Clues

1-across – The flower of detective fiction : CAMPION

5-across – The flower : NIGELLA

9-across – It’s fashionable to cajole : INCOMETAX

10-across – Uncle to Victoria and Albert with whatever heart you like? : VANYA

11-across – Visit of supporter : STAY

12-across – Loud and angry about little boy deprived of energy by society : FRATERNITY

14-across – One left with the destroyer makes for blue paper : ALKALI

15-across – American city at speed alien to pretty little girl : NYMPHET

16-across – I keep a number of lawyers from Prohibition : EMBARGO

18-across – Nurse’s kind offer? : TENDER

20-across – Jack, Chuck and Damon: a Gothic fantasy : STRAWBERRY

21-across – See 20 : HILL

24-across – Give up favouring energy : FORGO

25-across – Being au fait with other areas’ news : AWARENESS

26-across – Restricted cover covers minimal finance : LIMITED

27-across – Disposition restricting time of siren : TEMPTER

1-down – The last thing one has to eat? : CHIPS

2-down – Tea amid honey rendered by angel : MICHAEL

3-down – Name of the Fair Maid of Perth : IRMA

4-down – Lines the Muse made Landor utter at exit on an adventure : NATUREILOVEDAND

5-down – See 4 : NEXTTONATUREART

6-down – Rulers turn green, detaining Vikings briefly : GOVERNMENT

7-down – Lillian G. keeps on being fairly extended : LONGISH

8-down – I have a breakdown, but I can deal with it : ANALYST

13-down – Canal dweller, not broad in the 23 : NARROWBOAT

16-down – What Keats called Death to make us feel a difference : EASEFUL

17-down – Mr Wooster of Mansfield Park has rights in 23 : BERTRAM

19-down – Urgent information during departure : EXIGENT

22-down – Cooked meal with a Slav interrupting concentration : LASER

23-down – See 22 : BEAM

1-across – Classic exemplar of stable government : CALIGULASHORSE

9-across – Elusive counter-revolutionary growth : PIMPERNEL

10-across – Free to live without a partner? : BRIDE

11-across – Perhaps hash with time may come to flower : TWEED

12-across – Capital transaction it means a lot : GREATDEAL

13-across – Hardly a hot gospeller? : LUKEWARM

14-across – Brought up on Housman’s hill : BREDON

17-across – Like a cat starting to leap in agitation : FLURRY

19-across – Climber of the Caroline Restoration : LONICERA

22-across – Stretches for poor Noel and rich Bill : ELONGATES

24-across – Journalist takes cover before becoming unpopular : HATED

25-across – King Charles’s peculiar governing power : CROWN

26-across – Atmosphere of extravagant design about an eating place : TRATTORIA

27-across – Once gay characters reform, there’s reasonable treatment for women : GYNAECOLOGICAL

1-down – Police affect an outbreak of serious crime : CAPITALOFFENCE

2-down – Beat gong in aphetic still : LIMBECK

3-down – Owen’s £1,000 loan to debtor? : GLENDOWER

4-down – Daughter of an earth mother? : LANDGIRL

5-down – You could be lovers : SOLVER

6-down – A gold piece, of course : ORBIT

7-down – Pay – mine’s about to finish : STIPEND

8-down – Find all cleaned out – the fruit of war, it’s said : DECLINEANDFALL

15-down – The cigars rolled for a German’s diet : REICHSTAG

16-down – End of beef? : COWSTAIL

18-down – Medical study of sound currency? : UROLOGY

20-down – Hospital department to which boy is taken for typhoid : ENTERIC

21-down – It acts badly, lacking motivation : STATIC

23-down – Force a single over in Italy : GENOA

1-across – Equipment for checking aircraft on carriers : ARRESTERGEAR

8-across – In grave trouble, certainly in a pickle : VINEGAR

9-across – Girl I sign on as an astronomer : GALILEO

11-across – He’s mad when the head takes action : NUTCASE

12-across – Cunning oriental with slender frame : SLEIGHT

13-across – The fewer you have the less you want : NEEDS

14-across – Snug place for young foxes? : CUBBYHOLE

16-across – Score from an offside ball? Get away! : CUTANDRUN

19-across – Incorrect teaspoon set out in Indian city : POONA

21-across – Manila’s wild fauna : ANIMALS

23-across – The easiest dance to learn? : ONESTEP

24-across – Weather forecast favourable ? fear it’s incorrect : SETFAIR

25-across – Little man devoured by a lion, perhaps a circus performer : ACROBAT

26-across – Travel agency for the young : PERAMBULATOR

1-down – Girl to catch in a bet : ANNETTE

2-down – When students may collect on the streets : RAGDAYS

3-down – Desire transport? : STREETCAR

4-down – They’re used for cutting borders : EDGES

5-down – It’s high in theatrical circles : GALLERY

6-down – Fast scoring rate : ALLEGRO

7-down – The aim of equal education? : EVENINGCLASS

10-down – Bound to fight in brave company : ONTHEWARPATH

15-down – Where house-hunters may be found? : BINGOHALL

17-down – It gets down to sorting the list : THISTLE

18-down – A river once more rises and falls : NIAGARA

19-down – Report rewritten about one entertainer : PIERROT

20-down – There’s a number to be surrounded by gold in autumn : OCTOBER

22-down – Brush and clean thoroughly : SCRUB

1-across – Unknown murderer pounds away : STRANGER

5-across – Workshop produces ornament I love : STUDIO

9-across – Send from French area : DESPATCH

10-across – Person takes time in lesson : MORTAL

11-across – Exploit Ireland, the composer : COUPERIN

12-across – Officer knowledgeable about token : COUPON

14-across – Backer misses out in America : LOSANGELES

18-across – Cloth samples found in the bathroom : TOILETRIES

22-across – Tell of soldier getting fresh : RELATE

23-across – Indispensable friend has money : MATERIAL

24-across – One meets old secret police chief in Europe : IBERIA

25-across – Colourist keeps recipe in the kitchen : STRAINER

26-across – Wander about to obtain appliance : GADGET

27-across – Fellow annoyin’ scientist : FRANKLIN

1-down – Corrupt French noble found in bishopric : SEDUCE

2-down – Drunken squire is off-colour : RISQUE

3-down – Tidy up after knight had a meal : NEATEN

4-down – In a trice, Rosie smashed the desk : ESCRITOIRE

6-down – Utter nothing in-between : THOROUGH

7-down – Time to conceal a fruit producer : DATEPALM

8-down – Ines and Lois developed urbanity : OILINESS

13-down – The man with the estate manager is a villain : MALEFACTOR

15-down – Flier looking round lake : STARLING

16-down – Action about complaints of flavouring : DILLSEED

17-down – Straddle finest horse : BESTRIDE

19-down – Arrest Greek character during commotion : DETAIN

20-down – Wrongly aligns an indicator : SIGNAL

21-down – In favour of taking a pound in coin : FLORIN

1-across – Divine environment for a crew testing position : PREDICAMENT

9-across – An entry without it causes stir : AGITATE

10-across – The opposite is never wrong : INVERSE

11-across – Place with racing stable : STEADFAST

12-across – Less neat, say : LOWER

13-across – Rings round for flooring : LINO

14-across – Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery : CATCHPENNY

16-across – Study twice to fully satisfy the result of becoming thicker : CONDENSATE

19-across – Bird in poor health : RHEA

21-across – Low-down on computers? : BASIC

22-across – Drink among New York’s flowers : MANHATTAN

24-across – Cut around live creature : SHEBEAR

25-across – Former PM’s undisguised triumph : BALDWIN

26-across – Tired out, crazy and harmful : DETRIMENTAL

1-down – A reward for the taking? : PRICEONONESHEAD

2-down – Antelope bearing light : ELAND

3-down – Former President to outlaw a Japanese art form : IKEBANA

4-down – Oddly, assailant since tells of a continent : ASIATIC

5-down – Break even and run for cover : ENVELOPE

6-down – Possibly how Hitler went to surrender : THROWINTHETOWEL

7-down – Small girl holds fool in thrall : VASSAL

8-down – Give away stake and fish : BETRAY

15-down – Drills the first case : TEACHEST

16-down – Young 24 is first of modern movement : CUBISM

17-down – Lifted spirit like first-class warrior : SAMURAI

18-down – Board admits points can be kept : TENABLE

20-down – Cover when Y-fronts would be wide open : AWNING

23-down – Divide at full speed : ALLOT