Clues

8-across – Charge that advances duty : GAINSTAX

9-across – Hold an American doctor : INTERN

10-across – This time zone’s ends get the chopper : ADZE

11-across – Exercise high season flavouring, they say : SOMERSAULT

12-across – Watch part of the war : ACTION

14-across – Sue touched off one opening : LITIGATE

15-across – Revolutionary month opening with very large note : VENTOSE

17-across – Citation of fellows into manoeuvres : MENTION

20-across – Flora, these are wrong! : BLOOMERS

22-across – Little drink for youngster : NIPPER

23-across – He scans, namely, routine retinue without turn, perhaps : SCRUTINEER

24-across – Neither partner has a girl : NORA

25-across – Say, d’you know the state capital : JUNEAU

26-across – She is previously synonymous with Tarzan’s lady : CALAMITY

1-down – Stalk two hundred gathered round a German car by the French : CAUDICLE

2-down – Joint sometimes having an international following : KNEE

3-down – Medical drink exercises one Spanish saint : PTISAN

4-down – Case formerly was plenty : EXAMPLE

5-down – Plume : AIGRETTE

6-down – Truly honest : STRAIGHTUP

7-down – Appendage allowed to be worn on the limb : ARMLET

13-down – He makes acquaintances : INTRODUCER

16-down – False standards over debts : SPECIOUS

18-down – Exaggerate the speed of a game of cricket? : OVERRATE

19-down – Characteristics of a German city church : ESSENCE

21-down – Cooler place to store things : LOCKUP

22-down – Emperor left one orange extract : NEROLI

24-down – It’s our entitlement : NAME

9-across – Girl has tot after consuming a Mexican dish : ENCHILADA

10-across – Leather made to swing on being delivered : SUEDE

11-across – Peak, we hear, invariably referred to as high : DUDGEON

12-across – Contractor’s footnote on tick : TRICEPS

13-across – Prudish about the sexes meeting, or relaxed? : COMFY

14-across – Could they be on the rocks with bad balances? Right! : BARNACLES

16-across – Furnishing periodical with set of figures : OCCASIONALTABLE

19-across – Special sole pad to protect foot lever : SOFTPEDAL

21-across – Girl models a little number in black : JANET

22-across – Spare tyre will appear after this large meal! : BLOWOUT

23-across – Keep quiet about race position of an also-ran : SEVENTH

24-across – Train, say, for this course : SWEET

25-across – Rare catch made of unusual fish : CHARACTER

1-down – Having used Monica, resorted to lying : MENDACIOUS

2-down – A volume to absorb half-bookish type : ACADEMIC

3-down – This uniform is distinctive and reddish brown : LIVERY

4-down – Produce offspring, but no son initially for pop : PAWN

5-down – Fabric made completely out of rags? : TATTERSALL

6-down – Would-be creating a name during a short burst of effort : ASPIRANT

7-down – Puff about key to English novelist : SEWELL

8-down – Round pegs? : TEES

14-down – Horses in back-to-back races : BLOODSTOCK

15-down – Wears t-this loosely? Exactly! : SWEATSHIRT

17-down – Game’s up within seconds! : SUPPORTS

18-down – Tie in cause of misery with money : BANKNOTE

20-down – Let down, female starts to peak : FLOWER

21-down – Jolly little woman on the bottle : JOVIAL

22-down – Singer’s perch : BASS

23-down – Quick bite from dog biscuit : SNAP

1-across – Optical shutter : EYELID

4-across – Bail is arranged for those with proofs of innocence : ALIBIS

9-across – Wager about a pound : BEAT

10-across – Fail to honour commitments to one’s class? : PLAYTRUANT

11-across – One must back the law to some degree in Africa : MALAWI

12-across – Taking someone on of attractive disposition : ENGAGING

13-across – Gazing about : REGARDING

15-across – Composed a piece of classical music : CALM

16-across – Primate embraces son in church : APSE

17-across – Beneficial, though self-contradictory in parts : WHOLESOME

21-across – It’s a man found shipwrecked on a Pacific island : TASMANIA

22-across – King for half a year and one short day : ARTHUR

24-across – General still a duke, even if losing his head : WELLINGTON

25-across – Tax office : DUTY

26-across – Is among those left to fight : RESIST

27-across – Rotten theologian in crooked deal : ADDLED

1-down – Cheer a team endlessly at entry : ELEVATE

2-down – He’s paid to say nothing : EXTRA

3-down – Suggested one politician was untruthful : IMPLIED

5-down – Dismisses a proposal to start moving : LETSGO

6-down – Unhappy with split in state of Kentucky? : BLUEGRASS

7-down – Work for Labour, for example : SYNONYM

8-down – Dare any health resort claim that all its residents are? : HALEANDHEARTY

14-down – See lambs going round in flocks together : ASSEMBLES

16-down – There’s no accounting for his performance : AMATEUR

18-down – Erudite composer shown the way out : LEARNED

19-down – Set off on horseback? : MOUNTED

20-down – Fruit with the top off is still fruit : ANANAS

23-down – Boy, it rises – and falls! : TIDAL

1-across – Sanguine John found in bed? I stand corrected : BLOODSTAINED

8-across – Roue : RONDEAU

9-across – Translator keeping man on board turns in acknowledgement : RECEIPT

11-across – Volunteers some books on odd childish behaviour : TANTRUM

12-across – A lot of bouts I deem to be beyond the pale : OUTSIDE

13-across – Dead city, initially sunk in wickedness : SLAIN

14-across – Judge takes account of island lawyer in a tree : JACARANDA

16-across – Ben with a twitch losing his head over a song about nettle rash : URTICARIA

19-across – It sticks over a point : PASTE

21-across – Unrestrained, a politician breaks into bombast : RAMPANT

23-across – Dependent on Slater coming back without a name : RELIANT

24-across – Girl to court boy, as established by law : ENACTED

25-across – It’s strange in Scotland and is found around lake where it winds down : UNCOILS

26-across – Points to classy Rasta grabbing female, one with inability to cope : NEURASTHENIA

1-down – Toff upset over an unknown on a winning streak : BONANZA

2-down – Manage too much and exceed the limit : OVERRUN

3-down – Bandmaster beat superior : DRUMMAJOR

4-down – Roots out the trunk : TORSO

5-down – Troublemaker upset one cretin : INCITER

6-down – Impression of volume : EDITION

7-down – Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure : GROTESQUERIE

10-down – Put it there! as novel approach for person treating disease : THERAPEUTIST

15-down – Hoar-frost experienced north of the border and many went quickly on to the Unionist church : CRANREUCH

17-down – Story about one doctor and a meat dish : TIMBALE

18-down – Take it easy on the Queen’s vessel : COASTER

19-down – Bird life depleted by 50% in a nut tree : PELICAN

20-down – Carpets taken up in a show of endurance : STAMINA

22-down – Time and dates: they change twice daily : TIDES

1-across – Accumulation bet gets record : BACKLOG

5-across – Like Irish lake lacking hermit : ASCETIC

9-across – Point where monocle is used : SEMICOLON

10-across – Stagger about quietly in disgust : REPEL

11-across – -X/A : NEAT

12-across – Ruinous for an intellect around here in France : PERNICIOUS

14-across – One is not dressed without one : STITCH

15-across – Keen for decimal point : INTENSE

16-across – Ideal excuse when changing penny for silver : PARAGON

18-across – Refuse to eat hot buffet : THRASH

20-across – Feeling the needle a tiny bit : COMPASSION

21-across – Check cakes over : SNUB

24-across – Claim that one’s in French town, for example : ALIBI

25-across – Stars are odd man out : ANDROMEDA

26-across – Point out scene’s gist : ESSENCE

27-across – It covers most of the main features : YASHMAK

1-down – Bowl recognisable in-swinger : BASIN

2-down – Brief agreement : COMPACT

3-down – Lap speed? : LICK

4-down – Midas’s parting gift? : GOLDENHANDSHAKE

5-down – Old Year’s beginning in caution and a New Year starts festively : ANNUNCIATIONDAY

6-down – Take off about right – I take off gently : CARICATURE

7-down – Storm ends last day trip with two who complain : TYPHOON

8-down – Part of empty vessel that can make music : CELESTE

13-down – Idleness of the male population? : STAGNATION

16-down – Box to fill time : PACKAGE

17-down – What’s left mum strapped : REMAINS

19-down – Travelling light? : SUNBEAM

22-down – Empty balloons start drooping : BLANK

23-down – Moment to ship plant : MOSS