1-across – Old boring laughter track is ancient : HOARY

4-across – Genius CGI animations, only half animated : MAGICIAN

8-across – Standard article by Tory, with mission to show England overrun by foreigners : NORMANCONQUEST

10-across – Linguist has appealing quality, university’s guaranteed : SAUSSURE

11-across – Yes, there’s trouble for head returning drunk : STINKO

12-across – Bachelor, one completely crazy for oily fruit : BUTTERNUT

15-across – I must be on time for alluring lady : HOURI

17-across – King wearing drag is a fruitcake! : TORTE

18-across – Rubbish men paid by firm for collections : COMPENDIA

19-across – Still pursuing winning result : UPSHOT

21-across – Pick fruit that’s bagged etcetera, periodically : PLECTRUM

24-across – Drippy American ex-president cut back security item : JACKSONPOLLOCK

25-across – One lacking in awareness gets punishment : SENTENCE

26-across – Monarch put on excessive fur : OTTER

1-down – Animal activist’s outburst with a hen mistreated : HUNTSABOTEUR

2-down – Imagined axe slashed a rug — it cut into screen : AIRGUITAR

3-down – Linesman scoffs, holding up end of play : YEATS

4-down – Italian dish gets cold, with Roman and local ingredients : MACARONIC

5-down – Left turn outside of Nashville : GONE

6-down – Place for trying zip in novel female attire : COURTSHOE

7-down – With p*** off, clergyman gives offence : ARSON

9-down – Person tripping over hat’s cracked a heavy blow : HOLIDAYMAKER

13-down – Heard where Apple device is charged in orbit? : EYESOCKET

14-down – Technique when shooting is utter flipping blunder : TIMELAPSE

16-down – Downtrodden, like Labour during Thatcherism : UNDERFOOT

20-down – Pan to fill has litres in : SLATE

22-down – Where crooks are beginning to organise a big fiddle : CELLO

23-down – Trouble afoot, with commander oppressing sailors : CORN

1-across – A treasonous emu I, wandering in to seduce beauty in aria : LAMOUREST

6-across – Spike Milligan’s third one : LACE

8-across – Strong singer about to go down for high singer : FALSETTO

9-across – Head carrying knock, one’s exposed : NUDIST

10-across – See 24 : SAPETE

11-across – Where fox may be, one with a camel ultimately burying head in sand? : INDENIAL

12-across – Entering finale, all three starting in sensational style, unforgettable in opera aria : NESSUN

15-across – An image awfully full of love, narcissism : EGOMANIA

16-across – Sinner finally incarcerated, calling for heavy beating : DRUBBING

19-across – Nation today and for ever containing capital in Rome : NORWAY

21-across – See 1 : UNOISEAU

22-across – When foaled, discard horse : DOBBIN

24-across – Aria where boy’s a darling in mezzo-soprano, say? : VOICHE

25-across – Happy close to death, sang about it : THRILLED

26-across – Man perhaps, one and only, lacking nothing : ISLE

27-across – Tongue in, well inside case of strawberries, beginning to eat : SINHALESE

1-down – Beast saying prayer? : LLAMA

2-down – Seafood, a smaller quantity in total that’s hauled up : MUSSELS

3-down – Top broadcaster, free : UNTIE

4-down – See 6 : EMOBILE

5-down – Terrible start and horrid end in an earlier clue made less shocking : TONEDDOWN

6-down – Youth using phone catching every second of insane aria : LADONNA

7-down – Performers very inspired by uplifting opera aria : CASTADIVA

13-down – Wrong number held by user, or otherwise : ERRONEOUS

14-down – Silent, as sizeable frame in painting breaks head : NOISELESS

17-down – With vigour, cook cut bread : BRIOCHE

18-down – Pig flying at last, heading for terminal in airport : GLUTTON

20-down – See 1 across : REBELLE

22-down – See 12 across : DORMA

23-down – Goddess of desire, Nephele : IRENE

7-across – Don’t finish course after medic’s nil by mouth expression? : DROPOUT

8-across – Hospital fellow managed as cool place for uncool visitors : SANFRAN

9-across – Sky and C4 regularly record at the same time : SYNC

10-across – Swallowing tablet after messing about with gran’s pyjamas? : NIGHTWEAR

12-across – Man, shortly this could be happening in 8 : HUMAN

13-across – TV presenter drops daughter outside hotel somewhere in Greece : THESSALY

15-across – See 12 : BEIN

16-across – Money key to study responsible for Everything I Own? : BREAD

17-across – Broadcast story of 8’s mistake : FLAW

18-across – Something smoked by old man, as Tim Rice’s opener plays : PASTRAMI

20-across – Count given before jelly finally set : TELLY

21-across – Serving as expectant mother’s second name : WAITINGON

22-across – Small, once trendy dog : SHEP

24-across – I’m getting back into black tea, where unusual people hang out : BOHEMIA

25-across – Kind of grass skirts in Tuscany? Setter’s hot, dancing in them : TIMOTHY

1-down – Trumpet player’s final appearance in 8 area? : BRAY

2-down – Some wee person, for example : SPECIMEN

3-down – Start recalling something that isn’t groovy? : TURNON

4-down – Where newspaper title shows old woman’s unexpected death : MASTHEAD

5-down – Fast broken, eating queen’s pudding : AFTERS

6-down – Pretty good light for fine, sporting show : FAIR

11-down – Something pussy guiltily ate: two starters, then a partly gutted fish : GATHERING

12-down – Discontented hippy girl that might be spotted laughing : HYENA

14-down – Wary of alternative spelling, like king or poet : LEARY

16-down – Attend primarily idealistic festival in California, getting blissed out : BEATIFIC

17-down – Weed’s pulled up after busy period in 8 : FULLSTOP

19-down – Attempts to include black people in social groups : TRIBES

20-down – Quantity of wine : TUNEIN

21-down – Court female, as a setter might : WOOF

23-down – Leader in evening newspaper? : ECHO

7-across – Conclude with army’s opening invasion of Holland — hellish : INFERNAL

9-across – Atmospheric phenomenon or boomer sound? : AURORA

10-across – See 22 : BOAT

11-across – Given the law about dropping electric current, it might span two peaks : WAVELENGTH

12-across – Phone a spendthrift : BLOWER

14-across – Bird from Brazil? Mark with fine lines : NUTHATCH

15-across – Sort of dash into Ring dismissal : DENIAL

17-across – Small creature has cold, rather than hot, stint : SCRIMP

20-across – United, Poulenc incited divorce : UNCOUPLE

22-across – Bar with two articles by tramp? It bears fruit : BANANA

23-across – Agent’s message, maybe: Try to come back between chapel and drive : CRYPTOGRAM

24-across – See 2 : WITH

25-across – Laurel’s sound, having a few lines? : STANZA

26-across – Supervise rag lion housing for Muslim quarters : SERAGLIO

1-down – Dignified death, hoarding old money : ENNOBLED

2-down – Junk TV harm: people wait to gain acceptance : MEET

3-down – Solution offered by Australian state: cutting a rate of interest : ANSWER

4-down – Writer takes every blockbuster film as movingly graceful : BALLETIC

5-down – Shortening time before work on ground action : TRUNCATION

6-down – Extremely cold chest, Mark said : ARCTIC

8-down – Which should keep a worker from leaving wig off : LIVING

13-down – Light weapon exploded after blast : WINDOWPANE

16-down – See 2 : APPROVAL

18-down – £25 tip that could go to one’s head : PONYTAIL

19-down – Teacher Patch turned over remains : DEBRIS

21-down – Retina mistaken for group of sea snails : NERITA

22-down – Insect straddling overturned border soil : BEMIRE

24-down – See 8 : WAGE

1-across – Saw what Kate Moss was doing on the runway : SASHAYING

6-across – Second room key : BACK

8-across – Cut dead : LACERATE

9-across – Compound houses extremely seedy institution : ASYLUM

10-across – Stroke Rod’s fringe? : PELMET

11-across – Litanies composed for a mind-reader? : ALIENIST

12-across – Spent cash in Irish party : USEDUP

15-across – Let spies disrupt lines of communication : EPISTLES

16-across – Sedate patient? He might need it : FIRSTAID

19-across – Appear to knock down tools : STRIKE

21-across – Declining to create an impression : DECADENT

22-across – Photos regularly produce disputes : FIGHTS

24-across – Where punters are embroiled in fracas in Oxford : CASINO

25-across – Controversy about cleavage : ARGUMENT

26-across – Stop swallow flying west : PLUG

27-across – New resident broke the crockery : DINNERSET

1-down – See 6 across : SPACE

2-down – Moved quickly with Bonxie instead : STEAMED

3-down – Expect a clout on the ear : AWAIT

4-down – Repeat: uneducated but not unhealthy : ITERATE

5-down – Indulges with £1,000 signs : GRATIFIES

6-down – Run through United first team : BAYONET

7-down – Cut part of deck : CLUBSTEAK

13-down – Before formal party, start to slowly degenerate : SLIMEBALL

14-down – Fool scratches head when looking up at space traveller : PLANETOID

17-down – Very wet grass : SOAKING

18-down – Get off? I daren’t move! : DETRAIN

20-down – She forecasts when fighter infiltrates revolutionary governments : REGIMES

22-down – A piece of music, which transports mind and body? : FUGUE

23-down – It’s believed soldiers have left the block of flats : TENET