Clues

9-across – Revolver produced by a pyrotechnist? : CATHERINE

10-across – Coming from Wales, rows with world entertainer! : SWORD

11-across – Old Turkish governor gets to pose in it, being fat : OBESITY

12-across – Praise tank I love working around : OVATION

13-across – Repugnant article about romance : ALIEN

14-across – Cover note I’d written out is given a heading : CAPTIONED

16-across – Instructions once written on tablets? : TENCOMMANDMENTS

19-across – Patient takes second part from dish : CASSEROLE

21-across – Praise given to student once ahead : EXTOL

22-across – Ruin act, removing veil : CURTAIN

23-across – They write about street restaurants : BISTROS

24-across – See 9 : WHEEL

25-across – See 10 : SWALLOWER

1-down – Clash with stoic could be academic : SCHOLASTIC

2-down – Capital person then takes a man outside : ATHENIAN

3-down – Without mother, made to autograph sketch : DESIGN

4-down – Classy girl leaves it in large town : CITY

5-down – Northern peer comes running round for reward : RECOMPENSE

6-down – Part of Joe’s cap is made abroad, avoiding reality : ESCAPISM

7-down – One regularly taking cannabis before a dose of medicine : POTION

8-down – Loaded vessel’s last to leave port : ADEN

14-down – Frequency usual on famous loch : COMMONNESS

15-down – Liquid rises – could leak : DISCLOSURE

17-down – Dungarees and everything in sets of six deliveries : OVERALLS

18-down – Badly burnt individual’s colour : NUTBROWN

20-down – Order string : SERIES

21-down – See when one enters with little trouble : EASILY

22-down – Monk may wear this on cold hooter! : COWL

23-down – Smile broadly, accepting a medal : BEAM

1-across – Silly fellow grabbing ram : STUPID

4-across – Miserable article, thing written without love : ABJECT

9-across – This and 25 may be completely together : HAND

10-across – Expecting to go round building in which you’d find many a picture was drawn : GRAVITATED

11-across – Bacterium against one wanting vigour : VIBRIO

12-across – Unpleasant person’s meeting end in grass : DOGSTAIL

13-across – Girl tucking into my old cake : MADELEINE

15-across – : BELL

16-across – Silly person to opt for gym? : DOPE

17-across – Unfortunately, she’s pally : HAPLESSLY

21-across – : OVERFIST

22-across – : MEDOWN

24-across – It won’t spread on bread? Bad luck! : HARDCHEESE

25-across – This and 9 may be completely together : FOOT

26-across – Your old flower lacking round inflorescence : THYRSE

27-across – Either side of river you’ll find odd newts distributed : STREWN

1-down – Good person, a laugher showing resilience : STAMINA

2-down – Working for agreement, but lacking status : UNDER

3-down – : INGLOVE

5-down – : BRIDGE

6-down – Old flame, frightful cat with head for precision : EXACTNESS

7-down – : THEBILL

8-down – Exceptionally grand repast that is included in summer celebrations : GARDENPARTIES

14-down – English pride may spread? It used to at this time : EMPIREDAY

16-down – Strange Roman way going into hollow : DEVIANT

18-down – : LAMBERT

19-down – It’s despicable getting secret info : LOWDOWN

20-down – : LIGHTS

23-down – Writer upset editor over environmental organisation : DEFOE

8-across – Microscopic organisms evidently originating in part of central Asia : BACTERIA

9-across – A horse at sea and on land : ASHORE

10-across – Island recluse is not with it : HERM

11-across – Everyone, say, backed animal movement : ALLEGRETTO

12-across – Like Hamlet and his rotten state : DANISH

14-across – Insect entangled with a net : WHITEANT

15-across – A disposable hanky under discussion : ATISSUE

17-across – Shunned revolutionary soldier not a communist : IGNORED

20-across – Two-faced male doctor has external face : DIHEDRAL

22-across – Doting on gold, basically : AUFOND

23-across – Robin and Tuck with a wild rock star : KURTCOBAIN

24-across – Bishop has talk about talks : GABS

25-across – Utterly nasty tribal leaders regret being false : UNTRUE

26-across – Times are changing for some Arab lands : EMIRATES

1-down – Flipping Tarzan’s right for the title role : NAMEPART

2-down – Supporter upset New York players : STEM

3-down – Quarrel with composer about second note of major scale : BREACH

4-down – Mother, close to ground, heard playwright : MARLOWE

5-down – Lanky Scots go on heather : GANGLING

6-down – Remove dairy produce before getting exasperated : CHEESEDOFF

7-down – French language for British school : BRETON

13-down – Corpse isn’t laid out for police officers : INSPECTORS

16-down – Dour poet shaken and dragged out of bed? : UPROOTED

18-down – Upstanding French maid was first elevated : ENNOBLED

19-down – Smart case for a tool : CLEAVER

21-down – One South American country ejecting unknown reptile : IGUANA

22-down – A release from the BBC? : AUNTIE

24-down – Tennis player gaining recognition after false starts : GRAF

1-across – Eastern princess enters tree and flower : GERANIUM

5-across – Backward writer to cut example of 2? : NEPHEW

9-across – Effects of rape – so diesel is produced : OILSEEDS

10-across – Use more force, we ‘ear, or it’ll get cooled : ARDOUR

12-across – The lousy, dirty 24s : NITTYGRITTY

15-across – Cook in the 24? : DEVIL

17-across – Sassenach like Chapman or Fitzgerald, maybe single lady : ENGLISHER

18-across – Current turns falter, interrupting great success : WATERFLOW

19-across – Beetle is female from Greece : DORIS

20-across – The Pobble’s aunt’s pet, given by Bantu cleric : RUNCIBLECAT

24-across – Particular stump : DETAIL

25-across – 24, if in charge on the off chance : SPECIFIC

26-across – One seeking to be laid by corporal in play, first in playhouse : NYMPHO

27-across – Propositions in or around the house : PREMISES

1-down – Land with feathers reduced to powder : GROUNDDOWN

2-down – Broadcast keeping one in television, it appears – that’s the general theory : RELATIVITY

3-down – Poor journalist in craving for elevation : NEEDY

4-down – Protecting : UNDERSEALING

6-down – Aristocratic girl, possibly, should get 8 : EARLYBIRD

7-down – In Holland it could be slung with 8 on it : HOOK

8-down – Extract information from woman or man, primarily : WORM

11-down – Aside from male, we got upset when his agent turned up : STAGEWHISPER

13-down – They may be linked and shot : SHIRTCUFFS

14-down – 24s for descendants and supporters – lots : BRASSTACKS

16-down – Let horrid characters be put in charge of broadcasting once : LORDREITH

21-down – See with temp : LOCUM

22-down – River in our garden : EDEN

23-down – 24 I came across on the way up : ITEM

1-across – Thanks Mr Hackman expressly for the stew : TAJINE

4-across – Cancel return of Basque militants with former Soviet president’s majority : ABROGATE

9-across – One : ARISE

10-across – Makes good preserves : MAINTAINS

11-across – Developing buds seem to have resistance under water : SUBMERSED

12-across – One to cope with a husband… : IDEAL

13-across – … rapt? : PARTEXCHANGE

17-across – Pudding on plate slurped all over the place : APPLESTRUDEL

20-across – Build beams noisily : RAISE

21-across – No middle-aged spread for this old-timer! : HOURGLASS

23-across – A kiss to inspire a Dickensian architect : PECKSNIFF

24-across – Scotsman with a ***wife and a bird : MACAW

25-across – A promenade around the isles is out of this world : PARADISE

26-across – A survey of Newfoundland : GANDER

1-down – Rex scarpered, taking a month to make the crossing : TRANSEPT

2-down – A cooler turkey, perhaps, is one in the coop? : JAILBIRD

3-down – Grannie certainly bore one of the brood : NIECE

5-down – Maybe Pugh’s an expert at the game : BLINDMANSBUFF

6-down – The boat from Oxford University set off : OUTRIGGER

7-down – Stood and endured : ABIDED

8-down – You once took Mona back… no hassle? : EASILY

10-down – Oklahoma supports game : MUSICALCHAIRS

14-down – Pushed out, you said? : EXPRESSED

15-down – Lent is brought forward : ADVANCED

16-down – A scrap of a form? : CLASSWAR

18-down – Put on your warm coat and hold your tongue! : WRAPUP

19-down – New crime wave presents a poser : MINCER

22-down – A strange character is Ray, sometimes : GAMMA