9-across – Love a lecture Degas originally introduced : ADORATION

10-across – Current chairman passes round golf flyer : IMAGO

11-across – Dull hack’s book : MATTHEW

12-across – Gunmen guard, say, a Times craft event : REGATTA

13-across – Good sides keep fit in white : GLAIR

14-across – Bowler traps a Kent opener that appears in 12 : SPINNAKER

16-across – Citizen largely vandalised location of hangings : NATIONALGALLERY

19-across – Study coin displayed behind bars : INCUSTODY

21-across – Drunk one’s out of it : SKULL

22-across – A traveller gathered about 18 : TEMPERA

23-across – Couple hosts one extremely serious artist : MATISSE

24-across – Tearful woman’s provincial honour : NIOBE

25-across – Former PM’s organ fund : LIVERPOOL

1-down – Amusing lad edited miscellany : SALMAGUNDI

2-down – Left artist exactly what’s needed: a painting : PORTRAIT

3-down – Swimmer’s article seized by lawyers : BATHER

4-down – Struggle with angle : VIEW

5-down – Straight new English bishop in vile collars : UNERRINGLY

6-down – Raving mad learner grabs one old instrument : VIRGINAL

7-down – Scorer to do what setters do without : BARTOK

8-down – Artist’s intermittently good year : GOYA

14-down – Each boy wears black at the appropriate time : SEASONABLE

15-down – Food flown in for queen cooked jolly early : ROYALJELLY

17-down – Outside broadcast setting almost more offensive : OBSCENER

18-down – Paint bird and cat eating last of carcass : EMULSION

20-down – Carved 2s arrived with sailor : CAMEOS

21-down – Rocket placed on vessel : SATURN

22-down – Shade of paint in Tiepolo : TINT

23-down – Make weepy film without one : MOVE

1-across – Report covering achievement, having abandoned a refuge : SAFETY

4-across – Firing weapon, one flying straight over ship, then boat cut in half : CROSSBOW

9-across – Not quite noon, expected later : NEARLY

10-across – Brief hint: solver needs answer that’s water off Australia : TIMORSEA

11-across – Short script edited with info and photo that’s traditionally found in newspaper : PORTIONOFCHIPS

13-across – Backing of king sufficient, say : FOREXAMPLE

14-across – Accordingly caught by better goalkeeper : ERGO

16-across – Pavilion ultimately remains — his design? : NASH

18-across – Children’s author admitting actions an online threat : RANSOMWARE

21-across – Like track I see in English city, start of line from small village? : ALASPOORYORICK

23-across – Right battle it’s clear : CONSOMME

24-across – Announcement of written arrangement, a charge on smokers etc? : SINTAX

25-across – Grand people in sweaty shifts : STEINWAY

26-across – Film us leaving cat with tailless dog : PSYCHO

1-down – Air circulating on jumbo jets all finally used up : SONG

2-down – Suggestion: somewhere to go in all seasons : FLAVOUR

3-down – Source of news then oddly allowed after, not leader : TELETEXT

5-down – Review of short play in theatre adaptation? : RHINOPLASTY

6-down – Slump that was painful after gutting of sawmill : SLOUCH

7-down – Top row of vehicles? : BUSTIER

8-down – Shower mat slipping on top of that : WHATSMORE

12-down – Beastly sound arising, father’s about to threaten diminutive figure : OOMPALOOMPA

13-down – Spanish Steps short of energy dry up — entertainment, barely? : FANDANCES

15-down – Clever lot, males promoted before relations : SMARTIES

17-down – Playwright born a Native American : SHAWNEE

19-down – Small vinegary drinks for abstainer, perhaps? : ASCETIC

20-down – Complex put on private residential area : UPTOWN

22-down – Fair old pan having bottom scrubbed : EXPO

1-across – Wood gathering: men getting stuck in : FOREST

4-across – Briefly box after punch connects : HITCHES

9-across – Piece of glass cut to press on specimen, primarily? : COVERSLIP

10-across – Suffer at home with endless treatment : INCUR

11-across – Sun with awful piece : SCRAP

12-across – Criticise defender that’s down : KNOCKBACK

13-across – Kiss off date is with fumble : DISMISS

15-across – Drink for one running, heartlessly rejected : EGGNOG

17-across – Fine after parking in tight spot : PLIGHT

19-across – Do it bent over on small potty : BONKERS

22-across – Conclusion that’s around 50-50? : CLOSECALL

24-across – Learner, following two lessons, to drive off : REPEL

26-across – Cancel important date at short notice : ERASE

27-across – Sport legend on choice when playing : ICEHOCKEY

28-across – Woman’s entertaining magazine cover : SHEATHE

29-across – Poster, including cropped picture, to go up : ASCEND

1-down – Fixed cocaine, old fellow shot up and took drugs : FOCUSED

2-down – One aimlessly walking dog? : ROVER

3-down – Strong bandages : STRAPPING

4-down – In book, a certain part of body : HIPBONE

5-down – Jiffy bags hard and heavy : THICK

6-down – Journalist on Dettori’s love for riding gear : HACKAMORE

7-down – Come to buffet : STRIKE

8-down – Men in magazine mostly lay hands on trousers : BLOKES

14-down – Stick shift: top gear essentially when racing : SELLOTAPE

16-down – Using room for assembly that’s big : GINORMOUS

18-down – Possibly meet at one or later? : TEATIME

19-down – Put up film poster at the top : BILLET

20-down – Spread out: scattered having changed hands : SPLAYED

21-down – Admission of masters degrees ultimately filled out by college : ACCESS

23-down – Up before court : ERECT

25-down – Drink at 18? Put down water bottles : PEKOE

1-across – Trouble recurring, discards rubbish : GUBBINS

5-across – Country bumpkin ultimately a state : INDIANA

9-across – Urgent case in solving reference made public : OUTED

10-across – Aggressive articulated lorry you hired out? : TRUCULENT

11-across – Misery, as booty left on ship : SPOILSPORT

12-across – European providing rolling news : FINN

14-across – Radioactive element collected, about one in four bombs : CALIFORNIUM

18-across – Weakness, when it comes to lifting a kilo, meant wimp finally collapsed : KLEPTOMANIA

21-across – Weapon — something sharp knocking head off : PIKE

22-across – Private member almost totally bent, a genius behind bars? : WILLYWONKA

25-across – Order lacking here, church is cut­ting 50% from extortionate cost? : ANARCHISM

26-across – Prickle, however, with service : THORN

27-across – Going to seed, perhaps — like a tree? : ELDERLY

28-across – Curse rock pieces on middle of patio : TORMENT

1-down – Protest, as bird shot : GROUSE

2-down – See 19 : BUTTON

3-down – Offensive show about the bowels of hell : INDELICATE

4-down – Exercise position is elevated : SITUP

5-down – Drug creating high in building of bonfire : IBUPROFEN

6-down – Knight covering a smear : DAUB

7-down – A couple for eating, did yer say? Drink! : APERITIF

8-down – Completely different words from boy on paper : ANTONYMS

13-down – Get nowhere, seeing doctor possibly pocketing extraordinary wad : TREADWATER

15-down – Clarity, I imply: it is unlikely to inspire leader in democracy : LIMPIDITY

16-down – Aircraft has to avoid route : SKIPLANE

17-down – Jack in pack, set of cards : DECKHAND

19-down – Stirring soon, beast with the hump time and time again activated this? : SNOOZE

20-down – Artist embodying good drawer? : MAGNET

23-down – Bound to find this writer’s into books : LIMIT

24-down – Tree, one with canopy of red? : ACER

1-across – First indications of Times Jumbo’s grace : TJUNCTION

6-across – Mid-April fly-by-nights take note : RMONTHS

12-across – Lady Day flower : LDRIVER

13-across – From next Iron Age : XGENERATION

15-across – Worried mother starting to yawn : MTHEORY

16-across – It’s very hard for us : HHOUR

17-across – Crude jokes involving level of acidity : JOSEPHK

21-across – Spanish girl by Swiss city at parts of court : BASELINES

22-across – Decorations for naval personnel getting into a spot : ADORNMENT

24-across – Strengthening supports from trees are suggested : FURS

27-across – Where one’s only just late? : MORTUARY

28-across – Born, died unknown, bereft : NEEDY

30-across – Compilers initially clue it loosely as ‘dead skin’ : CUTICLE

32-across – Henry leaving Erichplatz, troubled : ZPARTICLE

33-across – Severely criticise leading rider with one horse : RIPINTO

34-across – Son flees creepy-crawly returning, lower in bath again : REDIP

35-across – Sausage with nachos, as starter : CHORIZON

39-across – Platoon, out of condition, losing heart : UNIT

40-across – Actor gets series, which may be pulled during run : HAMSTRING

43-across – Repeatedly went and persevered : KEPTGOING

46-across – In office, female is most like Mrs Beckham : POSHEST

47-across – Snake in secret surroundings : QBOAT

48-across – State loo : GAGENTS

51-across – Sip seasoned mixer and get fat : ADIPOSENESS

52-across – Parkhead’s team : PCELTIC

53-across – Bird getting stronger, gaining weight : WAXWING

54-across – Blooms from seed Lewis scattered : EDELWEISS

2-down – Jubilate starting Mass in church : JCLOTH

3-down – New Avengers providing lethal weapon : NERVEGAS

4-down – Man of note who works at the pub : TAVERNER

5-down – Fine artist makes gumbo : OKRA

7-down – Caesar’s big ice cream : MAGNUM

8-down – Coming from Euston on Underground : NONU

9-down – Supporter held up during time at Dover and Folkestone, say : HARBOURS

10-down – Pupils of equal ability disturbed master : STREAM

11-down – Cash advance securing cold and hot water in Scotland : LOCHAN

14-down – Roughly tie ox right there, outside : THEEXTERIOR

18-down – Ebbinghof’s not odd : BIGO

19-down – Unknown tot turning up : DDAY

20-down – Stentorian player : FFACTOR

21-down – Plump buttock outside : BROTUNDUM

23-down – Troubling, in general : ELEARNING

25-down – When to form a union, learning, we hear, of rule in the main : MARITIMELAW

26-down – Bigwig entering Switzerland? On the contrary : VCHIP

27-down – Short time in Germany to experience first Greek appetiser : MEZE

28-down – Some twenty performers : NTYPE

29-down – Frosty ground around N : YFRONTS

31-down – Thomas’s Hill plant : FERN

35-down – Anglican books of little value? : CENT

36-down – Emperor’s essential oil : OTTO

37-down – Man’s surroundings : IRISHSEA

38-down – Swimmer always put in extra length : MORAYEEL

39-down – Trouble undoing steel nut : UNSETTLE

41-down – Common US women get a new start : AROADS

42-down – Wandering Pharisees’ ire not accepted : SSHAPE

44-down – Weak seaman spoken of : WBOSON

45-down – Supplies troughs of sweet-smelling flowers : STOCKS

49-down – Poor reception for Sussex and England fast bowler : SNOW

50-down – Letters from TripAdvisor : IPAD