CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It is fashionable for Monsieur to do his version of it (6)

4. It is an easy walk south with the goblin (6)

8. It will make one angry seeing it burnt in thurible (7)

10. That on the cake is a desirable addition (5)

11. Is it a mistake to call it lingerie? (4)

12. A dollar may cheer one up (4)

13. How to achieve the return of a young sheep (3)

15. He could be akin to a corporal in India (4)

16. An instruction to take away a smaller amount (4)

19. Wise old bird starts off with lucidity (3)

21. Company he is forming gives a sound return (4)

22. Fairylike being returns to a thing that bites (4)

24. It’s all right having a tailless pig or other animal (5)

25. If tense, it couldn’t be better (7)

26. It is not sound to rent it out (6)

27. Saves trying a part in which parish meeting may be held (6)

DOWN

1. Cakes for ladies in royal service (5,2,6)

2. The way one speaks of it in cod form (7)

3. The North Sea is on the turn, which is rational (4)

5. Short and stocky, one might sketch it like this (8)

6. Being due to come first, go up and hold it (5)

7. It might be illuminating to see them on the march (5,8)

8. A Muslim lady will be first to stick to it (5)

14. Is by the hearth, if put up to live there (8)

17. Is not bankrupted by its abuse, but intoxicated (7)

18. How to form heaps of it (5)

20. It is said to be the soonest mended quantity (5)

23. One may be given this hand, to draw without instruments (4)