cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Place to hang hospital

garment? (8)

5 Reversible raincoats to take to

the cleaners (4)

9 Bar runner from club with

pain needing treatment (8)

10 Drive to find area next to

concert hall maybe (6)

11 Very loud penetrating poet is sadly on the wrong track … (3-5)

12 … hence, having no beginning or end, poem causes scramble (6)

14 Severe forecast – ring entrepreneurs for clothing (10)

18 One relays creepy messages of courses in Paris and Berlin by management (5,5)

22 Drive home’s ending? (6)

23 Beg surgeon for facelift,

having caught cold (8)

24 Bothered to take time for seconds, resulting in round figure (6)

25 Villain receiving oldfashioned look after page’s introduction (8)

26 Animal pelt (4)

27 Risky material, First Love

penned by idiot (8)

DOWN

2 After hesitation, turned up nude, getting slap in the face (6)

3 Fruit is planted amid

downpour (6)

4 Fine meadow or riverside,

perhaps, for Mole! (6,4)

6 Binding agreement mysterious group’s used to crush worker (8)

7 Staffing that’s opposed by

feminists? (8)

8 Light meal the French

originally shelled out for (8)

9 Rugby player that’s employed

in theatre (4)

13 Makes tracks in advance of drunken rep’s order to come round clubs (10)

15 Row of homes? (8)

16 Food supplement put team

on course (4,4)

17 Butcher cutting son causes

hysterics? (8)

19 Club’s number one in part of

India – tall story! (6)

20 Man whose limit may be one

across and two down? (6)

21 Present that bloke goes on

about (4)