Clues

1-across – Unconventional runs exposed : STREAKS

5-across – Tot doled out in trip? Not half! : TODDLER

9-across – Nellie with bid in play can’t be forgotten : INDELIBLE

10-across – Herb, or another man? : BASIL

11-across – Duck that’s left after meal : TEAL

12-across – It shows what’s currently on : PILOTLIGHT

14-across – Man of power posted abroad : DESPOT

15-across – Seats fixed by the river : SETTEES

16-across – The judge drops repeated lines : REFRAIN

18-across – It’s perfect and it can’t change : INTACT

20-across – Note swelling : PROMINENCE

21-across – Second horse is a drawback : SNAG

24-across – Fix drink around the North : SWING

25-across – A man with name as negotiator or snooper, for example : AGENTNOUN

26-across – Test learner in drill, for instance : EXAMPLE

27-across – Pity about being in a sulk after missing round : REMORSE

1-down – Fast flier : SWIFT

2-down – A tirade could be broadcast : RADIATE

3-down – Fitted furniture with top removed : ABLE

4-down – One can live on it? Barely! : SUBSISTENCEWAGE

5-down – Indication of a good beach – no danger in sight : THECOASTISCLEAR

6-down – Reduce power of one bet, detail being incorrect : DEBILITATE

7-down – Dish is a flop in a way : LASAGNE

8-down – Tells stories kept back in reserve : RELATES

13-down – Giving opinion boldly and loudly : SPEAKINGUP

16-down – Quick answer in the Tripos test : RIPOSTE

17-down – State where the keys are : FLORIDA

19-down – In fairness, most of the sweet stuff’s belonging to us : CANDOUR

22-down – Press turns up outside UN and it’s a bit sticky : GUNGE

23-down – Staunch stock : STEM

1-across – Tree that has flourished to help the cameraman : FLASH

4-across – See 20 : BROTHERS

8-across – Promise of success gives a new start to likelihood of doubting, or being doubted : AUSPICIOUSNESS

10-across – Musical to be exciting within classical opening : CAROUSEL

11-across – Borderline with benefits : FRINGE

12-across – Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat : SUDORIFIC

15-across – President’s backing for Thursday budget speech : DUBYA

17-across – Yeats’s work so far : ASYET

18-across – Assembly in Berlin in case right is challenged : REICHSTAG

19-across – World of the fortunate caught by shore bird : OYSTER

21-across – Musical state : OKLAHOMA

24-across – Strong resistance to placing of shroud for setter : OVERMYDEADBODY

25-across – Not moved by exhibition of nudes without method : UNSWAYED

26-across – Instructor who’s lost in Student Representative Council : TUTOR

1-down – If painter is philosopher, then old money is meat : FRANCISBACON

2-down – Journalist comes in, no less morose of course : ASSUREDLY

3-down – Exalted line of people recited poem : HAIKU

4-down – See 20 : BRIDESFOR

5-down – Musical work for piano in part of 10 : OPUS

6-down – Barbarian doctor botched the D & C : HUNDREDTH

7-down – It’s sticky to repeat wrongdoing : RESIN

9-down – Write to fisherman about way-out Asian stick : PENANGLAWYER

13-down – Horrid quarrel where one’s taken for a ride : ROTTENROW

14-down – Little bird with little daughter on my lawn : CHICKWEED

16-down – Weaver on strike wants to settle at lowest level : BOTTOMOUT

20-down – Dancing dervishes never refer to boss – NB musical : SEVEN

22-down – Check on half the listeners : AUDIT

23-down – Repetitious Elizabethan writer : LYLY

1-across – Adjustment is required to circumvent many a dispute : ALTERCATION

9-across – Soon each French city accepts recipe : EARLYON

10-across – Newborn issue given Welsh name : BRONWEN

11-across – Free – as air or melody? : UNCHAINED

12-across – Shrewd Congressman’s first article on the state of Albany : CANNY

13-across – Very pale blue or green flower : NILE

14-across – A little dog – perhaps one plays with it : TOYSPANIEL

16-across – Fleshed out feature found in Dublin Echo : DOUBLECHIN

19-across – In France, who quietly delivers a bon mot? : QUIP

20-across – Prepare for scan on the Fourth of July : READY

21-across – Bill’s partner with new diet consumed 84 starters and felt better as a result : BENEFITED

23-across – Prolong a short trip abroad : SPINOUT

24-across – Chairman’s back with directors in passage : NARROWS

25-across – Latin and Greek races : THECLASSICS

1-down – Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer : AGRICULTURALIST

2-down – A South American weasel – it’s in the dictionary at the back : TAYRA

3-down – Nick has to come across : RUNINTO

4-down – Songs of sunrise demanded in Australia : AUBADES

5-down – Remove wrinkles from head of cabin boy in ship : IRONCLAD

6-down – Currently employed, they make everyone a loser : NOWINSITUATIONS

7-down – Rudder’s astern, as it may be on a packet : RETURNADDRESS

8-down – Voltaire, say – deep cynic lost at sea : ENCYCLOPEDIST

15-down – Sword in Rome forged by Cassius once : CLAYMORE

17-down – Copper and aluminium encasing part of the forearm : CUBITAL

18-down – It’s good to have had a long life : INNINGS

22-down – A physicist starts to find Einsteinian relativity more involved : FERMI

1-across – Miscellaneous collection by little girl with bad mark : JOBLOT

4-across – Not so much cocaine in flower? : SNOWDROP

9-across – Messenger from brain to cheek? : NERVE

10-across – Report of solid figure on high ground across the Thames : KEWBRIDGE

11-across – Accompaniment for Bilbo struggling with wild goat : OBBLIGATO

12-across – Love in its present form is a bit green : OASIS

13-across – Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour : SOCIOBIOLOGY

17-across – Phone call transferred in Greece has 21 quality : BELLIGERENCE

20-across – 21 people called Howard : HAWKS

21-across – Thoroughly investigate original inhabitant’s beheading, wanting to make something of it : COMBATIVE

23-across – Doctor, very keen one, with article on Indian language : DRAVIDIAN

24-across – 21 behaviour returned as 21 embraces royal queen : SABRE

25-across – See 24 : RATTLING

26-across – Saw suffer detention : BEHELD

1-down – Gin cocktail drunk by wooden supporter, a 21 fellow : JINGOIST

2-down – Unsaddled? Raise taxi during breakout : BAREBACK

3-down – Daggers taken from pillar : OBELI

5-down – Spooner was a fresher and cardinal got round his team : NEWCOLLEGEMAN

6-down – 21 person, not far off, possibly a goner : WARMONGER

7-down – Very handsome artist in salad : RADISH

8-down – Polite request for quiet tenancy : PLEASE

10-down – Canal turned to ice during prince’s appeal to 21 voters : KHAKIELECTION

14-down – Bowlers’ efforts with ball relocated from inner city : OVERSPILL

15-down – Directions that work: I wish I had them! : ENVIABLE

16-down – Parson’s always the last to follow the right : REVEREND

18-down – Hot drink goes round: I issue reproof : CHIDER

19-down – Requirement of diplomat keeping up pained comment on play : TWOACT

22-down – Drink is included in passageway : AISLE

9-across – Little fellow’s house sending many a relative round the bend : HOMUNCULE

10-across – Foreign friend holding a square violin : AMATI

11-across – Grassland on which navy loses heart to flier : LEAFLET

12-across – Return of fabled bird vexed Scottish pirate : CORSAIR

13-across – Leave note on painful condition : GOUT

14-across – Way finder with an atom of sympathy : COMPASSION

15-across – Container for drink – mother’s ruin? : THERMOS

17-across – Proposition third parties receiving aggregate : THEOREM

19-across – Strange free goal in strange communal decision : REFERENDUM

22-across – Love to shove Unfinished Symphony, say : OPUS

23-across – Festival owned by knight : GALAHAD

24-across – Battered old tabloid model’s gone on the game : DIABOLO

26-across – Depicted looking stressed : DRAWN

27-across – It’s unimaginative of ants to take heart from gulag : FORMULAIC

1-down – Chargers get drunk, grabbing Loki’s girl, and old god’s covered with cheese : THELIGHTBRIGADE

2-down – Shut up about a time to be green : IMMATURE

3-down – A love for indigo : ANIL

4-down – Glistening passions half-roused inwardly : LUSTROUS

5-down – Incompletely train up as drink carrier : TEACUP

6-down – Game casserole almost cooked : LACROSSE

7-down – Exciting excursion for a fellow in women’s clothing : SAFARI

8-down – Artist unexpectedly buys Cornish home : HIERONYMUSBOSCH

16-down – Business person’s Gallic sea shanty? : MERCHANT

17-down – Sultry old solver’s kept below : THUNDERY

18-down – Original recipe to overlap with admonition : REPROVAL

20-down – Stuff about one article from the Sun, reportedly : FILIAL

21-down – Remove number beforehand and slip into oblivion : NODDFF

25-down – Plant held up by Samurai : ARUM