inadvertently misleading’ Parliament? : LIAR

5-down – Crop expert disheartened fighting simpleton over time : AGRONOMIST

6-down – Movies : CINERAMA

7-down – … horror one for PM’s ‘closest adviser’? : CARRIE

8-down – See 9 : DOWN

14-down – Mark and Charlie worse off without — they’re not exactly smart in their field : SCARECROWS

15-down – On motorway, transport’s beginning to conk out — hitching again! : REMARRIAGE

17-down – Cry due to looking old : YELLOWED

18-down – Inherit a settlement, generally felt to be imminent : INTHEAIR

20-down – Finally register wrong family : SINKIN

21-down – Boy gets lots of information in a letter : LAMBDA

22-down – Wake up hearing arguments : ROWS

23-down – Green area is quiet place of refuge : PARK

9-across – A writer thus recalled joining Telegraph after vacancy — master of manipulation? : OSTEOPATH

10-across – Love found by a number after gender transition? : AMOUR

11-across – Right plugs please for thin flow : TRICKLE

12-across – Reported ability to appreciate for board : PALETTE

13-across – Certainly not unbuttoned, back to front : NOPE

14-across – Chief serving shipping route? : MAINCOURSE

16-across – Shifty backward pass received by First Lady : EVASIVE

17-across – Key word or phrase contains first of text penned by witch : HASHTAG

19-across – Singer in tizzy, music perhaps getting stick earlier? : RODSTEWART

22-across – Fair game, lamprey’s caught : MELA

24-across – Some kind of denim’s OK, perhaps? : ANAGRAM

25-across – File in or head for the exit? : GROWOLD

26-across – Japanese creation, great achievement by the sound of it? : HAIKU

27-across – A rogue in a car alongside me offering Emmylou Harris memorabilia, perhaps? : AMERICANA

1-down – Creation of ‘7’ playwright tries: laugh about that with another 7 : HORTONHEARSAWHO

2-down – The opaque moon constant over a country : ETHIOPIA

3-down – See 23 : SOCKS

4-down – A racket thrown over back of fence, don’t get hurt : TAKECARE

5-down – I’ll drive you south of capital in Caracas, maestro : CHOPIN

6-down – In Bavaria, certainly one lake hot: river cooler : JAILHOUSE

7-down – Spike kind of funny, if doubled up? : DOCTOR

8-down – Commonplace sutures encourage smooth creation of ‘7’ : GREENEGGSANDHAM

15-down – Spooner’s pitcher of beer for dance? : JITTERBUG

17-down – Geronimo for instance eaten by lions : HEREGOES

18-down – Creation of ‘7’ with scalpel, head removed, cutting into chest : THELORAX

20-down – Sound clasps unprepared for hook : DRAWIN

21-down – Pill cut up for animal : WOMBAT

23-down – Creation of ‘7’: poisons initially unseen imbibed by large numbers, not fifty : FOXIN

5-across – Islander heading for cinema rushed to catch film : CRETAN

6-across – Picked up doughnut for some stars : TAURUS

9-across – Conservative chap’s into S&M, creating division : SCHISM

10-across – Oh dear! Is ground in country no longer? : RHODESIA

11-across – Native American’s somewhat faddish opinions : HOPI

12-across – What disciplinarians read has man involved in threesome with delicacy : THERIOTACT

13-across – Some wood covered in fancy polish — it’s for expert in 8s, say : PHILOLOGIST

18-across – Outdid frames art gallery trialled : BETATESTED

21-across – Going out with partner once having personal charm : EXIT

22-across – Ambassador willing to accept honour for England at Wembley, say? : HOMEGAME

23-across – Nurse only half pens records for medical problem : SEPSIS

24-across – Satisfied about cool ending of Rameau composition : MINUET

25-across – I’m not sure about small-scale rebellion : MUTINY

1-down – One dwelt towards the north, given case of Scotch that’s very bad : DEVILISH

2-down – Rodent raised two male animals : MARMOT

3-down – Paddling in ocean incredibly good : CANOEING

4-down – Primitive fellow’s grave : URGENT

5-down – Firms working to provide protective covering : COCOON

7-down – Cut treatment for side pain : STITCH

8-down – Queen dons anorak, European queen that’s one of thirteen characters across here : GREEKLETTER

14-down – Oscillations in air currents or foliage around east and west : LEEWAVES

15-down – Rogue peed in vessel for disinfectant : SHEEPDIP

16-down – Buckle from jacket of fleece turned up in bedroom : DEFORM

17-down – Energise two classical sextets, faintly disheartened : VIVIFY

19-down – Getting on and being in harmony but not touching : AGEING

20-down – Fight you heard on street during party : DUSTUP