CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Formal warning in the rock hollow at the end (6)

4. Wheel engaging chain of rocks pet came out of (8)

9. Give one back a ten-pound note for making junket (6)

10. Spiritualist mediums spy out chic Squadron-leader (8)

12. Get through a net with Peter somehow (9)

13. In gene manipulation it’s a wash-out (5)

14. Meat and vegetable snack with chips – any sort (7,5)

18. Free nations about to start talks on window arrangement (12)

21. Fragrance coming from India romanticised (5)

22. Flooded with tea, nun did get muddled (9)

24. It’s perhaps not a diet that will counteract poison (8)

25. Bent MO might arrange to have one buried (6)

26. Care of nails for the fellow I make better (8)

27. How to go over a furrow (6)

DOWN

1. Shell for vehicle quickly completed (8)

2. They sell wine – French wine – and fix rents (8)

3. Affirm the top table will turn it aside (5)

5. Adhesive tape for framing a master-key (5-7)

6. A number of players reach sort of confused state (9)

7. They cut vines assembled by king (6)

8. A Central Italian can’t be confused with us (6)

11. Money will make its mark on this till (4-8)

15. Old Norse clan I dice with (9)

16. A highly skilled player, Vi, so tour is arranged (8)

17. That is, blend I manufacture can’t be eaten (8)

19. Petroleum jelly gives lamp an alternative form (6)

20. Natural fibre to take on to understand it (6)

23. He gives a party, and Ron turns up (5)