5-across – Fiddle around person who works on vessels etc. : TINKER

6-across – In queer street,person asking others to provide answers : TESTER

9-across – Input for 13,8 appropriately placed – could be direct : DEBITS

10-across – Show follower of Washington,historically,in US : OKLAHOMA

11-across – Seabird downloadable from Internet : ERNE

12-across – More that one artistic representation brings in equivalent to heads : LIKENESSES

13-across – Business practice exploiting redundancy,with first part repeated thrice in second : DOUBLEENTRY

18-across – More than one artistic representation brings in equivalent to heads : LANDSCAPES

21-across – Seabird downloadable from Internet : TERN

22-across – Show follower of Washington,historically,in US : HAMILTON

23-across – Input for 13,8 appropriately placed – could be direct : CREDIT

24-across – In queer street,person asking others to provide answers : SETTER

25-across – Fiddle around person who works on vessels etc. : POTTER

1-down – Unlikeable character I confused with another : ANTIHERO

2-down – With no difficulty,left scoundrel : WEASEL

3-down – Policy going round bend,oddly? Just the opposite – it gets blanket coverage : BEDLINEN

4-down – Is doing something artistic with others? He is : ETCHES

5-down – Supporter of right to include male in speculation : THEORY

7-down – Stranger’s large glass : RUMMER

8-down – See 13 Across : BOOKKEEPING

14-down – Support the new? Not now : BACKTHEN

15-down – Again negotiates withdrawals : RETREATS

16-down – Keep pressure on firm failing to terminate nincompoop : HARASS

17-down – Bit of basic education in a bank that’s more culturally affected : ARTIER

19-down – Neat an’ tidy after alteration : DAINTY

20-down – Part from religious group right about nothing : SECTOR

5-across – Fiddle around person who works on vessels etc. : TINKER

6-across – In queer street,person asking others to provide answers : TESTER

9-across – Input for 13,8 appropriately placed – could be direct : DEBITS

10-across – Show follower of Washington,historically,in US : OKLAHOMA

11-across – Seabird downloadable from Internet : ERNE

12-across – More that one artistic representation brings in equivalent to heads : LIKENESSES

13-across – Business practice exploiting redundancy,with first part repeated thrice in second : DOUBLEENTRY

18-across – More than one artistic representation brings in equivalent to heads : LANDSCAPES

21-across – Seabird downloadable from Internet : TERN

22-across – Show follower of Washington,historically,in US : HAMILTON

23-across – Input for 13,8 appropriately placed – could be direct : CREDIT

24-across – In queer street,person asking others to provide answers : SETTER

25-across – Fiddle around person who works on vessels etc. : POTTER

1-down – Unlikeable character I confused with another : ANTIHERO

2-down – With no difficulty,left scoundrel : WEASEL

3-down – Policy going round bend,oddly? Just the opposite – it gets blanket coverage : BEDLINEN

4-down – Is doing something artistic with others? He is : ETCHES

5-down – Supporter of right to include male in speculation : THEORY

7-down – Stranger’s large glass : RUMMER

8-down – See 13 Across : BOOKKEEPING

14-down – Support the new? Not now : BACKTHEN

15-down – Again negotiates withdrawals : RETREATS

16-down – Keep pressure on firm failing to terminate nincompoop : HARASS

17-down – Bit of basic education in a bank that’s more culturally affected : ARTIER

19-down – Neat an’ tidy after alteration : DAINTY

20-down – Part from religious group right about nothing : SECTOR

1-across – Idiot’s mind on song : AIRHEAD

5-across – Somewhere to put cigarettes and a pipe down – crack addict’s heading inside : ASHTRAY

10-across – Dish that’s the opposite of T-bone : PAELLA

11-across – Golfer was regularly stopping mid-swing – it helps one pack more … : ROOFRACK

12-across – … power initially,easily approaching greens – well,one of them : PEA

13-across – What gets barrister going during a trial assuming all goes well : ATBEST

14-across – Character from cartoon strip voiced by unknown old soldier : YOGIBEAR

15-across – Wrong to cuddle with a young man : SWAIN

16-across – Found fantastic reduction : INTRODUCE

19-across – It makes things sweeter in Cheers since Norm first arrived wanting company : ASPARTAME

21-across – Godless old man with new silver piercing : PAGAN

24-across – Tom Hanks’ character into dancing – makes sense : GUMPTION

26-across – Short game between a bishop and priest on vacation : ABRUPT

27-across – Jack volunteers once,right : TAR

28-across – State tourism is affected after temperature dropped : MISSOURI

29-across – Smells grim in house occasionally : ODOURS

30-across – Tot wrapping present gets stuck : ADHERED

31-across – Pleasant article following story : AFFABLE

2-down – Twins are extremely upset and agitated : INASTEW

3-down – Face banks to haggle – rejecting a quote under 55 : HELVETICA

4-down – Alternatively set up bandsaw on the counter to make changes : ADAPTS

6-down – Freeloaders and wife-swappers making group of women pose half-cut : SPONGERS

7-down – Rattle mostly using tip of baton for beat : THROB

8-down – Old-fashioned chief turning some spies : ARCHAIC

9-down – Six-footer quietly trains in a gym after work : PRAYINGMANTIS

17-down – Complaint from 1 or 2 : DIARRHOEA

18-down – With no starters required,he’d put pitta back in position : ATTITUDE

20-down – Well-read boss takes Peter out : STUDIED

22-down – Shock on cutting clothes : APPAREL

23-down – Remote Portuguese city essentially bluffing : FAROFF

25-down – Spinning record about a class tourist ultimately makes Pulp : PASTE

1-across – Enable ruler short of gold to suppress pained expression : EMPOWER

5-across – Bush having gone,returned : OUTBACK

9-across – Prank from Rebecca,perhaps : CAPER

10-across – Self-employed slippery character across the channel? : FREELANCE

11-across – Fruit with blemishes sent back alongside hiding blunder : STRAWBERRY

12-across – Pass out seeing snakes : ASPS

14-across – Dress 1 or 2? : LITTLEBLACK

18-across – Cheating like Benedetti? : ONTHEFIDDLE

21-across – In Paris she could go either way : ELLE

22-across – Tries to finish and leave course contents : ENDEAVOURS

25-across – In retail,a development amongst others : INTERALIA

26-across – Lebanon expelling an awful aristocrat : NOBLE

27-across – Lots chasing the ultimate in African and Asian food : NOODLES

28-across – Mineral included in those people’s proposition : THEOREM

1-down – Sounds like size zero is too much : EXCESS

2-down – Kidnap a person holding documents : PAPERS

3-down – Lycanthropes are now dogs,presumably : WEREWOLVES

4-down – Sack shooter : RIFLE

5-down – Fancy red velour is not allowed : OVERRULED

6-down – Cultivate cash here : TILL

7-down – This possibly is a man with empty chronicle : AMNESIAC

8-down – Hold on to wine as a memento : KEEPSAKE

13-down – Surprisingly sober vice president is complying : OBSERVANCE

15-down – Figures from 50% of tribes of which one came to Britain after the Romans : TRIANGLES

16-down – Against providing coverage for TV and radio joker : COMEDIAN

17-down – Knife fight’s ending in broken toilets : STILETTO

19-down – See 14 Across : NUMBER

20-down – See a mate not as poor value : ESTEEM

23-down – Spot on leader quitting physical intimacy : EXACT

24-down – In for a laboratory test : ORAL

7-across – Modify scan only : READJUST

9-across – Round pitch circled by demoiselle : GLOBAL

10-across – Boy,ladies or gentlemen : JOHN

11-across – Building,one made with granite : GENERATION

12-across – Not glued on properly – like a toupee? : WIGGLY

14-across – Fluid melting a bond : LIGAMENT

15-across – Forget about rule,sweet thing : LACTOSE

17-across – In truth – like Ol’ Blue Eyes,say? : FRANKLY

20-across – Short tack with which dawdler secures bath : STUBNAIL

22-across – Delivery – like a Tech giant? : GOOGLY

23-across – Coronet had funny shape : OCTAHEDRON

24-across – Indian prayer,one written in month : JAIN

25-across – Skin in warm coat : FLEECE

26-across – Fundraiser,figure touring African country,so withdrawn : TELETHON

1-down – Miss head of target,reason I shot : SENORITA

2-down – War god’s absolute peace? : ODIN

3-down – Thick and lush – like a shrink? : JUNGLY

4-down – Jelly a kid served up more than once : AGARAGAR

5-down – Slide on trombone perhaps more apt,not surprisingly : PORTAMENTO

6-down – Beach where primate has buried marsupial : MAROON

8-down – Confused – like a Chinese dynasty? : TANGLY

13-down – Eat my shorts,as would green goddess? : GOTOBLAZES

16-down – Unpaid worker given wine was drooling : SLAVERED

18-down – Chill last of frascati and crack open something sweet : LOLLIPOP

19-down – Gore arising in Mediterranean island shortly,blood : CLARET

21-down – Irritating – like a parasite? : TICKLY

22-down – Lanky – like the mob? : GANGLY

24-down – Fibre shown by journo under tough editor,originally : JUTE