CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Document required for transferring estate car? (10) 6 Check containers on the way back (4) 10 Insomniac crackpot’s accommodating city (5) 11 Bank employee gets hold of artist — very representative (9) 12 Advertise concert, anticipating on-target earnings (7) 13 Comfort seamstress hugging returning expert (7)

14 Wise man touring America registers snack food (7,5) 18 Gives approval for bit of bridge needing impressions (6-6) 21 22’s doctor needing season to start late (7) 23 Mass-market power with uranium found in Arctic environment (7) 24 Celebrities will eat fish

— they flock together (9) 25 Landowner left daughter taking in broadcast (5) 26 Votes against hooter being sounded (4)

27 Happy to accept son is dependable (10) DOWN

1 Vices shown by person elected in short order (6) 2 Food from Mexico boy set up outside a church (6) 3 Improve and take lad off for a drink (10,4) 4 Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps (9) 5 Check weapon for magnetism (5) 7 Story after count will be revealing (8) 8 Left on boat with temperature missing elegance shown by ocean dweller (8) 9 They may hold up lines of communication (9,5) 15 Couple propping up the bar at football? (9) 16 Takes unfair advantage of Democrat taken in by jittery senator (6,2) 17 Stubborn, and planning bad route (8) 19 Plant a tree across lake (6) 20 Accept honour (6) 22 Percussionist must have love to support band (5)