1-across – Case of vehicle speeding : CARAPACE

5-across – Maps all bombs shelled with nonchalance : APLOMB

9-across – En passant, victim turns left just before the end : CASUALLY

10-across – Slogan is mostly a device for catching people : MANTRA

11-across – Lad’s fancy in 26 turns to 15 20 : YOUNGMAN

12-across – Board emergency meeting starts by tree outside : EMBARK

14-across – Back between the sheets and topless, such very decadent behaviour : DEBAUCHERY

18-across – Rushes round container for Harvey and Co : HURRICANES

22-across – Understood Saudi princes essentially playing : UNSAID

23-across – Fuel hurting around half of common people : PARAFFIN

24-across – Using combined power to undress shy bride : HYBRID

25-across – Ship first to feature in opera composition : PINAFORE

26-across – Season well : SPRING

27-across – Dine out having little money? It’s not proper : INDECENT

1-down – Bone from rooster — half a dozen, say : COCCYX

2-down – Squire turns 27 : RISQUE

3-down – Top to bottom in past form of 26 minor accidents : PRANGS

4-down – Unintended consequences of local alert : COLLATERAL

6-down – Where drugs are fast to suppress hurt : PHARMACY

7-down – Shocked to have revealed sexuality in newspaper? On the contrary : OUTRAGED

8-down – Bruise for servant trapped in bottle banks : BLACKEYE

13-down – Fabric helping injury : LACERATION

15-down – Romantic ideas should be found in loft? Shove off! : THOUGHTS

16-down – 24 excluding part of goal : CROSSBAR

17-down – Papers over dream separation : DIVISION

19-down – See 4 : DAMAGE

20-down – See 15 : OFLOVE

21-down – Since strike, displayed brotherly love? : INCEST

1-across – Associate with spirit, lord perhaps? : HOBNOB

5-across – Secure with con artist? : STABLE

8-across – Those on the board rejecting view in endless game of strategy : CHEESES

9-across – Even light shades equally good for European city : GLASGOW

11-across – Book of film anyone can see failin’ that is introduced to rising young actress : ASTUDYINSCARLET

12-across – One’s ridden into Nairobi, Kenya : BIKE

13-across – Theocrat taking two wives wrecked home for sentinel? : WATCHTOWER

17-across – From the off, real indignation regarding car : RANGEROVER

18-across – A duck, deep blue : ANIL

20-across – Difficult issue for a parrot that has two legs and flies : APAIROFTROUSERS

23-across – Less tranquil one in unruly senior : NOISIER

24-across – Survive, as the tenth wicket to fall? : OUTLAST

25-across – Two little boys, one preyed upon : VICTIM

26-across – Two little boys, one offering support : PATRON

2-down – Passed green wooden houses : OVERTAKEN

3-down – Great creator lifted as rugby game’s ending : NOSIDE

4-down – Punishment for the feet, a bandit so beaten : BASTINADO

5-down – Stories from the north — the same from the south? : SAGAS

6-down – Flower managed to punch a US subject : AMARANTH

7-down – Fair lady’s head on bottom of fine maiden : LEGAL

8-down – Warning! Left in range for old Tory : CHAMBERLAIN

10-down – John Calvin’s first into battle, not entirely prepared : WATERCLOSET

14-down – Goblet literary king thus has filled, possible liquid lunch? : CLEARSOUP

15-down – Get mountain climbing, past US lake : WINNEBAGO

16-down – Language student’s crime stealing underwear : HEBRAIST

19-down – Tory leader wearing skirt and tights, primarily — I don’t approve : TUTTUT

21-down – Fighter with massive cut, one should get away with it : ALIBI

22-down – Place of discussion supporting indecisive utterance : FORUM

1-across – Amaze old fellow swallowing bit of gristle : STAGGER

5-across – Flower disturbs Lettish characters : THISTLE

10-across – Some of the Baggies coming back : EIGG

11-across – Language from rogue upset eccentric : PORTUGUESE

12-across – Golden couple’s young domestic worker : AUPAIR

13-across – Stand surety against posh church roof repairs : VOUCHFOR

14-across – Unfortunately, unable to include Tooting’s follower : BENBECULA

16-across – Initial investigation into family line : TIREE

17-across – Ain’t professional : ISLAY

19-across – Over half a dozen links of forty years ago : SEVENTIES

23-across – Theme of Jews out West admitting identity : HEBRIDES

24-across – I am nicked — no way — and charged : IMBUED

26-across – Well-bred people, quiet and not from the county : GENTLEFOLK

27-across – Rich uniform covers : RHUM

28-across – Dance and workout teens arranged : ONESTEP

29-across – Turned off tragedy : GYRATED

2-down – Officer’s platform : TRIBUNE

3-down – Midnight in Georgia : GIGHA

4-down – Clapton hugs politician and setter — a quack : EMPIRIC

6-down – Call to account at university after reporting dining area : HAULUP

7-down – Not at home and sadly is shut outside : SOUTHUIST

8-down – 49 is enough, but … : LISMORE

9-down – Salesman getting small delight in plant : TRAVELLERSJOY

15-down – They weren’t Liberals it turns out, dropping left : BLAIRITES

18-down – Female has lived at moonshine outlet : SHEBEEN

20-down – Father raised girl : ERISKAY

21-down – Former City off-road vehicle to perform : EXECUTE

22-down – Head worried about getting stick : ADHERE

25-down – Block artist : BARRA

1-across – Show individual and organisation, both concerned with public health : DOCTORWHO

6-across – Eighth vehicle in the outback? : BUSH

8-across – See 6 : SPEAKING

9-across – See 17 : TOOFAR

10-across – Temperature in fish ending in oven, hot : STOLEN

11-across – Daughter wearing Lincoln green, no good for the city : ABERDEEN

12-across – Small parcels dark, all together : DIMSUM

15-across – Keeping healthy ultimately, fruit on field for a longer time? : LEAPYEAR

16-across – I’m always missing wife, travelling round a country : MALAYSIA

19-across – Wearing whites, one pulls hard : HOICKS

21-across – Messenger bagging last of post for royal attendant : COURTIER

22-across – Fifth primate in the shade? : ORANGE

24-across – See 26 : GARDEN

25-across – One on the table, perhaps in the middle? : HYDROGEN

26-across – In which gorgeous trailer in red and 22 across hybridised? : ROSE

27-across – Black coat on the counter, top edge a kind of blue? : CAMBRIDGE

1-down – Storehouse where drunk turned up : DEPOT

2-down – Prince having to do his own cleaning, for the most part? : CHARLES

3-down – Tear-jerker doubly touching, I assumed : ONION

4-down – Bird narrating story of Footballers’ Wives? : WAGTAIL

5-down – See 22 : OFTHEBATH

6-down – Phrase initially described by by and large is OK, loosely : BROADLY

7-down – Cerium injected into hand, virologist admits, an experience requiring a lifeline? : SPACEWALK

13-down – Lover upended in chariot, a Roman imperialist : INAMORATO

14-down – Passionate, a miss with nice pants : MESSIANIC

17-down – War film cut excessively? : ABRIDGE

18-down – Support of women cut under a patriarch : ABRAHAM

20-down – Cross old country from the south, taking passport, say, around? : INAMOOD

22-down – Wash behind your ears? It’s an honour! : ORDER

23-down – Bird in 24, bees every second buzzing off : GREBE

9-across – Opening in Wales for distribution in bulk : WHOLESALE

10-across – Steps by Chopin after 22 down : WALTZ

11-across – I object to this agreement by Italian and African : TUTSI

12-across – One tells a story of Parisian backstreet junction without vehicle : RACONTEUR

13-across – Lucky man preserves retirement outfit : JIMJAMS

14-across – Suitable partner’s rather depleted in power : MRRIGHT

17-across – No covers needed, use just this dish : SUSHI

19-across – Staff go out with permission : MAN

20-across – Perhaps enter this to get pernickety : PICKY

21-across – Leading criminal arrayed : ALIGNED

22-across – O’Neal returned, superficially evolved and changed : MUTATED

24-across – Devilish to divine? A change of course : DEVIATION

26-across – Delicate desktop material : TWEED

28-across – Stop and chat : SPEAK

29-across – Ready and willing for run with broken tooth : HOTTOTROT

1-down – Heartless two-bit moron : TWIT

2-down – Finally, club with slogan brought up the rear : BOTTOM

3-down – Dithering ambassador, one in post : HESITATION

4-down – Most of the school is in old Chennai : MADRAS

5-down – Accessories for church people keeping pecker up : HENCHMEN

6-down – Last with songbird : SWAN

7-down – Sensitive to the French crushed garlic sandwiches : ALLERGIC

8-down – Ruler turned crazy, but not quite : CZAR

13-down – Wait for game : JUSTA

15-down – Reprise d’enfant mangé par bête noire : REPETITION

16-down – Played truant to enjoy free childhood ultimately : TOYED

18-down – Five compete in winter sports gear for workers : SKIVVIES

19-down – Timing hand slipped losing an hour of darkness : MIDNIGHT

22-down – See 13 : MINUTE

23-down – On the other hand, those people come round to the idea : THEORY

24-down – After 13 down, a little flair : DASH

25-down – Cross during bank holiday : ANKH

27-down – See 19 across : DATE