8-across – You and I answer right one kind of clue,overcome by persistence : WEARDOWN

9-across – Great compiler’s brief self-introduction was astounding : AMAZED

10-across – Anagram isn’t well assimilated? Not fully as yet : STILLNEW

11-across – What’s prior to this contribution from Ximenes : ELEVEN

12-across – Scrub verticals I wrecked – they’re in column on left : CRUCIVERBALISTS

15-across – 12,separately,then together,as expression of our relationship : YOUME

16-across – See 15 : ANDUS

20-across – Explanations for other things posted,not revealing parts of solutions : COVERINGLETTERS

21-across – Develop modern car with interior from one who works on things like this : EVOLVE

23-across – Ready to enter,like clues you like,including extremes of theme : TICKETED

25-across – Obscure stuff that’s partly unfamiliar can annoy : ARCANA

26-across – A setter I trashed keeps doing the same thing : ITERATES

1-down – Creative types who may become rigid,leading to grouse : SETTERS

2-down – For changing pace endlessly,how like Brendan? Very playful : FROLICSOME

3-down – Pros must cover this part of speech for 15 16,for instance : NOUN

4-down – Serves what solver wants : ANSWERS

5-down – Passionately prepares to seek answer,going down : TAKESAKNEE

6-down – Finishes off plum Araucaria crossword puzzle as constructed : MADE

7-down – Reminder from this compiler with short guide : MEMENTO

13-down – Beginnings of brutal misdirection,a trap I’ve contrived for sucker : VAMPIREBAT

14-down – Put together halves of fair clue,yet had awfully regretful expression : IRUETHEDAY

17-down – They provide solutions learner in second parts of test needed : SOLVERS

18-down – Journey I can take – after solving hard puzzle really quickly? : EGOTRIP

19-down – With clue,err badly – like Torquemada,but more so : CRUELER

22-down – Clue for King Edward? Clue fair,but oddly characterless : LEAR

24-down – Article which includes this old-fashioned part of crossword : CLEW

8-across – You and I answer right one kind of clue,overcome by persistence : WEARDOWN

9-across – Great compiler’s brief self-introduction was astounding : AMAZED

10-across – Anagram isn’t well assimilated? Not fully as yet : STILLNEW

11-across – What’s prior to this contribution from Ximenes : ELEVEN

12-across – Scrub verticals I wrecked – they’re in column on left : CRUCIVERBALISTS

15-across – 12,separately,then together,as expression of our relationship : YOUME

16-across – See 15 : ANDUS

20-across – Explanations for other things posted,not revealing parts of solutions : COVERINGLETTERS

21-across – Develop modern car with interior from one who works on things like this : EVOLVE

23-across – Ready to enter,like clues you like,including extremes of theme : TICKETED

25-across – Obscure stuff that’s partly unfamiliar can annoy : ARCANA

26-across – A setter I trashed keeps doing the same thing : ITERATES

1-down – Creative types who may become rigid,leading to grouse : SETTERS

2-down – For changing pace endlessly,how like Brendan? Very playful : FROLICSOME

3-down – Pros must cover this part of speech for 15 16,for instance : NOUN

4-down – Serves what solver wants : ANSWERS

5-down – Passionately prepares to seek answer,going down : TAKESAKNEE

6-down – Finishes off plum Araucaria crossword puzzle as constructed : MADE

7-down – Reminder from this compiler with short guide : MEMENTO

13-down – Beginnings of brutal misdirection,a trap I’ve contrived for sucker : VAMPIREBAT

14-down – Put together halves of fair clue,yet had awfully regretful expression : IRUETHEDAY

17-down – They provide solutions learner in second parts of test needed : SOLVERS

18-down – Journey I can take – after solving hard puzzle really quickly? : EGOTRIP

19-down – With clue,err badly – like Torquemada,but more so : CRUELER

22-down – Clue for King Edward? Clue fair,but oddly characterless : LEAR

24-down – Article which includes this old-fashioned part of crossword : CLEW

1-across – Park sown from this? : SANDOWN

5-across – Isn’t about English,of course : AINTREE

10-across – Found in caddy or kitchen bowl : YORK

11-across – Show up long moving vehicle : SNOWPLOUGH

12-across – Web reveals tense affair : TISSUE

13-across – Similar cultured pearl everyone collected : PARALLEL

14-across – Decoration 28 lost – hard cheese! : LEICESTER

16-across – Salts – keep some supplies : EPSOM

17-across – An English neighbour’s tie : ASCOT

19-across – City team huddle together around first toilet : NEWCASTLE

23-across – Speedy festival,gash maybe : GOODWOOD

24-across – A race with one French condition : ATTUNE

26-across – Picture technique of former PM not dealing with American Jobs : CAMERAWORK

27-across – Fish,once head is removed,is best : ROUT

28-across – Former president shows way to shout about : CHESTER

29-across – This makes Ruby appear in market town : NEWBURY

2-down – Puzzle over,is working overtime entertaining? : AGONISE

3-down – Ones that block terminal keyboard shift keys : DYKES

4-down – Scrubbers’ rings : WASHERS

6-down – Rogues’ gallery,content to contribute : IMPART

7-down – Authors plot roles to be developed : TROLLOPES

8-down – Artist and composer cutting a green : ELGRECO

9-down – Police omitted alteration,a waste of space! : COMPLETEIDIOT

15-down – Fine,but lacking a server? : CLOUDLESS

18-down – Put up with dashing moustache,but not posh face of emperor : STOMACH

20-down – Laugh,eating end of ginger snap : CRACKLE

21-down – A gun destroyed by soldiers after conclusive metal fatigue : LANGUOR

22-down – Spooner’s refusal of engagement present : DONATE

25-down – Pulse in borscht served up,self-catering failed : THROB

1-across – Weather movement forced cloud up north with reduction in temperature : OCCLUDEDFRONT

9-across – A fair few,but no miles at all : ANY

10-across – Planter involved with 10cc guitarist : ERICCLAPTON

12-across – React nervously when receiving specific tube : CATHETER

13-across – Arthur’s nephew,first in Winchester,taking a cut in profit : GAWAIN

16-across – Special constable in unwanted entrance has look around selection in patisserie : ECCLESCAKE

18-across – Mercury coating blade : FOIL

20-across – Double headed once : FOLD

21-across – In salute of magician abroad,keeping cool on vacation : ACCLAIMING

23-across – On retirement along Riviera,je veux un oiseau local : EVEJAR

24-across – Top surfaces of sponges intermittently with pepper : CAPSICUM

27-across – US actor reportedly understood the attraction of Lord’s membership? : DOUGMCCLURE

29-across – Hold individual to confess : OWN

30-across – Author,high flier,sticks right through reworking of Chaucer : ARTHURCCLARKE

2-down – Perhaps this blurred,incomplete picture contributes sporadically to cycle : CRYPTICCLUE

3-down – Subjects like English will expand threshold : LIEGEMEN

4-down – Road one’s GP is coming over : DRIVE

5-down – Avoid a failure to trouble the scorers : DUCK

6-down – Is avoiding anger over actor becoming politician : REAGAN

7-down – Clear catch : NET

8-down – Wrongly claimed to possess square in key French market town : MACCLESFIELD

11-down – Political neutrality soon upset idle soldiers in Northern Territory : NONALIGNMENT

14-down – Mike plugs in ‘ABC’ to jam timer : ATOMICCLOCK

15-down – Local to drink toasts: bottoms up! : SKOL

17-down – Chanel business merger? : COCO

19-down – Gap in Features reported from the floor team’s sorted : DIASTEMA

22-down – Nightstick,say,for one getting in with heat : WARMTH

25-down – Individual who finds classes challenging not completely hooked : ADUNC

26-down – He makes a hole in one tree : ACER

28-down – Regiment once the focus of docudrama : UDR

9-across – Frenchman returning to win noble battle : ENCOUNTER

10-across – Prince enthusiastic about piebald horse : PINTO

11-across – Last bits of hard jigsaw were all that remained : DWELT

12-across – Jellyfish nuisance on vacation in Pacific coastal city : SEANETTLE

13-across – Pop trio bored by top restaurants : BISTROS

14-across – Some feel it is terribly snobbish : ELITIST

17-across – Cold relief contains illegal drug ultimately : ALGID

19-across – Wife is occasionally morose : MRS

20-across – Georgia inspired by God? Quite the opposite : PAGAN

21-across – Dog pen that is back to front : SHARPEI

22-across – Acerbic Rolling Stone : BRECCIA

24-across – Piece of extra beef focaccia on the counter in small restaurant : COFFEEBAR

26-across – Drugs for cycling in shed : SPILL

28-across – Dreaded one American despot making a comeback : RASTA

29-across – Jealous Othello described as one retiring in relaxing space : GREENROOM

1-down – Teacher in NUT : HEAD

2-down – Approach chartered accountant about tax from previous years : ACCESS

3-down – Fat journalist happy to get soft-soaped : BUTTEREDUP

4-down – Secret police beginning to schedule arrest : STASIS

5-down – Track surrounded by mountains gets wider : BROADENS

6-down – Student going missing in fall recess : APSE

7-down – Loose nuts ordered on telephone : UNSTRING

8-down – European terminal : POLE

13-down – Live photo briefly raised pulses : BEANS

15-down – Brockwell is urgent bowling over : IMPRESSING

16-down – Country cousin at last wearing outer garment : TONGA

18-down – German with time to cut idiotic mullet for Springsteen : GOATFISH

19-down – 27 altered trousers for postholders? : MAILBAGS

22-down – Regularly fried food served up in sandwich : BURGER

23-down – Mate losing a bone making strides : CHINOS

24-down – Dog with Dutch cheese … : CURD

25-down – … forced to regurgitate? : EDAM

27-down – Unconfined orgasm in the city : LIMA