GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO. 27,505

ACROSS

1 PM once ditching head of state in Barnet (6) 4 Retiring soldiers work with country prone to infiltration (6) 9 Drug that doesn’t

work for man? (4) 10 Medical substitute aces academic assignment (10) 11 Information on length for supporting beam (6) 12,21 What makes daughter a palace attraction? (8,3,5) 13 American rockers make time for artist (9) 15 Coat’s wrapped

round figure (4) 16 Billionaire’s acquired

island (4) 17 A feature film’s about

manual worker (9) 21 See 12 22 Works out riddle, having succeeded finally (6) 24 Doing without six-pack, having drunk 9 etc (10) 25 Rounds with ham,

more sandwiches (4) 26 Slightly tight clothing for damsel in order to go around (6) 27 Good God! This is

a bit of a pig (6)

DOWN

1 Bully’s horrible nature, one admitted? (7) 2 Addle-pated or highly able? (5) 3 Star’s sleeveless garment lifted completely (7) 5 Cost of no longer popular piece of music (6) 6 After a few balls, berobed queen’s running wild (9) 7 Penny wearing

Eve’s top? (7) 8 Killer arrested by lawman, getting sudden comedown (6,7) 14 Missing king to get dubbed ignorant (9) 16 People wearing religious clothing (7) 18 High tea during hard period for concubine (7) 19 Fifty Shades-type behaviour an unwelcome sight in the bedroom (7) 20 Lascivious, heartless church bigwig (6) 23 Signal recalling

marines (5)