CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Such a powerful pet not to be put out (6) 4. Will almost behave like a gland, but that’s confidential (6) 9. Went OTT to do diver out of it (7) 10. A small drum used to make boat turn right (5) 11. In Greece I appear as a mere jot (4) 12. It will make a rough sound as it sticks to one’s clothes (4) 13. It is owing to it sounding like an overnight deposit (3) 15. Lose moisture and get right in the swim (4) 16. How pilot will turn aircraft to edge of river (4) 19. It is not fit to be included in the billing (3) 21. A European who may be on top of the world? (4) 22. Make a pictorial record of what poetry may do (4) 24. Lay one in the earth between getting prefixed (5) 25. It is a messenger who will distribute our rice (7) 26. Spun tales any Red could have composed (6) 27. Was ridiculed for looking as if one was in tatters (6) DOWN 1. Fact of it making money for bail (pity it is wrong) (13) 2. Stood around separately as one administered therapy (7) 3. A knot to do up, which is in need of being halved (4) 5. The next real change is to be made on the outside (8) 6. Raging about being afflicted with hydrophobia (5) 7. Recent order he put out that was tripartite (5-8) 8. There’s nothing grim that the nose might detect (5) 14. Spinning spiders on end of gable will scatter (8) 17. Is alive and – on the ball? (7) 18. Some birds used for mattress stuffing (5) 20. Artel that was subsequently broken up (5) 23. A young dog comes first between the larva and the imago (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Definite 7. Drive 8. Trooper 9. Offence 10. Code 12. Tearful 14. Dignity 17. Zero 18. Curtail 21. Landing 22. Lynch 23. Switched Down 1. Detach 2. Flooding 3. Nape 4. Throat 5. Mien 6. Cereal 7. Deflate 11. Epitaph 13. Feverish 14. Docile 15. Yellow 16. Dogged 19. Rung 20. Gnat