Clues

1-across – View of father and mother a girl accepted : PANORAMA

5-across – Gossip’s story about heartless tart : TATTLE

9-across – Relief worker and former model : TEMPLATE

10-across – In front of the foreign drinks plant : TEASEL

11-across – Leave off before man gets promoted : ELEVATED

12-across – On board, having very French accent : STRESS

14-across – Colour soldiers required during map exercise : CHARTREUSE

18-across – Daisy to get married; discuss ceremony : MARGUERITE

22-across – Fancy nothing the sailors consumed : ORNATE

23-across – Ten creep out of show : PRETENCE

24-across – Assembly rejected pointless rumours : NOISES

25-across – Fancy sage, too? : LIKEWISE

26-across – Long way back to get spectacles : SIGHTS

27-across – Said to surpass essence from a plant : BEETROOT

1-down – Golf club with parking, say : PUTTER

2-down – Song having less feeling? : NUMBER

3-down – Charge again to see large duck in show : RELOAD

4-down – Concern over warning device which people climb on : MATTERHORN

6-down – Opening for a salesman turned up, true to form : APERTURE

7-down – Try fellow university student, as refined : TASTEFUL

8-down – Listened when eccentric signed on : ENLISTED

13-down – Associate priest sat with Irene at sea : FRATERNISE

15-down – Confiscates £1 million : IMPOUNDS

16-down – Transporting black band home before midnight : BRINGING

17-down – Result of dividing likely cost with one into good books : QUOTIENT

19-down – Let it stand about in some way : STREET

20-down – Fashionable, like job centre colour : INDIGO

21-down – Joiner employed in the building industry : CEMENT

9-across – Noisy performance given daily — one with some variation : CHARIVARI

10-across – Lack of warmth with Ulster tribe of old : ICENI

11-across – Sprinter fails to start is state religious establishment : NUNNERY

12-across – Writer whose first name Cockney finds exceeding difficult to pronounce : KIPLING

13-across – Many a bird is a thrush : MAVIS

14-across – Season to study ten-cent book : CONDIMENT

16-across – Obstacle to commission — a rise, less a/c sent in error : SALESRESISTANCE

19-across – Leading director, keen and economical : DAVIDLEAN

21-across – Having planted seed, therefore had to get married : SOWED

22-across – Slow part of service? : GRADUAL

23-across – Man in service used to bore at length about nothing : DRAGOON

24-across – Heart-throb turns up at college : PULSE

25-across – Forward to study manure : READDRESS

1-down – Saved what does come in for recycling : ECONOMISED

2-down – A number of Romans in sexual revelry : CARNIVAL

3-down – Sundry loons, for example : DIVERS

4-down – Victory comes in time for Sir Humphrey : DAVY

5-down – Betsy and her charge — unfortunately insane : DICKENSIAN

6-down – The Grauniad’s road race? : MISPRINT

7-down – Decrepit Kentish river? : SENILE

8-down – Pottery from Birmingham : MING

14-down – Needlework given as complement to Queen : CREWELLERY

15-down – Not quite the last word in hair fashion : TRENDINESS

17-down – Traditionalist Jew to quote in certain quarters : SADDUCEE

18-down – Inventor unused to officer and other ranks : NEWCOMEN

20-down – In depraved situation Jack’s likely to succeed … : VIABLE

21-down – … and cast out drink : SHANDY

22-down – College servant supply some of the means to get plastered : GYPS

23-down – Attraction of the lottery : DRAW

7-across – Poison scare in disaster : ARSENIC

8-across – The French are after refreshing quiet drink : TEQUILA

10-across – Consecrate into an order : ANOINT

11-across – Found on a ship aft, perhaps, and fragile : TAFFRAIL

12-across – It is small, yet strangely irritating to the eye : STYE

13-across – Jeopardize settlement : COMPROMISE

14-across – Preliminary plan for training harbour guides? : PILOTSCHEME

19-across – Threatened badger quarters : BROWBEATEN

22-across – Reputation is something we all have : NAME

23-across – Nothing more than a captaincy for a Royal Marine : COMMANDO

24-across – Is in its rightful place among Latin phrases : INSITU

25-across – Spring adjusted and firmly fixed : WELLSET

26-across – Wound to striking pitch? : KEYEDUP

1-down – Stop for Jack to revive : BRINGTO

2-down – Disease of more than one fruit, we hear : BERIBERI

3-down – It’s a sign language, of course : TICTAC

4-down – Embark on an explanation : SETFORTH

5-down – What one may give a quid for – drink for enough people : QUORUM

6-down – Oval 45-inch mince pies : ELLIPSE

9-down – Spread into a moist spray : ATOMISATION

15-down – The place for a deep sleep? : OCEANBED

16-down – One in church? : MINISTER

17-down – A number swindled – that’s dishonest : CROOKED

18-down – He’s not paid for taking a friend over the old city : AMATEUR

20-down – Politician caught by cunning habit of a nun : WIMPLE

21-down – Is included amongst those who are against rackets : NOISES

1-across – Students about to make a mistake : SLIPUP

5-across – Hot peas dished out in small cafes : TEASHOPS

9-across – Prime Minister, democratic leader, country’s first person : DISRAELI

10-across – Something curious – fish crosses river with it : RARITY

11-across – Actual site for a new allotment : REALLOCATION

13-across – Infant born in a tree : BABY

14-across – Skilful story book editor : TALENTED

17-across – Friend left in front of shopping complex in the heart of London’s clubland : PALLMALL

18-across – Inventor, firstly, was always testing technology : WATT

20-across – Thirteen pass out hereabouts : INTHESEPARTS

23-across – Verdi opera, say, before and after orchestral overture : OTELLO

24-across – Fine gentlemen annoy social workers : GALLANTS

25-across – Old instrument designed for rest and play : PSALTERY

26-across – Empty space in French cars : SEDANS

2-down – Type of paper placed face up : LAID

3-down – Representation of beam in doorway : PORTRAYAL

4-down – Less experienced coppers turned up before the outbreak of hostilities : PREWAR

5-down – Turning to get light lit, I spy child’s toe : THISLITTLEPIGGY

6-down – King George I taking a drink out for a governor of Britain : AGRICOLA

7-down – Wooded area forming part of King Arthur’s territory : HURST

8-down – Executed cherub hated being bad : PUTTODEATH

12-down – Ancient, as a setting for old people : CANAANITES

15-down – Innovative form of air transport – and where the Guardian may be bought : NEWSSTAND

16-down – Boys are very fond of aromatic plant : LADSLOVE

19-down – Father is holding learners responsible for unnecessary embellishments : FRILLS

21-down – Meat for Arab leader brought into college dining room : HALAL

22-down – Rock and roll fanatics : STUN

9-across – Dress up bride more extravagantly : EMBROIDER

10-across – He runs the function, sounding a gong : EMCEE

11-across – A stork nesting in a warm Arab outbuilding : MARABOU

12-across – Wreck, a danger at sea : TORPEDO

13-across – A weightwatchers’ congress? : DIET

14-across – Kept changing Indian team : MAINTAINED

15-across – Time for the next flight of 22? : TONIGHT

17-across – Tiny member of the school : TIDDLER

19-across – Defiant assertion of my remorse? : IMPENITENT

22-across – Slow-moving birds : OWLS

23-across – Developing nitrogen with a fragrance : NASCENT

24-across – Champion? She aims off : MESSIAH

26-across – Unattached libertine : LOOSE

27-across – Policy statement could be obtained by means of it : MANIFESTO

1-down – German builder at redeveloped disaster area : BERMUDATRIANGLE

2-down – Once a premier university : ABERDEEN

3-down – Resting place near doctor : TOMB

4-down – A bird found in the officers’ mess? : ADJUTANT

5-down – It’s the heart of the matter for the fashionable set : PROTON

6-down – Direction taken by patients needing attention to their backs? : REARWARD

7-down – Riddle: It’s silver in the cinema : SCREEN

8-down – Where the less important fishes learn? : SECONDARYSCHOOL

16-down – Enlivened by going sandy? : GINGERED

17-down – English men in part of camp accommodation : TENEMENT

18-down – Toes will curl at the very bottom : LOWLIEST

20-down – Kind of gun, ancient to Shakespeare : PISTOL

21-down – Some Amerindians looked up to them : TOTEMS

25-down – It is sometimes cracked, but is otherwise sound : SAFE