CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Sort of colour mad, excitable and volatile (13)

9. Print atom in a way that matters (9)

10. Normal vocabulary of America? Gee — almost! (5)

11. How to deal with an outing, say (5)

12. Trick dart thrown where bikers are racing (4-5)

13. Relegate one to an ancillary occupation (8)

15. In part endures such constraint as imprisonment (6)

18. In the end, Pax might develop (6)

20. Painter comes ashore ere changing (8)

23. Party laic go to and get helplessly drunk (9)

24. It is reentered by a writer to congratulate himself (5)

25. Macaroni etc represented as tapas (5)

26. An extremely clever, very small, type (9)

27. Lint and perhaps a belt found in bedroom furniture (8-5)

DOWN

1. Melancholy setters: is that possible? (9)

2. Poem had to be written about one with shaggy hair (7)

3. A bird to rue having missed the start (5)

4. Sweet nut protein and its presence in a pit (8)

5. The whole tree in the making of it (6)

6. Put one’s faith in the supply — of money being held (5,4)

7. For example, a lake may bring about its loss of water (7)

8. Might fear king who is an eccentric (5)

14. Wartime provision by America met all needs the East demanded (4-5)

16. Resting, it might supply neckwear (6,3)

17. Authorise cast in no other form (8)

19. Studied reeds up for replacement (7)

21. She’s a little sheepish about being a prized possession (3-4)

22. Painter of first bare busts (6)

23. Father to pay heartlessly for a flower (5)

24. Plan to include one who’ll see one out of harbour (5)