| Clues across |
| 1 | Graduate has turned over equipment in search of a method of dyeing (5) |
| 4 | Jo is grabbed by sleigh-puller (not English) – is this her response? (9) |
| 9 | Perhaps NATO is to get a crony before the start of manoeuvres (7) |
| 10 | Splits and sticks (7) |
| 11 | Type of car to retreat into its shell? (9) |
| 12 | Quiet stroke for a small tree (5) |
| 13 | Playbill, turned over, conceals name of middle-eastern country (5) |
| 14 | Get enough rib from chap next door? (9) |
| 16 | Adjust places etc in exhibition (9) |
| 17 | Strangely takes overdose, downing lemon yoghurt initially (5) |
| 18 | Edward, after circumnavigating rough sea, is made more comfortable (5) |
| 20 | Next to a great edge? (9) |
| 23 | Middle-easterner is not quite real one (7) |
| 25 | Trooped out to see the tin fish (7) |
| 26 | Intermediary takes leave to put wager on 'Little North' (2-7) |
| 27 | In America, impertinent talk about ship (5) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Tree, we hear, found at the water’s edge (5) |
| 2 | A railway or a record-player has one (9) |
| 3 | Generous – or hidden taker? (4-7) | | 4 | Graduate overcome by drink at dance (5) |
| 5 | Sailor on cutter takes a dive (4-5) |
| 6 | Diamonds? I see first of emeralds! (3) |
| 7 | Five in middle of bumpy ride – one will get wet (5) |
| 8 | Prayers, little brother, may produce fruit (9) |
| 12 | Cross hog, ill, disturbed these female students (11) |
| 13 | Paying attention, nine turned up to join list on commencement of group (9) |
| 14 | Sweet drink in east – it’s peachy! (9) |
| 15 | Antique clocks for veterans (3-6) |
| 19 | Abandon brushwood (5) |
| 21 | Frequently decimal? (5) |
| 22 | The old turn up holding good French wood (5) |
| 24 | Newt left headless (3) |
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