Diversions & Puzzles

Puzzle No 1117

Clues across

5. Advance from clan leader to member (5) 7. Porn, if not in disguise, is not really commercial (9) 10. Coal left to catch fire (7) 11. Brown before opening oven (7) 12. Stain he rectified hurriedly (2,5) 13. Boy with a stash, having lost first and last, makes some serious scores (7) 14. Prepare luggage before terrible outrage all in holiday (7,4) 19. Umbrage about trader with hot deals (7) 21. Road not rebuilt, a terrible blow (7) 23. Sailors with unusual sort of ale: the black stuff (7) 25. Atrocious house in development (7) 26. Weathering badly, lacking oriental pyjamas (9) 27. Wheat conveyed in letters (5)

Clues down

1. General in family relationship achieves sovereignty (8) 2. Chronic disorder of native tree (10) 3. Upstart can turn up in apartment (4) 4. Endeavour to make a revised offer before Tuesday (6) 5. Some protocol lieutenant applies to farm worker (6) 6. Ignorance, so it is said (5) 8. Tour inn when drunk and collide (3,4) 9. Clobber someone for distributing rubbish about hospital (6) 13. Sew drunkenly with a terrible thirst, making a pullover (10) 15. Start to compose sonnet about green light (7) 16. Saw in a book about nose operation being logically worked out (8) 17. A dumpling got the prize: several thousand pounds (3,3) 18. Escort tangled her undergarment (6) 20. Enemy grabs newspaper to look for sustenance (6) 22. Complains angrily as second prevaricator comes back (5) 24. Fabricate uranium in stead (4)