Clues

1-across – Shut up, being intimidated outwardly, in the byre : COWSHED

5-across – Comparatively cheeky hand : FLIPPER

9-across – Marmalade’s jejune, pointless, ridiculous – 2’s trademarks : JAMANDJERUSALEM

10-across – Golfing connections : LINKS

11-across – Ulster was a tease, being foolish : NITWITTED

12-across – Change for a quid at the Flag from drinks : DAIQUIRIS

14-across – His Grace’s related to 2 : DUCAL

15-across – Welles’s Golden Boy : ORSON

16-across – The Jolly Fellow – how gliders ascend : THERMALLY

18-across – PM at Morecambe knew the road to Wigan pier : ERICBLAIR

21-across – One person’s mathematical unit : NEPER

22-across – The base and the elite to start making up? : FOUNDATIONCREAM

23-across – What’s gloomy about me – I can’t concentrate : DREAMER

24-across – Nigel, the writer, takes some damask from the brocade : BALCHIN

1-down – Enticed and inveigled by rotter, pretty one’s gone missing : CAJOLED

2-down – Indications this month I deplore in the Guardian that gave PM a hard time : WOMENSINSTITUTE

3-down – A minimum of work on the clock? : HANDSTURN

4-down – On being taken from the keep I am placed in mustard city : DIJON

5-down – Earnest acknowledgment among the trees at the end : FORETASTE

6-down – Setter’s got his set – buzz off! : IMSHI

7-down – I accept help with soil management, which 2 didn’t like : POLITICALSPEECH

8-down – Stagger round defence ministry to change its structure : REMODEL

13-down – In reference to the drawer, I withdraw : RETRACTOR

14-down – The Lord’s party, a small one, to call for curtailment : DOMINICAL

15-down – Stuffed a complete American policeman : OVERFED

17-down – British policeman who does the marshalling? : YARDMAN

19-down – Advice to girl if ‘er boyfriend’s shy? Turn down the light! : BEDIM

20-down – Take off your homburg and have a lozenge : RHOMB

1-across – : IHAVENTACLUE

8-across – This is for breakfast? Love a duck!, Mark interjected : OATMEAL

9-across – His room is refurbished in a style seen in Spain : MOORISH

11-across – In the middle of the day horse is in shape : NONAGON

12-across – Embassy official loses car certificate : DIPLOMA

13-across – Mistake has tinker guillotined : ERROR

14-across – Dunce is amusing or unruly : IGNORAMUS

16-across – Suspend hospital department? That’s severe! : STRINGENT

19-across – Live wire caught round pole? It can’t be helped! : GONER

21-across – They say a sailor’s offensive : ASSAULT

23-across – Write about mineral in food : PEMICAN

24-across – A seat has nap trimmed by Leo : PILLION

25-across – Charge makes Peter go wild : PROTEGE

26-across – Speaker reserves royal box for arranger : ORCHESTRATOR

1-down – Vocaliser is working in Bury : INTONER

2-down – Nemesis starts to vilify evil-doer in fury : AVENGER

3-down – Rose’s inelegant disposition : EGLANTINE

4-down – Victim I defended is revealed to be fearful : TIMID

5-down – Policeman holding Henry’s egg-beater : CHOPPER

6-down – Even a place of higher eduction has class : UNIFORM

7-down – Cashiers fish from the side of the ditch : COUNTERSCARP

10-down – Analyst leads woman round bowling area : HEADSHRINKER

15-down – Bond to observe hesitation when taking hold of breast : NOTEPAPER

17-down – King holds saint to be a lawbreaker : RUSTLER

18-down – Feed US rhino wrongly : NOURISH

19-down – Footwear and books getting covered with soup : GUMBOOT

20-down – Greek character to vindicate form of energy : NUCLEAR

22-down – Chiton cut short initially in North Africa : TUNIS

1-across – Eyebrow raising writer : PENCIL

5-across – Indecision shows us soft in reason : SUSPENSE

9-across – Type of porcelain food container : EGGSHELL

10-across – Condition of tank, perhaps, after attack from the air : RUSTED

11-across – Magic lantern – a feature of Christmas entertainment? : ALADDINSLAMP

13-across – Classical maid who always had the last word : ECHO

14-across – Not the main road from Spithead : SIDEPATH

17-across – Maybe more cuts will attract one : CUSTOMER

18-across – Potting aids : CUES

20-across – The chairman of the directors could be in deep water : MANOVERBOARD

23-across – Pacific island in which a girl may be found sunbathing : BIKINI

24-across – Deceives more than once : TWOTIMES

25-across – Popular pro : INFAVOUR

26-across – Strain that’s a trifle unexpected : FILTER

2-down – The advantage being sharp gives one : EDGE

3-down – Look round for a way to throw a fight : CASTABOUT

4-down – Tiny raised inlay that may have to be made up : LEEWAY

5-down – Fishmonger having a monopoly? : SOLEDISTRIBUTOR

6-down – Play to the balcony : SERENADE

7-down – Peg-legged supporter of the Arts : EASEL

8-down – The second mate raising the issue? : STEPMOTHER

12-down – Business residence : OCCUPATION

15-down – Punishment escaped by unnamed soldiers : PACKDRILL

16-down – Not a fatal disease, but one I’m to peg out from : IMPETIGO

19-down – Lifting service inaccurate, well out : FAROFF

21-down – Board has positive answers from two European states : OUIJA

22-down – Measure of night-time temperature : METE

8-across – Hog the motorway? Give over! : DOMINATE

9-across – Guided by instinct, did nothing : IDLED

10-across – Find fault with vehicle parking : CARP

11-across – Rang from no great distance : SHORTRANGE

12-across – Narrow Southern characteristic : STRAIT

14-across – In grave recession one’s after a little work to bear fruit : BERGAMOT

15-across – It’s difficult to keep order when she’s about : DEBORAH

17-across – What journalist witnessed is destined for cutting : HACKSAW

20-across – Task covered by worker, a loner : ANCHORET

22-across – Chemical can be made up at shop, … : POTASH

23-across – … remedy for when the wife collapses? : DUTCHDROPS

24-across – The key to higher education? : YALE

25-across – Loner resolved to join : ENROL

26-across – 100% green product may cause unhealthy reaction : ALLERGEN

1-down – Theologian no go at operatic work : IOLANTHE

2-down – Pander to a sanctimonious politician : PIMP

3-down – Fool gets involved in gamble over a dog : BASSET

4-down – Soldiers lack faith in defence : REDOUBT

5-down – End of the line for the House of Hanover : VICTORIA

6-down – Where to get a cheap jumper? : FLEAMARKET

7-down – Soldier makes love with a girl in a leisurely way : ADAGIO

13-down – A drug he’s no right to carry? : APOTHECARY

16-down – Dog needs a top class leader for training : AIREDALE

18-down – Jack you may forgive : ABSOLVER

19-down – Turkish test included in Western alliance set-up : OTTOMAN

21-down – Some nasty turn on the briny? : NAUSEA

22-down – Soft steel being flexible, it needs mortar : PESTLE

24-down – But there are more than three flat feet here : YARD

1-across – Turned out a casual shirt – bored with it : ATTIRED

5-across – Hole in dilapidated car giving rise to complaint : CHOLERA

9-across – A large barrel is used in making port : TUNIS

10-across – Account presented for amending testament : STATEMENT

11-across – Occasions when children may not be choosy : ELECTIONS

12-across – Taking a drink about four is vital : ALIVE

13-across – To make oneself look good – conventional – quiet : PRIMP

15-across – Promptitude in installing audio equipment around bars : EARLINESS

18-across – Others die off, so it’s supposed : THEORISED

19-across – Midnight, with nothing on hand : GLOVE

21-across – A country not fancied by many : REALM

23-across – Tending to effect some improvement? : TREATMENT

25-across – Snappy devil, a social worker, has to join in! : IMPATIENT

26-across – The beast overturning everything to a certain degree : LLAMA

27-across – Figure Diana, a sheepish creature, will accept silver : DIAGRAM

28-across – Particular concerning parking in school environs : RESPECT

1-down – An ass in the city : ANTWERP

2-down – Taste with obvious hesitation popular oriental fruit : TANGERINE

3-down – Note the party is to be corrected : RESET

4-down – Records about past finds : DISCOVERS

5-down – Guys making cracks : CHAPS

6-down – Working rep got in a muddle : OPERATING

7-down – Some species of laurel emit this fragrant resin : ELEMI

8-down – A number with long hair will take part : ACTRESS

14-down – Circumference of a Middle Eastern spirit measure : PERIMETER

16-down – A barker plainly embarrassed the crossword composer! : REDSETTER

17-down – No longer in accord over a charge, that’s clear : EXONERATE

18-down – Tardier characters idly hung around : TARRIED

20-down – Draw for use of spare court : EXTRACT

22-down – A Grecian fashion : ALPHA

23-down – With the final change there’s a certain amount of heat : THERM

24-down – A slut fractured her ankle : TALUS