Clues

1-across – Quarrel leading to underworld contract : DISAGREEMENT

8-across – He composed grievous sins admitted by French king : ROSSINI

9-across – Signified by inserting negative in Act : DENOTED

11-across – TV company ran poster in Georgia : GRANADA

12-across – Story to make advocates turn pale outwardly : PARABLE

13-across – Fish in net thrown back by companion : TENCH

14-across – Man within the bounds of the infinite : LIMITLESS

16-across – Forged iron panel without equal : NONPAREIL

19-across – Bird wearing headgear : CAPON

21-across – Pertaining to regular course, or part a novice followed : ORBITAL

23-across – Go to sleep, being unable to hang on : DROPOFF

24-across – Evil monarch out for slaughter : KILLING

25-across – The last longer overall? : OUTWEAR

26-across – Carry out sole test needed to adapt to new conditions? : FEELONESFEET

1-down – Died suffering India’s scorn : DISDAIN

2-down – Vegetable in Spain served on china : SPINACH

3-down – Girl putting screen round painting : GRISAILLE

4-down – Finish the wrong way round : ENDUP

5-down – Tower where time ran out : MINARET

6-down – Distinguished person is apparently inefficient : NOTABLE

7-down – Novel view of old statesman on modern music : BRIGHTONROCK

10-down – Treat alike when in ceremonial attire : DRESSUNIFORM

15-down – Agreeable to the ear of model upset by debts : MELODIOUS

17-down – Unable to grasp point about heavenly bodies : NEBULAE

18-down – Hint about everybody round the formicary : ANTHILL

19-down – Chuckle when her colt’s misbehaving : CHORTLE

20-down – Demonstrate against professional being on trial : PROTEST

22-down – Instal a gantry from which to explore for ocean wreckage : LAGAN

1-across – Two card games one may come across : PONTOONBRIDGE

10-across – Be taunted about being a young socialite : DEBUTANTE

11-across – Large kind of type in the chapter : CANON

12-across – Stay in Lincoln – I would : ABIDE

13-across – Subordinate in a position lower than Heather : UNDERLING

14-across – A breach of security : LEAKAGE

16-across – Tabitha changes one’s environment : HABITAT

18-across – Where man cuts adrift? : SANCTUM

20-across – Lead about a hundred into deep trouble : PRECEDE

21-across – Get into debt? Not interested : INCURIOUS

23-across – Yet this may increase a don’s standing : CHAIR

24-across – She inspired the lyrics in the opera Tosca : ERATO

25-across – Man of many parts, perhaps : AUTOMATON

26-across – One gets down to the cleaning with this : FEATHERDUSTER

2-down – See 17 : OFBRITAIN

3-down – Handle right : TITLE

4-down – One of us turns out to be unemployable : OFNOUSE

5-down – The measure of the Bard? : BREADTH

6-down – Having no remedy but to suffer an island uprising : INCURABLE

7-down – Gin that is a form of bottled spirits : GENII

8-down – Faultlessly dressed – like perfect partners? : IDEALLYSUITED

9-down – Champions away from home? : KNIGHTSERRANT

15-down – Right at the back, yet wanting the lion’s share : AFTERMOST

17-down – Few were victorious in this : THEBATTLE

19-down – Bank parking fee : MOORAGE

20-down – Assumed it’s minced topside : POSITED

22-down – Make cracks on passing fashion : CRAZE

23-down – French writer quietly exits the academic field : CAMUS

1-across – Roger brought before the beak over drawing back a curtain : PURDAH

5-across – Bile gland trouble can be shocking : LIVERAIL

9-across – Inclination to give a swan song? : PENCHANT

10-across – You are failed lovers! : SOLVER

11-across – Tries charges of fiddling the till : CASHREGISTER

13-across – The priest is wrong to put the last first : LEVI

14-across – Church following the lunar cycle? : LUTHERAN

17-across – Diabolical ally is dropping King Henry the First : FIENDISH

18-across – Weight not acceptable as in the past : ONCE

20-across – Abandons network for making trains late? : LEAVESONLINE

23-across – A place by the motorway in the middle of France : MILIEU

24-across – Brave one died after Pinter play : INTREPID

25-across – Common attitude among church people? : KNEELING

26-across – Tea urn for brewing essence : NATURE

2-down – Wearer of trousers lacking sort of turn-up? : USER

3-down – Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence : DECOCTION

4-down – Car case for carcase? : HEARSE

5-down – Putting consideration to one side may provide a solution : LATERALTHINKING

6-down – Old migrant making call on hospital without leave : VISIGOTH

7-down – Parts dealt to the loser : ROLES

8-down – Awkwardness of canine leg bent at bottom of pole : INELEGANCE

12-down – A certain point, of course, where the man is in danger with no one about : PERIHELION

15-down – A bolt, perhaps in ironwork : ELOPEMENT

16-down – State where we feel separation from our island : MISSOURI

19-down – Some young ladies not up to college… : GIRTON

21-down – … possibly active in vice ring? : VOICE

22-down – Drink said to give bodily support : BIER

1-across – Heard where Karachi is, a capital with a characteristic pattern? : SYNDROME

5-across – Tory has a taste for garlic in apple pie : CLOVES

9-across – History isn’t acute to the French : CHRONICLE

11-across – Number and weight are inconceivable : NOTON

12-across – Spoke to a bird about illegally published works : PIRATEDBOOKS

15-across – Girl no longer tender? : ANNA

16-across – Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up : PLAGIARISE

18-across – Crucial leading oarsmen at work on a typewriter : KEYSTROKES

19-across – 27 character doesn’t sound like a worker : IDOL

21-across – Director in the manner of – in the matter of – ass in translation : ALAINRESNAIS

24-across – Prophet has taken a humble part : NAHUM

25-across – American city nudity impersonated by Toad : LAUNDREES

26-across – Decision classes? : RULING

27-across – Butler included in a benefit that’s much appreciated : ADORABLE

1-down – See 7 : SICA

2-down – Grass for N-Noah’s? : NARK

3-down – Director concerned with type of film : RENOIR

4-down – Director to be in debt after building chapel in factory : MICHAELPOWELL

6-down – Small Viking vessel with sobering effect? : LONGBOAT

7-down – Director whose life contains love in 3 for princess? Just so : VITTORIODI

8-down – Characteristic of a sorority keeping home in ominous manner : SINISTERLY

10-down – Fevered gunner prepared to provide money for business : EVERGREENFUND

13-down – Director of crew J.A. Rank directed : TACKWARNER

14-down – Director before struggle with unknown getting a break : ANDYWARHOL

17-down – Stand-in for tough parts to reduce size of 23 : STUNTMAN

20-down – Director is not so domesticated : WILDER

22-down – Report of restriction on pavement : KERB

23-down – Detail from Sisley’s Earth in Water : ISLE

1-across – Antidote is perhaps a foot behind the bar : COUNTERMEASURE

8-across – A tree is more secure when pollarded : OSIER

9-across – Fight about drunk returning weapon : STILETTO

11-across – Engineers rejected lad’s shattered stone : EMERALD

12-across – Movement of man in hazard : ANDANTE

13-across – Force politician to wear revolutionary garland : IMPEL

15-across – Earl has desire to buttonhole male doctor for drug : EPHEDRINE

17-across – Bad weather bisecting the plateau can be focused : TRAINABLE

20-across – Many slim and lift weights : CLEAN

21-across – Falls once more when retreating from gunman : NIAGARA

23-across – Prince only eats one fish : HALIBUT

25-across – Boy keeps birds in part of ship : STERNSON

26-across – Inch back towards oriental girl : ELSIE

27-across – Respect ruined after Ben’s filled with shock, seeing apparition : BROCKENSPECTRE

1-down – Meet under bar when tight : CLOSEFITTING

2-down – One gets support from eastern ally : UNITE

3-down – Waterproof for man initially immersed in water : TARPAULIN

4-down – Strange desire to keep uranium waste : RESIDUE

5-down – What about pious exploit for lapidary phrases : EPITAPH

6-down – Use to drive round Portugal : SPEND

7-down – Not forgetting wine taken in raid in Scotland : RETENTIVE

10-down – Heathen erred sporadically in various places : HEREANDTHERE

14-down – Give performer gold for a charlatan : PLAYACTOR

16-down – In a low-cut dress officer’s about to remove : DECOLLETE

18-down – Club idiot tucking into cheese : BRASSIE

19-down – Girl upset about feature on sea urchin : ECHINUS

22-down – Staying in Nassau, Richard Strauss revealed he composed : AURIC

24-down – Attach Egyptian in triumph : BESET