CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Runs come with blame handed out in due proportion (13)

9. Old schoolfellow and valet are carefully attentive (9)

10. Light shield is not quite what one is aiming at (5)

11. Daylight is returning to the cavity (5)

12. Was astonished by level dram was reduced to (9)

13. Something that happens to the cent I’d got in change (8)

15. Body of law or no end of a body round the turn (6)

18. Attest how one will remove one from high station (6)

20. Paper sweetmeats to infect for a change (8)

23. Sole impression of a twelve-inch picture (9)

24. Long to have some time at the end of the afternoon (5)

25. Too large a circle for bees to make (5)

26. Choose to include bench, broken if it simulates gold (9)

27. Get past difficulty and go into road at right angles (4,3,6)

DOWN

1. It blows from the side, will go over and meander about (9)

2. Lodge occasion Monica’s turned out for (7)

3. Saner in the form it brings to one (5)

4. Slightly impassioned way to sing about behaving like bees (8)

5. The journey back runs true to form with the Navy (6)

6. It’s not so good on getting richer (6,3)

7. Part of cap may flare at a peak-top (7)

8. A froth on liquor obtainable in advance (5)

14. Paper said to be wrong will have to go (9)

16. Racing yacht sail or spanker in a different form (9)

17. Once unit has been arranged, keep it going (8)

19. Stick out for a scheme to be undertaken (7)

21. Part exchange, and tire of it? (5-2)

22. Nap a favourite to come in by a neck (6)

23. Serious expression of forehead, worn out (5)

24. Boorish lout finishes any opera with solo? No! (5)