Diversions & Puzzles

Puzzle No 1173

Clues across

1. Release from prison into a job as a personal assistant (6) 4. Trade with Turkish leader is more exposed outside (6) 8. Continue as support (4) 9. We pin down a specially made sheet of glass (6,4) 11. Island tolerated love (6) 12. Crazy denier at home is to be restrained (6,2) 13. A sum disbursed in former small coins I’m told (7) 15. A little branch gives small sort of grip on the ground (5) 16. Foreign capital used in Wairarapa rises (5) 18. A route arranged to take Quaker leader in a great circle (7) 21. Iron little skirts on Tuesday for a women’s rights advocate (8) 22. Unreliable drunk in charge with former PM (6) 24. Breathe sadly before fault announced, an incidental result (4,6) 25. Workmates, a bit heartless, provoke miseries (4) 26. Given top hat in church with German communist (6) 27. Commercial rose ordered for loves (6)

Clues down

1. The pool unexpectedly appearing in the road? (7) 2. Synthetic oxygen in woven yarn (5) 3. Look brown, sadly, and of inferior breeding (7) 5. The sufferings of some paragon I esteemed (7) 6. Classified in respect to disorder (3-6) 7. Managed man on board by giving order (7) 10. The letter R in a specialised part of the brain? (5,6) 14. Cop ending internet recoding to be relevant (9) 16. Impure compound made first showing superior quality (7) 17. Poles provided Florida with English complaint: a sign of cold (7) 19. Dud tape thrown out and replaced with something more modern (7) 20. Smoking jackets? (7) 23. Cringe seeing jersey for example on the Queen (5)