1-across – Plain-spoken physicist ignoring one madman in laboratory : FRANKENSTEIN

10-across – Fancy car frequently encroaching where bus picks up passengers : SOFTTOP

11-across – Fruit, overwhelming touching gifts : DONATES

12-across – Muscat resident to retire shortly : INAMO

13-across – Horribly mutilate? That’s extreme : ULTIMATE

15-across – Swimming around lagoons, she takes it easy : HANGSLOOSE

16-across – Happy to see prime minister losing weight : GLAD

18-across – Furthermore sighted in Yugoslavia after revolution : ALSO

20-across – Those turned out in Tudor guise? : TOURGUIDES

22-across – Once again, insist phrase is rejected in paper : REAFFIRM

24-across – Unless God did what Jesus did : SAVED

26-across – Resident of Punjab : INDIANA

27-across – Councillor admitted getting bonked on the head : CROWNED

28-across – American artist trained in the stencil : LICHTENSTEIN

2-down – ‘Stop!’ Who stops play? What stops play? : REFRAIN

3-down – Lunatic to criticise vegetarian’s choice : NUTROAST

4-down – Sexpot’s revealing show : EXPO

5-down – Having energetically lassoed, red and aching in the rear : SADDLESORE

6-down – During night in Paris, almost gives way to tiredness : ENNUI

7-down – Following Nureyev’s primacy, ballet dancing is an activity no longer associated solely with girls : NETBALL

8-down – Sound of garish Sinatra medley : ASRIGHTASRAIN

9-down – Much sicker than a parrot? : ASDEADASADODO

14-down – Black, for example: speedy, but now unlikely to run : COLOURFAST

17-down – Interrupted instruction to army barber : CUTSHORT

19-down – Shocking thing: in cold, wearing open-toed footwear : SCANDAL

21-down – Michelangelo’s work incomplete essentially, fancied his rival : DAVINCI

23-down – Monk hiding half the Swiss loot : FRANC

25-down – Glance negligently at and make a detailed copy of : SCAN

1-across – Nation excited with charmer like Justin Trudeau : NORTHAMERICAN

10-across – Umpteenth US evangelical stifles praise : ENTHUSE

11-across – Local’s stripped down to nothing in Spain, giving patriotic song : OCANADA

12-across – Illicitly loots workman’s implements : TOOLS

13-across – Time lag I suffered to overcome this? : AGELIMIT

15-across – Nervously hint at lawsuit, then : INTHATCASE

16-across – Former prime minister – no leader – in retreat : LAIR

18-across – Teas consumed? : EATS

20-across – Deign to advance one letter, with organ enclosed in posting : DELIVERING

22-across – Mountain folk live among giants : TIBETANS

24-across – American poet finds path around lake : PLATH

26-across – Composer with some dross in Italian : ROSSINI

27-across – To make up story about king, head of Númenor: this author did! : TOLKIEN

28-across – Rising sun soon heated coastal resort : SOUTHENDONSEA

2-down – Declines surgery: pets only half sedated : OPTSOUT

3-down – 72 hours or so ago, child born then has far to go : THURSDAY

4-down – Does away with lines on a graph : AXES

5-down – Old, anguished, wretched: there’s nothing to add : ENOUGHSAID

6-down – Criminal lawyer hides after considering everything : INALL

7-down – In AA, I mean to raise condition : ANAEMIA

8-down – Direction borders on conservative in Romeo and Juliet adaptation : WESTSIDESTORY

9-down – Pursuit in which diet is foiled? : EASTEREGGHUNT

14-down – Measure that monitors monitors? : SCREENTIME

17-down – Zane’s gutted, with chafed nipple in airship : ZEPPELIN

19-down – A billion tacos cooked with this condiment? : TABASCO

21-down – Suppose I’m a gin enthusiast primarily : IMAGINE

23-down – Playing whist, void of hearts, trump’s opening: another card, please : TWIST

25-down – Suitor that’s utterly desirable at first? : STUD

1-across – Dodgy download offered by the French: it’ll infect the others : BADAPPLE

5-across – ‘Unopposed vacuous tycoon’ describes president squandering billions : TOAMAN

10-across – Sandwich sandwiches fizz and ‘fudge!’ : BLASTIT

11-across – What you get if a plan’s ill-conceived? : INAFLAP

12-across – Film-maker, vile creature, changing sides : LOACH

13-across – Boozy yob’s unexpectedly got allure : LAGERLOUT

14-across – Masseuse pounds foot, gives blessing : RUBBERSTAMPS

18-across – So far, Skype IT malfunctioning? Oh, come on : FORPITYSSAKE

21-across – More-or-less learning to fly across England : INGENERAL

23-across – Shout out to Antarctica : SOUTH

24-across – Consume slice of meat in toastie : EATINTO

25-across – Exhausting American in grump regularly : USINGUP

26-across – Bronze: tin containing uranium, nitrogen and tantalum : SUNTAN

27-across – Queen pursues ‘favourite’ to criticise ‘eternal youth’ : PETERPAN

1-down – Rabbit on bundle containing books : BABBLE

2-down – Spicy madras produces sensations : DRAMAS

3-down – Aromatic oil, dressing on distilled coulis : PATCHOULI

4-down – Symbol for ‘toilet’ shiftily excluding female! : LITTLEBOYSROOM

6-down – Live with Dyson Airblade missing parts : ONAIR

7-down – Political figure seen at local recycling in 2010 : MALCOLMX

8-down – Putting me in post dodgily? : NEPOTISM

9-down – US blogger, lib, is feeble wimp : BIGGIRLSBLOUSE

15-down – Kicks back and captures man alive in bingo hall : TAKESFIVE

16-down – Bureaucrats in charge fenced in by tenders : OFFICERS

17-down – Town in Belgium? Absolutely : BRIGHTON

19-down – Ended the call, being anxious : HUNGUP

20-down – Romantic figure: ‘Cold? I’ll give you a lift’ : CHOPIN

22-down – Assassin in Japan’s concealed? : NINJA