CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
For today’s solutions, text CLUE followed by the clue (eg: ‘CLUE 1 Down’) to 53307
Across
1 Language that’s remote is coming back (5). 4 Turn to thrifty one for means to avoid shame (4,5). 9 Scented herb with fruit and ointment (5,4). 10 Mixing with Scotsman splitting silver (5). 11 Limit of endurance for heavenly body embracing at ten on the dot (10,5). 12 Provide new actors for fresh construction (6). 14 Flower girl keeping coin change (8). 17 It’s stimulating to demand brief relationship (4-2-2). 19 Change second enchanting female (6). 22 Group of clerics reluctant to hold name day give exact source (7,3,5). 24 To an extent, compare national sporting facility (5). 25 Trees yield complicated clue — a pity! (9). 26 The shoes are more expensive, but they’re never first (7-2). 27 Heavyweights maintaining gravity are hands-off facilitators (5).
Down
1 Limp first to arrange a kind of display (9). 2 Pay for clock that goes backwards (5). 3 Sardine at sea switching name to English shows guts (7). 4 Duty of a citizen is to be winsome about a junior officer (6). 5 Created by an artist appearing in full control (8). 6 Leave at once without a representative, cleaner (7). 7 Musician makes old instrument popular first (9). 8 Absolutely not mistaken (5). 13 Two firms with one head find source of chocolate (5,4). 15 Vigorous exercise — assembling lathe with involuntary movements (9). 16 Where one might lodge American coins (8). 18 Gas men hate engineering (7). 20 Salutation allowed to produce a ripple (7). 21 Fungus makes publishing medium go one better (6). 22 Presiding officer — one in daily (5). 23 Reach maturity at small US state jail (5).