The hard way

ACROSS

1 Handle without charge (5)

8 Try as he may he just can’t settle (8)

9 Where Westphalians may go to eat in Germany (5)

10 Condition written in merely to elucidate things (8)

11 Decree cited wrongly (5)

12 In the main it won’t be laughing (3)

16 Projection time for movie equipment (6)

17 Diverts with morning exercises (6)

18 Highwayman on foot (3)

23 Way in which the sentry loses his head (5)

24 Stamps to commemorate a recent birth? (3,5)

25 Bohemian girl goes round a Florida resort (5)

26 Dance around on broken toe? Makes good story (8)

27 Girl cotton spinner (5)

DOWN

2 Used rail transport and left (8)

3 They represent people a long time since perhaps (8)

4 Girl in a Polish film (6)

5 Makes out some steps (5)

6 Measure a young animal with it (5)

7 Checks part of the rigging (5)

12 Singapore space centre (3)

13 The German comes up depressed (3)

14 Route financed by employers (8)

15 Bank go-between? (8)

19 Mature people possibly saluted out East (6)

20 Want we hear to work as a baker (5)

21 He may have the lot or about three quarters (5)

22 A team set apart (5)