Clues

1-across – Steps up to castles in the air? : FLIGHTOFFANCY

10-across – Statue named after delivery? : LIBERTY

11-across – Swinish dictator with a place in the sun : SUIDIAN

12-across – Returning soldier can arrive at winter quarters : IGLOO

13-across – Licensing measure for bird and fish : ENTITLING

14-across – Take a sound hard look at the size of an egg : GLAIR

16-across – Big Daddy’s old lady? : GRANDMAMA

18-across – In no position to join Labour? : OUTOFWORK

19-across – Cornish member of a body of social workers : SWARM

20-across – Frustrates Kant’s foul disposition : OUTFLANKS

23-across – Call for a pint in the vault : CRYPT

24-across – Spiritual singer appearing in Oberon’s revival : ROBESON

25-across – Hurdles to sobriety in Dylan Thomas’s patch : WATTLES

26-across – Only this part c-converts into a howling convert : LYCANTHROPIST

2-down – Suitor left in ballet movement : LIBELLANT

3-down – She sought solitude in the dress-circle : GARBO

4-down – Season with this season, say : THYME

5-down – Lent dog to show the quick route to advancement : FASTTRACK

6-down – Disaster? I could be the embodiment of Justice : ARISTIDES

7-down – Wind blowing hot and cold, they say : CHILI

8-down – Ecstasy from glory in clues of doubtful distinction : FLYINGCOLOURS

9-down – Character development needs one – a good memory: it’s a failing during the Millennium : ANAGRAMMATISM

15-down – Amateur cracksman takes one: a natural freeloader from the orient : RAFFLESIA

16-down – Reason madman becomes an oil producer : GROUNDNUT

17-down – Stupid sheep taking a rise out of Milton’s sporting shady lady : AMARYLLIS

21-down – Objection raised by Toc H’s Clayton : TUBBY

22-down – One employed in Bayeux’s underground takeaway service : SEWER

23-down – As distressed as Lizzie Borden”s mother? : CUTUP

1-across – Consecrate a Rodin sculpture : ORDAIN

5-across – Go away when it’s cloudless on holiday : CLEAROFF

9-across – Is provocative when it appears in a stage presentation : AGITATES

10-across – Worn-out shoe? : GALOSH

11-across – Returns from work : EARNEDINCOME

13-across – Wine shippers use it : PORT

14-across – Heading for the frozen wastes – or stuck in them : ICEBOUND

17-across – Relief organisation for the hot and peevish? : REDCROSS

18-across – Bound to sound like a current variation : TIED

20-across – Court linesman : POETLAUREATE

23-across – Inward-turning scientist : DARWIN

24-across – Air traffic control : ELEVATOR

25-across – Put away for safety? : IMPRISON

26-across – Alluring abstraction? : TAKING

2-down – Cheap papers enjoyed by students : RAGS

3-down – Teach unit in way that’s unorthodox, but reliable : AUTHENTIC

4-down – Small number attempt to entertain a public official : NOTARY

5-down – Features editor? : COSMETICSURGEON

6-down – It suffers periodic reversals in the kitchen : EGGTIMER

7-down – Priest in church demonstrates holy memento : RELIC

8-down – Sole distributor? : FISHMONGER

12-down – Suffers injuries, as invaders do : COMETOHARM

15-down – In agony for quite a stretch? : ONTHERACK

16-down – Words of praise : HOSANNAS

19-down – The French people weren’t finally keen : LAMENT

21-down – Building quarters inside a hill : TOWER

22-down – Blue feathers : DOWN

1-across – Relaxed eating soldier’s medicinal plant : COMFREY

5-across – Supplement for Dutch chemical company during depression : CODICIL

9-across – A posh actor crashed vehicle : AUTOCAR

10-across – A student leaves one country for another : AUSTRIA

11-across – Refractory when turning to criticism : FIREPROOF

12-across – Sweet prince meets Virginia : HALVA

13-across – Sticky stuff initially stuck in hold : RESIN

15-across – Vegetable popular in tavern : AUBERGINE

17-across – Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will! : LAMPSHELL

19-across – Decoration held by journalist in Bury : EMBED

22-across – Son boasted of wages commonly : SCREW

23-across – Water is a barrier to pig : ADAMSWINE

25-across – Great composer accepts student librettist : GILBERT

26-across – Vengeful daughter to choose gunman : ELECTRA

27-across – Greek character gets over speech defect in time : EPSILON

28-across – Fibres coiled right around the fireplace : RINGLET

1-down – Beetle keeps maiden on edge : CHAMFER

2-down – Medium Ishtar bewitched killed a bull : MITHRAS

3-down – Racehorse going uphill is run over : RECAP

4-down – Drinker’s challenge is ordeal Fay bungled : YARDOFALE

5-down – After tea, a couple of fellows banter : CHAFF

6-down – Doctor hid Grace’s execution : DISCHARGE

7-down – Composer’s heart’s bad when climbing : CORELLI

8-down – General hides a cigarette in the greenery : LEAFAGE

14-down – Owen”s heel is mangled in the front of the plane : NOSSWHEEL

16-down – Crooner makes delivery on a beast : BALLADEER

17-down – Food in sink in the alley : LASAGNE

18-down – Game fellows tour the Republic of Botswana : MARBLES

20-down – British weapon page left in city : BRISTOL

21-down – Long for shed of a particular manufacture : DIECAST

23-down – Continue to play in London : ACTON

24-down – Small bird’s tail : STERN

1-across – Frank clue for flier : PLAINSPOKEN

9-across – Cowherd’s pie and broth : CHOWDER

10-across – Keen on quiet moment to be told secret : CRYPTIC

11-across – Lot of bottle backing country’s secret society : CARBONARI

12-across – Gas ring on range : OZONE

13-across – Prodigal son has this too : ALSO

14-across – Half ardent about Germany, for example : FATHERLAND

16-across – Swimmer that is holding party for Nelson’s talent : BRILLIANCE

19-across – A short nun’s goddess : ISIS

21-across – Drink that can be on the hour : GLASS

22-across – Not the main way to edge hat : BROADBRIM

24-across – Stupid since 19 : ASININE

25-across – Work lining roof should be felt : TACTILE

26-across – Close to thrill about a singer : NIGHTINGALE

1-down – Rubbish in Croatian port’s off-putting : PROCRASTINATION

2-down – Reproductive system, we hear : AUDIO

3-down – A stew-up without heart is bliss : NIRVANA

4-down – Somewhat hungry Gregorian? : PECKISH

5-down – Notes character from here : KEYBOARD

6-down – Compulsion to join in general mass : NATIONALSERVICE

7-down – Wattle one spies under bill : ACACIA

8-down – Floor finish finally defies belief : SCREED

15-down – It stops water going on and off : FLASHING

16-down – Saying what wish might be to carry around this one : BEGGAR

17-down – Confession of dishonesty keeps one in circulation : AMBIENT

18-down – Learn about defeat when one’s in the soup : CROUTON

20-down – Precedes a fall, one might add : SUMMER

23-down – Country house had a charming interior : DACHA

1-across – American money going to drug-taking terrorists to get a simple meal : JACKETPOTATO

8-across – Plant stalk an etching features : ALKANET

9-across – Swordsman’s one lily-like reflection : SAMURAI

11-across – Story about boat ride’s beginning to get more mischievous : LARKIER

12-across – Stories about The King and I and suchlike productions : TALKIES

13-across – Point to unknown source of ferment : YEAST

14-across – Toper’s first into liquor-producing plant – liquor’s an immuniser : ANTISERUM

16-across – Watch and leer over gymnastic performance : CARTWHEEL

19-across – The writer’s a mug : STEIN

21-across – A little bit more : MATADOR

23-across – Carpets arranged in blocks : PRECAST

24-across – Last words on instant muscle : TRICEPS

25-across – Individual backing secures gold ring for sherry : OLOROSO

26-across – May no neo-Nazis get more rum for hapless other ranks? : CANNONFODDER

1-down – Alias : JAKARTA

2-down – Work history includes working with one before court and one inside : CONVICT

3-down – Get rid of emigr* carrying timber : EXTIRPATE

4-down – Assume there’s one in the mail : POSIT

5-down – Commotion curtailed on American burial place : TUMULUS

6-down – Line about stray dog : TERRIER

7-down – Orchestra and opera house introduce cosy arrangement for infrequent visitor : HALLEYSCOMET

10-down – Planting seeds in half the country : INSEMINATION

15-down – Long shot at pachyderm dropping insect in toto : TELEPHOTO

17-down – Swilling a Strine wine? : RETSINA

18-down – The wild wendigo bird : WIDGEON

19-down – Standing parliaments entertaining alternative drug : STEROID

20-down – Inspire fondness and mounting regret about the state : ENAMOUR

22-down – Fiddler’s gum is counted among the maestro’s infirmities : ROSIN