CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. The start, in golfer’s peg, is sweet (6)

4. Breaking up? Super! (8)

9. In Rauen Surété make quite certain (6)

10. Drive two apart from the East? Odd! (8) 12. Torch-girl for ET, sure the change is necessary (9) 13. Mythological beauty contest judge – capital! (5) 14. Paparazzo using prop got her – Ah! (12) 18. Ounces of lard soon spew out (4,8)

21. Ring abstainer with hesitation if Tarka’s there! (5) 22. Like a harmonium groaned, somehow, having been restarted (4,5)

24. The fauteuil will provide the president with a gun (8)

25. Don’t panic: take the wind out of their sails! (6)

26. It blocks pop, changing in the theatre (8)

27. Feverish ethic, confused as to carbon content (6)

DOWN

1. Article on rubbish tips down in which one is depressed (3,5) 2. At the end of the line of HH, is OK like this (4,4)

3. A slip of the 3Rs with Old English (5)

5. Great works stream out with the bits (12)

6. On which one is redundant: paper and cash needed for it! (9) 7. Take no notice of disrupted reign: there’s nothing in that! (6) 8. RE could be ages about supplying lubricant (6) 11. Cones? They give this man worst ring, possibly (5,7) 15. It shows who possesses the proprietor’s joint (9)

16. He boasts of giving clothing up: garment men have forsaken! (8)

17. Having equal rights in prison? 0, Michael! (8)

19. Marsh, army doctor with the Gunners on a ship (6)

20. Revert to previous rate of playing at poem for a change (1,5)

23. Too big, old boy! See the difference? (5)