7-across – Took responsibility for a misdeed or error : CARRIEDTHECAN

8-across – Audio listening piece : EARPHONE

9-across – Offensive to one’s sight or other senses : UGLY

10-across – Beer mug in the shape of a man in a tricorn hat : TOBYJUG

12-across – Boston, MA’s newspaper : GLOBE

14-across – Playful aquatic animal : OTTER

16-across – Feeling uneasy : ABASHED

19-across – Lover of Aeneas : DIDO

20-across – Place where easy money may be made : ELDORADO

22-across – Distraught : BESIDEONESELF

1-down – Special social or sporting occasion : GALA

2-down – Visit, pop in : DROPBY

3-down – Propriety in manners and conduct : DECORUM

4-down – —– Pendragon, father of King Arthur : UTHER

5-down – Follow-up : SEQUEL

6-down – Bali fell : FALLIBLE

11-down – One not fancied to win : OUTSIDER

13-down – Putting up with: long-lasting : ABIDING

15-down – Strikingly strange or unusual : EXOTIC

17-down – Emphasise : STRESS

18-down – Article of faith; doctrine : TENET

21-down – Plant of the celery family; leaf is a herb, seeds a spice : DILL

1-across – Starting place on race track, racing circuit, etc, on the inside at the front : POLE

3-across – See 1 : POSITION

9-across – Internal whorl of a flower : COROLLA

10-across – Loquacious : WORDY

11-across – Style of painting having an illusion of movement : OPART

12-across – British composer of German birth, the ‘father of the oratorio’ : HANDEL

14-across – Companion: train : ESCORT

16-across – Apparition; phantom : WRAITH

19-across – Breed of rabbit or cat, the former name for the Turkish capital : ANGORA

21-across – Legal capital and former monetary unit of Bolivia : SUCRE

24-across – Mexican mud and straw brick, and the hut made of it : ADOBE

25-across – Entreat, implore : BESEECH

26-across – Popular sauce used in Chinese cuisine : SWEETAND

27-across – See 26 : SOUR

1-down – Prepare for imminent departure; leave home, a job, etc : PACKONES

2-down – Federico Garcia —–, poet assassinated in the Spanish Civil War : LORCA

4-down – Edible spinach-like plant of the genus Atriplex that thrives in arid areas : ORACHE

5-down – One from Des Moines… : IOWAN

6-down – …and one from Jaffa : ISRAELI

7-down – Those that oppose a motion in Parliament : NAYS

8-down – Historic Irish province; heavy overcoat : ULSTER

13-down – Person or machine that cuts grass, wheat, etc : THRESHER

15-down – Express sympathy or sorrow : CONDOLE

17-down – Check; withstand : RESIST

18-down – —— copy: exact image; clone : CARBON

20-down – For all to see : OVERT

22-down – Words to live by; belief : CREDO

23-down – See 1 : BAGS

7-across – Uniform worn by menservants, chauffeurs, etc, often part of a retinue : LIVERY

8-across – Pause; discontinuity : HIATUS

9-across – Wood-shaping tool : ADZE

10-across – 19th century outlaw [1] : NEDKELLY

11-across – Dilettante: buff : AMATEUR

13-across – Upturned, as a box : ONEND

15-across – 19th century outlaw [2] : BILLY

17-across – Minoan site on Crete : KNOSSOS

20-across – One in Benedictine orders is not alive? : OLIVETAN

21-across – Flexible mineral found in igneous and metamorphic rocks : MICA

22-across – Remaining: inexperienced : UNUSED

23-across – See 15 : THEKID

1-down – Crown : DIADEM

2-down – Pond: simple : MERE

3-down – Baffling or bewildering : TYINGUP

4-down – The Ocean State, capital Providence : RHODE

5-down – Have enough money to buy essentials : MAKEENDS

6-down – Fine soft plain-woven cotton fabric of gauzy appearance : MUSLIN

12-down – Air, broadcast : TELEVISE

14-down – See 3 : INKNOTS

16-down – See 4 : ISLAND

18-down – Family of flowers with unusual shapes and beautiful colours : ORCHID

19-down – Read: den : STUDY

21-down – See 5 : MEET

1-across – Reveal : BRINGTO

5-across – See 1 : LIGHT

8-across – Softly bright or radiant; flickering : LAMBENT

9-across – International Call Sign: appreciation shown at the opera : BRAVO

10-across – Bo —–, co-star of Dudley Moore in ’10’ : DEREK

11-across – Vocation : CALLING

12-across – Announcement of an event or piece of news : TIDING

14-across – Originally an alpine cowherd’s hut : CHALET

17-across – Precise detail; small, trivial matter : MINUTIA

19-across – Place, site : LOCUS

22-across – Florida key: musical slow movement : LARGO

23-across – Ice cult? : CUTICLE

24-across – Being about to publish : GOING

25-across – See 24 : TOPRESS

1-down – Bound up : BALED

2-down – Turkish port, formerly Smyrna : IZMIR

3-down – Small cucumber pickled whole : GHERKIN

4-down – Field of vision? : OPTICS

5-down – Actionable words : LIBEL

6-down – Pertaining to the ice ages : GLACIAL

7-down – Content of cognition : THOUGHT

12-down – Delay : TIMELAG

13-down – Roman coins : DENARII

15-down – Crest or crown of an upland area : HILLTOP

16-down – Surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade: pointed Gothic arch : LANCET

18-down – Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip: excuse for underwear : THONG

20-down – Revolution, ie one complete turn : CYCLE

21-down – Skids, bringing a vehicle’s back-end around : SLEWS

7-across – Developing surface film; sheen : PATINA

8-across – Net made by a spider to catch insects : COBWEB

9-across – Young seal : CALF

10-across – Transmission of recognisable characteristics to descendants : HEREDITY

11-across – Rapidly and vigorously : FASTAND

13-across – Revert : LAPSE

15-across – Dissertation : ESSAY

17-across – See 11 : FURIOUS

20-across – Tries to improve what is already beautiful or excellent : GILDSTHE

21-across – See 20 : LILY

22-across – Be relevant to : BEARON

23-across – Join, meet with : LINKUP

1-down – Spanish port and resort town : MALAGA

2-down – Minor quarrel : TIFF

3-down – Rakish : DASHING

4-down – Nut of an oak tree : ACORN

5-down – Largest member state of the UAE, and its capital : ABUDHABI

6-down – Slightly more aggressive disagreements than 2 : SETTOS

12-down – Hither and thither : TOANDFRO

14-down – Euro ale? : AUREOLE

16-down – Harpsichord-like keyboard instrument : SPINET

18-down – Mark put over a vowel in German to indicate a different quality : UMLAUT

19-down – Con: leader singer of Police : STING

21-down – Air bag? : LUNG