Clues

9-across – Bringing forth the case for the Euro? : EVOCATIVE

10-across – Weapon whose abandonment may bring promotion : LANCE

11-across – Porn appears for the first time in Beethoven’s work : EROTICA

12-across – Ealing Broadway first confused Asian : BENGALI

13-across – Extent of territory occupied by Crusaders? : ACRE

14-across – L could be a bargain : LOSSLEADER

15-across – One thing a spinster cannot do : REMARRY

17-across – Tony provided plum duff for the family : LUMPKIN

19-across – Effects lacking on our railways : SOUNDTRACK

22-across – Nourishment available for two small coins : SOUP

23-across – Why admit late items to be loaded? : WEALTHY

24-across – Relating to a period after privatising the mail : POSTWAR

26-across – Authority for government measures : RULER

27-across – Dutch uncle without a notion of geometry : EUCLIDEAN

1-down – Sign of happy marriage – none of this : NEVERACROSSWORD

2-down – Old record player? : MONOGRAM

3-down – Illness one may find in Africa : MALI

4-down – Slow in raising one’s hat to a politician : DILATORY

5-down – Island for a boy to cry over : LESBOS

6-down – Battle celebrated by Orange type : BLENHEIM

7-down – Draw no conclusion from turning to the front : ONWARD

8-down – It’s not quite clear how a Jew almost managed to save Christian writings : SEMITRANSPARENT

16-down – Space traveller and model flier : REDSTART

17-down – Substitute taking over key role : LOCKPICK

18-down – Japanese growth threatening our country? : KNOTWEED

20-down – Incompetent, but could be employed with a change of polarity : UNABLE

21-down – What a cat does with a rat : RHYMES

25-down – What’s wrong about party leader? : SPIN

9-across – Welsh mouth to Breton river? There’s freakishness for you! : ABERRANCE

10-across – See 13 and 21 : ADLER

11-across – 24’s picked painter, parallel to… : ELECTRA

12-across – … diphthong, one third of it American : OEDIPUS

13-across – Lazy fellow covering Near East turmoil that could have scandalised Bohemia : IRENE

14-across – More expensive hairdo keeping jumper on top floor? : UPPERROOM

16-across – Article on sex offender following film devotee of 24, 23 down or 10? : PSYCHOTHERAPIST

19-across – Lights of mine make out my lad as Vice-President : DAVYLAMPS

21-across – Student arrives on wrong day – he comes to the queen as a music maker : LARRY

22-across – Liberal caterer left men cured with treatment : CLEMENT

23-across – Scot cut short a holy man with a wife and mother of 12 : JOCASTA

24-across – See 22 and 21down : FREUD

25-across – Canary, one that sang tenor parrot-fashion? : LANZAROTE

1-down – Long-tailed duck grasps broken pipe, getting disfigured : HARELIPPED

2-down – Cut little city very hard : SEVERELY

3-down – Summons man to squirm? : WRITHE

4-down – 24’s daughter wasn’t worth much : ANNA

5-down – Release in chamber for Italian writer and politician in robes : DECOMPRESS

6-down – An old ram is converted and gets a halo : MANDORLA

7-down – Drink fizzy pop with port in the Middle East : ALEPPO

8-down – Weapon that needs ironing, would you say? : KRIS

14-down – Turn a little – my turn at last : ULTIMATELY

15-down – Solver’s dead – died after setter – here are their spirits : METHYLATED

17-down – Old weapons ensure cattle are outside a pound : HALBERDS

18-down – Teacher in black first put up with mockery : IRRISION

20-down – Saw contest, got married : VIEWED

21-down – Lost lord retained one right in long-standing quarrel with painter : LUCIAN

22-down – Blow that could be shot : CUFF

23-down – Pole imprisoned by German in Salad Days? : JUNG

1-across – 1000 pounds paid for our incoming food expert : GOURMET

5-across – They’re naughty when Carl’s working outside : RASCALS

9-across – Pass easily, taking year off before working : SIMPLON

10-across – Engineer’s going without proper food : CEREALS

11-across – Service commercial vehicle, say, at back : ADVANTAGE

12-across – For this reason ring off once man goes ahead : HENCE

13-across – Moving towards former president of Egypt : SADAT

15-across – Fifty-one scolded and set free : LIBERATED

17-across – Sheltered, as a Parisian once asked : UNEXPOSED

19-across – Half expect to get the Spanish drum out : EXPEL

22-across – Peacekeeping force in South Africa, a hot place : SAUNA

23-across – Fall guy gapes, with coat ruined : SCAPEGOAT

25-across – Greed is a weakness, a redhead admitted : AVARICE

26-across – Most miserly change to means test? No way! : MEANEST

27-across – One of those offering support to the board? : TRESTLE

28-across – Turns to go off at quarter to six, nine short : ROTATES

1-down – Fumes a lot, as they talk too much : GASBAGS

2-down – Cool mud oven exploded : UNMOVED

3-down – Mercury left in contact with fruit : MELON

4-down – They feel it’s time to have castle refurbished : TENTACLES

5-down – Companion to regret wearing ruffle : RUCHE

6-down – Sudden increase cleaner accepted as an extra payment : SURCHARGE

7-down – A good man behind a bag counter! : AGAINST

8-down – Postpone imprisoning us while away : SUSPEND

14-down – One cuts a fine figure in the garden! : TOPIARIST

16-down – Heater once used by people approaching retirement : BEDWARMER

17-down – Arrogant person raises bitter : UPSTART

18-down – Flightless bird has flying teal to compete with : EMULATE

20-down – Complain and drag bunk inside : PROTEST

21-down – Understatement gives false impression about child : LITOTES

23-down – Screen is erected the day before : SIEVE

24-down – Call for cut rejected by court : EXACT

1-across – A help for the latecomers? : NIGHTSCHOOL

9-across – Reservation about the French garment : DOUBLET

10-across – Helps in a way in Italian town, when one is lost : ASSISTS

11-across – Eyes close to them? Hope sleep’s improved : PEEPHOLES

12-across – Port? Yes, overseas wine : RIOJA

13-across – Marketing cruise, we hear : SALE

14-across – Attacking position for the game leader : BRIDGEHEAD

16-across – Winning, or following? : SUCCEEDING

19-across – Encourage what a gambler has : ABET

21-across – An expression of contempt that’s silly : APISH

22-across – Exaggerate importance of cricketing worth? : OVERVALUE

24-across – A half-ripe plum could be in flower : PRIMULA

25-across – City’s mathematical branch cut short, expressed briefly : LACONIC

26-across – Meriel leads ramble in the country : EMERALDISLE

1-down – This fare’s not overdone in France : NOUVELLECUISINE

2-down – Pull up Church from a deep split : GULCH

3-down – Token ritual rearranged after time : TITULAR

4-down – Put in place in school? : CLASSED

5-down – Interested spectator to note runs : OBSERVER

6-down – One doesn’t want to do this at a bank : LOSEONESBALANCE

7-down – Assumes Parent-Teacher Association’s do has a good mix : ADOPTS

8-down – Say I’ll be in the road or at sea : ISLAND

15-down – Farm accommodation for females : HENHOUSE

16-down – Neat cross : SNAPPY

17-down – I love being in play in a model scene : DIORAMA

18-down – It’s essential to include Latin. Annoyed? : NEEDLED

20-down – Fish around river-ditch : TRENCH

23-down – Wrongdoings when first three leave the armed forces : VICES

9-across – * Song about goldfish : ARAUCARIA

10-across – Assured of keeping rust in plants : UREDO

11-across – Game needing double top : DIABOLO

12-across – Where reluctant Scotsman lives? : LOTHIAN

13-across – Two notes from a Port-uguese folk song : FADO

14-across – Bouncer at the Leisure Club? : TRAMPOLINE

16-across – Silver ring on the floor : AGROUND

17-across – It could be bought for a tanner : SUNLAMP

19-across – A he-man died horribly here : MAIDENHEAD

22-across – Orcadian hut for retreating louts : SKIO

24-across – Where one holds the driver! : PILLION

25-across – * Castro, with the heart of a lion : FIDELIO

26-across – * River maiden, perhaps : ROVER

27-across – Maori chief smuggled gun to IRA : RANGATIRA

1-down – Capital members’ gardens redeveloped for the Millennium : CARDIFFARMSPARK

2-down – Raider starting to arrange a murder most foul : MARAUDER

3-down – A novel shovel : SCOOP

4-down – Suited for night warfare, by the sound of it : ARMOURED

5-down – In Aqaba, a lime grove houses fertility gods : BAALIM

6-down – * Bridge opponents found after both run away : BUNTHORNE

7-down – * Car behind empty garage : GEMINI

8-down – A different way of asking to be wed at the bar : COUNTERPROPOSAL

15-down – Good daughters end as good mothers : SUPERIORS

17-down – Support for the workforce? : STAFFING

18-down – All I do with a potassium compound is this : ALKALOID

20-down – Where sweethearts fell most violently at sea… : INLOVE

21-down – * … then drank the contents : HENDRA

23-down – He lives by puffing : ADMAN