1-across – Hopelessly busk in sparse industrial area : BUSINESSPARK

8-across – Sale of uniform needed in armed conflict : AUCTION

9-across – Stretcher, only one left in the city? : ELASTIC

11-across – Not so clever comparing blood to water : THICKER

12-across – Contraceptive best on back seat : PILLION

13-across – Contributor to obesity, odd portions of soup and fish : SUGAR

14-across – Just nip back east for such ethical products : FAIRTRADE

16-across – Carefully nurtured in island, amusing priest : INCUBATED

19-across – Daughter curious about manufacturer : DYSON

21-across – Reflects what is deceptive with smoke : MIRRORS

23-across – He takes a risk, flipping over side of ulcer : CHANCER

24-across – Succeeded with computer access, quaffing energy drink : SLOEGIN

25-across – Rooms regularly needed in good condition, where visitors reportedly crashed : ROSWELL

26-across – Leaves one supplying components : PARTSCOMPANY

1-down – Support going counterclockwise : BACKING

2-down – Quiet pest not pulling his weight : SHIRKER

3-down – No fool engages acad­emic for charity : NONPROFIT

4-down – Creature, small crawler : SHEEP

5-down – Small drama in resolution of tennis controversy? : PLAYLET

6-down – A white stair rail is put up, not black : RETSINA

7-down – Hypocrisy over partnership in the Americas, a persistent theme : CANTUSFIRMUS

10-down – Dishonest sympathiser new in gig, with something on the drums? : CONCERNTROLL

15-down – Popular sort of art leads to weird bad behaviour : INDECORUM

17-down – Wow! Take undergrad­uate course in Spanish city : CORDOBA

18-down – Transported, am out of carriage on time : BROUGHT

19-down – Directly observe in sound a body of water : DEADSEA

20-down – Coy, I set out for the fashionable world : SOCIETY

22-down – Really pleasant, endless sort of boom : SONIC

1-across – Dupe contrived by 13, spurious : TRUMPEDUP

6-across – 13 requiring help to carry gold : SOROS

9-across – 13’s scandal ends? : GATES

10-across – I prefer women, not men, to build strength in the military : FIREPOWER

11-across – General protected side : LEE

12-across – Very primitive voting system dubious American boxing club’s backing : PRECAMBRIAN

14-across – French philosopher produced European nonsense : DIDEROT

15-across – Pastoral poem in English — contrary effort in one of these? : ECLOGUE

16-across – 13 philanthropist’s back on strike : BUFFETT

19-across – Difficult situation as family briefly hampered by rejection of terms : SKIDROW

22-across – Excerpt in story, heading off for settlement : ARBITRATION

23-across – Setter of crosswords, uncensored : SUN

24-across – Talk with composer, 13 : SPIELBERG

26-across – Experience in short, short : INCUR

27-across – Poor choice ultimately in US president lacking knowledge : NEEDY

28-across – Primitive house breaks in a serious way : EARNESTLY

1-down – Fastened to goods, was in the van : TOGGLED

2-down – Gradual increase arguably prudent : UPTREND

3-down – Tense has never been wrong? : PASTPERFECT

4-down – Divert first of lorries in error : DEFLECT

5-down – Sticker put in hole for conveyance : PORTAGE

6-down – Among fools, a prize idiot : SAP

7-down – 13 investing pound in sport : ROWLING

8-down – Funny series following outsiders in secret : STRANGE

13-down – 9, for example, one: one with loaded aura? : BILLIONAIRE

16-down – Supporter and partners working for 13 : BRANSON

17-down – Winter bug, running a temperature : FEBRILE

18-down – Horizontal bar to catch, the showbiz suspense ends : TRAPEZE

19-down – Nightingale possibly biting head of terrified wasp, say? : STINGER

20-down – Not sweet to stuff bags of diamonds, perhaps? : ROSECUT

21-down – Get virtual goddess, 13 : WINFREY

25-down – Arrange song : LAY

1-across – Particular variety of sheep’s head and guts : STRIPE

4-across – What shouldn’t happen on a peninsula? : CRIMEA

9-across – Little cakes turned over — or up? : SNUB

10-across – Imposing boundaries on Mantel’s last copy : LIMITATION

11-across – Interference with musical holding it back : STATIC

12-across – Surgeon, one formerly employed in telephone exchange : OPERATOR

13-across – Fuss after swindle involving return of supporter’s diamond : CARBONADO

15-across – Part of India’s left end : GOAL

16-across – Split up role : PART

17-across – Shout about barren waste yielding fruit : CRANBERRY

21-across – Tom-tom heading off to Belgium for sacrifice : HECATOMB

22-across – Good antique, antiquely precious : GOLDEN

24-across – Backward glance sees traditional religious order originally held in esteem : RETROSPECT

25-across – Backing instrument’s border : ABUT

26-across – Redistribute booze to soprano dropped from higher accompaniment : DECANT

27-across – Decorate journalist receiving summons? On the contrary : BEDECK

1-down – Artisan nobbled crooner : SINATRA

2-down – Nick turned to auto­maton : ROBOT

3-down – Bird, 51, cracked nut : PELICAN

5-down – Lifted supermarket right off : ROTTEN

6-down – Help for addict swamping party in gas : METHADONE

7-down – Look into oxtail soup, fishing out one amphibian : AXOLOTL

8-down – Things beyond our ken … ”: poem lesbian doctor’s rewritten : IMPONDERABLES

14-down – Second endlessly supporting bass solo about weight problems : BARIATRIC

16-down – Falsely claim to nurse in advance? : PRETEND

18-down – Close bond with something to sleep in : NIGHTIE

19-down – Die, held up by mythical bird or stag : ROEBUCK

20-down – Can Oriental money reduce restraint? : LOOSEN

23-down – Contract bridge opponents carrying field : LEASE

1-across – Black cricketer : BOYCOTT

5-across – Manager asking for one hundred and ten percent, essentially not troubled by number being irrational : ANTONIO

10-across – Blue drink : DOWN

11-across – Lack of sense, including smell? That’s being cruel : INHUMANITY

12-across – Dog’s first run out, before nap in front of number 13 : BAKERS

13-across – Peaceful angler disturbed, coming across 11 : RELAXING

14-across – Chief supports old woman wearing corset : MAINSTAYS

16-across – See 12 : DOZEN

17-across – One letter Puck’s forgotten is out of order : AMISS

19-across – Very fine paper soon in recycling? Sort daughter binned : ONIONSKIN

23-across – Designed home with escape routes? : INVENTED

24-across – Unofficial border : FRINGE

26-across – Number scored in extra time? : EIGHTDAYSA

27-across – See 26 : WEEK

28-across – Some things regularly interpreted as self-love : EGOTISM

29-across – Quality shown by 13 with Dead Head after too much drug intake : ODDNESS

2-down – In order to see dragonflies, a fellow hid in long grass earlier : ODONATA

3-down – See 5 : CONTE

4-down – Film following Jedward, say, in women’s clothing : TWINSET

6-down – Meal ordered in city : NAMELY

7-down – Vile smell around American seen outside Number 10, repeatedly : OBNOXIOUS

8-down – Keen to show decimal point : INTENSE

9-down – May’s content as a Tory? Deny this, surprisingly : THIRTYONEDAYS

15-down – Shelter from the sun, after tanning back in sun first : NISSENHUT

18-down – Providing people to work for Chelsea now? : MANNING

20-down – Bad worker is laid-back and rude : OFFHAND

21-down – French painter’s admission : INGRESS

22-down – Playing duet on tablets works : ETUDES

25-down – Have short article in current New Statesman : IOWAN

9-across – Parasite was a parliamentary leader, said Spooner? : HEADLOUSE

10-across – Minister detailed one side of the story? : RECTO

11-across – Trouble brewing at first, plant in a stew perhaps? : POTHERB

12-across – Point covered by this or otherwise, to be concise : INSHORT

13-across – Season as seasona, it’s reported? : NOEL

14-across – Poor character recalled in rogue : CINDERELLA

16-across – Trying jerks in family — something positive about it? : YANKING

17-across – Where one may be taught a lesson with ice down jockstrap, might you say? : PRIVATE

19-across – Plaything Aladdin, perhaps, has to avoid : RUBBERDUCK

22-across – Film Keith clued cryptically? : SOME

24-across – Whitish gallery hasn’t a range of colours : PALETTE

25-across – Model I love in performance : DIORAMA

26-across – Muse of Homer, a touch inspiring? : ERATO

27-across – Impressive responsibility of the police : ARRESTING

1-down – It became apparent, then it became a mother or a father? : THEPENNYDROPPED

2-down – Pub’s opening, soon to host the nation’s heroes : PANTHEON

3-down – See 23 : FLIES

4-down – Awkward adding jewels to one’s booty : BUMBLING

5-down – Losing seat : BEHIND

6-down – Padding delicate area, knotted rags — ribbed fabric : GROSGRAIN

7-down – See 17 across : SCHOOL

8-down – In money, pound taken to entertain maiden fair? Absolutely not! : DONTMAKEMELAUGH

15-down – See 22 : LIKEITHOT

17-down – Best honours, we hear, for Spanish fighters : PICADORS

18-down – Perfumed lorry carrying odorous muck around, initially : AROMATIC

20-down – Note in plain song : BALLAD

21-down – Track player, runner and winger : DEEJAY

23-down – Swimming fish, or else biting insects : HORSE