1-across – Mad deliveries appealing to differing audiences : CROSSOVER

6-across – Constable paintings at heart revealing a special sort of Christian : COPT

8-across – Whale genus and cuckoo found around island associated with an island : ORCADIAN

9-across – River cuts through energy : VIRAGO

10-across – A look round a house for sale? A thousand needed to replace two wings : VIKING

11-across – Makes public holiday a function of jungle clearing? : AIRSTRIP

12-across – Nick rejected hat : BANTAM

15-across – Not an option, eyeing rocks around the outskirts of Chamonix, overturned and separated : EXIGENCY

16-across – Standing out from others in the class when classical one-act play’s improvised : ATYPICAL

19-across – Travel writer taking year off – that is no way to describe an old hand! : NEWBIE

21-across – Support not quite given to coach before a tense game : BACCARAT

22-across – What an apron-wearer might be said to have to press down : PINION

24-across – Ruminant Richards getting hitched – twice caught out : DIKDIK

25-across – Darn bats occupying state home! : MANDARIN

26-across – Possible jacket recommendation: not black : BLUR

27-across – Clerical position, perhaps, and a ruler : RURALDEAN

1-down – An expression of appreciation: the origins of good intentions : CORGI

2-down – Following a regime taking place, answer legislative assembly : ONADIET

3-down – Round off broadcasting big-band style? : SWING

4-down – New game introduced to contest : VINTAGE

5-down – Return on one of several accounts : REVERSION

6-down – Diminutive dog’s medical scraper? : CURETTE

7-down – Cecilia styled not English after mounting space opera : PAGLIACCI

13-down – Article on possible rail cut taking note of insurance risk assessment etc : ACTUARIAL

14-down – One exposing scandal of friend concealing two kings and an ace : MUCKRAKER

17-down – Drop off going round gallery : PICADOR

18-down – One is pressed into following Protestant martyr : LATIMER

20-down – White collar operative, ultimately one with aspiration : WANNABE

22-down – A measure in China of discipline : PENAL

23-down – No climbing around the city contracted : ORION

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1-across – Worthless stone keeps prelate out of work : RUBBISHY

5-across – Absence of eruptive matter returning from legendary region : AVALON

9-across – To support love, girl, will you marry me? : PROPOSAL

10-across – Roller for pitch initially all but hidden : PLATEN

11-across – Unqualified, so not left in? : OUTRIGHT

12-across – News about wine? : REPORT

14-across – Picture rhyme for MC in MND : ILLUSTRATE

18-across – A Game Boy weapon controlled by Napoleon : ANIMALFARM

22-across – Left one of 19 that brings one up : LADDER

23-across – A 2 to refuse to spring : BRANWELL

24-across – Boy or girl regularly moving name to the end : EVELYN

25-across – Bishop’s castle campus? : BERKELEY

26-across – Melodious couple keeping small letters : DULCET

27-across – Resurrected bully, a showy fellow : FLASHMAN

1-down – Merlin, say, gives knock to right : RAPTOR

2-down – Writers’ relation to 10, maybe : BRONTE

3-down – One sort of section to be looked up to : ICONIC

4-down – 2 features of a 2 landscape : HEATHCLIFF

6-down – Balt in base, a 2 place : VILLETTE

7-down – Greats starting with viva? I’m nearly at sea : LITTORAL

8-down – De Valois has lost time in getting directions for this number : NINETEEN

13-down – A 2 called to run into therapist and ringer : CURRERBELL

15-down – End of the line for painter, one man concealed in boy : RAILHEAD

16-down – A 2’s hall getting an Oscar nearly collapsed : WILDFELL

17-down – A 2’s month on drug, one dropped from nest : JANEEYRE

19-down – Egg layers that get one down : SNAKES

20-down – Pandemonium where flowers are on strike : BEDLAM

21-down – Continue with music: words may follow : PLAYON

1-across – See 10 : FORTHE

5-across – Faces question, given fair stand : SIDESHOW

9-across – Happened to find hot dish shortly after cold in dictionary : OCCURRED

10-across – As candle’s eternal flame suggests, I must get on with it : NOREST

11-across – Drink, needing the courage to go on strike : HITTHEBOTTLE

13-across – Particular introduction ignored, as cloying : ICKY

14-across – Test line working, then make yourself at home : SETTLEIN

17-across – Heart-throb Richard laid back among a range of women, being intimate : ALTEREGO

18-across – So precise : VERY

20-across – Lifting one’s habit? : KLEPTOMANIAC

23-across – See 10 : WICKED

24-across – Upset as Irish gag unfortunately backfires on girl : AGGRIEVE

25-across – Remove from sergeant when out of order : ESTRANGE

26-across – Never wilt as last flower : ENDURE

2-down – Quick inspection, then finished : ONCE

3-down – What secretary might do to affect form : TOUCHTYPE

4-down – Unreliable individual in time makes mistakes : ERRATA

5-down – Cry of exasperation awaiting withdrawal from Afghanistan? : SODTHISFORAGAME

6-down – Aussie fools died in Britain at conclusion of operations : DINGBATS

7-down – Resilient supporter’s parade : STRUT

8-down – See 5 : OFSOLDIERS

12-down – A regular taste of Mitchell Hardy’s sweets : ICELOLLIES

15-down – A non-union issue? : LOVECHILD

16-down – Indebted, dumb blonde admits sorry? : BEHOLDEN

19-down – Advertising notes, with bells on! : JINGLE

21-down – What’s stirring about the Ashes game : POKER

22-down – See 2 : OVER

1-across – Isn’t he going to work initially, second to first, at ancient town : STOWONTHEWOLD

10-across – Number embraced by mystic don’t sing bass : SUNFISH

11-across – See 12 : BLANCHE

12-across – Hiding place includes barn let out – you can do what you like with it : CARTE

13-across – Caroller about to be punished? Don’t jump the gun! : WAITFORIT

14-across – See 19 : OPERA

16-across – Royal couple are flirting : PHILANDER

18-across – Trouble meeting 17 demands? : HELLTOPAY

19-across – Building over a soapy production of 23 down 12 : SAVOY

20-across – Settled accounts when prepared to fight : SQUAREDUP

23-across – Sound food supplier with new capital : DELHI

24-across – A 3 could be 19 : CABBAGE

25-across – A lady pilot officer arranged who and what was carried : PAYLOAD

26-across – While school is on, lines in a circle are forming union with a close relative or the opposite : INTERMARRYING

2-down – 450-inch surround for round object at bottom of ring : TENORBELL

3-down – Official publication of 12 11 : WHITE

4-down – Method not given? On the contrary : NOHOW

5-down – Without a birthday, year 1 produces a cross condition : HYBRIDITY

6-down – What’s eating far right movement? They frequent the waterside : WHARFRATS

7-down – I work with string, shedding some tears : LACER

8-down – The body/mind relationship in film: the film is different without love : PSYCHOPHYSICS

9-down – They prevail in the Guardian way, almost too soon to get document signed : WESTERLYWINDS

15-down – Every other change involved a 10 : ALTERNATE

16-down – Fantasy sort of music transmitted by choirs, say : PIPEDREAM

17-down – The luck attached to the tares in the parable? : DEVILSOWN

21-down – Mythical pope? : URBAN

22-down – See 3 : PAPER

23-down – 12 could be 22 : DOYLY