CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Control overflowing stream (6)

4 Look in Tuscany (4)

7 Repeat in the choir (4)

8 Retain different eye part (6) 9 Spoken of morality (4)

10 Crude sort of weld (4)

12 Father, with hesitation, gets cat (4)

14 Admit being won over (3) 16 Fairy’s manner (3)

17 German university students get the bird (4)

20 Honest old writer (4)

23 Initials slowly put upon rear boot spike (4)

24 Make box to contain energy (6) 25 Lois managed to get the dirt (4)

26 Bound to change diet (4)

27 Set tea out in the grounds (6)

DOWN

1 TV detective’s code (5)

2 Ties up venue (4)

3 Paper around large field (5) 4 Reveal second method (4) 5 Barrier with rope attached (6)

6 Many Londoners have material (5)

11 Peer in real trouble (4) 13 Surgeon’s desire (4) 15 Complain to a bird (6)

16 Tessa returned something valuable (5)

18 Relative is mostly vague (5) 19 Round bees, terribly fat (5) 21 Jab quietly with stick (4) 22 Girl at a charity soiree (4)