Double Crossword
1 Speech sounds off on the contents of photographs (9) 6 Smooths the rough sea with the rest inside (5) 9 First of all, sprays tart with perfume (5) 10 One readily adapting each lemon variety (9) 11 Lift grandmother and lack everything in the world (6,3,5) 13 Company’s turn to discharge influential network (7) 15 A rental disagreement with the Roman church (7) 16 Neat cut through square leg antagonised some (7) 19 Charge for carrying or drawing, say, in pen (7) 21 Repel if waiters reused emergency equipment (4-10) 24 Supervisor set up a perch beside unit (9) 25 Miss being at the heart of a band-aid solution (5) 26 Processed pelts had a nap (5) 27 State had seen tense standoff (9) DOWN 1 Spooked apes with car horn and toy weapon (3,7) 2 To stay to the end gave us total resolution (7) 3 Great lake containing single bird’s nest (5) 4 Learning, at school, that incorporated little girl (2,5) 5 Cast an eye over boy raised in disgrace (7) 6 Time before roof beam and henceforth (4,5) 7 Plant second large component inside measuring device (7) 8 Crooned by star before midnight (4) 12 Buries tread in the room in-between (10) 14 Finding employment to stick to after mountain climbing (9) 17 Meet air-conditioned state in the gulf (7) 18 Happen to be the number at the game (4,3) 19 Tank went after Jersey and Guernsey, in short (7) 20 Schemes of work peter out in a pneumatic housing (7) 22 Roam through the sierra (5) 23 Dab hands at cards (4)