4-across – Where Jack meets Frank … : LONDON

6-across – … this, too, may be the end of the 7 : WATERLOO

9-across – See 17 : RANGER

10-across – Marriage – so flirtation’s a non-starter : ALLIANCE

11-across – House having seen off nous : COMMONSENSE

15-across – Cineraria needed, with something cold about to block nose, perhaps? : SENECIO

17-across – Silver was found under argent here : THELONE

18-across – Requesting 24, though deserving punch : ASKINGFORIT

22-across – Exercises to keep thin and on seafood diet : PLANKTON

23-across – See 4 : BRIDGE

24-across – Extremely inadequate point of entry for drink : VERMOUTH

25-across – See 5 : MORRIS

1-down – Criminal looted European city : TOLEDO

2-down – See 12 : DARLINGTON

3-down – Cattle offered in foreign currency? No thanks, you’ll get a dog : PEKINESE

4-down – Record in which unknown associate of Lloyd Webber almost reveals his role : LYRICIST

5-down – Game should belong to coxed crew for Oxford, perhaps? : NINEMENS

7-down – See 21 : LINE

8-down – Not entirely open, so closed : OVER

12-down – Early 7 required to keep 17’s words of affection to companion to the point : STOCKTONTO

13-down – I’ll say wow to free gold : CORRIDOR

14-down – Being worried, work longer hours? : RESTLESS

16-down – Snooker champion might possibly be described as a nutter : CRACKPOT

19-down – Litter the difference between England and Australia, perhaps : FARROW

20-down – Unscrupulous trader promoting big guns : SPIV

21-down – Musical sequence describing minor interval? : HAIR

1-across – French company includes a man of religion, a clubman : CADDIE

4-across – Surface material seen by sailor when river runs back : TARMAC

9-across – Having little chance, like a horse that’s pulled up : OUTOFTHERUNNING

10-across – Dig around in English border : EDGING

11-across – No custom in this shop? : DUTYFREE

12-across – Crept somehow into the problem band : SPECTRUM

14-across – Firm sets out to show great care : COSSET

15-across – Transport mainly to promote joint : CARPUS

18-across – Delays and keeps at a distance : HOLDSOFF

21-across – Transmute mica unit into radioactive element : ACTINIUM

22-across – Splendid gathering in festivity with two unknowns : GALAXY

24-across – Unnecessary fuss about weather conditions in vessel : ASTORMINATEACUP

25-across – Money is required for repairing drains : DINARS

26-across – Paul’s respect : REVERE

1-down – All solvers should be well-informed : CLUEDUP

2-down – Initially, driver has old banger in the washer : DHOBI

3-down – The whole unit’s starting to get in entire confusion : INTEGER

5-down – A question: an uncontrolled movement found in water? : AQUATIC

6-down – Displays cargo lists : MANIFESTS

7-down – Give up study on origin of life, say : CONCEDE

8-down – New Dome’s taking in London’s capital rarely : SELDOM

13-down – Something hackneyed under the island sign : CAPRICORN

16-down – Condemned? Not right, put on trial : ACCUSED

17-down – One hoping for a reduction : SLIMMER

18-down – Understanding being in the shade : HUMANE

19-down – Cricket side has a target – one with something left : LEGATEE

20-down – But the match date can be moved! : FIXTURE

23-down – Run out on holiday : LEAVE

1-across – Prosecuted corrupt abbey and its leader during way-out cat-call in the 20 23 : EXITPURSUED

9-across – See1 : BYABEAR

10-across – This type of bid is top, not bottom : NOTRUMP

11-across – Let’s sing to Silvia, that she is 90, in Pisces : EXCELLING

12-across – Sometime lonely, now more like a squash : MELON

13-across – Brand I can do with one finger : TYPE

14-across – The last word in ballet dancing is very bad : LAMENTABLE

16-across – Ancient bus conductor on the gin : RATTLETRAP

19-across – A magnet to get your gun out? : DRAW

21-across – Strapping youth on grass – remove your butt! : THONG

22-across – Composer at the end of months playing tennis : BERNSTEIN

24-across – One with two ears, possibly? That’s crazy : IDIOTIC

25-across – Language that goes badly in the hillside : BRAILLE

26-across – Fast entertainment – deep’s the solution? : TURNOFSPEED

1-down – Antipasto : EMANCIPATIONIST

2-down – I’m a businessman, one hundred per cent! : IDEAL

3-down – Girl of 20 23, pirated edition : PERDITA

4-down – Break promise to French boy and some of the guests : RENEGUE

5-down – An officer and a gentleman? I’ve got a friend at last : ULTIMATE

6-down – What sort of gun is the Lee-Enfield? : DOUBLEBARRELLED

7-down – Sailor told to go away : ABSENT

8-down – Beg for cake? : SPONGE

15-down – Pestilential fellow born on a boat : BLIGHTER

16-down – Tell and sell : RETAIL

17-down – To put money on and be in debt, say: it goes up in smoke : TOBACCO

18-down – Dress in rising water – they need free oxygen : AEROBES

20-down – Direction to bury a mate in play : WINTER

23-down – See 20 : STALE