CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. There’s nothing new to his stock in trade (7,6) 9. A more skint time for the commission business (9) 10. Swell out and turn blue round top of gullet (5) 11. Provoke aversion in the right sort of peel (5) 12. Road appearing beneath a col (9) 13. Thinned atmosphere of air freed from it (8) 15. How to sew the least scrap of clothing (6) 18. Take us back and long to be flat on one’s back (6) 20. May have fun with diamonds, but deposes one from the priesthood (8) 23. With alarm, made an orange preserve (9) 24. Trace out where to put the word left out (5) 25. Weary feeling of nun that is upset by it (5) 26. Playwright who would start amid turmoil (9) 27. Forebodings make me intent on getting in the newspapers (13) DOWN 1. How could it grab me, Sir, as a product of the spermaceti whale? (9) 2. One who swears he sounds like an experienced actor (7) 3. To subdue queues, will have them in halves (5) 4. Those sent to safety might use cave around the East (8) 5. Makes alterations that send me wild (6) 6. One to free from trial, or be dispersed (9) 7. Having to trust in later version of it (7) 8. Be insistent it is involved in printing (5) 14. To have whimsical notions isn’t a safe arrangement (9) 16. It’s the sea that changes if one dithers (9) 17. Do less than play one’s part? (8) 19. Root of spin? Rap, it might be (7) 21. A vehicle to iron out the rotting flesh (7) 22. Light by which one is able to be misled (6) 23. Comes across gatherings setting off for the hunt (5) 24. First client to damage one’s power of fascination (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Bank statement 8. Endeavoured 12. Deters 14. Grapes 16. Farmer 18. Strand 19. Clay pigeons 23. Contrabandist Down 1. Mare 2. Skid 3. Straws 4. Strong 5. Emir 6. Sned 9. Natural 10. Explain 11. Used 12. Deft 13. Rue 15. Rot 17. Repeal 18. Signal 19. Chop 20. Arts 21. Odds 22. Sash