Clues

1-across – Disparage actors as characters – myself included : CASTASPERSIONS

9-across – Side taken by 7 view : NEITHER

10-across – Metal is found in thumbscrew : BISMUTH

11-across – Richard ended in defeat; over to Henry : TUDOR

12-across – Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink : PYRETHRUM

13-across – Name picked out without gravity or care : NEGLECTED

14-across – Many drinks can be found in Yorkshire : DALES

15-across – It”s unsuitable in a gym : INAPT

17-across – About time to modify item in air display : ALTIMETER

20-across – Undressed in 7? : OUTOFGEAR

22-across – There’s said to be a place for old-fashioned ill-humour : RHEUM

23-across – Vera reported what she did for an animal : LINSANG

24-across – Cram, perhaps, allowed to feature in articles : ATHLETE

25-across – Comical, almost entirely mad, system of communication : ELECTRONICMAIL

1-down – To Cannon St – pile out for the City : CONSTANTINOPLE

2-down – Hidings may be in order for such noisy behaviour : SHINDIG

3-down – Detested rating on dwelling with right to income from letting : ABHORRENT

4-down – Some copy held for bank protection : PARAPET

5-down – York overdrawn, as an old engine may be : REBORED

6-down – Fashionable group relegated to a corner of the display? : INSET

7-down – Ne plus ultra can be anything but extreme : NEUTRAL

8-down – Essex man of most charm – fellow lost his head, unfortunately : THOMASCROMWELL

14-down – Having two forms of saying unintelligent in Bow : DIMORPHIC

16-down – A court in Alabama is like a jellyfish : ACTINAL

17-down – I get my own back in rage about 5, if missing : AVENGER

18-down – French stop over in getting the lie of the land : TERRAIN

19-down – She’s queen in the Salvation Army : THERESA

21-down – Money talks with candour : FRANC

8-across – Game suffices for keeping order at home : DOMINOES

9-across – French student issued with name and number : ELEVEN

10-across – French town gets a second look in : AMIENS

11-across – A world of sweets? : ALLSORTS

12-across – Sand in bottle : GRIT

13-across – Squalid sink transformed with a nice bit of disinfectant : DICKENSIAN

15-across – Witty person holding in measure of sound? He’s not witty! : WINDBAG

16-across – Frank Field’s central character in French story! : CANDIDE

18-across – Fool admits nothing to right-wing organisation – a devilish sign? : CLOVENFOOT

19-across – Defeat with tail-ender finally dismissed : ROUT

20-across – Note about marriage guidance counsellors supplied by clergy : PRELATES

22-across – Copper shown by examination to be most clever : CUTEST

23-across – Is male following unhappy perversion? : SADISM

24-across – Being this could mean mum losing energy, just! : MATRONLY

1-down – What may be covered by parts of ITV : COMMERCIALBREAK

2-down – Former dancer not in a televised broadcast : NINETTEDEVALOIS

3-down – What one hopes may win sweepstake is not designed for motoring! : HORSEDRAWN

4-down – Obliquely request to take over from one leading the waltz? : ASKANCE

5-down – Not all of tummy fits in? It could be a warning! : BELL

6-down – Second thoughts about not supporting team that needs helping : RECONSIDERATION

7-down – Former CND enthusiast transformed duller ranters and the leaders of British socialism : BERTRANDRUSSELL

14-down – The foreign wine town showing ability to increase accommodation : ELASTICITY

17-down – Eat ice-cream, swallowing whole : CONSUME

21-down – Office worker’s degrees in abbreviated form? : TEMP

1-across – Finale: work of college cad had Burns’ quotation : SHOULD

4-across – Not a straight tool? : CHISEL

9-across – See 1 : OLDACQUAINTANCE

10-across – Hot iron available? Come out! : STRIKE

11-across – See 1 : BEFORGOT

12-across – A lot of memories? Some of them get by in 21 : MEGABYTE

14-across – Joint consumed by diplomat : LEGATE

15-across – Quantity of human milk taken in context : ACUPOF

18-across – See 15 : KINDNESS

21-across – Fascinate, not being way out : ENTRANCE

22-across – Mother to Hamlet backed by bacchante : MAENAD

24-across – Words of finale range so fully and extravagantly : FORAULDLANGSYNE

25-across – Letter opener between 24 and 24 : MYDEAR

26-across – Spiral without its head, but with its heart, would turn gold : ELIXIR

1-down – Barrister to level scores by elegant item of dress : SILKTIE

2-down – Authorisation for a relation ? of the giraffe : OKAPI

3-down – Brains needed in fuel production next year to turn coal to oil? : LIQUEFY

5-down – Big and naughty baby? : HANDFUL

6-down – Orangeade’s drunk : SEADRAGON

7-down – Reverse of 10 making TUC look uncomfortable? : LOCKOUT

8-down – Play with water as a dilettante? : DABBLE

13-down – Sign for and accept a morning by the beach? : AMPERSAND

16-down – See how they run and go with the flow? : CONFORM

17-down – Lowland measure for a girl’s name : FENELLA

18-down – Qualification for feeling Len should go in as new opener : KEENLY

19-down – So-called lion-man comes adrift : NOMINAL

20-down – It helps to reproduce, with science, the dead queen’s signature : SCANNER

23-down – Being an unknown man that’s become nouveau riche? : ESSEX

1-across – Old Roman’s arousal aboard public transport : BRUTUS

5-across – Officer advises Jones, maybe : TIPSTAFF

9-across – Twisting hair, drinking strong drink and spilling guts : HARAKIRI

10-across – Nothing on the organ is musical : OLIVER

11-across – Enter lead after one lap? : TAKETHESTAGE

13-across – Someone who’s not out for a crust : SCAB

14-across – Give help to foreigners, being discreet about it : SUBTITLE

17-across – An estaminet in need of a foyer : ANTEROOM

18-across – Sum of money in Shetland, perhaps : PONY

20-across – Type of feline, canine, snake or hawk? : SABRERATTLER

23-across – Secure immediate victory with blow : WINNOW

24-across – In I go to the unknown – it’s an outrage! : INIQUITY

25-across – Game of golf – par eight, initially : LEAPFROG

26-across – Greeny issue? : ENERGY

2-down – Get your dessert, they say – some more apple pie? : REAP

3-down – Docile bear raised on board : TRACTABLE

4-down – Love up in heaven is sexy : SLINKY

5-down – Entering middle age with right money this time? Wrong! : THIRTYSOMETHING

6-down – Little difficulties absorbing clergyman uplifted by piece of scripture : PROVERBS

7-down – Smear of snot : TAINT

8-down – Immature type finds something outstanding in a burst of hedonism : FLEDGELING

12-down – View painter’s opening exhibition with shock : SCANDALISE

15-down – A Parisian follows, meaning to be a nuisance : IMPORTUNE

16-down – Shady nook concealing old bishop’s debtor : BORROWER

19-down – Fish for compiler in situ : PLAICE

21-down – Incur preliminary stages : RUNUP

22-down – Weapons turned on men only : STAG

8-across – A pointless contest for the loser : LOVEGAME

9-across – Fur returned to the French firm : OCELOT

10-across – A spinner at his peak? : ATOP

11-across – Bob’s producer : BELLRINGER

12-across – Joint holder : SKEWER

14-across – Two cutlets at once, please : CHOPCHOP

15-across – It’s sweet, I notice, and round : ANISEED

17-across – Cockney thief may end up in hot water : TEALEAF

20-across – The lanes winding round an isolated British settlement : STHELENA

22-across – Show where traffic goes round : CIRCUS

23-across – A drop in the ocean : SPLASHDOWN

24-across – Scored a point – could be winning : CUTE

25-across – Improved a carving with direction : CAMEON

26-across – They cut teeth : CHOPPERS

1-down – Hide from the kids : GOATSKIN

2-down – Sea bass : DEEP

3-down – Gas poker : JABBER

4-down – Substitute one fabric with another : REPLACE

5-down – A game that involves more of us : FOURSOME

6-down – Informal speech : VERNACULAR

7-down – Give up because of one’s self-image? : FOREGO

13-down – Appears wet, perhaps, but may be recycled : WASTEPAPER

16-down – The plane might be a Jumbo : ELEPHANT

18-down – Lieutenant embraced by Audrey involved in extramarital affair : ADULTERY

19-down – Island’s chief accountant : MAJORCA

21-down – Capital investment that involves work : TOPHAT

22-down – Clergyman taking a point to heart may be fired : CANNON

24-down – Service dress : COPE