1-across – Change course, producing equestrian gear : TACK

3-across – Work out duty to admit hesitation : EXERCISE

8-across – Kept quiet, not demonstrative : PRESERVED

9-across – Unite in reversing your strike : MARRY

11-across – Song raises crew’s help at sea : CARELESSWHISPER

12-across – Support gullible person in hearing : SUCCOUR

14-across – Expected to cover stone with right cloth : DUSTER

16-across – Delay retreating, then cut and run : GALLOP

17-across – Note restricting most of military unit I sign : SCORPIO

19-across – Remarkably bad error in daily tax : EXTRAORDINARILY

22-across – Wealthy level : FLUSH

23-across – Strange rituals held by motoring organisation in country : AUSTRALIA

24-across – Disloyalty in university mostly after letter about resistance : BETRAYAL

25-across – Declaration of single spirit : SOUL

1-down – Print and mould always in similar parts : TYPECAST

2-down – Easy to understand pay : CLEAR

3-down – Spy arranged adverse procedure : EAVESDROP

4-down – Provide conclusion with cry of pain : ENDOW

5-down – Order answer and anger door attendant : COMMISSIONAIRE

6-down – Hotel in predicament over a page showing pile of rubbish : SCRAPHEAP

7-down – Torment parent, embracing naughty role very quickly : HELLFORLEATHER

10-down – Story long devoid of energy : YARN

13-down – Singer with stake in church employment : CHANTEUSE

14-down – Is suitor initially overwhelmed by awful rejection? : DISMISSAL

15-down – Hairstyle that could have distracted any pilot? : PONYTAIL

18-down – Worker perhaps with loud complaint : BEEF

20-down – Study variable set : READY

21-down – One with despondency missing last house : IGLOO

1-across – Shake tower of strength : ROCK

3-across – Fellow enthralled by complicated maths, no novelist : THOMASMANN

9-across – Level still without one floor covering : PARQUET

11-across – Colourful display in fantastic bar I own : RAINBOW

12-across – Run into a wild, rough old animal : ARMADILLO

13-across – Certain alien back in fashion : FATED

14-across – Artist, good artist with clarity, finally sad about broken pen : GRAYSONPERRY

18-across – Not familiar with upper-class conduct, same all over the place : UNACCUSTOMED

21-across – One with force reflected about love for language : MAORI

22-across – Sorry about thousand libels, criminally elaborate : EMBELLISH

24-across – Energy in motivation daughter gained : DERIVED

25-across – Model army’s leader after survival seizing power : REPLICA

26-across – Painting left strangely grainy : PORTRAYING

27-across – Network becomes helpful to some extent : MESH

1-down – Cancel article in disgust : REPEAL

2-down – Approach keeping fringes of hair yellow : CHROME

4-down – Spanish article supporting fashionable guest house : HOTEL

5-down – Travelling merchant hurt company with game : MARCOPOLO

6-down – Sign of fortitude, having quarrel with superior in error : STIFFUPPERLIP

7-down – Judges in time consumed by bias err badly : ARBITERS

8-down – Negative methods receiving notice in these times : NOWADAYS

10-down – One doing less well than expected, suffering ruin, ached continually : UNDERACHIEVER

15-down – Beatles song certainly rated uncommonly higher than unknown quantity : YESTERDAY

16-down – Day in season, endlessly cheerful, described concisely : SUMMEDUP

17-down – Sailor breaking rule or prepared to give a hand? : LABOURER

19-down – Beautiful guess : DIVINE

20-down – Refuse to accept hard defeat : THRASH

23-down – Stop working for lord : BARON

1-across – Unjustified when beginning to exult in praise : BASELESS

5-across – Unpleasant, chased by police : RANCID

9-across – Verbal attack reflected support by social group : DIATRIBE

10-across – Still endless criticism about volunteers : STATIC

11-across – Excited fans stir champ to show skill : CRAFTSMANSHIP

14-across – Observe, with obvious hesitation, startling event : EYEOPENER

16-across – Passage in article with silly lies : AISLE

18-across – Skinflint lives alone finally in room after retirement : MISER

19-across – Awkward guy at back of house, very withdrawn : ILLATEASE

20-across – Hysterical team becoming disunited : SIDESPLITTING

24-across – Encourage appeal in stirring vein : INVITE

25-across – Be clear, worried about king being intellectual : CEREBRAL

26-across – Number with link receiving constant attention : NOTICE

27-across – Excellent price attached to object protected by cover : SPLENDID

1-down – Mass in depth grasped by child : BODY

2-down – Seekers in vault taken in by prophets : SEARCHERS

3-down – Los Angeles artist admitting very immature form : LARVA

4-down – Unhappily abstain, lust being considerable : SUBSTANTIAL

6-down – Steward at start of trip unusually tanned : ATTENDANT

7-down – Surprise in contract : CATCH

8-down – Resolve, endlessly receiving pressure, at this point cracked : DECIPHERED

12-down – Actress, knowing about upset, in bad temper : MERYLSTREEP

13-down – Approval for each assignment : PERMISSION

15-down – Exploitative pose assumed by soldier in charge : PARASITIC

17-down – Astonished head of government’s in step with revolutionary : STAGGERED

21-down – Digger’s first turn releasing soft piece of turf : DIVOT

22-down – Department getting some praise recently : ISERE

23-down – Happy with piece of publicity following good line : GLAD