Clues

1-across – Painting gives some amusement over in the Far East : SUMATRA

5-across – Church lists included in purge : CLEANSE

9-across – One’s line is broadcast art – must listen in : INSTRUMENTALIST

10-across – Old priest managed without sport : DRUID

11-across – Fruit stolen and loaded for wide distribution : GRAPESHOT

12-across – Prime side dressed in its own wrapping? : EPIDERMIS

14-across – Milton set old books in order : OBOTE

15-across – Chance of getting results, lacking time? : EVENS

16-across – Spice girl takes less than a flash to get past it : GERIATRIC

18-across – To spy on one’s partner is the end : CHECKMATE

21-across – Saga reflected in the Mirror and other dailies : ILIAD

22-across – A standing item for many a public function : GODSAVETHEQUEEN

23-across – Animals find lack of warmth in their sleeping quarters : DORMICE

24-across – The young Clinton could be a pensioner : CHELSEA

1-down – Monkey taken in by contemptible character’s fraud : SWINDLE

2-down – Menace nude girls constitute for opposite sex? : MASCULINEGENDER

3-down – When it’s over, redhead shows fatigue : TIREDNESS

4-down – Tree that makes a student swot : ALMUG

5-down – One solicits container savers for recycling : CANVASSER

6-down – Marriage guidance can’t begin to raise one’s spirit… : ELATE

7-down – … community spirit exhibited in soap script : NEIGHBOURLINESS

8-down – Linette’s new style : ENTITLE

13-down – Angel made unusual appearance for Mary : MAGDALENE

14-down – There’s nothing squalid out east working in a harem : ODALISQUE

15-down – Imprisoned unmelodic composer in the finish : ENCAGED

17-down – Revolutionary gets down under on a solo passage : CADENZA

19-down – Private cover? : KHAKI

20-down – Guidelines for conduct in the thick of battle : ETHIC

7-across – Pretend to understand : MAKEOUT

8-across – Tend not to be on the level : INCLINE

10-across – Girl carries on in Juliet’s place : VERONA

11-across – Introduce girl to mysterious rite with incense : IRRITATE

12-across – Specialist store sounds capital : DELI

13-across – He hasn’t made the First XI : TWELFTHMAN

14-across – Unwelcome extra duty : TAXINCREASE

19-across – Aristocratic Sixth Form? : UPPERCLASS

22-across – River that’s Polish – or German : ODER

23-across – Giver of artificial respiration : IRONLUNG

24-across – Somewhat sooner : RATHER

25-across – The side knocked out was robbed : HEISTED

26-across – Lawyers’ profit is cheap at the price : BARGAIN

1-down – Club retainers who used to drag their wives along : CAVEMEN

2-down – Girl executed in the bullring : VERONICA

3-down – Expert in French : AUFAIT

4-down – A charge made upon income? : ENTRYFEE

5-down – Seize an egg collection : CLUTCH

6-down – Beginning a letter : INITIAL

9-down – The cost to be met in bayonet attack? : FIXEDCHARGE

15-down – Takes in Uncle Sid when ousted : INCLUDES

16-down – Want footwear bearing right label : SHORTAGE

17-down – Boxed by fashionable drapers : SPARRED

18-down – Somewhat green and barely in charge of a class : GENERIC

20-down – He is unusually tense about mid-afternoon : ERNEST

21-down – Second best part in a hilarious performance : SCREAM

1-across – Mergenthaler’s kind of floor covering? : LINOTYPE

5-across – Current account – one with a network of branches : ACACIA

9-across – Working man involved with bike plant : CYCLAMEN

10-across – Grab genetic material – sleep around : KIDNAP

12-across – It’s most alien to a skinhead : TRESS

13-across – First person singular? : SOLIPSIST

14-across – It enables the a/c to be cooked : BALANCESHEET

18-across – Chisel wielded by engineer, one in charge of the Dome : BRUNELLESCHI

21-across – Doctor finds the point, right in the back : REGISTRAR

23-across – Spectrum of colour, lacking nothing : RANGE

24-across – Economic blunder – company lost receipts : INCOME

25-across – Mark of fashionable writer : INSCRIBE

26-across – Where in a leg injury cure might need decapitation? : EALING

27-across – One being thus delayed, departs alone : ISOLATED

1-down – Place where officer follows separatists rising : LOCATE

2-down – Mistakenly liken cent to 5 : NICKEL

3-down – Common rail experience without one to explain : TRANSLATE

4-down – Where hacks attend recruit starting to row in boat : PRESSGALLERY

6-down – Teacher held by cop and had up for lacking flexibility : CRISP

7-down – Jails, as opposed to non-custodial penalties : CONFINES

8-down – Craving a soft little foreign female … : APPETITE

11-down – … jumps at a girl down under : ALICESPRINGS

15-down – Odds on Charlie after operation coming round? : SPHERICAL

16-down – Unfortunately over a bit prematurely? : ABORTIVE

17-down – Almost certain state soldier’s in this kind of spirit : SURGICAL

19-down – Charge on land almost brought to court : INDICT

20-down – Caption, for example, inserted in advance : LEGEND

22-down – He’s wrong to get the doctor in : SIMON

1-across – Feeling love in little ways : PATHOS

5-across – Jolly occasion, long overdue : HIGHTIME

9-across – Hitting out : STRIKING

10-across – A number smash up the inn, yet set free : NINETY

11-across – One, two… : BUCKLEMYSHOE

13-across – Lover’s knot, say : BEAU

14-across – A site can be created for cattle in South America : ESTANCIA

17-across – Cancel verbally and immediately : RIGHTOFF

18-across – Carve a large slice of meat : VEAL

20-across – Newspaper article needs revision, may entail pulling out all the stops : ORGANRECITAL

23-across – Maroon thread : STRAND

24-across – Phoney agent in trouble, restricting a number performing : ENACTING

25-across – Disciple to stick with the New Testament : ADHERENT

26-across – Chaperon is expected to bring the girl back : DUENNA

2-down – Skills he requires to make a suit : ARTS

3-down – It may make one smart, top or bottom : HAIRBRUSH

4-down – A flicker of light? : SWITCH

5-down – How a top executive should be? : HIGHLYEFFICIENT

6-down – He is likely to add barrels to his stocks : GUNSMITH

7-down – Grasping secret societies : TONGS

8-down – Hot stew taken in by medical orderly : METHODICAL

12-down – Abused, but need it drag out like this? : DENIGRATED

15-down – An account that won’t be overdrawn : NOVELETTE

16-down – Breakfast time? : PORRIDGE

19-down – About to happen soon in the vicinity : ATHAND

21-down – Stagger out of a labyrinth : AMAZE

22-down – Article concerning the unknown : ANON

1-across – Nana ransacked site for these rocks : GRANITES

5-across – Secret cupboard : CLOSET

9-across – Transferred Australian said you are to leave the dog : ALSATIAN

10-across – A measure to endorse the flag : ENSIGN

11-across – Investigations into small squares around the rise? : CHECKUPS

12-across – Something hot to cool one? : CHILLI

14-across – Titleholder is Perot, prior to change : PROPRIETOR

18-across – Hammering outside – a little exciting : NAILBITING

22-across – To portray it again appears painful : REDRAW

23-across – Lots of little bits spoilt game by Lawrence : MEGABYTE

24-across – Vehicle backs over soldier – it’s dreadful! : TRAGIC

25-across – Low-ranking member of organisation it knocked back – think about it! : COGITATE

26-across – Listen anyhow, without a sound : SILENT

27-across – Most irate when 1 is misplaced : ANGRIEST

1-down – Look to the heart of England’s church : GLANCE

2-down – A state about to back up result : ANSWER

3-down – What’s eaten by new recruits : INTAKE

4-down – Breathe soundly after late needle : EXASPERATE

6-down – A feature of Samson – more than average musical : LONGHAIR

7-down – Art set out to design long-handled pots : SKILLETS

8-down – Where 1 across and 27 can be found mixed in Africa : TANGIERS

13-down – Scrounge feathers and wipe clean : SPONGEDOWN

15-down – A thankless lot, possibly from 8 : INGRATES

16-down – Pick up 500, then drop an unexpected bonus : WINDFALL

17-down – A support is replaced on wound : ABRASION

19-down – It’s less complicated if I should replace model during the feast : EASIER

20-down – Get Ray to twist and turn : GYRATE

21-down – Acceptable drop, though missing the point : DECENT