Across
1Insect holds out and will not give in (9)
6Gather, or the one who does (9)
11Stages at the station, and what parties stand on (9)
16Put into another tongue: across, but behind time (9)
21Crowd growing older, and being worked on (9)
22Stand the men a round, ultimately — that is the cure (9)
23Dismissed and clever, having been beaten by cleverness (9)
28One who minds the building takes care (9)
29The congregation's answers, and anybody else's (9)
Down
1Summarise: put the lid back on (5)
2Woodland found in a basil vase (5)
3Flesh out a ledge (5)
4Alert, when changed (5)
5People hidden in Ataturk's name (5)
16Attempt, losing at the start, to entice (5)
17Passage that sounds like an island (5)
18Southern plant loses its head, giving the bias (5)
19A fancy for much the same (5)
20Consumed, by the sound of it — and a rowing crew (5)
23Come about: nothing, then two hundred, er... (5)
24Pastries made when start is mixed (5)
25Nitro is unstable at the opening (5)
26Steak served up, and grabs (5)
27Mods rearranged with right — where students live (5)
Through
1Proportion found in liberation (5)
2Begin, with tarts rearranged (5)
3Raw dish hidden in versus him (5)
4A role played separately (5)
5Tear after time — that is the fashion (5)
6Company microphone turns out funny (5)
7Roles rewritten for one who never wins (5)
8Former performance, precisely (5)
9Time to strain the back? That is a deception (5)
10Severity in America, where you are missing (5)
11Dwindle, like the saint (5)
12Zones in a square as drawn (5)
13Stout, and so rudely named (5)
14Staggers, and leers about (5)
15Places where pig sties are rebuilt (5)