Clues

1-across – It enables one to cross without being seen : SECRETBALLOT

8-across – Charges put region back : AERATES

9-across – Needs to set points out : DENOTES

11-across – Recording start of the sport of kings : TRACING

12-across – Competitor, presumably not an outsider : ENTRANT

13-across – Keen, exercising for vault : CRYPT

14-across – Acts die in variety shows : INDICATES

16-across – Upset at closing, remembering happier times? : NOSTALGIC

19-across – Mother is surrounded by sailors taking turn for a dance : SAMBA

21-across – Appeal – and how the umpire may react? : CALLOUT

23-across – One may peg out playing it : CROQUET

24-across – A sign that visitors aren’t welcome : NOENTRY

25-across – Meet and collide : RUNINTO

26-across – Rest centre or new meeting place in town : STREETCORNER

1-down – Bacon’s lines may be so described : STREAKY

2-down – Mouse catcher not yet used in the plant : CATMINT

3-down – Happy-go-lucky midshipman goes on leave : EASYGOING

4-down – Device that’s defective, for example, is rejected : BADGE

5-down – Involved in a cult that’s crazy : LUNATIC

6-down – Not at home with shy, rejected person : OUTCAST

7-down – Innocent chap in trouble driven to take away furniture : PANTECHNICON

10-down – A challenging demand : SATISFACTION

15-down – Pack freight in view on board : DECKCARGO

17-down – Obvious way to get round the foreigner : SALIENT

18-down – Messenger has a job getting in beer : APOSTLE

19-down – Juries are wrong to admit being exhausted : SWORNIN

20-down – He is sorry for one who is late : MOURNER

22-down – Meeting in the course of a country stroll : TRYST

1-across – A man for all seasons? : SPICER

5-across – Fascination of ecclesiastical body with weaponry : CHARMS

8-across – Put duck back in pot, for it’s on the house : ROOFTOP

9-across – West gets around in Wales : MAESTEG

11-across – The Queen! – toast in fashion in Belgravia : VICTORIASTATION

12-across – Scoff, perhaps, at 11 : RAIL

13-across – Paperback about awful stench near Salford : MANCHESTER

17-across – Unpopular beat for coppers? : ESTATEDUTY

18-across – Coca Cola’s method of seeking a contract? : ACOL

20-across – Women tend to be erratic with course of action for long-term provision : ENDOWMENTPOLICY

23-across – Regret over Rome’s destruction : REMORSE

24-across – A painter is comparatively smart … : NATTIER

25-across – … but his rejected output shrinking and worthless : TRASHY

26-across – Officer on unknown outpost : COLONY

2-down – Outlaw professional writing : PROSCRIPT

3-down – Fruit – a hag almost swallows it : CITRON

4-down – Traveller goes over the brink and gets the rap : REPRIMAND

5-down – Albert, writer of Tree Climbing : CAMUS

6-down – A girl gets old without the means : AVERAGES

7-down – Saul’s clan involved in numerous matrimonial disputes : MATRI

8-down – Constable’s qualification, for example, is helpful to drivers : REVERSEGEAR

10-down – Common stainer – with Punjabi blood? : GENERALDYER

14-down – What the doctor ordered after Tom became morbidly inflexible : CATATONIC

15-down – Schemer’s play opening in strange antic : TACTICIAN

16-down – They may investigate race matters : STEWARDS

19-down – Hood left over the door : PORTAL

21-down – It’s almost modest to hesitate : DEMUR

22-down – The old soldiers held up their adversary : ENEMY

1-across – Be provoked to complain, implying Get stuffed! : HAVEABELLYFUL

10-across – Sorting out our place, right, in a bit of a flap? : OPERCULAR

11-across – An opening for consumers’ input : MOUTH

12-across – Writer on card-games shows how to finish play in awkward situation : HOYLE

13-across – Tired with this, suggested getting drunk? : EMOTIONAL

14-across – Pained expression recalled: I seem undone! : WOEISME

16-across – Browse, finding horse I’d back first : DIPINTO

18-across – Could you 1, 8, 26, or take 9 to get like this? : OVERFED

20-across – What’s the matter with woman called back in for tragic lover’s role? : PYRAMUS

21-across – What 5 was likely to do – something startling : EYEOPENER

23-across – Start neglecting a meal… : LUNCH

24-across – … just a little, after officer appears over the eight? : OCTAD

25-across – Cooking our meat, it may be a useful facility : AUTOTIMER

26-across – Indulge in conspicuous consumption? : EATLIKEAHORSE

2-down – Gas provides volatile, yet clean, energy : ACETYLENE

3-down – Master of Ceremonies has become more expansive, after being taken short! : EMCEE

4-down – Have faith in credit : BELIEVE

5-down – Old test cricketer, fat, entering court : LARWOOD

6-down – Having given up my pork, I organised Jewish festival : YOMKIPPUR

7-down – Go about making a complete change of policy : UTURN

8-down – He’s got to overcome complete pig and never be discouraged : GOTHEWHOLEHOG

9-down – As a matter of pride, perhaps, expecting more than anyone else : THELIONSSHARE

15-down – Don’t be pushy, so broadsheet has to tout broadcast : SOFTPEDAL

17-down – Be specific, identifying at least three celebrities : NAMENAMES

19-down – 16 about boy brought up in Irish town : DUNDALK

20-down – Brief part of text that mostly describes types of bread : PARATHA

22-down – Run taking seconds? : EXTRA

23-down – Release constructive kids’ toy – about time! : LETGO

7-across – Gun company occupied by receiver : FIREARM

8-across – Just say I am in a French resort : MENTION

10-across – You may find night-fliers hanging about in it : BELFRY

11-across – Kept quiet : RESERVED

12-across – Sort of break on the turntable? : DISC

13-across – Madrid is in her itinerary, but part can be cut off : DISINHERIT

14-across – Controversial, but continues to rebuild : CONTENTIOUS

19-across – Fresh start for an old scholar? : CLEANSLATE

22-across – Expensive address : DEAR

23-across – Telephone system put in new Citroen on motorway : INTERCOM

24-across – Stampede over the long grass : ONRUSH

25-across – Cotton on a reel is in a tangle : REALISE

26-across – Supreme general : OVERALL

1-down – A place of current conflict : TIDERIP

2-down – It may provide a smoke ring that’s unequalled : PERFECTO

3-down – Extremely ragged : FRAYED

4-down – He has broken links with one foreign capital : HELSINKI

5-down – Lack bite? : STARVE

6-down – Company doctor is amusing when in theatre : COMEDIC

9-down – Give a Royal Marine’s guard order to salute : PRESENTARMS

15-down – Two trials setting a precedent : TESTCASE

16-down – How one may serve as subordinate member : UNDERARM

17-down – Soft soap and a face-cloth : FLANNEL

18-down – Medicine used by astronauts? : CAPSULE

20-down – Gaoled drunken ancient : AGEOLD

21-down – Develop and go round topless : EVOLVE

1-across – Dark colour around the motorway is rock : PUMICE

4-across – Note, for example, increase and work out takings : CASHUP

9-across – Slight stain : SLUR

10-across – Having drunk tots, miscue and produce strain : SETTOMUSIC

11-across – Girl taking turn round island in slow movement : ADAGIO

12-across – Still, yen in exchange is superficially attractive : TINSELLY

13-across – Being initiated, somehow we think on : INTHEKNOW

15-across – Bring back tackle with young fish : DORY

16-across – Fairy in super Iolanthe production : PERI

17-across – Criticism follows when I replace you, they say, in the organisation : STRICTURE

21-across – Sack man, reversing position : DISPLACE

22-across – Travelling case for one taking part in dance : VALISE

24-across – Worked on tyres even – and exercised with weights : PUMPEDIRON

25-across – Drop a small weight : DRAM

26-across – Distribute gin, perhaps, by a ship : ASSIGN

27-across – Air point of view : ASPECT

1-down – Following father, Linda turns out a champion : PALADIN

2-down – Lady doctor’s rowdy celebration : MORAG

3-down – Hats : CASSOCK

5-down – Flourish with a bounce : ABOUND

6-down – Where one lives only on water? : HOUSEBOAT

7-down – Man, say, enters into wage pattern : PAISLEY

8-down – Up-to-the-minute condition of gallery’s work : STATEOFTHEART

14-down – Hearty dances? : HORNPIPES

16-down – Precise, if shapeless, formula produces something flowery : PRIMULA

18-down – Makes up in passages : INVENTS

19-down – Bird, not dead, to take on new life : RESTART

20-down – Pet to lick tail? : LAPDOG

23-down – Ridge was in front, for example, when climbing : LEDGE