1-across – Morph: OK, OK Mr Hart, here we have an artist : MARKROTHKO

6-across – An idiot yesterday, in a manner of speaking : ASAP

9-across – Those choosing prison for Spooner: might they be hampered? : PICNICKERS

10-across – Storage unit for socks, nip of putrid atmosphere : PAIR

11-across – Used woolly thinking when lacking illumination? : COUNTEDSHEEP

15-across – Walk out on salsa band onstage for using a sample : ABANDON

16-across – Evidently clumsy type – and a loafer : SLIPPER

17-across – Swallowing duck, one checks for poison; I say ‘Cheers!’ : TOASTER

19-across – Residents x workers? : TENANTS

20-across – Sinful American peels back – and out : FALLENASLEEP

23-across – I appreciate that German is curt, having unpleasant air : DANK

24-across – Can Guaraní get translated for C. American? : NICARAGUAN

25-across – It goes well with curry, whichever way you look at it : NAAN

26-across – ‘Hot location acceptable’ – tiny oriental feline : HELLOKITTY

1-down – Everyman, having taken on work, to look miserable : MOPE

2-down – Dicky and Fatty : RICH

3-down – Calling for the French? : RAISONDETRE

4-down – Admitted what the sights may be : TAKENIN

5-down – Cores – or, reportedly, senior members of what sounds the same? : KERNELS

7-down – Southern facility by river restrained aquatic menace : SEASERPENT

8-down – Present alternative rendering, albeit parallel – here represents a suitable example, primarily! : PARAPHRASE

12-down – Snack recipe concocted in experimental facilities : SCIENCEPARK

13-down – Dinin’ on chocolate eggs, you say, in Steinbeck novel : EASTOFEDEN

14-down – Film in Almodóvar’s language for the White House : CASABLANCA

18-down – Appreciate fizzy ale, Sire? : REALISE

19-down – Newspaper exposé showing Archer and friend scratching bottom : TELLALL

21-down – Relative somewhat daunted : AUNT

22-down – Jealousy picked up from leading characters in Nouvelle Vague? : ENVY

1-across – No trace of husband or nephew in Hibernia or lands further south : IBERIA

5-across – Six slices of tripe set alongside old Spanish bread : PESETA

8-across – Spooner tells us one seasoning food’s approaching being delightful : ASNICEASPIE

11-across – Scarlet towers over not-so-bright stars : REDDWARFS

12-across – Overly loud American, looking back, going on : AFOOT

13-across – Philippine city’s enthralling student paper : MANILLA

14-across – They split – to do the reverse! : ELOPERS

15-across – Called out: Starter’s cooking – taste? : SOUPCON

17-across – Earl, scoundrel, overcome by booze, making misstep : ERRATUM

20-across – Morning deity rejected doctrine : DOGMA

21-across – Quack, then maraud wildly in a kind of story : DOCUDRAMA

22-across – Creating three of M*A*S*H’s characters? : ASTERISKING

23-across – Bride’s delirious, in bits : DEBRIS

24-across – In southeast, Dutch to leave S African grassland thin : SVELTE

2-down – Solve this clue to beget grand urban construction! : BRANDENBURGGATE

3-down – Second life for polystyrene wall filling : RENEWAL

4-down – Verify eccentric Cartesian : ASCERTAIN

5-down – Fruit and asparagus tip falling to the floor : PEARS

6-down – See opera – ENO – never seeing energy in its star? : SOPRANO

7-down – Sherlock’s defining characteristic heard in final moments : THEHOMESTRAIGHT

9-down – School leavers’ event in which patriotic songs belted out at last? : PROM

10-down – Occupying this inventor? Safety, principally! : OTIS

14-down – Troubles, including yoga, tai chi etc : EXERCISES

15-down – Does the groundwork for gits? : SODS

16-down – He makes little effort, braggart downgraded at first : COASTER

18-down – About to eat, having swallowed whiskey and claret : REDWINE

19-down – Everyman getting fourth of rounds, suppressing touch of angst, reluctant to pay : MEAN

21-down – Reads about faces : DARES

1-across – Excitedly earning tip, returning a coat? : REPAINTING

6-across – Bulk of the artificial intelligence from land on Indochinese Peninsula : THAI

9-across – Duck and swan given kind of seed: with this, get in! : OPENSESAME

10-across – In Macbeth, a dagger is one mainstay : PROP

11-across – ‘Time to get up, Mr. Warne: would you like some dried fruit?’ : RISEANDSHINE

15-across – In Hamilton – or Mansell – we see overpowering force : NORMANS

16-across – Swallow pork pie first, and rest : LIEDOWN

17-across – Feeling queasy and green in France, Everyman leaves : VERTIGO

19-across – With pie standing in for a roast: most inadequate : ROPIEST

20-across – Nastily, he invited one to fail to reach fruition : DIEONTHEVINE

23-across – In audition, furrows … finding lice : NITS

24-across – So, you grill bananas to magnificent effect? : GLORIOUSLY

25-across – Wildly yearn, losing resistance for musician : ENYA

26-across – Fling glove – not good – a loud exhibition : LOVEAFFAIR

1-down – Burrow into ground for parsnip? : ROOT

2-down – Spy to stay up : PEEK

3-down – Breathtaking goddess, like Erato? : INSPIRATION

4-down – Tense idiots crowding front of limo: they’re left hanging : TASSELS

5-down – Primarily ‘named’ – or maybe ‘in name alone’, legally? : NOMINAL

7-down – Those whose régime may often be seedy? : HERBIVORES

8-down – ‘Germinate’, loosely translated when primate principally involved? : IMPREGNATE

12-down – Risen on the wing, glimpses of emperor penguin pets: that’s novel : STEPPENWOLF

13-down – Envied Nice resort, that’s clear to see : INEVIDENCE

14-down – Pertly ruin gathering, in an obscene manner : PRURIENTLY

18-down – Venetian game … : OTHELLO

19-down – … overturn gear : REVERSE

21-down – Where you could find central parts of East Siam? : ASIA

22-down – Tradesperson adding colour, extract of Goodyera : DYER

1-across – Verse collection: Dante’s Inferno at beginning, trying to grapple with evil and ending in Paradiso? : DIVINETRILOGY

8-across – Slug, source of illumination? : LAMP

9-across – Dictator books senior businesspeople for help with what to say : IDIOTBOARD

10-across – Oats and nuts, never ending: I’ll see … um, on reflection … : MUESLI

11-across – A laundry refitted in approx. 709 hours : LUNARDAY

12-across – … diner order – #coffee? : HASHBROWN

14-across – Purportedly ‘everlasting’ ringlets, manmade primarily! : PERM

15-across – On the spur of the moment, a simple card game : SNAP

16-across – Abstract, see? Yes : PRECISELY

20-across – Baddies at home, inhabiting country houses : VILLAINS

21-across – Donkey attacked by bird, noisily, in side : ASPECT

23-across – Regressively spoils lad getting AI initially providing support for musician : PIANOSTOOL

24-across – Somewhat nouveau, where Iris is found : UVEA

25-across – The old ready for 3d info stored digitally? : THREEPENNYBIT

1-down – Blood count? : DRACULA

2-down – Victor, denied entrance, opens wide and inhales a cloud of nicotine : VAPES

3-down – More likely to inquire about one that’s less quiet : NOISIER

4-down – You get at least 66 points playing a quiz here : TRIPLEWORDSCORE

5-down – Yorkshireman’s ultimately mean : INTEND

6-down – Reconsidered when decapitated, would roses suggest this description? : ODOURLESS

7-down – Flipping Everyman’s installing malfunctioning radar as onboard support : YARDARM

13-down – Cape with cruise ship following star : HEADLINER

15-down – Way up in the Alps? : SKILIFT

17-down – Some sketch a plinth displaying cinematic icon : CHAPLIN

18-down – Extremely frilly elastic pants : LACIEST

19-down – Time to put into circulation paper for those suffering : TISSUE

22-down – Lead 16 : PLUMB

1-across – Employment à la Ubers – or horse-drawn carriages? : GIGECONOMY

6-across – House detective, part employed : USED

9-across – Sufferer sedated, calm : OUTPATIENT

10-across – A sucker rejected some bubbly : CAVA

12-across – Grim, noon, dog barking: you can’t say this now! : GOODMORNING

15-across – Exciting under canvas by the sound of it : INTENSE

16-across – To? : MANXCAT

17-across – Twin, having consumed gin, recalled puzzles : ENIGMAS

19-across – Harlequin inexhaustibly portraying some characters: that’s the tonic : QUININE

20-across – Comic interlude – but does it describe a darkness? : LIGHTRELIEF

23-across – ¹/₂₈ oz good butter : GRAM

24-across – One drawing things out – using this? : PROTRACTOR

25-across – Cushions in apartments : PADS

26-across – Naughty child is on the loo : BRATISLAVA

1-down – Drop golf ball that’s been lifted high : GLOB

2-down – Jerk, English in French holiday home : GITE

3-down – Where youngsters’ habits may be unpleasant? : CHANGINGMATS

4-down – Mostly unwelcome sound: O, Everyman is most unwelcome! : NOISOME

5-down – Least brief amount of time? I’m … I’m not sure : MINIMUM

7-down – Horse that provides sustenance in the main : SEABISCUIT

8-down – More like preliminary version, read aloud and increasingly windy? : DRAUGHTIER

11-down – Learning, fast, to arrange relatives’ accommodations : GRANNIEFLATS

13-down – Grand! I have beer – and dog returning to offer support : GIVEALEGUP

14-down – Spooner’s to provide support for violinists etc : STRINGBAND

18-down – Shepherd who played up front for England? : SHEARER

19-down – Queen in time to introduce Alien V : QUINTET

21-down – Volcano where the stake’s raised : ETNA

22-down – Primarily, oceanic ravenous creature: aargh! : ORCA