1-across – How to identify article about Japanese game immediately? : FROMTHEWORDGO

10-across – Awfully coy, interrupting journalist making a pile in the field : HAYCOCK

11-across – Get on the right wavelength, about to tease popular leader : TRIBUNE

12-across – It’ll beat having beans, or somesuch : PULSE

13-across – Post contains a break in the clouds : MARESTAIL

14-across – Horse sounding not so old, it’s said : NEIGH

16-across – Nearly married old lunatic, as one’s expecting a packet! : MAILORDER

18-across – So Tom may announce he’s 20 inclined? : CATERWAUL

19-across – American uncle’s gone back over most of the subject : MATHS

20-across – Morals you abandoned behaving thus? : AMOROUSLY

23-across – One used toplay CDs, depending on 23 down? : LASER

24-across – Reports from a battle zone, possibly : GUNFIRE

25-across – Argued furiously about Pentium’s first improvement : UPGRADE

26-across – What some athletes had to do to ensure victory? : BREASTTHETAPE

2-down – The Queen’s never used this source of cash : ROYALMINT

3-down – Sweet-sounding animal : MOOSE

4-down – Accepted having pong surrounding rubbish : HOKUM

5-down – One grinding away with determination over a limited period : WATERMILL

6-down – Downfall almost about to occur – first sign seen outside : RAINSTORM

7-down – My word! Upper class accepted a Dutch cheese! : GOUDA

8-down – Continually vary what you get from butcher for a fiver? : CHOPANDCHANGE

9-down – In a fine old pickle! : WELLPRESERVED

15-down – It’s played on injury Lewinsky first neglected : HARMONICA

16-down – Sort out statements, losing time checking finances : MEANSTEST

17-down – It should give an impression of accurate timing : DATESTAMP

21-down – I have to see the proprietor : OWNER

22-down – Those I’m addressing – half of them teenagers? : YOUTH

23-down – Come down and see it, so you’ll understand : LIGHT

9-across – Engage in burlesque naked? True! : UNDERTAKE

10-across – The last of the home games : OMEGA

11-across – City doctor with the shuffling kind of walk : LAMBETH

12-across – Did it save Berlin from musical plaigarism? : AIRLIFT

13-across – Once arranged for cornet : CONE

14-across – Wholly bare body : ALTOGETHER

15-across – Aloof like Gower, say, with three out : INSULAR

17-across – Rich source of oil stopped? : WELLOFF

19-across – Crusoe collapsed after run here : RACECOURSE

22-across – Become engaged in some shooting : MESH

23-across – Stir up Roger! Pull yourselves together : REGROUP

24-across – Welcome a Triumph once : ACCLAIM

26-across – Nobles who hold court in London venue : EARLS

27-across – Somehow RA can dash into colour : CARNATION

1-down – Where classified information is open to alll : PUBLICLIBRARIES

2-down – A broken set of unusual pieces way back : ODDMENTS

3-down – Irregular features of Bernice’s cheese : BRIE

4-down – He is not yet a master of martial arts : BACHELOR

5-down – Smooth when applied to a leg : LEGATO

6-down – It signals an opening move : DOORBELL

7-down – Like an appetizer : RELISH

8-down – Custodian of the penny-royal? : MASTEROFTHEMINT

16-down – A hundred losers playing game : LACROSSE

17-down – One who has grounds for his lack of sagacity? : WISEACRE

18-down – Pirate company misbehaving at La Scala, perhaps? : OPERATIC

20-down – Smokes rolled from chopped agarics : CIGARS

21-down – Open a French parachute : UNPACK

25-down – Helmsman holding a pet : COAX