CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One disturbing the peace sent back in voiture to Ireland (6)

4. Punish this case a different way (8)

9. Use nip of it when flat on one’s back (6)

10. A welcome policy to immigrants may be just ajar (4,4)

12. It’s the sole punishment that will do in a bat’s confusion (9)

13. I’d turn to one silly fellow (5)

14. In which there are thirteen at a spell (7,5)

18. She does one good in craft: be sense to cultivate her (12)

21. Where contest is held in the acreage around the North (5)

22. The most strait-laced is the worst ventilated (9)

24. Speeches in play can be loud: age one takes, making them (8)

25. It gives one access to one course at dinner (6)

26. Acts as go-between and deems it a change (8)

27. Be mad when about fifty are put in the institution (6)

DOWN

1. Vase for cut blooms in the American sporting scene (8)

2. It’s directly contrary to pipe, so it’s put out (8)

3. In Capri, unneeded boredom is given up (5)

5. An animal that could be Pop to his puma (12)

6. Feeling of being posted by men within it (9)

7. As if mocked by fate, no one could get endlessly rich (6)

8. Mistakes in the book could be rare, thanks to the ending (6)

11. Rescue, as play is made of an accompaniment to fish (7,5)

15. Swelling that affects Ma at a home (9)

16. One’s handing over for treatment put the real ref right (8)

17. Temperature line mother is producing (8)

19. The right nomad to sort it out haphazard (6)

20. The fellow in scarlet will send one back in custody (6)

23. Barrier one may sit on when undecided (5)