Author name: crosswordanswers

1-across – Tchaikovsky hero’s individual spirit : ONEGIN

5-across – Call, in poet’s translation, for one with jewelled ear : ETHIOP

8-across – Said solver’s treated amorously, not like Burns’s love : YORKIST

9-across – Put the frighteners on abandoned byre : COWSHED

11-across – The usual runs on banks from investments : STOCKSANDSHARES

12-across – In which pupil appears to flag : IRIS

13-across – Painter given money to turn fish-eater : TINTORETTO

17-across – Not owing a pound, retired into fitted kitchen : INTHEBLACK

18-across – Elemental spirit? : FIRE

20-across – Fish getting mad among non-alcoholic drinks by 4 6, they say : TANGLEWOODTALES

23-across – Poisonous yellow deformed stunted growth, after the Sun : RAGWORT

24-across – Abstraction to go with daylight : ROBBERY

25-across – Italian and German articles in silent flight : GLIDER

26-across – A month on the border produces chaos : MAYHEM

2-down – Traction’s treatment for druggy : NARCOTIST

3-down – Composer’s connection between notes : GLINKA

4-down – Winkle with sodium compared with iodine on top of … : NATHANIEL

5-down – Spanish hero with a line to the Yard? : ELCID

6-down – Goldie embracing the Thunderer for the first part of 26 : HAWTHORN

7-down – Going into the red compared with 17? : OTHER

8-down – Small objects during the last programme with 21 6, they say : YESMINISTER

10-down – Author of computing system, a plaything for even half a TV outfit : DOSTOYEVSKY

14-down – What the spy in the cab said about cat, pig and sheep : TACHOGRAM

15-down – A lake you have drunk – reel with mirth : THIRLMERE

16-down – Factor caused by mirth arising during meals? : FEELCOLD

19-down – Initially short and fat from Australian beer : STUBBY

21-down – Boy goes on batting when uplifted : NIGEL

22-down – See 18 : WATER

9-across – Footballer reaching sign-on age against comeback : RAMONVEGA

10-across – See 11 : OFTHE

11-across – 20’s final cut up top : THELAST

12-across – She’s going to get his one out when the Republic’s in : HEIRESS

13-across – 20’s pioneer gets deft shove from ferry company? : NATTY

14-across – Swore about terrorists wearing breastplates : CUIRASSED

16-across – 20’s a carrier for milk and a mineral without splash : AFLOATANDASHORE

19-across – Best friend’s holding tip in old napkin : MUCKENDER

21-across – County’s 17 dough : BUCKS

22-across – Revere, the setter does, Elizabeth and her top : IDOLIZE

23-across – Draw a doctor’s cutting implement first : TOMBOLA

24-across – Garbo’s wonderful, though with a twist in the tail : GRETA

25-across – In fate, lovers losing love but having energy well-stored : LOCUPLETE

1-down – Where hand is doubly evident can swimmer go in with edge? : WRITINGARM

2-down – Dairy product turning Enigmatist loopy : EMMENTAL

3-down – Disgrace – as incest is : INFAMY

4-down – 13 21 down’s garb belongs to Mrs T in trench village in Cumbria : LEAT

5-down – 13 21down’s stroke to prevent fellow coming inside : PATHFINDER

6-down – See 11 : MOHICANS

7-down – People unmentioned – up to 8 : OTHERS

8-down – See 4 : HERS

14-down – Exchange in M&S caused hell to break loose, leading to this? : CHAUDMELLE

15-down – 13 21down’s heard start of letter to Santa? : DEERSLAYER

17-down – A man in a man, like 20’s Democrat : AMERICAN

18-down – Quick look, when that’s finished : ONCEOVER

20-down – I say – a boxer! : COOPER

21-down – See 13 : BUMPPO

22-down – See 4 : INGS

23-down – See 4 : TOCK

5-across – CG after punishment for doze : CATNAP

6-across – Climax of the urge for gas masks : ORGASM

9-across – Poorly? Poorly : UNWELL

10-across – They make one wild in furies : UNIFIERS

11-across – CG to blow own trumpet : BRAG

12-across – CG finds one out – otherwise pop in : STRIPPOKER

13-across – CG’s revolutionary purpose gets free exposure : CHEMINDEFER

18-across – CG on wheels with base reportedly on the Mediterranean : MONTECARLO

21-across – … if French or if black, CG : JACK

22-across – CG at the back of a vehicle with a measure of purity : BACCARAT

23-across – CG with two sides : BRIDGE

24-across – Urchin at junction between roof ends for CGs, etc in 4 : GAMING

25-across – Foot’s story : LEGEND

1-down – Lying down eventually? : ATLENGTH

2-down – See 24 : TABLES

3-down – Sweet, pure if it is cooked : FRUITPIE

4-down – Financial experts in love with CG, eg in 18 : CASINO

5-down – Lie with C of CG without article : CANARD

7-down – Money alien to CG if new? : MARKET

8-down – With interest as it is now, how fast is the stream? : CURRENTRATE

14-down – Mademoiselle Leslie filmed during her month taking pasta : MACARONI

15-down – I give orders and directions to a woodworker : ENJOINER

16-down – Group of people without surprised expression to be ignored : GOHANG

17-down – Take top part in miracle play, with entry of calamity : ACTGOD

19-down – Book about business in the future : TOCOME

20-down – CGs for Spanish men : OMBRES

1-across – What’s blue and possibly brain-dead? : RIBAND

4-across – Cook’s vessel discovered Saint Peter decapitated on the grass : STOCKPOT

9-across – Test the soundness of one’s mettle, say, when leading : ASSAY

10-across – Don’t be so effusive down here! : CHEERLESS

11-across – Malignant spinner producing natural reaction among the reserves : TARANTULA

12-across – Quail cooked initially in port, perhaps : WINCE

13-across – Cocktail for a girl like Eartha Kitt? : OLDFASHIONED

17-across – Cracked bell also on my phone : MONOSYLLABLE

20-across – Irish diet one rejected? It’s a long story : ILIAD

21-across – One whose relations have been abandoned? : ADULTERER

23-across – Ring the assassin in the tax office : TOLLBOOTH

24-across – See 18 : AVERY

25-across – … a tale told by an idiot…signifying… : NONSENSE

26-across – Five on her scent : CHANEL

1-down – Opposition on a court charge : REACTION

2-down – He doth ___ the narrow world like a Colossus – Julius Caesar the top attraction was he? : BESTRIDE

3-down – Hither was it, where Charlemagne was crowned? : NOYON

5-down – 24 1across in ____- – Hamlet’s Under-21 International trophy? : THECAPOFYOUTH

6-down – Lateral revolution produced by a spokesperson? : CARTWHEEL

7-down – Father Time has a yen for this bloomer : PAEONY

8-down – Publisher’s reader with the Larousse Gastronomique? : TASTER

10-down – They watch the box up to the cocoa’s distribution : COUCHPOTATOES

14-down – Bad English viola playing should be shunned : AVOIDABLE

15-down – Might sailor-king want to return here? : ABERDEEN

16-down – The action of a rat by a later mutation : BETRAYAL

18-down – Could Byron’s prince of poets hail lines by this American painter? … : MILTON

19-down – or six lines on Francois? : VILLON

22-down – 25 binned? : TRASH

7-across – Voices of disapproval about fool getting mackerel : BONITOS

8-across – Light roll gives spirit to revolutionary : BRIOCHE

10-across – Liberal revolution gets the spirit : BLITHE

11-across – In the cinema Mary’s choice falls on Harrison : PICKFORD

12-across – With the 6th 2 one is a witch – about right, a feminist! : HARD

13-across – Tall chap lying down found life real and earnest : LONGFELLOW

14-across – Plagal mode: get windy after taking syringe: I only hope AA can make it : HYPOAEOLIAN

19-across – Conductor’s role reversing old car : RATTLETRAP

22-across – With the last 2 one is a piece of, say, 7 and 10, this and 17’s outside : GOOD

23-across – A stroke by the French: provide a detachment : UNCOUPLE

24-across – You stinker! cried Archimedes : EUREKA

25-across – With the 4th 2 one has service backing for African country : FARTOGO

26-across – One who won’t drink isn’t commonly going to convict : ATTAINT

1-down – Sophisticated guy – don’t give him a hot dog! : COOLCAT

2-down – Time of arrival sees John hot on Robin : BIRTHDAY

3-down – Sick? On the contrary: it’s somebody’s 2 in song : NOWELL

4-down – With the 2nd 2 one sees people entering another gulf : GRACEFUL

5-down – With the 3rd 2 one would nearly enter successive notes : WOEFUL

6-down – Heat preserver from nethermost hell : THERMOS

9-down – With the 5th 2 one is to attend between Frank and Edward : OPENHEARTED

15-down – PTO for the complete attendant : OVERPAGE

16-down – Shearer keeping Halliwell from Constantine, perhaps : ALGERIAN

17-down – Refuse is always increasing : GAINSAY

18-down – See 12 : WORKING

20-down – Was attracted by authority in its entirety? : TOOKTO

21-down – With the 1st 2 one is quite often with 22 : PRETTY