CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Time limits second fatal quality (10) 6 Rugby player’s item used in play (4) 9 Worry about American soldier returning hot goods (7) 10 Football club magazine (7) 12 Decline to check current address (13) 14 Ceremony accompanying one decoration or another (6) 15 Sapper, favourite after loading a Queen’s gun (8) 17 I am after gold fake (8) 19 Shining silver light almost encircling earth (6) 22 Solderer worked with metal forced through (13) 24 A canoe I manoeuvred round group of Pacific islands (7) 25 Uncivilised church leader out of work accepts boring routine (7) 26 Pilot’s ordeal (4) 27 Financial district cash-holder must accept rest being disturbed (4,6)

DOWN

1 Stupid duke gets back (4) 2 A fool turned up around final item for discussion (7) 3 He helps keep sailors safe although mines exploded (13) 4 Unspoilt countryside turning brown over river (6) 5 Given spice — caraway perhaps — a boy is tucking in (8) 7 Go wild seeing smallest item of litter dropped round Brazilian city (3,4) 8 Friend at airstrip needed radar for instance (10) 11 Childish game about Emma Peel, say, in crash (9,4) 13 Booty left for antisocial type (10) 16 Hook may set out to reach a Japanese port (8) 18 Looks to hoard the French old coppers (7) 20 One in Sweden confused, back to front (7) 21 International target investing pounds, billions, separately (6) 23 Talk of clubs with bowler? (4)