CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,359

Across

1 Important time for using combine harvester (6)

4 Kid endlessly pursued by yob? Calm down! (5,3)

9 Man initially cornered in big building (6)

10 Biscuits as unusual treat for French friend to eat (8)

11 Fruit for each simple boy outside back of farm (9)

13 Nest well-ventilated by the sound of it sometimes? (5)

14 A case of identity with financial implications? (9,4)

17 Ancient hotels had fluctuating misfortunes (3,2,3,5)

21 Form of greeting he will love (5)

23 Gets together, taking walks around southern Home Counties (9)

24 Underground tunnel undamaged when penetrated by soldiers – 1,000 (8)

25 Set of programmes – something corny on the radio? (6)

26 Exhibition, something hairy bringing confrontation (8)

27 One making an impression artistically (6)

Down

1 Put up with a troublesome pet catching cold repeatedly (6)

2 A bad mood when divine fellow’s eaten that snail? (9)

3 Therefore catalogue must include old performer (7)

5 Requirement for personal freedom – tricky to make him trash gun (5,6)

6 What is awfully clear – New York crime (7)

7 Animal more passionate, hard to avoid (5)

8 Entering temporary accommodation, deliver spears (8)

12 Sweet food item wrecks him, not one to permit (11)

15 He’s sinful, unlikely to be thinking mostly of other people (9)

16 Birds disappear and lurk finally in woods (8)

18 Overly upset, being stuck in building – must be pacified (7)

19 Glowing elegy when bishop is buried (7)

20 One sort of wood and another with church lacking stonework (6)

22 Piece of music from particular goddess (5)