Clues

1-across – Abandoned cargo found in the morning by planes : JETSAM

5-across – Cider’s masquerading as cocktails : SIDECARS

9-across – George, perhaps, in an appeal for fireproof material : ASBESTOS

10-across – Young man in the grip of old maid’s illness : MALADY

11-across – DJ coming out of the closet! : DINNERJACKET

13-across – Home for the plain-dweller? : FLAT

14-across – He’d clues arranged in a list : SCHEDULE

17-across – It’s fine when it’s rolled : UMBRELLA

18-across – Do without a form of address : MISS

20-across – Bar call demanding response : COUNTERCLAIM

23-across – Call my order quietly : CALMLY

24-across – Clear away the seaweed? : UNTANGLE

25-across – Grating sulphur with a large fork : STRIDENT

26-across – Smoking jacket? : REEFER

2-down – Point at end of cone : EAST

3-down – Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet : SPEEDSTER

4-down – Service! Butler’s holding it up : MATINS

5-down – Where the money hangs in the balance? : SUSPENSEACCOUNT

6-down – Evangelist holding up half a bottle : DEMIJOHN

7-down – Problem E. Coli causes internally : COLIC

8-down – Student in fancy dress, rude and out of control : RUDDERLESS

12-down – Colourful man detaining boy in penthouse : FLAMBOYANT

15-down – One dimmed switch for shady section : DEMIMONDE

16-down – Liquid hydrogen delayed explosion : ALDEHYDE

19-down – Article spoiled by troubled waters? : WASTER

21-down – Rings of light in gathering clouds : NIMBI

22-down – Escaped, they say, by using passage : FLUE

1-across – Wait a minute: have you a big enough stable to do it? : HOLDYOURHORSES

8-across – He sat on three goddesses: capital! : PARIS

9-across – Recovery after which all is forgiven : COMEBACK

11-across – Bull involved with doe once represented university : OLDBLUE

12-across – Pip’s girl to make out in a rough sea : ESTELLA

13-across – Entertainer at a plant : HOSTA

15-across – Part of helmet to which peace is known, they say : NOSEPIECE

17-across – Bush stood up church official : ROSEELDER

20-across – Examine church plant : VETCH

21-across – Payment for quality? : PREMIUM

23-across – Front of member, back of back, front of member : FOREARM

25-across – Dance at Queen’s on the Dee : BALLATER

26-across – Locks for fortress not in favour : TRESS

27-across – Typical performance after tea – it’s Eric’s work : CHARACTERISTIC

1-down – Treating people that are out to make New York happy about alien : HYPNOTHERAPY

2-down – Ghastly old city in cover : LURID

3-down – Sleep easy! Maybe you’ll get polite acceptance : YESPLEASE

4-down – Dirty article topped by relation : UNCLEAN

5-down – Severely criticises Upton Park men for being over-theatrical : HAMMERS

6-down – Defend oneself against lifting a potato? : REBUT

7-down – Fish eating unknown carbon on fast days – very good : EXCELLENT

10-down – Look at notes and don’t abscond : FACETHEMUSIC

14-down – Englishman in Scotland sticks up in the window : SASSENACH

16-down – Entry of piece from Navarone turns soprano into tenor : PAVAROTTI

18-down – Popular protest at involuntary movement : DEMOTIC

19-down – Overseer loose again without energy : REFEREE

22-down – Workshy fellow, comparatively useless? : IDLER

24-down – A green means don’t allow to proceed : AVERT

1-across – Audio equipment for master class : HEADSET

5-across – One bitter about ironclad perk : FREEBIE

9-across – Smart girl prompt to take note : CUTIE

10-across – Oaf carrying clout, perhaps – thanks to his wealth? : PLUTOCRAT

11-across – Ridiculous token male with unlimited cash is to declare in interest : STAKEONESCLAIM

13-across – Island getting a bit of a battering : ERIN

14-across – Idiosyncratic boy king first in ring : PERSONAL

17-across – Nasal complaint of the fool in Iris Murdoch’s last novel : RHINITIS

18-across – Report from the Fringe : BANG

21-across – Telephone secures new tool pack for seaside attraction : BLACKPOOLTOWER

23-across – My turn to pursue musical backing that”s onomatopoeic : IMITATIVE

24-across – Uninspiring, beginning to drop behind : DREAR

25-across – Bid to admit woman to skin treatment centre : TANNERY

26-across – Low-lifers about to go off with small bag : SCROTUM

1-down – Journalist given chop : HACK

2-down – Tartini corrupted : ANTITRINITARIAN

3-down – Man of faith welcoming male ruler : SHEIKH

4-down – Old Marshal storing quiet energy to make a cautious advance : TIPTOE

5-down – Drunken Scottish soldiers vote for abuse to the optically challenged : FOUREYES

6-down – Cut out or included lay : EXORCISE

7-down – Minor noble about to win common folk with special offers here : BARGAINBASEMENT

8-down – Bug-watching points to magic herb keeping energy up : ENTOMOLOGY

12-down – Ramshackle rendition of Romeo, Romeo! by Juliet : JERRYBUILT

15-down – Appropriate celebrity’s alias : NICKNAME

16-down – Smaller group’s early years : MINORITY

19-down – Leaks from the second city : BLEEDS

20-down – Died in control of explosive mixture : POWDER

22-down – Tuesday in Paris mostly given over to a drop of Scotch : DRAM

9-across – Ruined, but Nellie is full of enthusiasm : EBULLIENT

10-across – Bird runs in long grass : CRANE

11-across – A period without residence in the old country : DAHOMEY

12-across – Row about medal is offensive : NOISOME

13-across – Society in Cornish resort is promiscuous : LOOSE

14-across – The treble broadcast for the king : ETHELBERT

16-across – People can’t be totally independent? One certainly is! : NOMANISANISLAND

19-across – River and seafood the Parisian makes repellent : EXECRABLE

21-across – Kill the Castilian for a bread roll : BAGEL

22-across – Puppet show in urban UK resort : BUNRAKU

23-across – Call with thanks before the game : RINGTAW

24-across – Pious Jew eats fish : HASID

25-across – Close to urban area without good informal dress : NIGHTGOWN

1-down – Main scan for metal ore : LEADGLANCE

2-down – Order for dogs to speed over territory for food : MUSHROOM

3-down – Method of cooking meat in iron container : FLAMBE

4-down – Turkish officer seizes five of a group of girls : BEVY

5-down – A female replaces article in platform at old monument : STONEHENGE

6-down – Pains gripping sick old Greek : ACHILLES

7-down – Plebeian accepting one’s word of honour : PAROLE

8-down – River engulfs northern valley : DENE

14-down – Ensure boat is ordered for resort : EASTBOURNE

15-down – Counter drunken amorous gesture : TIDDLYWINK

17-down – Raymond foolishly supported knight in France : NORMANDY

18-down – Physicist fretting over computer memory : ANGSTROM

20-down – Man displays hesitation over retreat : ERNEST

21-down – Express dissatisfaction about money raised for fish : BONITO

22-down – Club hoarding hard currency : BAHT

23-down – Scrap a musical composition : RAGA

1-across – Very funny comedian marked on map with 9 : KILLINGFIELDS

10-across – Stag at bingo, would-be seducer in 13 : HARTHOUSE

11-across – Wearing Sikh headgear, monarch comes in between cities : INTER

12-across – Grace Darling’s tree : CEDAR

13-across – Letters to Dear Smith by … : HARDTIMES

14-across – … writer, Adler’s alias, surrounded by birds : CHARLES

16-across – Agriculture only possible for younger people? : TILLAGE

18-across – Invigilate lines in Old English : OVERSEE

20-across – See 14 : DICKENS

21-across – 25’s son-in-law obliged to run into horse-race : BOUNDERBY

23-across – A load of French snails : CARGO

24-across – Take to backing a mindless operator : ROBOT

25-across – Protagonist of 13 gets new grid, about 1,000 pounds : GRADGRIND

26-across – Not getting anywhere hot, lined off with percussion : INTHEDOLDRUMS

2-down – Cross about bungled raid? Make it clear : IRRADIATE

3-down – Composer for the single harmonica : LEHAR

4-down – Crosses alternative shotgun out : NOUGHTS

5-down – Buddy ornament for old city amid ships : FLEURET

6-down – I lost out entering poem consisting of letters : EPISTOLIC

7-down – Information: I’m not sure when I heard it … : DATUM

8-down – French tea, nuts and porridge, less thrilling to Wordsworth : THECUCKOOBIRD

9-down – Quarrelled with news-papermen among these : CROSSEDSWORDS

15-down – Eleventh hour landing in the sea? : LASTDITCH

17-down – Soul is not immortal, I allege, and memory is included : AVERROISM

19-down – Awfully angered : ENRAGED

20-down – Nothing but stones : DRYWALL

22-down – See 11 : URBAN

23-down – Smoke rising tragically without account : CIGAR