Across
1
Little character shown by husband in corporation occupying permanent residence (3,5)
6
Main country for monster (6)
9
Defective directive defended by agent (6)
10
Machine gun dude fed to a Scot surreptitiously (8)
11
Curious things I see with cat or cuckoo (9)
13
Home of fried chicken and pork pie for pop icon (5)
15
Cricket side takes part of wicket out for a while? (2,4)
17
Swift – doing what it does? (6)
18
Thief looking at gull from behind (6)
19
Those from outskirts of 21 across on posh carriage (6)
21
Country found coming through Mali by air (5)
22
Spooner's admonishment to ankle-biting chickens, the tops! (4,5)
25
Bird sanctuary foreign to herons (3,5)
26
By the sound of it, albatross an albatross? (6)
28
Issue securing pile, able to click into place (4-2)
29
Movement of turntable perhaps derailing train too (8)
Down
2
One bird or another dropping head (3)
3
That is an expression of pain in 16 down? (2,3)
4
Little rubbish is endured with ultimate character incarcerated (10)
5
Tick caught by mite cut in half (6)
6
Last seen of vegetarianism, then swallow – this? (4)
7
Parrot perhaps – when sick? (5-4)
8
Vulnerable type meeting bird (7,4)
12
Canary, relative of 8 down? (5,6)
14
Gal with rook mistaken, however, for the Sparrow from Minsk (4,6)
16
Explosive device in birdcage, say? (5,4)
23
Heron bagged by hunter, gentleman from the south (5)
24
American diver – turkey, dodo or drongo? (4)
27
Music genre, 'ouse arising (3)