1-across – Blind to bright yellow, perhaps? : SUNSHADE

5-across – Good-looker redresses wrong after trouble : ADONIS

9-across – Virgin’s never been knocked : UNTAPPED

10-across – Supplier of car to Queen : MERCER

12-across – One who has to hum and haw? : HAVER

13-across – A chemist, perhaps, could start following arrangement : SCHEMATIC

14-across – Turkey-trot is not exactly an example : COUNTRYDANCE

18-across – Expense includes new food left in an odd way : OUTLANDISHLY

21-across – Rogue with loot about to ring you first : SCALLYWAG

23-across – Partly repair a teapot boiling over : IRATE

24-across – Shanghai sailor on passage : ABDUCT

25-across – Jack and Norm : STANDARD

26-across – Endeavour to keep close in : TRENDY

27-across – Supplement menu with threepenny bits : ADDENDUM

1-down – Looked for drunk without disgusting expression : SOUGHT

2-down – Local not affected about time : NATIVE

3-down – Barely hop around curve : HYPERBOLA

4-down – Castigation for putting on casual clothes? : DRESSINGDOWN

6-down – Vision of mother leaping about : DREAM

7-down – Poison that fills one bed in nine? : NICOTINE

8-down – Hit lofted catches without strain : STRICKEN

11-down – Lacking height and seen to be lacking imagination : SHORTSIGHTED

15-down – Note union delay : DALLIANCE

16-down – Regular talk of thieves, perhaps, hiding on road : CONSTANT

17-down – Sit heartlessly on fence? : STRADDLE

19-down – Thank poet for old coat : TABARD

20-down – Models posing rarely : SELDOM

22-down – Top-class detectives initially left in clear : LUCID

1-across – ie Scottish Supt. held him and I, else…? : THELEITHPOLICE

8-across – Crossing embraces a Chinese river : XIANG

9-across – One should evacuate WC, given standard deposits of igneous rock : FELDSPAR

11-across – 8’s firm backing non-drinker supports drive : OCTETTE

12-across – Italian inventor of Romanic extraction : MARCONI

13-across – Red-hot flower’s sound for a caterpillar : LARVA

15-across – Disputes either way accep-ted by member that’s spine-less and transparent : ARROWWORM

17-across – Man scaled rocks on February 2 : CANDLEMAS

20-across – Group at the watering-hole : OASIS

21-across – Large volume of traffic? : OMNIBUS

23-across – Learned English getting vulgar about it : ERUDITE

25-across – Gasping leader choked by cigarettes, dropping place : DUNGHILL

26-across – Beastly sound in 7 8 : NEIGH

27-across – The inevitable result of something, if set for a change : SIGNOFTHETIMES

1-down – If victory’s British, I’m Batman! : TAXCOLLECTOR

2-down – Demand to be precise : EXACT

3-down – Rowers’ function in pool? : EIGHTBALL

4-down – Lustrous material given by Welsh flower to Greek character : TAFFETA

5-down – College’s main French compound : POLYMER

6-down – It’s said John’s a failure : LOSER

7-down – To be passionate with a ton and a half on top is asking a lot! : CLAMOROUS

10-down – See 1 across : DISMISSETHUS

14-down – Artist offered sister peculiar fruitless yellow flowers : RANANCULI

16-down – A mystery joker, about half honest, concealing horse : WHODUNNIT

18-down – Dogsbody trailing mum : MASTIFF

19-down – Supposedly invisible bomber, though the last crashed : STEALTH

22-down – Initiate former Israeli PM : BEGIN

24-down – Dictator given order shows a particular expression : IDIOM

1-across – Don’t start to gamble – take your client’s money : PECULATE

5-across – Cut the grass round the pub for the little drinker? : MINNOW

9-across – Continent, not island, shortly to be put in geography book : ATLANTIS

10-across – Composer’s church work fashionable? : CHOPIN

11-across – Art possessor in town with belt? : CHASTITY

12-across – Gambler gives money to the Irish queen : PUNTER

14-across – Suggestion to relative following river through Kentish town : HYPOTHESIS

18-across – See 23 : LEADTOROME

22-across – Setter’s reversing manoeuvre to provide a job : EMPLOY

23-across – Autostradas’ radiation is implied in every way by metal : ALLROADS

24-across – The last state may fruit with the first two… : HAWAII

25-across – …unpaid: nothing for the singer at its head : HONOLULU

26-across – King to be : MARKET

27-across – : RESEARCH

1-down – Caper in which Pope’s head – was head – of the national church : PRANCE

2-down – Fair bit of hair – depending on neck size? : COLLAR

3-down – : LENGTH

4-down – First of Walter Mitty’s turns: provide defence and make me conform : TWISTMYARM

6-down – It includes something of a concession, no less? You don’t surprise me : ITHOUGHT

7-down – How I ensure mine’s top? : NEPOTISM

8-down – Don’t go straight at rapid pace through the Cotswolds : WINDRUSH

13-down – Races for spinner in which one’s performing : FORMULAONE

15-down – A student at studios in Hertfordshire : ALDENHAM

16-down – With the services a fellow might have had a commission : MANPOWER

17-down – Belladonna produced work of art? Say what you think : ATROPINE

19-down – Love among the olive trees? Is this a record? : GROOVE

20-down – Beast painted by Kipling and loved by Precott : JAGUAR

21-down – See 6 : ASMUCH