Clues

8-across – I met a rum doctor lacking insight : IMMATURE

9-across – Mug against accepting love token : COUPON

10-across – Removing front of best girl’s book : ESTHER

11-across – Is patient, but is frightened of holding little brother back : FORBEARS

12-across – Morning in French is a word of prayer : AMEN

13-across – Relating to coin collections ICI man must put straight : NUMISMATIC

15-across – One admitted having used this? : KNOCKER

16-across – Dressing in black and taking a long time : BANDAGE

18-across – Disregarded what the plane did? : PASSEDOVER

19-across – Source of decay overhead to be included : ROOT

20-across – Ring Eric, worried about cup holder : OCCUPIER

22-across – Tolerate performance around church piano : ACCEPT

23-across – Stick had bent before : ADHERE

24-across – Watches Rose dancing – which may offend the viewers! : EYESORES

1-down – Change is needed in this place of entertainment : AMUSEMENTARCADE

2-down – Chums in boats get changed into swimwear : BATHINGCOSTUMES

3-down – Escort, before sweetheart entered, swore : GUARANTEED

4-down – Salesman turned up to see red bouquet : PERFUME

5-down – Mark races back, losing a point : SCAR

6-down – One undertaking, with unusual care, to find ruler : FUNERALDIRECTOR

7-down – You’ll hear it said these people are too much in love : COURTINGCOUPLES

14-down – Way to declare luggage on flights : STAIRCASES

17-down – Prevented Green taking a bearing in time : AVERTED

21-down – One month I returned frozen : ICED

9-across – Dismissing and discussing no further : LETTINGGO

10-across – Famous Indian, he comes back in, run out : NEHRU

11-across – Char with mop out clears away moths : CAMPHOR

12-across – Troops stepped out in this formation : ECHELON

13-across – Low quarters of the elk : MOOSE

14-across – Indefinite truce in an engagement : UNCERTAIN

16-across – For Wagner fans, a godsend? : GOTTERDAMMERUNG

19-across – Boy scouts may sing about them : CAMPFIRES

21-across – There’s money in education : DUCAT

22-across – Staff instruction to get a move on : ALLEGRO

23-across – It’s inferior to the bean stew : BENEATH

24-across – Money is a bait that takes many in : LUCRE

25-across – It’s a recurring theme in 16 : LEITMOTIF

1-down – Bad spelling : BLACKMAGIC

2-down – A current measure in beer and scotch : STAMPOUT

3-down – Fruit from East Chile – or China, originally : LICHEE

4-down – Operatic prince to leave in unending anger : IGOR

5-down – Are they used to keep beehive hairdos in place? : HONEYCOMBS

6-down – Such a town has a unique mode of transport : ONEHORSE

7-down – She made her name in production of Hamlet : THELMA

8-down – Act in rotation : TURN

14-down – It’s hell for criminals, generally : UNDERWORLD

15-down – Those who never do a day’s work : NIGHTSHIFT

17-down – Figures they may be burnt : EFFIGIES

18-down – Such a net may become loose : UNCHASTE

20-down – Married woman showing ill will : MALICE

21-down – Energetic sort has Monday off : DYNAMO

22-down – A blue, not with university, shows talent : ABLE

23-down – Lure one into a club : BAIT

1-across – One stuck among fighters : PIGINTHE

5-across – See 1 : MIDDLE

9-across – Brazilian hit man also called Grande : RIOBRAVO

10-across – Impart toffee freely to pet : AFITOF

11-across – Scottish city will shortly report finished business : DONEDEAL

12-across – Weight to ride at? : ANCHOR

14-across – Welcome to the recorder of the heart? : TICKERTAPE

18-across – Thespian dame’s Ah! replaced by note in Australian novel : THORNBIRDS

22-across – See 10 : TEMPER

23-across – Apocalyptic 4 : HORSEMEN

24-across – The easy way to dish out food? : HANDIT

25-across – See 24 : ONAPLATE

26-across – Mystery writer’s attempt with The Raven, etc : POETRY

27-across – Old-fashioned individual in the theatre : STONEAGE

1-down – Show reason on the square : PARADE

2-down – See 2 : GROUND

3-down – Under-developed article by Chilean composer of 26 : NERUDA

4-down – Peter of the FO eating meat that is to be unlike the lark : HAVEALIEIN

6-down – Home enthusiast shot in the foot : INFANTRY

7-down – Wife to husband? It’s true, or this is what I am : DUTCHMAN

8-down – Compulsory for establishment in goal : ENFORCED

13-down – It’s true it’s from the Yukon – idiot implicated : IKIDYOUNOT

15-down – Cheat to finish knitting? : STITCHUP

16-down – Begin insertion of name into business that’s not right : COMMENCE

17-down – Make a deduction of one or less : INFERIOR

19-down – Inverted sound of flamboyance under the grate : ASHPAN

20-down – Antelope, a fiend on the wing : IMPALA

21-down – More room? I take the point : ANNEXE

1-across – Take by surprise and apprehend girl with goods : CATCHUNAWARES

10-across – Creed one has abandoned when ignominiously discharged : CASHIERED

11-across – Electrically charged type of verse : IONIC

12-across – Speak for a team selection : ORATE

13-across – Soldier could be in danger? That’s right! : GRENADIER

14-across – Tower where time ran out? : MINARET

16-across – Hairstyle for the beach? : SHINGLE

18-across – Torpid party worker entered the Marines : DORMANT

20-across – Girl with a round outline : CONTOUR

21-across – Bloater paste at the French fair : TOLERABLE

23-across – Point to bird’s back : STERN

24-across – Newspaper used as musical instrument? : ORGAN

25-across – Censure concerning testamentary evidence : REPROBATE

26-across – Barrow boys way ahead of Red Star characters : STREETTRADERS

2-down – Sailor-composer used to refraining : ABSTAINER

3-down – Church having the edge in lawbreaking : CRIME

4-down – Just a post : UPRIGHT

5-down – Speech on deportment : ADDRESS

6-down – A soldier-comedian getting on with stirring up public feeling : AGITATION

7-down – Dissatisfaction arising from unseen nuisance : ENNUI

8-down – Compromise quarters : ACCOMMODATION

9-down – Red athlete can produce vegetable : SCARLETRUNNER

15-down – Make fresh dispositions in back row : REARRANGE

17-down – Bird just right for old Michaelmas market : GOOSEFAIR

19-down – Flap over extraordinary rate for silk : TABARET

20-down – Obsequious type of bird : CREEPER

22-down – Easily portable lamp, for example : LIGHT

23-down – Spaniards used round ring as a net : SNOOD

1-across – Wildean response to vetting in New York: Oh, gee!, exclaimed Oscar. Up the revolution! : IHAVENOTHINGTO

8-across – Vestment heavily embroidered in California : COTTA

9-across – Gallows’s construction for prankster : OWLGLASS

11-across – See 1 : DECLARE

12-across – When might one include the Big Apple in a sentence? : ANYTIME

13-across – Mother-in-law’s lament takes one back… : NAOMI

15-across – … amidst which her daughter-in-law stood to cook, clean, iron… : ALIENCORN

17-across – Mlle Nin absorbs men’s failure in Remembrance of Things Past : ANAMNESIS

20-across – Post hoc yobbo leered at leaders of taxonomic divisions : PHYLA

21-across – Out on a limb with this deception? : LEGPULL

23-across – Particular church circles backing affirmation : CHOOSEY

25-across – Let alumni get to grips with utterance : OBSTACLE

26-across – Inspirational figure from under a toadstool : ERATO

27-across – See 1 : EXCEPTMYGENIUS

1-down – Apropos of where detectives are intellectually foreshortened : INCIDENTALLY

2-down – Piper with Montezuma’s air force? : AZTEC

3-down – Floating vote again spoiled : EVAGATION

4-down – Large cable inside a minesweeper’s float : OROPESA

5-down – Prince rallying all with one bugle call : HALLALI

6-down – Charles II was dying to say Please feed this elephant : NELLY

7-down – Times puzzle in Blair’s manifesto : TESTIMONY

10-down – She kissed me when we met and without saying why. O, Eliot! This is your queen! : JENNYANYDOTS

14-down – William III’s coffin? : ORANGEBOX

16-down – Ulster Protestant’s initiation; one’s in training with the Shintoists : NIPPONESE

18-down – Thus allowed to make advances : SOLICIT

19-down – What one enters coming out : SOCIETY

22-down – The BBC hasn’t begun to deliver : UNTIE

24-down – Mystic immersed one : SWAMI