CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. On the journey back we had mob round, maybe (8-5)

9. Drop eggs on Nazi turning east: that’s material (9)

10. Order discovered in Greenland or Iceland (5)

11. How, Sir, I have first whiskey (5)

12. Clan to run about by night (9)

13. Inner he’s somehow got to cherish (8)

15. Witness being present when international match is played (6)

18. A Venus disfigured by a birthmark (6)

20. Good: it’s a thing one is well shot of (8)

23. Trench map written out on skin (9)

24. Smell coming back from ham or aitch-bone (5)

25. Get a slant on how to fish with rod and line (5)

26. Man with a gun like d’Artagnan’s, say (9)

27. Find insects at random and they’ll kill the germs (13)

DOWN

1. Might heed bairn coming from the Islands (9)

2. Biographical sketches or mimes made up of them (7)

3. Fury is what changes if right is involved (5)

4. Inn Grieg composed while on the throne (8)

5. Breaking of a law leading barrister will get to (6)

6. Intrepid day with aunt in the nude perhaps (9)

7. Is so angered, it could make one insane (7)

8. It’s not far away, the pub (5)

14. Might hug sensor with asperity (9)

16. Rust (as hue) may be found in a book of words (9)

17. Repugnance is stated in a roundabout way (8)

19. Made furious by a gender-change (7)

21. Like a daughter of Tantalus, be in on a turn (7)

22. Such silver isn’t silver. Frank, it may be (6)

23. Something that grows, like factory machinery (5)

24. A gentleman, in short, who may act for one (5)