Clues

1-across – Opens doors with a tiny movement, being graceful : DAINTY

4-across – One forgets to become one : AMNESIAC

9-across – From south of France article arrives here : SUDAN

10-across – Hand green form to traveller : PASSENGER

11-across – Chief gets Jaguar car, an original model : ARCHETYPE

12-across – Heading for the French bird first : TITLE

13-across – Northern comedian not worried about disapproval : CONDEMNATION

17-across – Mean to clout boxer : MIDDLEWEIGHT

20-across – Love the same old city smell : ODOUR

21-across – Horse Neil trained by the water’s edge : SHORELINE

23-across – George found car with very good allowance : AUTOPILOT

24-across – Recommend removing front of hoist : RAISE

25-across – Respectful gestures making us cry, set off : CURTSEYS

26-across – Book him, say, having lost one nail : HYMNAL

1-down – Hop round first gap : DISTANCE

2-down – Poor Enid takes very little US money gross : INDECENT

3-down – Strained to see numbers on key : TENSE

5-down – Girl and journalist both ate out and lost the opportunity : MISSEDTHEBOAT

6-down – Conductor may choose soldier to take party back : ELECTRODE

7-down – Work inside in back-street bars : INGOTS

8-down – Rush job? : CAREER

10-down – Salary joiner gets to veneer parking sign? : PAYANDDISPLAY

14-down – Could be his paper taking note of inscriptions : EPIGRAPHS

15-down – Serviceman stands in it on repairing firing system : IGNITION

16-down – Heavenly present in a case of mixed ale! : ETHEREAL

18-down – Doctor returned as in charge of Moses : MOSAIC

19-down – Bill for advertising? : POSTER

22-down – Spike left to meet youth leader in good time : EARLY

9-across – Bloodless victory followed by English hock? : WHITEWINE

10-across – Keep away from a vacuum : AVOID

11-across – Never-ending Christmas includes my favourite : NOMINEE

12-across – This address caters for love on the allotment : ORATION

13-across – Winter has not yet started in Bury : INTER

14-across – Football team, one short, walks heavily – 3 : TENPOUNDS

16-across – Jerome’s fluvial classic : THREEMENINABOAT

19-across – Naughty girlie love attracts us, being divine! : RELIGIOUS

21-across – Doctor gets on phone for roadside accommodation : MOTEL

22-across – I take books from the mess at Chelsea : SATCHEL

23-across – Maybe a gull could be braised : SEABIRD

24-across – Result in charming words : SPELL

25-across – Singing and dancing and how to follow beats : FLOORSHOW

1-down – Crook keeps insurance for close relative : TWINSISTER

2-down – A straight line, so I am kept in check : DIAMETER

3-down – Note milk-curdler is overturned : TENNER

4-down – Very small, subtle penalty : FINE

5-down – No false bid concocted for difficult job : BEDOFNAILS

6-down – Womaniser hiding in bottomless barrel reaching for a star : CASANOVA

7-down – You? Forward? The idea! : NOTION

8-down – Sir Anthony’s garden : EDEN

14-down – Cunningly offer elite symbol of immortality : TREEOFLIFE

15-down – Sit comfortably, finding feathers under the bench : SETTLEDOWN

17-down – Tread softly on this breakfast dish with anguish : EGGSHELL

18-down – Entirely unconscious, needing remedy : OUTRIGHT

20-down – Character has sly look when holding Tourist Trophy : LETTER

21-down – Thin silver found in lake : MEAGRE

22-down – Mediocre female pigs without tails : SOSO

23-down – Male child consumes duck quickly : SOON

1-across – See 12 : MODIFIED

5-across – Shakespeare gave her a dream lover. Her mother grabbed one too! : HERMIA

9-across – Remains of course herein for the setter? : DOGGYBAG

10-across – Shakespeare’s spritely ruler? : OBERON

12-across – Doubtful apology scientific meddler makes for growth in experiments : GENETICALLY

15-across – With backing, shoots in the foot – typical! : SERIF

17-across – Second son, sadly devoured by two of the French fish : LEMONSOLE

18-across – Might amount to a model worker : AUTOMATON

19-across – See 12 : CROPS

20-across – Solicitor, going to pieces internally, but repeatedly pressing one’s case : TROTTINGOUT

24-across – Shakespeare’s Northumberland is reverting to an electoral division : SIWARD

25-across – Shakespeare’s chamberlain, so solemn faced, left one to shoulder the burden : POLONIUS

26-across – Shakespearian king is able to press for a replacement : DUNCAN

27-across – Stuffing that need not get out of the kitchen? : ASBESTOS

1-down – Where lemurs come from wild ranges with endless attention : MADAGASCAR

2-down – Rising separatists broke faith and lost soul : DEGENERATE

3-down – Attack unknown intruder in one’s pad? : FLYAT

4-down – Cut on a male is resulting in this! : EMASCULATION

6-down – Like one unborn, or one born with no mercy treatment : EMBRYONIC

7-down – Utopian encore! : MORE

8-down – Relative ‘abitat of coot or hern : AUNT

11-down – Strangely silent, I love to collect mina droppings : ELIMINATIONS

13-down – All for one person : MONOPOLIST

14-down – Prepares for a reaction when sit-ins fail to split the dioceses… : SENSITISES

16-down – … or TU mafia members in smoke-filled rooms : FUMATORIA

21-down – Ancient blubber and bone one processed : NIOBE

22-down – Guardian leader exploited : USED

23-down – Schubert”s Wanderer from this pen? : SWAN

9-across – Araucaria’s other name – Cinephile, distributed elsewhere : CHILEPINE

10-across – Fidelio’s 17 – one concocted left inside as a criminal : FELON

11-across – Something Rover perpetrated – all at sea? : ROBBERY

12-across – Rules out going Dutch in this case : LAWSUIT

13-across – Patience needed to find alternative for one of Bunthorne’s : BRIDE

14-across – Person summoned – one to enter solution of eg Hendra’s missing Down : GARNISHEE

16-across – This expression of appreciation has been given the nod : ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

19-across – The two-facedness of Janus? : DUPLICITY

21-across – Taupi’s 17 and two thirds of Mercury generate some heat : THERM

22-across – Does Rufus sometimes substitute his second definition? : WILLIAM

23-across – Juggled with letters, cluing this fish : STERLET

24-across – Recalled shorter answer, stuck with leading pair from Audreus, in the bath! : SAUNA

25-across – One vital point put over about Don Pasquale’s last pain-killer? : IBUPROFEN

1-down – Angry about Chifonie’s 17? Then get on, seeing state of play : SCOREBOARD

2-down – Publish second-rate load of corn? It may obviate stuffiness! : AIRBRICK

3-down – Have great respect for Paul, perhaps : REVERE

4-down – Cunning 1 and 17 of Logodaedalus – why disheartened about those? : WILY

5-down – Rocking cradle during delay, lacking a way to be assertive : DECLAREDLY

6-down – Orlando’s latest? Fine – whack in few varied with hint of colour : OFFWHITE

7-down – Source of despondency, nowhere near completing Shed : SLOUGH

8-down – The 17 puzzle by Gordius? : KNOT

14-down – Type of verse having most of scope in French : GALLIAMBIC

15-down – Having to guess when Enigmatist gets out of order! : ESTIMATING

17-down – First description of Manchester appearing as Guardian’s leader : ORIGINAL

18-down – Sounded as if they are in agreement and went in order to look : EYESLEFT

20-down – One from Gemini? : POLLUX

21-down – Some ideas associated with Quantum? : THEORY

22-down – A little bit hazy with middle bit of Crispa and Plodge’s 17 : WISP

23-down – Tailpiece – recollect Custos, so sadly missed : SCUT

8-across – Goebbel’s line so differs from this considerate attitude to the masses : NOBLESSE

9-across – See 8 : OBLIGE

10-across – Occupied vehicle comes to three-way junction : BUSY

11-across – Attraction offered by Mussolini and soldiers in international setting : INDUCEMENT

12-across – Wild animal you mostly found invading bird shelter? : COYOTE

14-across – A lamp, etc may be part of a table arrangement : PLACEMAT

15-across – Hard weed to find around City area : HECTARE

17-across – Wickedness? What’s boring about wickedness? : DEVILRY

20-across – Cheap accommodation always in part of journey : STEERAGE

22-across – Drink can go cold sitting about : COGNAC

23-across – Wrecking fun, I’m cruel and pitiless : UNMERCIFUL

24-across – A bit about what statisticians collect : DATA

25-across – Trick to get behind river bird : FALCON

26-across – Military unit’s second man holding court : SQUADRON

1-down – Organ – awfully loud inside – with knobs : NODULOSE

2-down – Old fighter beginning to clout with left always : CLAY

3-down – Sitting according to measurements : ASSIZE

4-down – Choose to pursue study and choose again : READOPT

5-down – Secret meeting offering opposing line in chamber : CONCLAVE

6-down – Being inattentive, leaving junk in grass : SLUMBERING

7-down – Girl carrying information on list of items : AGENDA

13-down – Magisterial as a substitute? : ONTHEBENCH

16-down – Fresh, as in new upward advance : REASCENT

18-down – Response to drug may get one into care, perhaps : REACTION

19-down – City that needs to be left secure : BELFAST

21-down – Headgear that keeps in fashion : TINHAT

22-down – A foot problem? We’d like to hear from you : CALLUS

24-down – Repeated encouragement from reactionary person : DODO