Clues

1-across – Rift created by a broken promise? : BREACH

4-across – Fights are things dogs enjoy : SCRAPS

9-across – Worker right to be bitter sometimes : BEER

10-across – All union members finished business for the day : CLOSEDSHOP

11-across – An inventor having no team for back-up : EDISON

12-across – It comes under a general vote in the Commons : DIVISION

13-across – Implement for eating meat paste? : CHOPSTICK

15-across – Washington provided for homeless child : WAIF

16-across – Break seal to get drinks : ALES

17-across – The growth of the fairytale : BEANSTALK

21-across – May be seen round the trunk of this tree, perhaps : TEESHIRT

22-across – Quiet seaman gets by, looking scruffy : SHABBY

24-across – Accommodation for a model family : DOLLSHOUSE

25-across – Come up against an objection : ABUT

26-across – Back me to supervise relief work : EMBOSS

27-across – Capital A followed by S? : ATHENS

1-down – The scope of the Bard? : BREADTH

2-down – Is paid pots, they say : EARNS

3-down – Fruit for the shy : COCONUT

5-down – Equal to both parts of 13 : CLEAVE

6-down – One who helps satanists out : ASSISTANT

7-down – There’s no performance of The Peacock : SHOWOFF

8-down – What a travelling orchestra goes on? : CONDUCTEDTOUR

14-down – Two irons used by journalists together : PRESSCLUB

16-down – Holding soldiers up in a unit is a bloomer : ANEMONE

18-down – New rise just coming into effect : NASCENT

19-down – A sailor scowls about Herculean tasks : LABOURS

20-down – Figures in the University Boat Race : EIGHTS

23-down – Lower in a mathematical scale : ABASE

7-across – Unfeeling comment – no good, completely useless : DEADLOSS

9-across – Cold compartment used for a buffet outside church : ICEBOX

10-across – Could be a pet tip, say : PEKE

11-across – The sailor’s asking for an annulment : ABROGATION

12-across – One’s stupid to make it dull around the west : DIMWIT

14-across – The speed of a star with no centre : CELERITY

15-across – Rascal upset the seaman : LASCAR

17-across – Wormy bit of deal needing treatment? Oh, I say! : MYWORD

20-across – 4’s work : THEWATER

22-across – See 20 : BABIES

23-across – Put on society clothing, or track suit? : SPORTSWEAR

24-across – Preoccupied sailor has turn round piano : RAPT

25-across – Name the number below : NETHER

26-across – Account after writing information sheet : HANDBILL

1-down – Army unit call intended as a cure : REMEDIAL

2-down – Used for dressing tots, we hear : ADZE

3-down – Part of cooker provided on drawing capital? : HOBART

4-down – Writer likes New York gravity, possibly : KINGSLEY

5-down – Dangerous post : LETTERBOMB

6-down – Follower of flickering torch needing to take in oxygen : COHORT

8-down – Smart one with the cones : SPRUCE

13-down – 4’s work : WESTWARDHO

16-down – Flair shown in sitar playing attempt : ARTISTRY

18-down – By which one can alter handle : DEEDPOLL

19-down – Breaking of the law, say, concerning gun part : BREECH

21-down – Worker in Kent, one getting grain? : HOPPER

22-down – To drill can be tedious : BORING

24-down – Old city set up beside a stone : RUBY

8-across – Blow whistle for a breathing space : WINDPIPE

9-across – Elite type found in newspaper production : EDITOR

10-across – The hollow sound of success in business : BOOM

11-across – Certainly using every available method : BYALLMEANS

12-across – Be able to repeat a vigorous dance : CANCAN

14-across – Dictates new chemistry examination involving litmus paper : ACIDTEST

15-across – Healthy accommodation for a prisoner charged with battery : DRYCELL

17-across – Risk getting left in church : CHANCEL

20-across – Housing for a direction-finder : BINNACLE

22-across – It lives in Madagascar with the agreement of sailors : AYEAYE

23-across – Dutch punter gets over 50% : BETTERHALF

24-across – Small amounts put on horses : BITS

25-across – Out-of-date, like a tricorn for example : OLDHAT

26-across – Vessel manoeuvring in River Tamar : TRIMARAN

1-down – Extinct animal is around in changed form : DINOSAUR

2-down – Feed a mouse with cheese : EDAM

3-down – Pound is good in France and capital elsewhere : LISBON

4-down – Go on! Holiday! : GETAWAY

5-down – Weigh about two pounds and a quarter, almost : WELLNIGH

6-down – Girl allowed by her aunt in Paris to be a dabbler : DILETTANTE

7-down – They may be smoked and eaten : JOINTS

13-down – One may have a fair throw at it : COCONUTSHY

16-down – Slash material price : LACERATE

18-down – Mummy’s nationality : EGYPTIAN

19-down – They’re out of step and overfussy : PEDANTS

21-down – Ladies in fashion becoming models : IDEALS

22-down – Business concern : AFFAIR

24-down – Harbour transport : BEAR

1-across – Newcastle, Liverpool and Derby on longer the country’s leaders : PRIMEMINISTERS

9-across – Very small, like a Swiss banker? : GNOMISH

10-across – One involved with Alison in illicit affair : LIAISON

11-across – Rumour of English poet for listeners : NOISE

12-across – Sound director gives Margaret a ring : MEGAPHONE

13-across – Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league : HEGEMONIC

14-across – Do church leaders take sustenance? : CHEAT

15-across – Girl revealing male murder victim in book : MABEL

17-across – How the stock ran out all at once? : STAMPEDED

20-across – Collapse of couple on exciting rides : DISREPAIR

22-across – Proportion of allowance reduced : RATIO

23-across – Sluggard told stories about Lincoln : LIEABED

24-across – Remedy for Japanese drama – play idly : NOSTRUM

25-across – Hardy characters do, when leotards become loose : THEWOODLANDERS

1-down – Berkshire, perhaps, at the heart of the game : PIGINTHEMIDDLE

2-down – Club in Gateshead, say, for evening out : IRONING

3-down – Descriptive of hideout, we hear : EPIDERMAL

4-down – Brutal article following popular song without words : INHUMAN

5-down – Unsound reasoning, when sick, to go up in charge : ILLOGIC

6-down – Streetcar soft for the bum? : TRAMP

7-down – Fried meat cake king is exclusive : RISSOLE

8-down – Upside down, some butterflies make marks on paper : INVERTEDCOMMAS

14-down – Accountant has capital advanced – something to put on a horse : CAPARISON

16-down – Beg for bit of bread and cheese spread : BESEECH

17-down – Prepare for attack and remain next to openings of tower : STANDTO

18-down – Lad near damage beside the kidneys? : ADRENAL

19-down – Cleanse and check germanium : DETERGE

21-down – Knock run off spin bowler : ELBOW

1-across – Old money with rates by 18 6 : EXCHANGE

5-across – Acting A for Alan is subsiding : ABATES

9-across – Many divine voices have little craft : CORACLES

10-across – It’s wrong, according to 18 6, to give apple to genie : EATING

11-across – Going gradually : STEPPING

12-across – Not want a thing? : OBJECT

14-across – 18 6 got his new model army, not turned out : HISTORYMAN

18-across – Literary giant and teacher arranged dumb crambo rally : SIRMALCOLM

22-across – Silver in solver: 18 6 got to 19 in it : THEAGE

23-across – Very cutting, but inviting riposte : TWOEDGED

24-across – See 10 : PEOPLE

25-across – It’s wrong for 18 6’s doctor with English ending : CRIMINAL

26-across – 5’s clue’s not main line : SIDING

27-across – See 11 : WESTWARD

1-down – Cover a scene of confusion : ENCASE

2-down – Dog on wheels, red for honoured guest : CARPET

3-down – Take : ACCEPT

4-down – Bird, in French then in Greek, gaining height : GREENFINCH

6-down – See 18 : BRADBURY

7-down – Article taken from experimental novel with three horns? : TRILEMMA

8-down – Observation of model in the course of expressing regret : SIGHTING

13-down – Even more deplorable, slower list must be used : STILLWORSE

15-down – One drunkard starts : ISOTOPES

16-down – No charge for stowing such property as cargo? : FREEHOLD

17-down – Edentate from African country dropping tail into cask : PANGOLIN

19-down – Loner to inherit a thousand : HERMIT

20-down – A good start and finish for a business : AGENDA

21-down – A theologian was the guide, which is bad : ADDLED