9-across – Tiger may be present, circling home of 19 17 : CATHERINE

10-across – Dishonest meat ration finally eaten : VENAL

11-across – Drank to excess back in storehouse : DEPOT

12-across – Where sailors may gather and attend regularly to get soaked : MARINATED

13-across – Setter’s lighter stakeholder? : IMPALER

14-across – Airline perks for our relatives : BABOONS

17-across – Massive thanks, work unit from the East : GREAT

19-across – Article used in anaesthesia : THE

20-across – 19 17 is safe : PETER

21-across – Mother of Sphinx and an Australian native : ECHIDNA

22-across – Not prepared and not studied! Why, for crying out loud? : UNREADY

24-across – She was never expecting invalid soldier to tour India : NULLIPARA

26-across – Compiler had been at the forefront and did nothing : IDLED

28-across – Fat chance, at the end, to sneak in half-observed : OBESE

29-across – 19 17 relax and start to enjoy mingling : ALEXANDER

1-down – A child, oddly sharp : ACID

2-down – Boost for cats and dogs? : STEPUP

3-down – Attend live performance, catch Covid and possibly end like this : VENTILATED

4-down – Rage quietly when heartless misnomer is used : SIMMER

5-down – Dreadful Isis can somehow be irresistible : TERRIBLE

6-down – 19 across 5 becoming vain when leader demoted : IVAN

7-down – What does it take to make one count? It’s complicated : UNITCOST

8-down – 5, 50 and a 500 for 19 across 13 across : VLAD

13-down – German leader is welcomed by devious Lenin round fine fireplace : INGLE

15-down – Two-sided supermajor engaging one craftsman : BIPARTISAN

16-down – Surely dropping cigarette end is rude : SURLY

18-down – 19 across 22 across urge to leave three-legged structure : ETHELRED

19-down – Shakespeare’s wife leaving one hospital after a short time: where did she go? : THATAWAY

22-down – Essentially, scroungers accomp­anying rising artist mostly like Beaujolais nouveau : UNAGED

23-down – Reported an indecent hint : ALLUDE

24-down – See 13 : NOOK

25-down – As just mentioned, set up intermediation : IDEM

27-down – Blast and mend : DARN

1-across – See 10 : LOTHIAN

5-across – Bend towards fish’s tail, course taken by hawk? : WARPATH

10-across – Part of Scotland, area into cultivation of thistle now : WEST

11-across – Artistically combined elements I made? : MIXEDMEDIA

12-across – Day carrying that Italian bag : SACHET

13-across – Deeply affected by emotion in defeat? : OVERCOME

14-across – See 7 : CONVERTED

16-across – One side politically correct : RIGHT

17-across – Gossip giving chase round shopping centre : SMALL

19-across – Launch newspaper, opening beside fashionable street : INSTIGATE

23-across – Quantities for drinking game : DRAUGHTS

24-across – Rank behind leader on cargo ship : CUTTER

26-across – Abandoned ten after one, good meeting on the whole? : INTEGRALLY

27-across – See 17 : TALK

28-across – Dancer given part in Carmen, yet no fun looking back : FONTEYN

29-across – Scent outrage : INCENSE

2-down – State shortly importing an aromatic plant : OREGANO

3-down – Knotty problem? : HITCH

4-down – Measurer of current force maintained by a sea of Frenchmen? : AMMETER

6-down – Count ushered off : ADDLED

7-down – Lecture evidently a waste of time, hope chattering sorted out? : PREACHING

8-down – Sensation hot after one dons ruff : TRIUMPH

9-down – Flash of lightning initially seen, see winds circling around by post office : EXPOSEONESELF

15-down – Book opening, inside which golden pastry : VOLAUVENT

18-down – Battle of Cologne ramped up : MARENGO

20-down – Chat about that hypothetical particle : TACHYON

21-down – Gear finally in order is training equipment : TRELLIS

22-down – Short — like an upper garment? : SHIRTY

25-down – See 7 : TOTHE

7-across – Company for travellers ruling sea waves : AERLINGUS

8-across – Mumbai Royal Hotel not shut, needing turnover : RAJAH

9-across – Declines little drink aboard steamer : SLOWDOWNS

10-across – Not once cycling, he described global tour going around here? : VERNE

12-across – Does long journey finally and gets paid : YEARNS

13-across – Travelling entertainment series entertains Bill’s house : ROADSHOW

14-across – Force one female in case of adultery to turn sour : ACIDIFY

17-across – Moor boat evenly, with cry for attention : OTHELLO

20-across – Daughter gets on touring vessel, getting no time for learning : DARKAGES

22-across – Predator got urge periodically to board vehicle : COUGAR

24-across – Heading for Yokohama, cockney damages Asian abodes : YURTS

25-across – Travelling nurse felt put out : RESENTFUL

26-across – Coming from Kolkata, passengers’ fare : TAPAS

27-across – Going in 16’s direction, player getting hands tied : EASTBOUND

1-down – Person close to you cut bank statement that’s false : RELLIE

2-down – British leaving daring message about large region, excluding America : OLDWORLD

3-down – United back home, playing special matches : UNIONS

4-down – Topless soldier in city 16 visited where order is kept : NUNNERY

5-down – Threats for the doctor, unhappy about eating Albanian bread : DALEKS

6-down – Member of Parliament said why town law changes : TAWNYOWL

11-down – Means of transport in endless, climbing trail : CART

15-down – Hot drink a hunk brewed for religious festival : CHANUKAH

16-down – Report of bad visibility for intrepid traveller : FOGG

18-down – Unclean boxes Picaroon overturned? That’s rash : ERUPTION

19-down – Fresh sage under coating of asparagus — one spear : ASSEGAI

21-down – Traveller’s case in plane mostly black and silver : KITBAG

22-down – Make energy-guzzling old car : CREATE

23-down – They’ve left university’s main ground, holding university student up : ALUMNI

1-across – Characteristic toerag appearing untrustworthy, head on spike seen entering here? : TRAITORSGATE

9-across – See 11 : ALERT

10-across – Reportedly clever dribble — with pass is beautifully measured : SLIDERULE

11-across – Real lie broadcast in, say, football reporter’s warning : SPOILER

12-across – More than one tribal chief quivers when speaking? : SHEIKHS

13-across – Leaders in company unrep­resentative of BAME communities that may go to the wall? : WHITEBOARD

15-across – Personage found shortly : STAR

18-across – Feature has the information for a dictator? : NOSE

19-across – Set out for promontory, seeking confrontational encounter : HEADTOHEAD

22-across – Boy by himself shedding onesie finally, children’s garment : JIMJAMS

24-across – Flower reduction in mint, when cut : BLOSSOM

25-across – Leader, whose family’s imbued with personal magnetism, nothing less: murderer? : KIMJONGUN

26-across – Match, a virtual classic : AGREE

27-across – Seaside attraction, the boring rip-off : BRIGHTONPIER

1-down – American shows border closed off by capricious soviet : THEMOVIES

2-down – See 8 : ANTILLES

3-down – Stunner once more placed bottom upward? : T?S?R

4-down – Error with undies or not, bum covered again : REINSURED

5-down – Horse with bigger heart? : GEEGEE

6-down – See 20 : TRUCK

7-down – Sustained campaign identified in capital : WARSAW

8-down – Those renting houses fled farm in Caribbean location : LESSER

14-down – Give short screws, one’s missed by mistake : OVERSIGHT

16-down – Club official more confident supporting base rate : TREASURER

17-down – South American volcano is flatter, one circling peak : COTOPAXI

18-down – Judge interrupting relations after one ejected — a serious matter : NOJOKE

20-down – Huge vehicle kicking dirt up, forward joining rugby pack : DUMPER

21-down – Malay garment, number wrapped round middle of wearer : SARONG

23-down – Paul in bog scratching bottom, this artist’s speechless : MIMER

24-down – Square up after first of battles in country : BENIN

9-across – Logical source of rubber silicate product : REALISTIC

10-across – One wearing jumper to show lover : ROMEO

11-across – Reaction on getting wind of book on topless movie star : BELCH

12-across – Naval chap makes a tender lover? : BOATSWAIN

13-across – They may produce a spell of levity before the game, cutting Spurs’ lead : WITCHES

14-across – Royal motto: ‘One should have church study around one’ : ICHDIEN

17-across – Pharaoh’s cut-down gold coach : TUTOR

19-across – State’s detailed objective : GOA

20-across – The country’s back on the drink! : NIGER

21-across – More bloody wrapping round bottom of tree securing animals! : REDDEER

22-across – Support in the air for old military officer : TRIBUNE

24-across – Go on working in local drive to make a record : PHONOGRAM

26-across – Instrument with heavy end grasping female : HARPY

28-across – Cocaine port’s opening : CLEFT

29-across – One sets off to tip over rubbish, one observed : DETONATOR

1-down – Almost a means of punishment turning up for a game! : CRIB

2-down – Community tree is back in Derby? : HAMLET

3-down – Cavalry gets flash gym equipment : LIGHTHORSE

4-down – One who studied the horses and broadcast tips : STUBBS

5-down – Act is rudely interrupted by agents, which is a pain : SCIATICA

6-down – Satirise, not overindulge Murdoch? : IRIS

7-down – Male involved in intense defamatory action : SMEARING

8-down – Major, say, convenience : JOHN

13-down – Element of a battle, when throne is lost : WATER

15-down – Elected to part two workers, closely connected : HANDINHAND

16-down – A sort of shark harbour : NURSE

18-down – Help through a period when marine action finished? : TIDEOVER

19-down – Become coarse, taking Rex for a drama queen : GERTRUDE

22-down – Overly protective of Mother Terry’s prime fruit : TOMATO

23-down – Raise the standard of upper class foolish talk : UPRATE

24-down – Object of game is getting back the prize, with luck finally : PUCK

25-down – Bond in limbo? A thought : OATH

27-down – House’s character considered by 2, though not in charge : YORK