CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Plug in here an item of hose, and French (6) 4. They drain the deck one does for (8) 9. European national puts an end to the bug (6) 10. Administer sound thrashing, and presumably vote Socialist (8) 12. He’s powerful, rich, and makes a curt plot-change (9) 13. Sound hooter enheartened by one (5) 14. Substitute marrying man given space – no seat, though (8-4) 18. The way liner may go, Pip? An English variation! (8-4) 21. ‘Our revels now are _____’ (The Tempest) (5) 22. Family members one tells around four (9) 24. Coloured kerchief for girl following the musicians (8) 25. Material for kindling some Latin derangement (6) 26. Break up and go away, Sirs, with deep disturbance of order (8) 27. In a stack the man mimicked (6) DOWN 1. Put name to letters written: this shows where (8) 2. A commercial letter that goes the rounds (8) 3. Love poet’s inspiration to follow the age (5) 5. Padded sofa where cows graze to NE of Wales? (12) 6. Church chant such as ‘Dreary the Steppe’? (9) 7. Amorous god of love and spring: tick the ends off (6) 8. In America, a carriage SW of London (6) 11. Super progenitors a generation farther back! (12) 15. Deprive one of water at Ryde? He’d arrange that! (9) 16. Divided, like the booty, and behaved like Michelangelo when awake (6,2) 17. Caesar initially made certain of being blamed (8) 19. Duck-footed spider-craft on the ocean floor (6) 20. Aphrodite’s love, a university fellow is (6) 23. Some people half-hate to include ‘the wife’ (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Consolation 8. Original 9. Kiln 10. Feint 13. Dove 16. Inch 17. Cost 18. Undo 20. Torch 24. Noun 25. Document 26. Rudimentary Down: 2. Omit 3. Spine 4. Learn 5. Irked 6. Constituent 7. Investigate 11. Idiot 12. Tiger 14. Obol 15. Acid 19. Owned 21. Ozone 22. Court 23. Weir