Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Common usage company must work out (6)
4. Judgment by women is given to Catholic dignitary (6)
9. See how many feet were needed for a dance (7)
10. A jibe at an agony columnist after tea (5)
11. You sing till May finishes, but it doesn’t look good (4)
12. We’re soundly building a dam across the river (4)
13. Old measure taken when Charles’s mistress lost her head (3)
15. Think the Mediterranean goes round the East backwards (4)
16. No new house deserves this entry (4)
19. Letters that haven’t been started will not go well (3)
21. Very quickly went and ripped one off (4)
22. Recess for parliamentarian first needed in sea change (4)
24. Some oil I accumulate from round the innominate bone (5)
25. Say one will have Conservative posted (7)
26. Worry at one setting trap back with broken leg (6)
27. Seem to come into view (6)
DOWN
1. Correspondence in amount comic could arrange (13)
2. Engine wouldn’t go on running when horse was accommodated (7)
3. Work for a composer, so have to turn back-up it includes (4)
5. What capital attracts street in uproar? (8)
6. Fleshy and fruity, it may upset a prude (5)
7. It may find a cotter melted out of shape (5,8)
8. Shape the edge of robe Velcro holds (5)
14. It goes straight up to liver, cat that’s put out (8)
17. Empty one that’s let remain in deep trouble (7)
18. Sort of coat dress (5)
20. Being deceptive, one is not stood up (5)
23. Take a small cut and one will have a bargain (4)