8-across – Type of 25 cross, not entirely rejected : TRAPDOOR

9-across – Scrub over a regular report : ANNUAL

10-across – Time that flies : BIRD

11-across – East End houses don’t have the credentials to accommodate white 25 : BLACKWIDOW

12-across – Disaster — failure is another synonym, completely obvious for starters : FIASCO

14-across – Fine man for philosophy : THINKING

15-across – Eternal fool poked by stick with malice in the end : AGELESS

17-across – 25, left defender? : REDBACK

20-across – Start reviewing it with caveat : ACTIVATE

22-across – In goal, attempt catches : TRENDY

23-across – One going down for a long time, a reviled criminal in prison, is on for release : PEARLDIVER

24-across – A type of 25 in ebbing stream : WOLF

25-across – Do what you do endlessly, 17? That’s you! : SPIDER

26-across – 25 hasn’t uncoiled, moth initially trapped : HUNTSMAN

1-down – Behind barrier, little time to go over it : TRAILING

2-down – One perhaps eyed second dessert : SPUD

3-down – Cutting reserves, a mistake : BOOBOO

4-down – Distance across doorstep, perhaps, that’s halved : BREADTH

5-down – Bet party gets seat : BACKSIDE

6-down – Unspecified number, crime in the Spanish capital going up, never going down? : UNSINKABLE

7-down – Bloke captures Aussie native in desert : MAROON

13-down – 25 that can jump — rating one degree : SALTIGRADE

16-down – Model son to give father a thrashing? That’s about right! : STANDARD

18-down – Scoundrel I summon up in US car : CADILLAC

19-down – Lift tool, say, the axe : HEAVEHO

21-down – Keen to bury leak, head-er deleted as sinister : CREEPY

22-down – Bottom disappearing, the king is upon one! : THRONE

24-down – Innermost part of bowel remains clean : WASH

8-across – City in Arabic translated as Italian boot : CALABRIA

9-across – Drug-taking composer greeting American-style rock group drained of energy, forming another band : BEACH

10-across – Kind doctor Rex with line in old-fashioned salutation : GOOD

11-across – Shakes off visitor ban : VIBRATIONS

12-across – Straits can be heard : SOUNDS

14-across – Bean collected by Rose and checked : REPULSED

16-across – Round variety of raisin associated with a deity : OSIRIAN

18-across – Seaside plant’s unvarying energy : STATICE

21-across – Velocity regulator using gravitational force in preference to negative resistance : GOVERNOR

23-across – See 10 : MORROW

24-across – Crude African oil which has a major fault : CALIFORNIA

26-across – See 9 : BOYS

27-across – Tom 26, possibly, wants retro outfit with hollowed lapels : GIRLS

28-across – It’s a mark around small tree : TAMARISK

1-down – Insubstantial state, not watertight : VAPOROUS

2-down – Exposed, ring up lawyers, having reached end of line : LAID

3-down – English writer’s drink : GRAVES

4-down – Major character of Shaw, one introduced by two snatches of music : BARBARA

5-down – Coptic bishop books into mutual help organis­ation : ABBA

6-down – Goliath, ear-bending a saint worshipper : HAGIOLATER

7-down – Risk a section of the church abandoning Latin : CHANCE

13-down – Axon displays cool courage taking roughage : NERVEFIBRE

15-down – Fit revolving stage after lead’s made an exit : PET

17-down – Old foreign coin without a name : ANN

19-down – Tipless battleaxe is my creative way of unfairly favouring allies : CRONYISM

20-down – Rock group’s No 1 passed onto Italian earl : GRANITE

22-down – Zip attached to cooker shade : ORANGE

23-down – End up restricting Sam’s development, creating a bad atmosphere : MIASMA

25-down – City’s abbreviated text breaking agreement : OMSK

26-down – See 2 : BARE

1-across – Boarder’s entrance examination’s ending in silence, physicist heard : GANGPLANK

6-across – Wine — how’s it going down the Champs Elysées? No comment! : CAVA

8-across – He wrote something spicy about Mikado’s principal : CUMMINGS

9-across – Subtlety is absent in pest : NUANCE

10-across – Political bloc spilling claret : CARTEL

11-across – Tom, try Beaujolais nouveau, reason for party celebration? : ABSOLUTE

12-across – Barolo’s capital, just brilliant! : BRIGHT

15-across – Ecstasy and sin with vino in motion picture : ENVISION

16-across – Cunning popular in force as authoritarian : MARTINET

19-across – Termite’s heading beyond place for an insect : LOCUST

21-across – One wine knocked back, then another oddly? That’s the reality! : ITSAFACT

22-across – See 3 : BEATER

24-across – See 26 : DAMORE

25-across – See 11 : MAJORITY

26-across – Instrument lout stuffed with cheese, filling hollow one : OBOE

27-across – No revolution in US state is darkly active : NOCTURNAL

1-down – Being worshipped around Utrecht primarily, a cheese : GOUDA

2-down – Label the Guardian revolutionary : NAMETAG

3-down – Cheese round new table for garage worker : PANEL

4-down – Calm, outstanding union leader, equally wise : ASSUAGE

5-down – Man is up for scrofula : KINGSEVIL

6-down – Drink with endless joy, a wine : CHABLIS

7-down – Those charged in Richmond, say, for holidays : VACATIONS

13-down – Possible Sunday lunch, as whisky served up in mug : ROASTLAMB

14-down – Bird climbing a mountain to circle a tropical tree : TONKABEAN

17-down – Drink wine that’s fragrant : TEAROSE

18-down – Greatly revered in epic, I met Othello on the rise : TOTEMIC

20-down – Upset feeling, as series about King Arthur ends : CHAGRIN

22-down – Small and tasteful, insect-flavoured gravy, might you say? : BIJOU

23-down – Praise old airline to the sky : EXTOL

5-across – Tabloid — it goes downhill : SKIRUN

6-across – The Guardian’s unsubstantiated comments : RUMOUR

9-across – Doctor’s devices producing spin : DRYERS

10-across – In nursery, train to speak lovingly : CHOOCHOO

11-across – Time is something you can tell : TALE

12-across – Bound to protect conservationists, being idealistic? : ROSETINTED

13-across – Everyone complimentary about salmon that’s dry : ALCOHOLFREE

18-across – Like a devoted man working on calm : MONASTICAL

21-across – Scot’s opposed to answer : AGIN

22-across – Final contests of the French : DECIDERS

23-across – Wound’s taped around the edges : TWINED

24-across – Church’s origin : SOURCE

25-across – Stout lady’s clothing : PORTLY

1-down – Team leading Spanish team of stars : SIDEREAL

2-down – On-screen presence who swears aloud : CURSOR

3-down – Fully exhaust and dismiss old fellow : RUNOUTOF

4-down – Withdrawing cents from account recklessly, one has a hefty bill : TOUCAN

5-down – Rush in the raw meat that’s wrapped right : STREAK

7-down – Rocky shore skirts deserted island : RHODES

8-down – Tailor is cross with suit cutter’s pouch : SCISSORCASE

14-down – Oxford University tutor embraces reading work in community : OUTREACH

15-down – Weaken English spies infiltrating China : EMACIATE

16-down – Screens 600 balls? : COVERS

17-down – Light infantry put on sort of light uniform : LIVERY

19-down – Problem present with America’s rising hostility : ANIMUS

20-down – Great deal no one rejected for cosmetic product : LOTION

1-across – Kentish Town revolutionary occupying list : ROCHESTER

6-across – Currency trickled into Liverpool, perhaps? : FRANC

9-across – Land report : STATE

10-across – Integrate ductile ore : ARGENTITE

11-across – This number endlessly drink : TEA

12-across – Elegant descent down onto joint : SWALLOWDIVE

14-across – One left to plug author, right away one’s bored : OILWELL

15-across – Increase in staff replacing us in a month : AUGMENT

16-across – Doctor resigns as a way of introduction : INGRESS

19-across – Gentle exercise courses involving a minimum of intensity : PILATES

22-across – House of iron valued with windows : FENESTRATED

23-across – Sheepish female solver on the phone? : EWE

24-across – Out of practice, one getting hammered? That’s whisky and Drambuie! : RUSTYNAIL

26-across – High time expanded, initially, ghost town population : NOONE

27-across – Cricket side ready for attack : ONSET

28-across – Always carrying brand on both sides of label, one putting on a coat : ENAMELLER

1-down – German knight turns up for Italian dish : RISOTTO

2-down – Name outstanding witch he painted : CHAGALL

3-down – In doubling possible price, agent finally quits : EVENSTEVENS

4-down – Dog kennels appreciative, volunteer starts work : TRAVAIL

5-down – Fancy things beginning to improve in the serving up of a drink : REGALIA

6-down – Good time to have some, if unhappy? : FUN

7-down – Idiotic, a lapse in energy : ASININE

8-down – Fair setter claiming foul, finally : CLEMENT

13-down – Look to protect journalist supporting joker in workers’ movement : WAGGLEDANCE

16-down – Ground on fire around bottom of garden, a flaming nightmare! : INFERNO

17-down – Book, for example, upset rival, not me! : GENESIS

18-down – Top waves on one : SURFACE

19-down – Bone in halibut’s tail spoiling Spanish dish : PATELLA

20-down – Arbiter consumed by work in plant : TREFOIL

21-down – Happen to wear fleece as a furry female! : SHEBEAR

25-down – Salt Lake City all ends up, still : YET