7-across – Disorder new to sibling : NEUROSIS

9-across – Message from the Queen : ERRAND

10-across – P for plate? : SOUP

11-across – Always the same game : CHANGELESS

12-across – Reel where rubbish goes : BOBBIN

14-across – Leave rights to writer from South Africa : GORDIMER

15-across – Church breakfast? : CEREAL

17-across – Foot whose son had weak heel : PELEUS

20-across – Funny page by story-teller : PECULIAR

22-across – Where to play with forged coin : CASINO

23-across – Portion of French cheese in order to give compensation : QUIDPROQUO

24-across – Use teeth with energy : BITE

25-across – Stories for students : ANNALS

26-across – Turn deer to teacher : EDUCATOR

1-down – Good time for reptiles and mice with zoos destroyed : MESOZOIC

2-down – Go up with catch : TRAP

3-down – Grateful recipient does half dance under tree : ASHCAN

4-down – More than half-baked actor called Richard ‘e’s a dish : KEDGEREE

5-down – French complaint about one’s superfluous ornamentation : FRILLINESS

6-down – Maroon in place of green is legitimate : ENISLE

8-down – Like cormorant or fabulous dog? : SHAGGY

13-down – Great leader in African country with article from wine region : BURGUNDIAN

16-down – A capital model including first person with honey : APIARIST

18-down – Permit refusal to trade? : SANCTION

19-down – Second left from Welch painter : BRAQUE

21-down – Ends off spangled quadruped : EQUINE

22-down – Reptile with American flower : CROCUS

24-down – Put up with beast : BEAR

1-across – My love put worm in drink as oxygenator : MYOGLOBIN

6-across – Check front of boat : STEM

10-across – Pipsqueak dropping article somewhere in Belgium : TWERP

11-across – God brandishing net is most problematic : THORNIEST

12-across – Change style of defenders in dance : REMODEL

13-across – Make spray of potato, miserably late : ATOMISE

14-across – Changing the subject, an expert’s a great lake among poor ponds : APROPOSDERIEN

17-across – Second and final quarter preceding return of big noise : GHETTOBLASTER

21-across – Setter’s having a drink and a drug: think of that! : IMAGINE

22-across – Brown in Paris retaining English weapon : BRENGUN

24-across – Pompey’s mostly in hospital, a good loser : SPORTSMAN

25-across – See 8 : OFALL

26-across – Primate at the cross going as far as he could … : APEX

27-across – … did well and came later : SUCCEEDED

1-down – A bird takes in complaint of 8 : MATERNAL

2-down – Report of dislike for old theatre : ODEUM

3-down – Slippers tied to rock by 8s? : LEPIDOPTERISTS

4-down – See 8 : BATTLES

5-down – Gaslight swallowed little baby : NEONATE

7-down – Article on little bird said to have writers : THESIGNET

8-down – Test hero to go down with club lest beaten in fight with Saddam : MOTHER

9-down – Backing gamble from the heart, perhaps, to keep local from one part of skeleton : INNOMINATEBONE

15-down – Dress for 8’s part in a tedious performance : RIGMAROLE

16-down – One little boy caught one in ship : IRONCLAD

18-down – 8’s turn to heat retainer : THERMOS

19-down – Good to get in American car when reduced by such plague : BUBONIC

20-down – Bad atmosphere where I get embraced by 1down 8 : MIASMA

23-down – Money, good money too : GRAND

1-across – : THEJOKEISONME

10-across – : PALMIST

11-across – : VEDETTE

12-across – : UNCUT

13-across – : WENTAFTER

14-across – : YUSUF

16-across – : CHOPLOGIC

18-across – : QUEERNESS

19-across – : RODEO

20-across – : ABBEYROAD

23-across – : NAILS

24-across – : SCOTIST

25-across – : LAMPERN

26-across – : EXPERTWITNESS

2-down – : HALFCASTE

3-down – : JOINT

4-down – : KOTOW

5-down – : INVENTORS

6-down – : OLDSAILOR

7-down – : MOTET

8-down – : XPLUSYEQUALSZ

9-down – : ZEBRACROSSING

15-down – : FORTYNINE

16-down – : CHEMOSTAT

17-down – : GODLINESS

21-down – : BRONX

22-down – : DELHI

23-down – : NOMEN

1-across – Race as hare-like creature? Or is it hard coming in 100mph? : HALFMARATHON

8-across – Power-grabbing person gaining at the expense of others : USURPER

9-across – Friend Heather is becoming tiresome : PALLING

11-across – G.B.’s to plunder Scot, we hear? : SHAVIAN

12-across – What’s on garden gets rid of possible pollutant : TOPSOIL

13-across – Bewitch or honour a husband? : OBEAH

14-across – New ideas stem from a little drink : DEMITASSE

16-across – Minister admitting relationship : PARKINSON

19-across – Beheaded king’s old woman : CRONE

21-across – Educational paper covering jazz quartets : TETRADS

23-across – Like fans in a party clique : ADORING

24-across – Skin condition I get after period of abnormal eating : LENTIGO

25-across – Deeply emotional offering trendy present? : INTENSE

26-across – Re gales: what’s brewing? This might tell you : WEATHERGLASS

1-down – A superior prisoner – he gets outside transport in lorry? : HAULAGE

2-down – Language after drink is nonsense! : LAPPISH

3-down – Kitchen preparations in commercial in residence headed by mum : MARINADES

4-down – Transplant material sent to hospital department : REPOT

5-down – One pillar rising up over grass? It’s a tree : TALIPOT

6-down – Not promising nothing less when there’s nothing involved : OMINOUS

7-down – Beating typhus is goal in famous medical centre : GUYSHOSPITAL

10-down – They fly, angels do – swirling around with glee : GOLDENEAGLES

15-down – Dangerous to humans? Roy is so brutal to chap as a gypsy : MANEATING

17-down – Regret about the holding up of night train : RETINUE

18-down – Poet’s confession about not liking the oldies? : IMAGIST

19-down – Island a monster set up as a republic : CROATIA

20-down – Lines up in store for special deal : ORIENTS

22-down – Had a conversation in the bar : SPOKE

1-across – Laughing at non-U African Queen? : BANTER

4-across – Braveheart still 8’s epic, hence not in front of the children : LITTLE

9-across – Old if unqualified : AGED

10-across – Wealth is tedious if by it confined : PROSPERITY

11-across – Bob or Tom spotted cockney solver : SAWYER

12-across – See 4 : PITCHERS

13-across – Female instrumentalist and sailor among journalists : PSALTRESS

15-across – See 4 : HAVE

16-across – See 27 : FIVE

17-across – Alien in tunnel is no intellectual : SIMPLETON

21-across – Business going bust should consolidate : FIRMDOWN

22-across – Take another setter also to your heart? : LOVEME

24-across – Old? Ninety? Born so as to make her a hundred and ten : ENIDBLYTON

25-across – Top of sycamore tree in the window : SASH

26-across – See 23 : DAGAMA

27-across – 24’s friends initially f-four with an animal around : FAMOUS

1-down – Second and first positions of lever by friend of ….. : BIGEARS

2-down – ….. 24’s 4 tern : NODDY

3-down – Top man’s agent in capital return : EMPEROR

5-down – Setter’s set point – credit when object’s discreditable : IMPUTE

6-down – Draw round nearly half the players for historic relay : TORCHRACE

7-down – Genderless vegetable topped and tailed by sponsor of poetry : EUTERPE

8-down – Sorry range for one on blended tea : COMPASSIONATE

14-down – See 22 : LOVEMYDOG

16-down – Feeding may be insincere : FEIGNED

18-down – One chasing order for fast food in Italy : POLENTA

19-down – Gradual assimiliation means the world is not Conservative : OSMOSIS

20-down – Man of faith replaces fascist’s end with his head : MOSLEM

23-down – Opposed to a trick about a dog : VASCO