7-across – Square joins very good partners for game : NINEPINS

9-across – Movie director in audio,principally to cover echoes for regional broadcaster : ANGLIA

10-across – Second to arrive in audition for film : SCUM

11-across – Supervisors lost Carphone Warehouse business ultimately : CHAPERONES

12-across – One posh schoolboy maybe ignoring Latin and Ancient Greek : IONIAN

14-across – Enthusiastic about bomb starting attack : TEARINTO

15-across – What’s leading scientific personnel to accept a random number generator is less trustworthy : SHADIER

17-across – No. 1 for Doris Day after record label advance – one that’s almost divine : DEMIGOD

20-across – Switch is originally on lead attached to old radiator : ISOLATOR

22-across – Proclaim advice to look at another aspect of paper money – sort of? : CRYPTO

23-across – Trap somehow meant to get critical journalist : HATCHETMAN

24-across – Bearing in mind,oddly,that is filling : MIEN

25-across – Plan using diplomacy with jerk in timeshare arrangement : TACTIC

26-across – Stolen sinks initiating court action? : DROPSHOT

1-down – Reluctant after Renault retreated waterproof material : OILCLOTH

2-down – Time group making roof for Alfa Romeo : TERM

3-down – Cairo’s new name cooler when abbreviated : AIRCON

4-down – 2 benefit – one called after the other? : NAMESAKE

5-down – Worthlessness of playing bingo,drunk in Italy on vacation : IGNOBILITY

6-down – Most pleasant French city street : NICEST

8-down – Intelligence in Simon’s first writing without Garfunkel : SMARTS

13-down – Coarse idea client turned out : INDELICATE

16-down – Establish European theatre with French wanting leadership : ENTRENCH

18-down – Busy tabloid’s version of Boris Johnson’s comeback includes new article : ONTHEJOB

19-down – Part of snooker game,daughter set up : FRAMED

21-down – Numerical mark a student needs to get in : SCALAR

22-down – Is unable to scan notes – some bits are missing : CANNOT

24-down – Month before United contacts very serious player? : MUSO

1-across – ‘Bee’ for braiding,basting,backstitch – and blather : SEWING

4-across – See 1 : CIRCLE

9-across – <span>But in the cryptic world this person </span><i>would</i><span> be content</span> : NOTAHAPPYCAMPER

10-across – Partisan seizing a little Japanese-US grandchild : SANSEI

11-across – Bomber Harris finally left low barracks : MOSQUITO

12-across – Patient’s originally malign agent checked by hospital oxygen? : PATHOGEN

14-across – Boob initially pops out of bra when it splits sides : RAITAS

15-across – Millions,peculiarly,invested as a gamble : ONSPEC

18-across – Gentle person acts up,say,extremely odd : PUSSYCAT

21-across – Dragon-fighter gets mauled by man-eater,stomach churning : STGEORGE

22-across – Increasingly shrewd politician and author sign for Advent : ARCHER

24-across – Her termination at the guillotine ultimately,following Revolution : MARIEANTOINETTE

25-across – Cousins maybe think sister’s taking care of William’s wife : FIGURE

26-across – See 25 : SKATER

1-down – Openings perfectly captivating Master in it : STOMATA

2-down – How are you doing the list of events? : WHATS

3-down – With one’s love expressed,appropriate item about to be produced? : NEARING

5-down – Apple piercer saving son,William Tell’s father keeps child’s head up : INCISOR

6-down – NYC custom: I’m working with the Greenwich Village fund? : COMMUNITY

7-down – Complex individual soon to take over the Army : ELECTRA

8-down – Primate standing out each year : APEMAN

13-down – See 2 : HAPPENING

16-down – School falling short,girls excepted? Undoubtedly : NOTHALF

17-down – Old pirate radio station primarily on air south of Colombia : CORSAIR

18-down – Fairly clever : PRETTY

19-down – Feeling swell? Yes and no : SEASICK

20-down – A more suitable partner in crime? : ABETTER

23-down – See 6 : CHEST

1-across – Bachelor having pushed in,give wise guy a bloody nose where party drinks served : PUNCHBOWL

6-across – Paddle measured when picked up? : WADE

8-across – Fine stuff by protagonist in old song : STARDUST

9-across – A medal on the other side : ACROSS

10-across – Cadence that’s followed by a music player? : GROOVE

11-across – Hole made with a pin,point furthest away : APHELION

12-across – State imitating music? : ALASKA

15-across – Scoffing starter of onions,diner is windy : DERISION

16-across – River crossed by awfully damp surfboard? : MOUSEPAD

19-across – Consider cuts on new cutting tools : DICERS

21-across – Fruit in stock burrowed into by insect : PLANTAIN

22-across – Match suit with blue pants : DOUBLE

24-across – See 1 Down : GRIMES

25-across – Sorry tale in music,its content is highly volatile : FUELTANK

26-across – American composer into punk? Er,no! : KERN

27-across – Official or private message penned by king,say,sent back : LORDMAYOR

1-down – Opera,dirty music fed to Mary or Martin? : PETER

2-down – Sure on verb,though not perfect tense : NERVOUS

3-down – See 20 : HOUSE

4-down – Superficial rock band’s last tour,a wife turning up to spoil it : OUTWARD

5-down – What did I tell you in heavy metal hit? : LEATHERED

6-down – Sings,where Land of Song embraces type of music? : WARBLES

7-down – Dirty music,dirty look : DISCOLOUR

13-down – Can leg and arm,when sculpted,figure prominently? : LOOMLARGE

14-down – Judgement,where God is in shock : APPRAISAL

17-down – Controlling excitement,an epitome of sleep : SANDMAN

18-down – 501,number reportedly doomed : DONEFOR

20-down – Pile has two types of music : COUNTRY

22-down – Trance brought by snifter laced with drug : DREAM

23-down – Ship concerned with duck capsizing : LINER

8-across – Starts off one risky transaction in black,ready to divide into groups : SORTABLE

9-across – Cardinal recently appointed black or white bishop,say : NEWMAN

10-across – Most tragic need in defeat : BLACKEST

11-across – Manipulate position after white’s opening : WANGLE

12-across – One who sits obsessively writing letters in square : CROSSWORDADDICT

15-across – Some players’ forte,oddly – its key components are black and white : PIANO

16-across – Old district that’s frequently created 20 : OPART

20-across – Home sides in some games recorded on paper : INBLACKANDWHITE

21-across – American rock-and-roller’s piece to play,combining two numbers : DOMINO

23-across – Male joining females in white,typically,in part of Scotland : HEBRIDES

25-across – Black bird that transported Darwin : BEAGLE

26-across – Problem for plant that could be why I left : WHITEFLY

1-down – Black headgear for some cops and some cricketers : BOWLERS

2-down – Statuesque sheep,for example,all the same? : STOCKSTILL

3-down – Starters for All Blacks look extremely talented : ABLE

4-down – Movie with traditionally distinctive headgear we back : WESTERN

5-down – Like Mont Blanc,with cow wandering into shot : SNOWCAPPED

6-down – Singular white bird that’s rarely black : SWAN

7-down – Hard cheese dished up initially with black spread : BADLUCK

13-down – White container we put outside in prison : WINECOOLER

14-down – Like Labrador,as opposed to 5? : DARKHAIRED

17-down – Game which ends with white dispatching black : SNOOKER

18-down – Gets ready for gathering in white nuts : CASHEWS

19-down – Play game for two : OTHELLO

22-down – I advance after securing a major role in 19 : IAGO

24-down – Vivacity of performance in part of noir blockbuster elevated : BRIO

1-across – Adroit absorbing of former chemical giant’s loss : DEFICIT

5-across – Maybe Lily’s inner circle or local ground : COROLLA

9-across – Be inclined to follow good harvest : GLEAN

10-across – Archaic instrument of one performing in red : CLARIONET

11-across – Big parade for feted person covered by countless papers : TICKERTAPE

12-across – Fashionable clubs behind expulsion of drunkard : CHIC

14-across – Gent’s principal form of ‘hello’ in London street,that has you breathless? : STRANGLEHOLD

18-across – Not taxing working capital attraction? Lovely! : EASYONTHEEYE

21-across – Pence takes line that’s not stern : PROW

22-across – Part for Destiny : PROPORTION

25-across – Panicky state playing chess – try to capture one : HYSTERICS

26-across – Cruise round Tenerife – empty symbol? : TOTEM

27-across – See 11 : WELCOME

28-across – <i>Yes</i><span> extremely protective of other older singers</span> : YODLERS

1-down – Handy features of accommodation storing computing stuff : DIGITS

2-down – Fellow Yank,missing with Europeans : FRENCH

3-down – Jam scam – it’s gone off on the inside : CONGESTION

4-down – Silent despised person catches a cold : TACIT

5-down – Fake Sting reportedly drunk at a celebration? : CHAMPAGNE

6-down – Typical Irish weather rule called out : RAIN

7-down – NASA event lacks a one-off formal meal : LUNCHEON

8-down – Gold-coated customised transport for leader’s entourage? : AUTOCADE

13-down – Dried out pond creature,tense in action : DEHYDRATED

15-down – A fire left neglected and this is what awaits? : AFTERLIFE

16-down – Silly people question old fairground entertainment : PEEPSHOW

17-down – Slippery slope,skirting America’s defence : ESPOUSAL

19-down – Hardly turned on by these lacy elasticated tops : LITTLE

20-down – In Italian,‘I must hate’ : ANIMUS

23-down – Trying exercise? Heavens! : PESKY

24-down – Love’s about to break Australia up : ZERO