1-across – Almost no sign of hell in barracks? : HECKLES

5-across – Depression admitted by nipper after contracting disease : CHOLERA

9-across – Don’t plan a German paperback : ADLIB

10-across – Paris cool about attraction of Athens : ACROPOLIS

11-across – L’Ogre by Parisian solver? It’s panned! : TOILETROLL

12-across – Meat cut for queen, say : BEE

14-across – End of match lit items, including first leaf : STOPPAGETIME

18-across – Icon that’s silvery peels off : ELVISPRESLEY

21-across – Brown finished, reportedly : DUN

22-across – Potentially fine to poke nameless cat? That’s immature in a bird : PINFEATHER

25-across – Classic wrong to fear anything from the right : TEAFORTWO

26-across – Father having dropped from tree, cutting head on hard wood : LARCH

27-across – Even bits of blubber caught by tough old weapon : HALBERD

28-across – In further tests son fights back : RESISTS

1-down – Warm about right and friendly, ultimately? : HEARTY

2-down – Gunman’s short story for herder : COLLIE

3-down – Burning to collar first of bullies, one not standing up for Da Ponte, say? : LIBRETTIST

4-down – Case dismissed for dancer’s step : STAIR

5-down – Large amounts, a lot moving in pack : CARTLOADS

6-down – Spirit not entirely lifted, oh no! : OOPS

7-down – Illiterate’s mark in grotesquely risible book’s inscription : EXLIBRIS

8-down – Returned with outstanding change of direction, volley initially out : ANSWERED

13-down – 19 16, 5 across 12, 1 down 24 and 2 23, loosely speaking? : VEGETABLES

15-down – Legal term tied up in knots, non-U : PERMITTED

16-down – Worcestershire town, flaming dump : REDDITCH

17-down – Uniform on female, the whole thing in twilight : EVENFALL

19-down – Old pros who never tickle colleagues’ bottoms : WHORES

20-down – Cups with vessel, one of a pair in one’s cups : BRAHMS

23-down – 0.08 cryptically? That’s fine, perhaps : FLOUR

24-down – Uncle Stalin pinching king’s butt : JOKE

9-across – Abusive remark getting clubs plenty excited : CHEAPSHOT

10-across – Money raised orally : BREAD

11-across – 24 across player, joining 2, 16, 22 down and 27 : DYLAN

12-across – Mention as altered state 11 was in initially : MINNESOTA

13-across – How too many people have died — sad words finally taken to heart : INWARDS

14-across – Member of rock group, like one of which 11 performed : ROLLING

17-across – Issues in changing times : EMITS

19-across – Withdrawn from famous Swedish ceremony, ultimately : SHY

20-across – Backed a time and place for big event : ARENA

21-across – Awful act, a sin that’s diabolical : SATANIC

22-across – Energy put into hit since holidays : FIESTAS

24-across – Saintly female on instrument, not piano — much smaller one : HARMONICA

26-across – Play guitar in odd way? Just the opposite : STRUM

28-across – See 14 : STONE

29-across – Diplomacy I preserve, hiding one master of war? : TACTICIAN

1-down – A record I included in stuff for trip : ACID

2-down – Shout in line put in further down : BELLOW

3-down – Work composed in person, wherein sentences aren’t rigidly controlled : OPENPRISON

4-down – One writer after 11, another before 27 : THOMAS

5-down – Artist tucked into cheap fish : STINGRAY

6-down – Band, live, including old instrument for blowing in the wind : OBOE

7-down – Writer is brought into rock band to make music : MELODISE

8-down – Mixed-up confusion of aide’s plan : IDEA

13-down – Times changing articles : ITEMS

15-down – Management has numbers of Germans reportedly on board? : LEADERSHIP

16-down – Collaborator with the law, possibly bent : GRASS

18-down – Middle part of winter I originally selected : INTERIOR

19-down – Place for minister it’s scary to switch : SACRISTY

22-down – State of departments dictator cut, note : FRANCE

23-down – High point of rock, clear and passionate : TORRID

24-down – Crowd entertainer : HOST

25-down – Eg sound of a thunder heard in moment : OMEN

27-down – Part of literary award, we hear, for novelist : MANN

8-across – Bird, passionate duck : FLAMINGO

9-across – Cardinal from Brisbane perhaps, a gas : OZONE

10-across – Not many to speak of, what a relief! : PHEW

11-across – Respond to baroque around entrance to manor, reflecting the very latest styles : POSTMODERN

12-across – Lark catching worm, finally — being intent, did you say? : CAMPER

14-across – Disheartened lady behind queen in Mary, oddly courteous : MANNERLY

15-across – Shag caught countless oysters, initially behind boat at sea : TOBACCO

17-across – Cuckoo shaggers : BONKERS

20-across – Excessively large priest in decline, unfortun­ately born for eating? : ABNORMAL

22-across – Well-groomed tree : SPRUCE

23-across – Coffee-maker doctoring report about drink : PERCOLATOR

24-across – Swift feeding off a starling : FAST

25-across – Modern imagery around gold, a royal favourite? : CORGI

26-across – Embarrassing slips, as endless agony compounded among birds : OWNGOALS

1-down – Chapel organ eventually starts after arrangement for a song : ELCHEAPO

2-down – Seagull’s after small duck : SMEW

3-down – Bird first to reveal concealed assailant : SNIPER

4-down – Swallow, bird coming up after rook and gull, say? : CONSUME

5-down – Mark here, Don elsewhere, as soldier : COMMANDO

6-down – Bird, one kissing the driver? : WOODPECKER

7-down – Parrot possibly genuine, though not a bird : PETREL

13-down – Piece of music, prosaic one jazzed up : PIANOSCORE

16-down – Change around a switch in lamp to see rail or grouse? : COMPLAIN

18-down – Mythical bird talks outrageously, coarse stuff : ROCKSALT

19-down – Gannet left to fill stomach with a lot : GLUTTON

21-down – Fracture in bone, one’s not required to stretch : BREACH

22-down – Quail bone adorning one king and another : SHRINK

24-down – Turkey farm’s prime cut : FLOP

1-across – Sleeps with dons? : NODSOFF

5-across – Weaver’s bed : BOTTOM

10-across – Love equal pay, not a distribution without clarity : OPAQUELY

11-across – Providing returns since firm’s failure : FIASCO

13-across – Lilac arrangement extremely pretty and extremely big, not quite having a shapely 5 : CALLIPYGIAN

16-across – Minimal cover for 5, a number with a speech impediment : THONG

18-across – I’m sorry I haven’t a clue — most comical comeback with a hooter sound : LORDKNOWS

19-across – Epic drama about a lifesaver : PARAMEDIC

20-across – Gives party away : NATES

21-across – As soon as drink’s available for writer, I got mine drunk outside : OPENINGTIME

25-across – Squeal out for matches : EQUALS

26-across – Better outside, I realise : BAHOOKIE

27-across – A drip’s moving, but not like this : RAPIDS

28-across – Succumbed so readily, in part as a result of pressure : BEDSORE

2-down – Long rally, off course, endlessly crawling : ONALLFOURS

3-down – Scar an Arab : SAUDI

4-down – Take off around mid-July, run regularly, agreed and ready to fly : FULLYFLEDGED

6-down – Paper expert knows his flesh and blood : ONIONSKIN

7-down – You French, keep quiet! : TUSH

8-down – Put 5 on show, instant love ending on low note : MOON

9-down – Kind caress first to use a keyboard : TOUCHTYPE

12-down – Miami let loose captured reptile into local environment : MICROCLIMATE

14-down – We’re not enjoying this first sign of love in heart of sycophant : BOOTLICKER

15-down – Help decorate cake on the outside, initially leaving edges sharply symmetric : ISOSCELES

17-down – Declared bet and played : GAMBOLLED

22-down – Polish side-switching is repellent : GROSS

23-down – Fancy rare … : REAR

24-down – … steak? : RUMP

8-across – It may help you go and have fun, nursing a back strain : LAXATIVE

9-across – Folk dancing in the capital of China : ETHNIC

10-across – 24 across today embodies puzzle’s point : SEAT

11-across – Toppling from toilet back to front, mid-tinkle : DETHRONING

12-across – Go in another way, inserting a penny : ELAPSE

14-across – Laboratory chemicals are broken down by WC : REAGENTS

15-across – Playwright wanting smallest room pink? : JOHNGAY

17-across – Left workplace XI one short for return game : NETBALL

20-across – Comedian who played Broadway — or Flushing Meadows? : WCFIELDS

22-across – Forming attachment, as one kiss pierces lover’s heart : FIXIVE

23-across – Disposal of loot won’t start without Irish — 150 going round : ENCIRCLING

24-across – By using Toilet Twinning, starts to reach target : BUTT

25-across – No end to the growth in snooker : THWART

26-across – Potty-trains baby, ignoring books on hygiene : SANITARY

1-down – Engagement ring’s broken into two, with real suffering : WATERLOO

2-down – Pensioner wanting pee on way hops here : OAST

3-down – Leak, as Jimmy’s overlooked sieve : RIDDLE

4-down – Nearly reclued first of toilet-related anagrams due to reprimand : LECTURE

5-down – Reduce or eliminate wrinkles : DECREASE

6-down – Hollow trough beneath raised seat forming primitive loo : THUNDERBOX

7-down – Producer of Grease finds motion in UN toilet left by alien : OILNUT

13-down – Pompous fiction distributed in China : PONTIFICAL

16-down – Toilet a collaborator erected, coming within budget : ALLOCATE

18-down – Sanitation’s essential: leads to life advances, vitally and as of right : LAVATORY

19-down – Most like what’s scattered around in this sea : ASHIEST

21-down – Eye angles made by bent end of toilet chain : CANTHI

22-down – 24 across following detailed schedule : FAGEND

24-down – Baby’s No 1, when one’s expected No 2? : BETA