cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Move towards men, going

with the flow (10)

6 Place tug behind ship at the

outset (4)

9 A note in film music of the

Fifties? (10)

10 A little grizzly, possibly, on a

Caribbean island (4)

12 Football team score with nine

sent off? (6)

13 Actor wearing small diamond,

a national symbol (8)

15 I insist tact must be deployed

to trap a data expert (12)

18 Suggest the gospel isn’t

truth? I’ve just written it! (8,4)

21 While voice filled with hatred

at first, I’m disgusted! (8)

22 Fake painting so exquisite, Uffizi didn’t object originally (6)

24 In reality, Newcastle’s river (4)

25 Looking for lecturer somewhere in Cambridgeshire (10)

26 Lech returning for a dance (4)

27 Colleague heading for breakdown during deadlock (10)

DOWN

1 County ultimately

unprepared, or ready? (6)

2 Good and evil (6)

3 Aspect ain’t so shabby in outof-this-world accommodation (5,7)

4 Run and help Sally? (4)

5 As are a number of clones,

despite what you say (3,3,4)

7 German not cute, I gathered

(8)

8 Very large part of building

housing journalist (8)

11 Drunk in recompense for

divine existence? (12)

14 Convincing case for highly

developed skill (6,4)

16 Quartets playing for

uninvited resident (8)

17 A few words in time? (8)

19 Plain aunt struggling to

embrace doctor (6)

20 Suddenly move forward

around old room (6)

23 Try attack (4)