4-across – See 25 : BOPEEP

6-across – Number making saint’s detailed numbers include practical method for transport round curves … : THERESNO

9-across – … with capital responsible for it : BERLIN

10-across – See 6 : BUSINESS

11-across – Polish ring round ’ead and beak to be a showman : BUFFALOBILL

15-across – Ingenuity missing in Guantanamo: watch out! Shooting doesn’t work : YOUCANT

17-across – See 15 : GETAMAN

18-across – Stick with these gentleman-like pupils : TOFFYAPPLES

22-across – See 6 : LIKESHOW

23-across – Playwright has gap without a model : BRECHT

24-across – See 15 : WITHAGUN

25-across – Shepherdess getting letters to be involved with Pole — and letter : LITTLE

1-down – Idiot losing head gets one in the eye : RETINA

2-down – With lots of pebbles around, striking in a loud aggressive way : SHOUTINGLY

3-down – Flutter I make with a bit of a blackberry, say : FRUITLET

4-down – Candidates for ASBO by and by? : BABYBOYS

5-down – Standard round of journeys around French capital Henry VI didn’t reach : PARTFOUR

7-down – Look to do what a cat may? : SEEK

8-down – Fall into this and you’ll be t___ : OAST

12-down – Blurred Oxford gent has nothing on coppers : OUTOFFOCUS

13-down – Single member allowed? It doesn’t say : IMPLICIT

14-down – Drink for girl 24 and group, say : ANISETTE

16-down – Topless sort of philosophy? Well! : ARTESIAN

19-down – Leave car at home with cake : PARKIN

20-down – Disappointment? Puff needed : BLOW

21-down – Satirical presentation of St Christopher : SKIT

9-across – Hebrew puts one king back in place : ISRAELITE

10-across – Shot illegally taken in outskirts of Palermo : PHOTO

11-across – Bend in front of bird, one tied up : BOWKNOT

12-across – Riding feat by infant, really pronounced? : WHEELIE

13-across – Those spotted keeping king happy losing heart, seeing saucy chap : DICK

14-across – Yellow eggs retrieved, left in canteen, not far off : MOREORLESS

16-across – May author Stephen be his name? : HAWKING

17-across – Kelly, seeing sex appeal in the mirror, covered initially in one’s make-up? : GENETIC

19-across – Used to support, help : SECONDHAND

22-across – See 3 : HILL

24-across – Beef and carrots may be hot and bothered : INASTEW

25-across – Good novelist getting better? : GAMBLER

26-across – Animal decapitating rat : OTTER

27-across – Two seconds after we enrol, surprisingly free from proprietor : OWNERLESS

1-down – Adventurer’s truism on vice? He’s in fashion : SINBADTHESAILOR

2-down – See 21 : BROWNCOW

3-down – Saucy chap in a state between mounts : BENNY

4-down – Revolutionary army fight a hundred in friendly location, missing conclusion : VIETCONG

5-down – Instance of relief taking two minutes? : WEEWEE

6-down – Drug deeper in, unfortunately, having injected heroin : EPHEDRINE

7-down – See 17 : GOOLIE

8-down – Sweetheart having to feed baby, lovely thing for old song : HONEYSUCKLEROSE

15-down – Use rating to work out mark : SIGNATURE

17-down – Camp tune with which naughty leader in concert band having a ball? : GINGGANG

18-down – Attempted to gather everyone to be tested : TRIALLED

20-down – Decent hospital dividing class : CHASTE

21-down – Slightly absurd greeting our leader, ­having broken vow after re­peat­ed inconsistency in leadership? : HOWNOW

23-down – See 13 : EMERY

1-across – Film valet Valentino sacked : NATIONALVELVET

9-across – Song and dance about university retirement : ROUNDELAY

10-across – Flat race leader dropped out of very fast : VAPID

11-across – Horse and cart back to front? It’s monstrous : HYDRA

12-across – Cheese straw’s started to become old hat : SAGEDERBY

13-across – Passed open hole all right : OVERTOOK

14-across – Mongrel incorporating a new genetic variation : MUTANT

17-across – Party right to the end in Tennessee bar : TAVERN

19-across – Open club in 2011, if club then not open : SANDWICH

22-across – Fellow in RAF wrote about what he took part in? : WAREFFORT

24-across – Toke finally taken from joint? Pass on to another : REFER

25-across – Wrong road for the mountain : SINAI

26-across – Language from bridge player shortly to end up in one club doubled : ICELANDIC

27-across – Very angry son goes off film : BLAZINGSADDLES

1-down – Oddly no new direction for bygone film? : NORTHNORTHWEST

2-down – Bowl along right round North Dakota lake : TRUNDLE

3-down – Painting interior of woman’s extension : OLDMASTER

4-down – Hint of troubled soul in LA : ALLUSION

5-down – Part of the gay Ovidian’s uphill journey : VOYAGE

6-down – Furious little girl wearing hat : LIVID

7-down – Stores spread around Rome and Pisa, not opening Sundays : EMPORIA

8-down – Film girl going up and down rising river on a Chester outing : ADAYATTHERACES

15-down – Roughly a hundred keeping name secret : UNDERHAND

16-down – Growths worrying Kate and Rose : OAKTREES

18-down – Italian city lights, initially hypnotic : VERONAL

20-down – Disbeliever took the initiative, providing part of UK’s upturn : INFIDEL

21-down – Poet no expert in advertising : MOTION

23-down – Fine hotel for a cat : FRITZ

1-across – Writer fin de siècle? : PENURY

4-across – How a Roman Oedipus stated his problem? Grains of Paradise? : AMOMUM

9-across – Food for caterpillar : GRUB

10-across – Plenty of piety without love : GOODLINESS

11-across – Sailor’s tale backing sort of comedown : ABSEIL

12-across – Referring to recent arrival of gas at a lake : NEONATAL

13-across – Ironed over again : REPRESSED

15-across – Only the sound of music? : SOUL

16-across – Vote without sufficient leaders : RAGE

17-across – Disputed books causing an explosion without call for Heavy Artillery : APOCRYPHA

21-across – Computing system without disk in good health : CROMWELL

22-across – See if you can go as fast as I to get an inflorescence : RACEME

24-across – Old-fashioned sentimentality with group work by aliens? : CORNCIRCLE

25-across – Motor race makes the frightened lose head : INDY

26-across – Sun city? If only! : SOLELY

27-across – Georgian student mired in pollution : STALIN

1-down – Talks French about first two in Bible story : PARABLE

2-down – Good rise for the French : NOBLE

3-down – Star concerned with drawback : REGULUS

5-down – Small length with great weight : MILTON

6-down – Male lawman conservative? Has to be : MANDATORY

7-down – Fell into the grinder : MISCALL

8-down – Horse force, possible completion due : MOUNTEDPOLICE

14-down – Concerned with diet and exercise making one malinger : REGIMINAL

16-down – Puts new cover on for rose show : REROOFS

18-down – Flower as present … : CURRENT

19-down – …. some of which died, eaten by bird : HAMPDEN

20-down – Ealing production : GENIAL

23-down – Complaint about elevation : CHILL

9-across – Precipitation from big guns having gone overboard? : RAINWATER

10-across – Key line that follows 10/5 : IVORY

11-across – Officer protected by total cover : SHELTER

12-across – Deadly stuff when bum’s not quite pleasant : ARSENIC

13-across – Come out from opening in shade : HATCH

14-across – Tiny passage through marine deposit’s material : CORPOREAL

16-across – Flexible soldiers rubbish no one in retreat for making up deficiencies : SUPPLEMENTATION

19-across – Bond will be there in seconds with this : SUPERGLUE

21-across – Close up includes head of pretty bit of flower : SEPAL

22-across – Weapon is stable without lug : FIREARM

23-across – Breaking bones in religious invocation : BENISON

24-across – Cause partners to hold hand between them : SPAWN

25-across – Very wicked to fire on USA at will : NEFARIOUS

1-down – Artificial part where call girl’s the little sister? : PROSTHESIS

2-down – Dodge south despite going west : SIDESTEP

3-down – Replace shag? : SWITCH

4-down – Raised animals to take lead : STAR

5-down – Schedule back-breaking crash at movie’s finale : PREARRANGE

6-down – Spreading operations during an attack from below : DIASPORA

7-down – Nothing having external forward thrust is idle : LOUNGE

8-down – Said to go down in unison : SYNC

14-down – Observation about split lip being flatter : COMPLIMENT

15-down – Desolation as Nelson lies in state : LONELINESS

17-down – Accumulated knowledge covering fall of French region : LORRAINE

18-down – I pretend I’m after gold : IMPOSTOR

20-down – One that’s cut off hair appears content with rejection : PARIAH

21-down – More than one thing to do with tomatoes? : SUNDRY

22-down – Don’t eat quickly! : FAST

23-down – Fan without a stitch in this : BUFF