Clues

1-across – Change poles for entry into 11 : TRANSFORM

6-across – That is nearly the date : IDES

10-across – The drink of kings from the right : LAGER

11-across – Desire the way back and the rest will be included : STREETCAR

12-across – Opposed to silver being put in auction – rescue needed : SALVAGE

13-across – Not too far for Grannie, possibly : INRANGE

14-across – Poseur requiring aid? It isn’t true : ATTITUDINISER

17-across – Standard first page has Gore in rupture with the trappings : PARAPHERNALIA

21-across – Advertiser gives his cat a cuckoo : SAATCHI

22-across – 3’s house, one with wind indicator outside : IVANHOE

24-across – Needle covers in the ring? : HAYSTACKS

25-across – Poem to the beautiful Lydia partly returned : IDYLL

26-across – Remarkably pink? : RARE

27-across – Afterwards trust and yours may come first : SINCERELY

1-down – 3’s charm : TALISMAN

2-down – The nurse from hell? : ANGEL

3-down – Writer’s writ’s changed – changes bed inside : SIRWALTERSCOTT

4-down – Farm offices in Scotland sound the opposite of the schools regulator : ONSTEAD

5-down – 3’s girl eating her head : MARMION

7-down – Church official a fairy, reportedly: relax constraint : DECONTROL

8-down – See 18 : STREET

9-down – Agent dealing with gift to take up musical : REPRESENTATIVE

15-down – Superior woodcutter gets a penny for a mile from Twain character : TOPSAWYER

16-down – 3’s station on … : WAVERLEY

18-down – … sewage plant in reproduction : PRINCES

19-down – Old navigator giving coiners trouble : ERICSON

20-down – Waters part for modest heroine : ESTHER

23-down – Astronomy ends in something black, according to this expert : HOYLE

5-across – Memorial to a dental problem : PLAQUE

6-across – Wild card held aloft by composer : DUPARC

9-across – Ass in America leading to American kerfuffle : RUMPUS

10-across – Indoor garden where wrath-filled politician loses head : ORANGERY

11-across – Take-off in second gear : SKIT

12-across – Waspish, it might be, about Geller’s unease? : INSECURITY

13-across – Exchanges lay classes to rest : INTERCOURSE

18-across – Trade cards with one on ship : HANDICRAFT

21-across – Knocks box over : RAPS

22-across – Student’s record that’s keeping back record : DISCIPLE

23-across – Invite approach, running after stream : BECKON

24-across – A jolly girl in the fleet : ARMADA

25-across – Silver rouble accepted by representative : ARGENT

1-down – Artists apply to notorious preacher : RASPUTIN

2-down – Ileum’s the better for digesting it : MUESLI

3-down – ‘Omo sapiens replaces one in cape, an oriental fiend : FUMANCHU

4-down – Mounted study maintaining Two Gentlemen premieres appeared before Macbeth : DAGGER

5-down – Pioneering leader favoured by fortune, being bold : PLUCKY

7-down – Dog’s dinner was made of the churchman : CURATE

8-down – Holy box in second reincarnation : CONSECRATED

14-down – Hurrying up, grasping point of French adventure : ESCAPADE

15-down – Afflicted three bridge players receiving what they play for : STRICKEN

16-down – Stout holy man, almost a holy woman : FATIMA

17-down – Begin to grow out of stupor : SPROUT

19-down – Make off with bits of deck and amplifier : DECAMP

20-down – Capital raised by Dior’s original tunic : TABARD

1-across – Christians anticipate this moment before Advent : SECOND

4-across – See 1 : COMING

9-across – Film obese gangster with charm : FATALATTRACTION

10-across – Susan’s taken round thanks to model figure : STATUE

11-across – I grope in jumble for a dressinggown : PEIGNOIR

12-across – Character caught in the act left : DEPARTED

14-across – Mean to take for a ride before the end of July : STINGY

15-across – Eccentric suppresses cry of pain, but he’s scared : COWARD

18-across – Came clean: he’d worse troubles : SHOWERED

21-across – Pop in, carrying unusually long mammal : PANGOLIN

22-across – Wreckage in sea beside Bristol : DEBRIS

24-across – Part of theatre greeting first lady of song : GODSAVETHEQUEEN

25-across – Obtain safe : SECURE

26-across – Certify a tin-opener on trial : ATTEST

1-down – Frighten Les, spilling acid in the process : STARTLE

2-down – Skill of flying men shown in court : CRAFT

3-down – Tidiest home to have a meal in : NEATEST

5-down – Nothing changes with egg producers : OVARIES

6-down – It’s even in liquid that’s concentrated : INTENSIVE

7-down – Feeling George will take work home by midnight : GROPING

8-down – Backing places without first aid is silly : STUPID

13-down – Is, for example, standing in canal – possibly to relieve pain : ANALGESIC

16-down – They speak of nothing to a fellow painting hills : ORATORS

17-down – I dig right out, getting free : DELIVER

18-down – Governing body wants Brown back in the diocese : SENATE

19-down – Scrap outmoded books : ODDMENT

20-down – Distinguished crossword compiler standing in hospital department : EMINENT

23-down – Live humdrum existence assumed to be without intelligence : BRUTE

1-across – Form of escort public or private? : SECTOR

4-across – Wise man in old city, an old religious disputant : USAGER

9-across – Primo and Nahum, the poet, get a lift : LEVI

10-across – By obtaining a degree, Robert, the poet, goes where it’s always cold : PERMAFROST

11-across – Poem doesn’t end on notes that are nasty : ODIOUS

12-across – Maidenly old poet goes round North America : VIRGINAL

13-across – Ban writer earning money? : PROSCRIBE

15-across – See 9 : TATE

16-across – Lots of paper put on before going in : PADS

17-across – Dot’s follower, a modern poet, causes a stir : COMMOTION

21-across – Give name with nothing in it to fool with old gold coin : DOUBLOON

22-across – Smoke seriously in hospital and drink : INHALE

24-across – Fool gets all Yorkshire to make hard cases : NITRIDINGS

25-across – See 2 : MARX

26-across – From which to take us to Nuneaton? : EUSTON

27-across – Social worker for border county : ANTRIM

1-down – Poet inclined to blue? : SPENDER

2-down – Fashionable old poet with unknown brother of comedy : CHICO

3-down – Work with model on the other side : OPPOSER

5-down – Wait under a second with the eyes of an optimist : STARRY

6-down – Sprouting from 10 margin, possibly : GERMINANT

7-down – Pink eggs round the throne : ROSEATE

8-down – Poet’s round against poet, a juicy addition : GRAVYBROWNING

14-down – Conceit which poet has to face? : SIDEBURNS

16-down – Supply lions with some eggs to eat : PROVIDE

18-down – China semi-involved with Japanese finance? : MEISSEN

19-down – Broken idol, curious container for fuel : OILDRUM

20-down – Jinx on poet with rings : HOODOO

23-down – Poet to take one back? : HOMER

1-across – To begin, pass direct : FIRSTHAND

6-across – Note disturbance on line indicates a potential threat : GROWL

9-across – Paste diamond’s lost its stone in the river : RHINE

10-across – Principal’s fancy woman has an advantage : HEADSTART

11-across – Law-giver left nothing inside for the bloodsuckers : MOSQUITOES

12-across – Manx lockers? : KEYS

14-across – Wine, brunch – a blissful setting : CHABLIS

15-across – Companion in play about currency : DRACHMA

17-across – Most of the globe is dependent on cocaine : OCEANIC

19-across – Many coming in, went out all agog : EXCITED

20-across – Window decoration? : SASH

22-across – Made to toe the line by firm head : STRICTNESS

25-across – Represent how energy ratio is in book : EPITOMISE

26-across – Wet health establishment? : HYDRO

27-across – Deal with the present : TREAT

28-across – Theodore, at times, given to holding a different opinion : HETERODOX

1-down – RAF officer comes over queer at meeting : FORUM

2-down – Return to former position – a check, say : REINSTATE

3-down – Kind of embarrassment that makes one girl cut loose : TOECURLING

4-down – He’s a cat that’s turned out to be a faithful friend : ACHATES

5-down – Late finish is an obstacle : DEADEND

6-down – With the last one you’ve had it : GASP

7-down – Jack turns up during Old English lecture : ORATE

8-down – Layabouts’ dream country : LOTUSLAND

13-down – Renegade baseball player may be a professional killer : RATCATCHER

14-down – Boasts of short-distance lines : CROWSFEET

16-down – Rash to have weeded round the notice : HOTHEADED

18-down – Ready to admit non-drinker I found rather spiteful : CATTISH

19-down – Endless eventide could be clear as daylight : EVIDENT

21-down – Jam that’s appropriate : SEIZE

23-down – Hear the girl is an Amerindian : SIOUX

24-down – Little woman and officer get a shock : 1O1T