1-across – Town council carried advertising : SANDWICHBOARD

10-across – Harsh covering for gully : GRATING

11-across – Widespread custom after the port : DIFFUSE

12-across – Discover good side in heel : LEARN

13-across – Itinerant itinerants lose one itinerant : TRANSIENT

14-across – Lucifer’s equal : MATCH

16-across – Is over Midge Ure’s autograph : SIGNATURE

18-across – Land of Hope? : RURITANIA

19-across – In glee I derry down : EIDER

20-across – Structural geology, etc wasted stimulants : TECTONICS

23-across – Further society’s conventions : MORES

24-across – Queen replaces one in drug work : OPERATE

25-across – Place to inspire or heal, I suspect : AIRHOLE

26-across – Purge over-excited fool within time limits : DECONTAMINATE

2-down – Mineral tar as medium of exchange : ALABASTER

3-down – Think fit to speak European : DEIGN

4-down – Bar entered the other way round : INGOT

5-down – Head angry about bloomer : HYDRANGEA

6-down – Obscure order about female puma from America, perhaps : OBFUSCATE

7-down – Wake up – turn in – got up : ROUSE

8-down – Silver-r! See me share large pile : AGGLOMERATION

9-down – Drink Irishman tipped inside escort’s footwear : BEETLECRUSHER

15-down – A cooking problem? : HOTPOTATO

16-down – Male’s subconscious feeling? : SENTIMENT

17-down – Sole place for subjection : UNDERFOOT

21-down – Fabric of cloth in church : CREPE

22-down – Butter up quartermistress : SMARM

23-down – Fool’s gold’s seen midday : MORON

1-across – Disparage actors as characters – myself included : CASTASPERSIONS

9-across – Side taken by 7 view : NEITHER

10-across – Metal is found in thumbscrew : BISMUTH

11-across – Richard ended in defeat; over to Henry : TUDOR

12-across – Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink : PYRETHRUM

13-across – Name picked out without gravity or care : NEGLECTED

14-across – Many drinks can be found in Yorkshire : DALES

15-across – It”s unsuitable in a gym : INAPT

17-across – About time to modify item in air display : ALTIMETER

20-across – Undressed in 7? : OUTOFGEAR

22-across – There’s said to be a place for old-fashioned ill-humour : RHEUM

23-across – Vera reported what she did for an animal : LINSANG

24-across – Cram, perhaps, allowed to feature in articles : ATHLETE

25-across – Comical, almost entirely mad, system of communication : ELECTRONICMAIL

1-down – To Cannon St – pile out for the City : CONSTANTINOPLE

2-down – Hidings may be in order for such noisy behaviour : SHINDIG

3-down – Detested rating on dwelling with right to income from letting : ABHORRENT

4-down – Some copy held for bank protection : PARAPET

5-down – York overdrawn, as an old engine may be : REBORED

6-down – Fashionable group relegated to a corner of the display? : INSET

7-down – Ne plus ultra can be anything but extreme : NEUTRAL

8-down – Essex man of most charm – fellow lost his head, unfortunately : THOMASCROMWELL

14-down – Having two forms of saying unintelligent in Bow : DIMORPHIC

16-down – A court in Alabama is like a jellyfish : ACTINAL

17-down – I get my own back in rage about 5, if missing : AVENGER

18-down – French stop over in getting the lie of the land : TERRAIN

19-down – She’s queen in the Salvation Army : THERESA

21-down – Money talks with candour : FRANC

8-across – Game suffices for keeping order at home : DOMINOES

9-across – French student issued with name and number : ELEVEN

10-across – French town gets a second look in : AMIENS

11-across – A world of sweets? : ALLSORTS

12-across – Sand in bottle : GRIT

13-across – Squalid sink transformed with a nice bit of disinfectant : DICKENSIAN

15-across – Witty person holding in measure of sound? He’s not witty! : WINDBAG

16-across – Frank Field’s central character in French story! : CANDIDE

18-across – Fool admits nothing to right-wing organisation – a devilish sign? : CLOVENFOOT

19-across – Defeat with tail-ender finally dismissed : ROUT

20-across – Note about marriage guidance counsellors supplied by clergy : PRELATES

22-across – Copper shown by examination to be most clever : CUTEST

23-across – Is male following unhappy perversion? : SADISM

24-across – Being this could mean mum losing energy, just! : MATRONLY

1-down – What may be covered by parts of ITV : COMMERCIALBREAK

2-down – Former dancer not in a televised broadcast : NINETTEDEVALOIS

3-down – What one hopes may win sweepstake is not designed for motoring! : HORSEDRAWN

4-down – Obliquely request to take over from one leading the waltz? : ASKANCE

5-down – Not all of tummy fits in? It could be a warning! : BELL

6-down – Second thoughts about not supporting team that needs helping : RECONSIDERATION

7-down – Former CND enthusiast transformed duller ranters and the leaders of British socialism : BERTRANDRUSSELL

14-down – The foreign wine town showing ability to increase accommodation : ELASTICITY

17-down – Eat ice-cream, swallowing whole : CONSUME

21-down – Office worker’s degrees in abbreviated form? : TEMP