CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Popping, perhaps, a line down the front of one’s bags (6)

4. Farmer satisfied with germination that will casually occur (4,2)

9. Harps on there being a sort-out of waifs (7)

10. Was at cross purposes as one went to the poll (5)

11. Slough off storage for one’s garden tools (4)

12. Rating returning to craft: he sings (4)

13. Friend will pass back-runner in reverse (3)

15. First course, perhaps, in which one lands in trouble (4)

16. What one can’t find is what one suffers unprofitably (4)

19. Steal item of regalia, centre-forward (3)

21. Centre-target edict from the Pope (4)

22. Make a proposal not to stay in the same place (4)

24. In the proboscis there’s a ring whereby one might hang (5)

25. Coarse material for counterparts of doe and ewe (7)

26. One is at pains to make him happy (6)

27. Finish the listener will make more cherished (6)

DOWN

1. Angry dogs about to be torn by contra-flow movements (5-8)

2. Former reporter’s profession will put it into words (7)

3. A team of oxen to bridge (4)

5. Swotting up on what one’s learned to do with a dream (8)

6. Manage to brook how to lodge (3,2)

7. Lets drama with the deep be adapted to such craft (6-7)

8. Have a shot at such form of literary endeavour (5)

14. They go over and over such things as one drinks from (8)

17. Affliction urges changes to be made that involve the firm (7)

18. Model earth for a type of artichoke (5)

20. Good birth is what runs through one’s veins (5)

23. Sound picture of the body will work for the poet (4)