Clues

7-across – Enthusiasts may wax it : LYRICAL

8-across – For punishment, keep in and cane, perhaps : PENANCE

10-across – Cartoon character it’s fashionable to watch : POPEYE

11-across – Tiptoe in order to get round robin, perhaps : PETITION

12-across – Rough deal for Helen’s mother : LEDA

13-across – Let us admit becoming excited : STIMULATED

14-across – One who is doubly alive, apparently : LIVINGBEING

19-across – Fed up, having received a grilling : BROWNEDOFF

22-across – Restrictions imposed for cup matches : TIES

23-across – Looking round for a letter? : CIRCULAR

24-across – Rush job? : CAREER

25-across – Misfortune for the other side : REVERSE

26-across – Dance apace : ONESTEP

1-down – They should be allowed to be themselves, we’re told : BYGONES

2-down – Class of good scholars left going over the same thing again? It’s not on : LITERATI

3-down – They’re not necessarily cut in pickle making : CAPERS

4-down – Taken by those who are sick and tired of work? : RESTCURE

5-down – It is said to aid concentration : MANTRA

6-down – Transport that gets up speed by putting one’s foot down : SCOOTER

9-down – It assists the driver to go up rather than down : SPRINGBOARD

15-down – Building Elsie and Ida regard as perfect : IDEALISE

16-down – Misplaced trust in a person unsuited for camp life : NATURIST

17-down – Is surrounded in bread crumbs and cooked : BRAISED

18-down – Soldiers gave up and retreated : RECEDED

20-down – Gate catch, perhaps : WICKET

21-down – City investment is about to be productive : FECUND

1-across – Produce most favourable result, but stated grade description’s wrong! : BEFORTHEBEST

8-across – Come together for photo : CLOSEUP

9-across – Map is hard to roll : PLANISH

11-across – Having no fish, consumed prime sort of mollusc : OCTOPOD

12-across – Expressed private resentment : RANCOUR

13-across – Halfwits – stupid, backward and in the thick of things : MIDST

14-across – Urgent item broadcast across all news channels : IMMEDIATE

16-across – The man’s tucked in – fit to burst! : DEHISCENT

19-across – Vestment right for one 10 : COPER

21-across – High rock reportedly of importance to this resort : TORQUAY

23-across – Retrieve from water fish pulled back in with line : LANYARD

24-across – One to frown, that is, to lower if put differently : SCOWLER

25-across – Drink and endless crack following lecture : TEACHIN

26-across – Or that scorer, perhaps? : ORCHESTRATOR

1-down – Puffed out, having rowed across lake : BLOATED

2-down – Dingy hole has made one dreadfully pale – well out of it! : FLEAPIT

3-down – One’s shot – and shoot in quick succession : RAPIDFIRE

4-down – Explosive level produced from sulphur : HEPAR

5-down – Demolished loaf of bread in style : BRAINED

6-down – Turn love letters, first and last, over to writer : SPINOZA

7-down – Furnishes houses : ACCOMMODATES

10-down – Grandsire to exchange, following hard bargaining : HORSETRADING

15-down – He may wickedly leave you without a leg to stand on : MUTILATOR

17-down – Nurse seeking asylum : HARBOUR

18-down – Sing, disregarding a companion wanting silence : SQUELCH

19-down – Did lag do time previously in this connection? : CONTACT

20-down – He may play the game and break the law : POACHER

22-down – Battle of, say, Prestonpans : YPRES

1-across – Amount to hollow, dirty humour : COMEDY

4-across – Done a sin : AGREED

9-across – Suit, perhaps, reversed in card-game : BRAG

10-across – A sort of doss – endlessly halcyon period, allegedly : SCHOOLDAYS

11-across – A number jump over the dish : PAELLA

12-across – Exploding mine penetrates dressing and ointment : LINIMENT

13-across – Consequence of 24 seen here? : NEWSPRINT

15-across – Honest heart of masseur taken aback : TRUE

16-across – Tips about religion from puritan? : PRIG

17-across – Fully prepared to take chance on joints in the Home Counties : SHIPSHAPE

21-across – Exclamation about censor impounding king’s bird : COCKATOO

22-across – The ultimate brew: Murphy’s Original Stout : UTMOST

24-across – Renewed vigour making back bend : SECONDWIND

25-across – Bird’s mode of transport : RAIL

26-across – Hide worker’s coin : TANNER

27-across – Many material means of colouring : CRAYON

1-down – Waist or middle about to get floppy : CORSAGE

2-down – Tycoon’s about-turn in chimney : MOGUL

3-down – Paradise Lost – a source of gloom : DESPAIR

5-down – Worn for a reason : GROUND

6-down – Rounded figure to finish up publicity and hype, initially : ENDOMORPH

7-down – Senior member cheated out of cash : DOYENNE

8-down – Kind of hatpin or clip displayed round front of house : PHILANTHROPIS

14-down – Pan’s little chum in cropped fungus : STINKHORN

16-down – Undertaking to stick out : PROJECT

18-down – Turned over record beneath sack : PLUNDER

19-down – Die embracing one’s love : PASSION

20-down – Heavy stuff, say, with little marks coming up : STODGE

23-down – Girl retaining right to join : MARRY

8-across – One that Midas got off the hook? : GOLDFISH

9-across – It leaves refined niceties for female members of the family : NIECES

10-across – Wide smile gives support : BEAM

11-across – Rich and of high standing? : WELLHEELED

12-across – Cannon ball? : POMPOM

14-across – They may support you when you retire in the country : CAMPBEDS

15-across – Identify unpleasant smell – but this won’t cure anything : PLACEBO

17-across – Occasionally imitates assembly after Head had left : ATTIMES

20-across – After drink, sat and thought : SUPPOSED

22-across – Important person gives an extensive lecture : BIGWIG

23-across – Note deficiency: get the governors to provide school equipment : BLACKBOARD

24-across – Book some variety turns : ACTS

25-across – Pubs re-built providing choice : SUPERB

26-across – Young stallholder : CHOIRBOY

1-down – Female takeover for the flower show : ROSEBOWL

2-down – A mother and father figure : ADAM

3-down – Lodge among native Indians : WIGWAM

4-down – Cup of tea left to go cold : CHALLCE

5-down – Where the cat sat in the dog-house : ONTHEMAT

6-down – Like gremlins, be mischievous : RESEMBLING

7-down – Guard is fed up to death : DEFEND

13-down – He has no scruples about impoverishing those that stand by him : PICKPOCKET

16-down – Primate, one born during the last US President’s time in office? : BUSHBABY

18-down – A compulsory turnout : EVICTION

19-down – Further progress : ADVANCE

21-down – Dotty pair from Dôsseldorf : UMLAUT

22-down – A scoundrel not worth bidding for : BADLOT

24-down – Port area : ACRE

1-across – Little heraldic Red Indian’s first ball, maybe given by a dog : GUIDANCE

5-across – Happy on excessive time with odd twos and ones, singer Johnny loses his head – not very cool stuff for appeal on board : PLEASE

9-across – Fanatical coleopterist reported to be chewed up : BETELNUT

10-across – Here and now in time to follow : ATTHIS

12-across – See 5 : THROWSTONES

15-across – See 10 : POINT

17-across – Maples for the One Nation : ACERACEAE

18-across – The English Miss Goddard has it in place of a chip : EPAULETTE

19-across – See 5 : DONOT

20-across – Prisons for soldiers who shouldn’t 12 : GLASSHOUSES

24-across – Legal statement of grievance by one in factory : PLAINT

25-across – Writing after death, I go in to bury a revolutionary : OBITUARY

26-across – See 5 : NOTICE

27-across – Safe shelter in new town : PETERLEE

1-down – Sweet dumbing down : GOBSTOPPER

2-down – Bury alive? In a transitional state from trivial 10 : INTERVITAL

3-down – Shining silver base : AGLOW

4-down – Form of trial: make up to mother before it : COURTMARTIAL

6-down – PM always here, seemingly, with some defamatory remarks on lout culture? : LOTUSLAND

7-down – A revolutionary’s yearning? : ACHE

8-down – How to stand on a chair? No problem : EASY

11-down – Sound of non-commercial lowland prophetess having nothing to be said for it : INDEFENSIBLE

13-down – Best way to hold up pub: everyone for striking, via the net? : TENNISBALL

14-down – Write a succulent article in French with a number of columns : PENTASTYLE

16-down – Lawrence Walker, cine-producer, looking good on the box : TELEGENIC

21-down – Far from normal in the way you treat me : OUTRE

22-down – Frank and actors are mine : OPEN

23-down – See 22 : CAST