6/4/17           Avoid touching spring at all costs! (5,4,5)

 7  Scrap merchants, ones found crashing on the rocks (8)

10 Heroic prisoner returns to city and meets conservationists (7)

11 No longer with us, yet inside making clothes for newcomer (7)

12 Location of coastal region on Adriatic that inspires artist initially? (7)

13 Domestic art company has agreement to meet Queen at end of May (7)

14 Church thief and dog walker might both do this? (4,3,4)

19 Follow the conversation without hearing backchat getting muddled, dear (3-4)

21 To facilitate such entertainment, a track finally gets mixed in Korea somehow (7)

23 Cat lives next to short tree - one standing in alley (7)

25 Where one may find apples and pears or green veg (7)

26 My Nan had gone to find odd-jobber (8)

27 Spanish footballers having no commercial or free territory (5)

 2  Set off mousetrap Edward has covered up (6)

 3  Drew away from cab and started moving (10)

 4  See 6 Across

 5  Hog's first within pen to squirm (6)

 6  Found in flimsy cage looking skyward, seeing what's left (6)

 8  Enter, perhaps, and take heed of central principle (7)

 9  Old scribbler takes a quick look, we hear (5)

13 Reportedly from Prague, fielder could actually be Charlie from Berlin (10)

15 Cushion for Pat and Ella when they get together? (4-3)

16 Scenes when designer gets a degree (second) (8)

17 See 6 Across

18 Rarely models if messed around (6)

20 Correspondent is leading professional in troubled Nepal (3,3)

22 Superlative tape measure (6)

24 Call Lloyd's underwriter (4)