Clues

1-across – Primate attaining high degree in military headgear : BUSHBABY

5-across – Game for a drink? : SQUASH

9-across – Source of happiness, as one would rather not be addressed? : SUNSHINE

10-across – Fire wildly at the establishment, showing aggression : FIERCE

12-across – Top mark for a folly put into a certain order : ALPHABETISE

15-across – Treats icy roads with cereal? : GRITS

17-across – Man of low degree, a disappointment to the flag : JACKFROST

18-across – Confine mortal men affected with errors instead of omissions : ENTRAMMEL

19-across – See through one making great strides : LOPER

20-across – Tax on everyone causes unnecessary worry : OVERANXIETY

24-across – This ____, 26, 10, and 13-ing being – 17 dancing 1 down in the 9 : BRIGHT

25-across – Devil in disguise – you start acting like God : DIVINELY

26-across – Quick! The doctor’s in the river! : NIMBLE

27-across – Was there and listened : ATTENDED

1-down – Brilliant report about telepathy took precedence : BESPANGLED

2-down – Way to sit on horse’s back with Matthew, Mark and Luke : SYNOPTISTS

3-down – Tea taken by the motorway out of the Prague area : BOHEA

4-down – Cake for horse, pullover for bouncer : BUNGEEJUMPER

6-down – A lot of children doing a lot of trembling? : QUIVERFUL

7-down – Ethereal spirit, not female at first : AIRY

8-down – Despicable person’s sole companion : HEEL

11-down – Bonds boss is a musician entertaining an editor of diverse pieces : MISCELLANIST

13-down – Grasp a fellow member and set her up at last : COMPREHEND

14-down – Idealistic, wanting to be supported without w-whiskey : STARRYEYED

16-down – I like the Eastern European building posh villa : SLAVOPHIL

21-down – Mysterious document making the flexi- flexible? : XFILE

22-down – Veto on love in Campbelltown? : OBAN

23-down – Reliable business? : FIRM

1-across – Pulls out table extensions : LEAVES

4-across – Archers play in this morning game : AMBRIDGE

9-across – He admires neatly-turned leg in the outskirts of Ongar : OGLER

10-across – Staff bend to clear the bar in it? : POLEVAULT

11-across – Policy of having people isolated, hide being different : APARTHEID

12-across – Bar popular withsculptor : RODIN

13-across – Announcements made when there are enough on the board : DECLARATIONS

17-across – Faithful in reproduction, we hear : HIGHFIDELITY

20-across – Airhead, I would take Greek letter unfinished : IDIOT

21-across – This is found to be less habit-forming : ESTABLISH

23-across – Fitter turning lathe here in Germany : HEALTHIER

24-across – Some unpleasant radiotherapy for the sinuses : ANTRA

25-across – It shows how far ‘e motored, roughly : ODOMETER

26-across – Set price of heraldic design : CHARGE

1-down – Old rates, if exchanged, might be tight on one : LEOTARDS

2-down – Trifling, and losing head, can lead to marriage : ALLIANCE

3-down – Bird to deplore having lost head : EGRET

5-down – Trim ladies’ man, possibly, to bungle things : MALADMINISTER

6-down – Great respect for clergyman’s address : REVERENCE

7-down – Priests acted around Rugby and succeeded : DRUIDS

8-down – Navigational aid, with top missing, is still in use : EXTANT

10-down – Hunt, say, for brother in art school? : PRERAPHAELITE

14-down – Peripatetic teacher from Plato’s Academy : ARISTOTLE

15-down – Threatening what was left to Caesar : SINISTER

16-down – Stop for the last carriage : LYCHGATE

18-down – Expression of compliance, almost trendy? : RIGHTO

19-down – Spitfire with area inside a constellation : VIRAGO

22-down – Small bay overlooking every single shore : BEACH

1-across – Broken car phone in Escort : CHAPERON

5-across – Thief’s unusual charm : FETISH

9-across – Touching display of regal appreciation : ACCOLADE

10-across – Season well : SPRING

11-across – Result of strikes in the metal industry : CLANGOUR

12-across – Fiction project about Shakespearean heroine : JULIET

14-across – Summarised and withdrawn : ABSTRACTED

18-across – A fight, but nobody is charged : FREEFORALL

22-across – A fighting man, I go to join up : SOLDER

23-across – Encourages a boy to have a light meal : EGGSALAD

24-across – Agree to take the throne : ACCEDE

25-across – Books for the opera : LIBRETTI

26-across – Possibly run and see to make certain : ENSURE

27-across – Presumably he was prepared for his main tasks : SEASCOUT

1-down – Risk not completing part of the church : CHANCE

2-down – A king can’t recollect trigonometrical function : ARCTAN

3-down – It may be said to be highly complimentary : EULOGY

4-down – Rare biblical book required to make up a set, perhaps : ODDNUMBERS

6-down – Organising Sue’s opal wedding : ESPOUSAL

7-down – Begin to explain what I did at the restaurant : INITIATE

8-down – Top rise forecast for seamen : HIGHTIDE

13-down – One growing up in a cave : STALAGMITE

15-down – Where prompt action is requested : OFFSTAGE

16-down – Inferior tufts of horsehair : FETLOCKS

17-down – The culprit’s proposal about the outcome : OFFENDER

19-down – Extra large flag featuring Egyptian god : OSIRIS

20-down – Open bottle before the game, get drunk : BLOTTO

21-down – One habitually taking things did wrong in law : ADDICT

1-across – Cheats to hold on to bloodsuckers? Nonsense! : FIDDLESTICKS

8-across – Any number unwell? Could be catching! : NAILING

9-across – Boast more than this: not in back-to-front dress : OUTBRAG

11-across – More vacant English MP goes to the bank : EMPTIER

12-across – The French man at wedding needing space : LEGROOM

13-across – Gaelic girl wants jazz music after a moment : MORAG

14-across – They watch old boy taking on tennis players : OBSERVERS

16-across – Stupid twit did me wrong : DIMWITTED

19-across – Retiring Josephine dipped into dry Spanish wine : RIOJA

21-across – To say more is supported by this essayist : ADDISON

23-across – The ABC of literature? : LETTERS

24-across – I surrender, says fielder with new cap : YIELDER

25-across – Bangle I smashed: what language! : BENGALI

26-across – Racecourse leveller gets giant rat moving : STARTINGGATE

1-down – Hand of airman moving round very quietly : FLIPPER

2-down – Forceful doctor, one no good after six : DRIVING

3-down – Gruel, a lot, revived drunken hooligan : LAGERLOUT

4-down – Sacks turned over in this armless chair : STOOL

5-down – A complete entity would make it green : INTEGER

6-down – Musical entertainment, The Ring, accepted by a king and a libertine : KARAOKE

7-down – Go-between is to bury me with a journal : INTERMEDIARY

10-down – Potter’s Field! : GAMESMANSHIP

15-down – Pouch holds joint of meat given to ugly woman : SADDLEBAG

17-down – Indiana’s here, where dew and mist are mingled : MIDWEST

18-down – How to cook pork, we hear, for a man in clique : INSIDER

19-down – Do a turn, dancing round, in circular building : ROTUNDA

20-down – Reporting a hundred short, no longer useful : OVERAGE

22-down – Italian architect from a greener village : NERVI

1-across – Teaspoon preference to hand. Oh for no trouble brewing like this! : ONEFOR

5-across – Bigot of the Right is caught in the act : RACIST

8-across – Bowled one eccentric, one rum : BACARDI

9-across – It’s gross to confess one’s over the hill : GROWNUP

11-across – See 1 : ANDONEFORTHEPOT

12-across – Hank employed from this wolly strand : KEMP

13-across – See 1 : EACHPERSON

17-across – Lack money to enter the Order of Rechabites … : ABSTINENCE

18-across – … order a Rechabite initially might give to a Persian wine-lover : OMAR

20-across – 11 not 1,000 Hong Kong cups, alas, smashed : LAPSANGSOUCHONG

23-across – Educated woman gets out of bed for such cheese : RICOTTA

24-across – Dress with the end let out : RAIMENT

25-across – Bit of a Bloomer Arising : FLORET

26-across – Genetically modify a mongrel without a sign of energy : MUTATE

2-down – Pharisee was just mendacious, not a twister : NICODEMUS

3-down – Meal a Six Counties service sent up : FARINA

4-down – Check puncture and bearing, then restonre the pressure : REINFLATE

5-down – He’s understood to have relations : ROGER

6-down – Tradesperson: one dividing clergy and monarch : CLOTHIER

7-down – when the students rise? : SUNUP

8-down – So the unions would ban Norman? That’s criminal! : BLACKMAILER

10-down – Add runs among the crew to rectify : PUTONERIGHT

14-down – Weight displacing the cargo mark : HECTOGRAM

15-down – Nodding off in the Cowes road? A thousand times no! : SOMNOLENT

16-down – The end of the pier show around this column : PILASTER

19-down – Ad libs are not in it! : SCRIPT

21-down – Olympic ultimatum has weight in China : PICUL

22-down – One hand in glove in France with Ulysses : GRANT