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)