CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,275

ACROSS

1 Crosses poet Robert (7) 5 Acquire beer regularly in seedy joint (6)

9 Bob and Alec possibly lacking a degree, describing some old streets? (7)

10 Comprehensive information about revolutionary in charge (7)

11 Complaint, not good, is publicly revealed (3)

12 Peter’s again mislaid make-up for actors (6,5)

13 Second group of players has source of heat? (5)

14 Fine ride arranged by wealthy German painter (9)

16 Secure rule about entrance to this Somerset town (9)

17 Rex with day gone avoids tightly packed crowds (5)

19 Cheat limits sadly quality required in sport? (11)

22 Tree found in Israel mainly (3)

23 European prompt to acquire diary and pastoral work (7)

24 Put down and omitted? (7)

26 Very large flower for Egyptian deity (6)

27 Really troubled about latest sign of increasing sensitivity (7)

DOWN

1 Bishop without rector calculates gestures (7)

2 Line new website devised about lead in Hamlet during breaks? (2,7,6)

3 Set stage in a contest put up (3)

4 Grasslike plant beginning to sprout on border (5)

5 Breakdown of fuel naturally done? (9)

6 Approach series ahead (3-2)

7 Excited pair receiving fern shorn of cover and climbing plant (8,7)

8 Put an end to spirit in the U.S. (6)

12 A couple of months in Georgia for Greek character (5)

14 Corpulence in fast set when in a loose state (9)

15 Variety of wheat in largely useless alcoholic spirit (5)

16 Marine mammals in part of the UK, reportedly (6)

18 Dome, say, renovated at a point in the future? (7)

20 Energy required by independent German for Swiss mountain (5)

21 Some disdain dialogue in cricket-playing country (5)

25 Hens not following bird with large eyes (3)