1-across – Thus dramatic ending, given bathroom feature amid saucy sin, turning to see Psycho! : SOCIOPATH

6-across – Wimp relieved himself? : WEED

10-across – Hero’s back, wise and brave : OSAGE

11-across – Part-timers like a TV broadcast that’s descriptive of 16 : TALKATIVE

12-across – Matches unstable tip in shafts of wood : CUPTIES

13-across – Swashbuckler finds 6 behind bed, topless : IVANHOE

14-across – Famous Brazilian goes round the county carrying fat South American plant : ELEPHANTGRASS

17-across – Novel : CASHDISPENSER

21-across – French city or town Austrian leader captured : ORLEANS

22-across – Masterstroke, a mighty blow; then permit the answer so! : COUPLET

24-across – Backing provided to pickpocket during bloody swift military action : RAPIDFIRE

25-across – Uniform has to come clean : LEVEL

26-across – Hemingway’s artist : EMIN

27-across – King retired in wrong residence, without study, one works out : EXERCISER

1-down – Singer of Very Hot Day : SCORCHER

2-down – Reportedly 26 not very good, a pain : CRAMP

3-down – Rolling Stones thing and their regular performances of Satisfaction? : ONENIGHTSTANDS

4-down – Craftsman’s prejudiced when penniless : ARTISAN

5-down – German woman almost consumes leg portion : HELPING

7-down – Yes! His revolting seed entered the pineal gland : EPIPHYSIS

8-down – Hamburgers avoided by this German man? : DIETER

9-down – Third World country incapable, with urban sprawl : BANANAREPUBLIC

15-down – Examples of antipodean growth in European Union state: awful pity : EUCALYPTI

16-down – Blethering person finds Lib-Dem policy by Labour PM not quite right : PRATTLER

18-down – Undeterred by river, gently rain collected : DESPITE

19-down – Bury on southeast island : SECRETE

20-down – Iconic American, sadly no more … : MONROE

23-down – … however, Elvis ____! : LIVES

1-across – Designed, say, double line of casual dress : NEGLIGEE

5-across – Across the Pond, a serviceman pinches backside of 24 player : AGASSI

9-across – Eight bells for lout reversing into doorpost? On the contrary : BOBMAJOR

10-across – Drink and drug covered with mud : CLARET

11-across – The return of The Tablet in the Water is a treat : LOLLIPOP

12-across – A Baptist at the Plough : DIPPER

14-across – Old Man Lot embraces girl and boy : FATHERTIME

18-across – Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill : PROPITIATE

22-across – Martin, perhaps, receiving Edward’s treatment : REMEDY

23-across – Roman god takes country back for an old penny : DENARIUS

24-across – Game that’s lost from the Naughty Nineties : TENNIS

25-across – Elected to occupy safe position of no responsibility : SINECURE

26-across – A fierce investigator back in the Counter-Reformation : FERRET

27-across – Subversive publication gives support to a fool : AGITPROP

1-down – Sexy Greek character’s ill humour : NUBILE

2-down – What turkeys do to wolf? : GOBBLE

3-down – Type of It Girl lacking energy : ITALIC

4-down – Electronic list conceals Arab’s strong desire : EROTOMANIA

6-down – Gadabout left romancer at dance : GALLIARD

7-down – They’re highly placed in samphire cultivation : SERAPHIM

8-down – Entertain without a novel means of communication : INTERNET

13-down – Confess accommodating man said to be mad is traumatic : SHATTERING

15-down – Stimulant to copy note into range : APERITIF

16-down – One wants a title to be less unusual : COMMONER

17-down – Writer about wood and forest hazard : WILDFIRE

19-down – The final word in the officer’s dirge : LAMENT

20-down – Intelligence in Egyptian town centre obliterated by booze : LIQUOR

21-down – Inactive snake takes shelter : ASLEEP

9-across – Pit workers with soldiers joining revolutionary’s art movement : ORCHESTRA

10-across – Sound horse? On the contrary, no sound : NEIGH

11-across – Actor with heart of gold and one rival : OLIVIER

12-across – Society’s impressed by one magnifying view on bussing : OSCULAR

13-across – The duty of the sexton? : TOLL

14-across – Develop characters, say, with a Spanish wordsmith : LOPEDEVEGA

16-across – Grave robber’s introduction into undead East End rabble : EARNEST

17-across – Elemental prophet and emperor, one and the same externally : ANEROID

19-across – Beyond one’s remit to reconcile true rivals : ULTRAVIRES

22-across – An admirer of cockney belles, do we hear? : BEAU

24-across – Self-reliant girl died sadly : UNAIDED

25-across – Radio detector in the maze of television : CRYSTAL

26-across – Rate Ben Adam’s bearing : ABUSE

27-across – Hardly a hot tip for the highest objective? : NORTHPOLE

1-down – Make, say, a vain attempt to nobble The Weakest Link : GOFORTHEJUGULAR

2-down – Wallenstein his s-spine-tingler : SCHILLER

3-down – Lamb departs before she cooks it? : DELIA

4-down – Guinness collection perhaps included Sally : STARTOUT

5-down – Firmly wears the breeches, then ‘e holds your britches as an alternative : HASONE

6-down – Talent broken reed spent : KNACKERED

7-down – Holiday in the can : BILLIE

8-down – See 5 : SHORTANDCURLIES

15-down – Actor wrapped up with one the French had : DEPARDIEU

17-down – Romance left abandoned in the wheat : AMELCORN

18-down – Rode down naked? O, all right! : OVERTOOK

20-down – Storm centre that’s part of the service : TEACUP

21-down – Time to conclude home study mark : INDENT

23-down – See 5 : BYTHE