Clues

8-across – Someone who never wears out : NATURIST

9-across – They could be involved in a crash : CHARAS

10-across – Girl likely to be heartless : LILY

11-across – Jeweller’s work could make Cornelia rub, etc : GEMCUTTING

12-across – Namely, a hollow red mask : VIZARD

14-across – Speed created when centre of star drops out : CELERITY

15-across – Example of where the stick is thickest : ANAGRAM

17-across – Kind of English issuing from big mouth! : ESTUARY

20-across – Order cream tea? That’s steep! : MACERATE

22-across – Amateur performer of 22 down? : LAYMAN

23-across – Water with jolly blue colour : AQUAMARINE

24-across – Does the dismissed athlete take it running? : JUMP

25-across – Turn off! I’d come back green : DIVERT

26-across – May the small stone change colour? : AMETHYST

1-down – Place at Brighton for retired cricketers : PAVILION

2-down – Girl used in 11 across : RUBY

3-down – Put up horse in frisky ride : RIGGED

4-down – Thomas could first muster up courage for the fight : STOMACH

5-down – Do they weigh on the conscience? : SCRUPLES

6-down – Where an archbishop keeps his books? : CANTERBURY

7-down – Stone I cut from hewn granite : GARNET

13-down – A great egg’s smashed – stuff for the mixer : AGGREGATES

16-down – Diamonds once formed from very hard sulphur : ADAMANTS

18-down – What the highest jumper does at the back? : REARMOST

19-down – Bird crossing the road? : PELICAN

21-down – Leaders of army coup go free : ACQUIT

22-down – I*d reel out art-songs : LIEDER

24-down – The Augustus who painted gents? : JOHN

1-across – See 5 down : FAMILY

5-across – Clumsy splices start with slices : JUMPCUTS

9-across – Could be Sixth Form to politically correct young woman : TOPCLASS

10-across – God of home, family and Hull’s library? : LARKIN

11-across – Silent monkey milked silent cows here! : MILTONKEYNES

13-across – Back English measures to score a duck : SMEE

14-across – So Antony of Brutus finally might lie with gusto : EULOGIST

17-across – Lost memory? One might have a beef here : PASTRAMI

18-across – Dutch Redcoat on board : EDAM

20-across – Get Tom’s goat? That’s the last thing one would do! : PUTOUTTHECAT

23-across – A knight, a wife, a dam : KARIBA

24-across – Hawks often here with swan; not a good combination : PENTAGON

25-across – Truth in failing variety clubs : VERACITY

26-across – This angler knew the score : WALTON

2-down – Desperate as a docked donkey : AMOK

3-down – Vicar, say, enjoys living on immoral earnings, say : INCUMBENT

4-down – Periodical too wise, we hear, to admit a nobleman : YEARLY

5-down – Sibling joy: the takeaway fry-up with Ma, Pa and, perhaps, the 10s or the 26s : JUSTONEBIGHAPPY

6-down – Unblended Scotch left in family oven : MALTKILN

7-down – Primitive cry going out for a takeaway : CURRY

8-down – Bog standard TV drama? I wash my hands of it! : TOILETSOAP

12-down – This conception turned out well : IMMACULATE

15-down – China’s Long March? : GREATWALL

16-down – Singers of the lost generation : CASTRATI

19-down – Concede old ledge added now : ACKNOW

21-down – The other sideboard : OUIJA

22-down – Car ferry’s repeated verbal instructions to the galley : RORO

1-across – Where Luther spoke for the early bird? : THEDIETOFWORMS

9-across – Noisy or sporty criminal? : RACKETEER

10-across – God gives every satisfaction : ALLAH

11-across – Put down Scottish region when returning : ENROL

12-across – Nerve centres of a group with pride? : GANGLIONS

13-across – One going to court and t-tailing off : LITIGANT

14-across – Trick played on relation with seafood : SCAMPI

17-across – He was chiefly responsible for the Egyptian assertion of freedom : NASSER

19-across – Military group with digital bone of tailless marsupial : PHALANGE

22-across – Concerned with the smallest parts of a beast with copper guard : MOLECULAR

24-across – Not the highest place in Wales? : NEATH

25-across – Personal attraction that works : CHARM

26-across – Draw a harlot as a wife? : STALEMATE

27-across – Eyes down and see which pastes act incorrectly : WATCHTHISSPACE

1-down – Runners with their future detailed : THREEBLINDMICE

2-down – Piece taken from river in bar : EXCERPT

3-down – For the theoretician the bad loo guide has a point : IDEOLOGUE

4-down – Mythological work by youth leader on the Goon show : THEOGONY

5-down – Running properly, I get a Beatle to call New York wrongly when embraced by Polly : FIRING

6-down – See 5 : ONALL

7-down – Scottish king of military rank drowned in a lot of wine : MALCOLM

8-down – Dairy product, a cat and mouse affair? : CHESHIRECHEESE

15-down – See 5 : CYLINDERS

16-down – Question of the lost explosive paper in the West Indies : WHEREAMI

18-down – Emperor with a bit of fruit : SULTANA

20-down – Falls back once more on painter : NIAGARA

21-down – Concealed cupboard : CLOSET

23-down – Fellow -1 down to be amusing : COMIC

1-across – One in store dashed round to deliver embroidered satin : SHOPASSISTANT

10-across – One with brain about to become university element : URANIUM

11-across – VIP’s sea travels producing no reaction : PASSIVE

12-across – Exam mostly set in a different place : RESIT

13-across – They have particular interest in the workers! : ANTEATERS

14-across – Get along without power at the seaside : COAST

16-across – Immediately used phone? True! : THEREUPON

18-across – Teachers taking in cut aim mainly for sustenance : NUTRIMENT

19-across – An addition to the spirits is invigorating : TONIC

20-across – Large suit being woven gets slurs : LIGATURES

23-across – The danger of a topper – ill-balanced, etc : PERIL

24-across – Young ladies at Lord’s? : MAIDENS

25-across – Choose one relation to be best : OPTIMUM

26-across – With little warning by the ad? : ATSHORTNOTICE

2-down – Teacher’s sharp boost : HEADSTART

3-down – Aim for a score : POINT

4-down – The doctors sent up in South African dance : SAMBA

5-down – I am one to be treated, but not prepared to wait : IMPATIENT

6-down – The evidence could be old or new : TESTAMENT

7-down – One is in part of church that’s artless : NAIVE

8-down – Light blow shouldn’t affect it : HURRICANELAMP

9-down – London feature holds item in newspaper : NELSONSCOLUMN

15-down – It’s the end for four months : THIRTIETH

16-down – Endlessly tired horse confused speculator : THEORISER

17-down – With a wide view find duck and animal in the grass : PANORAMIC

21-down – Good kind of fabric to sparkle : GLINT

22-down – Demonstrated how between bridge partners : SHOWN

23-down – Some trumpet item of little important in law : PETIT

1-across – New introduction for this, after Papua adopted old UK currency : GUINEA

5-across – One of the Stones appearing worn – affected by the drink? : PEBBLE

8-across – Man following past technique from memory : BYHEART

9-across – Climber can hang on using this, naturally : TENDRIL

11-across – About to switch machines on, rang in case of serious risk : CHANCINGONESARM

12-across – Morse, for example, seen as an embodiment of the law? : CODE

13-across – Scatter when tree, with gale, breaks through this glass? : SASHWINDOW

17-across – Lip gloss? : EFFRONTERY

18-across – Skirt once fashionable area of the south of France : MIDI

20-across – Dismissed for illegally obstructing course of deliveries : LEGBEFOREWICKET

23-across – Minor change in German banking system : PFENNIG

24-across – And then, given a meal, sailor tucks in – invited to sleep here? : SOFABED

25-across – Short of energy and enthusiasm : SPIRIT

26-across – He had a stable job with mounting prospects : OSTLER

2-down – Found out, try to hide, having no previous record : UNHEARDOF

3-down – A source of irritation is lacking shade : NUANCE

4-down – A page in the register of marriages? : ATTENDANT

5-down – Flags laid out in anticipation : PATIO

6-down – It has the highest rating at peak viewing time in Britain : BENNEVIS

7-down – Worker potentially right to interrupt very heated outpouring : LARVA

8-down – It’s supposed to prevent travellers’ bags getting in a snarl-up : BFCYCLECLIP

10-down – Drew limits, worried about first of performers being effeminate : LIMPWRISTED

14-down – Shakespeare character in love – or isn’t he worried? : HORTENSIO

15-down – Pronunciation of oenophilist leaving something to be desired : DRINKABLE

16-down – Calling for father to observe speed restriction : GOVERNOR

19-down – Someone unsuitable as protagonist in filming The Miller’s Tale : MISFIT

21-down – So often urged to make a move, stallion … : GEEUP

22-down – … should note this, making love! : OUGHT