CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prince regularly seen in stockings in nursing home (7) 5 Region of SE Europe in the short run (6) 9 Army man trained Asian country (7) 10 Cameron broadcast affair (7) 11 German article about wine (3) 12 Top-of-the-range Lycra needs to be refreshed – here? (3-8) 13 Greek character fit to dance in civilian clothes (5) 14 S Korean leader and mad umpire host judge, winter sportsman (3,6) 16 Old Liberal hugs one animated girl in merry-goround (9) 17 Spooky English lake (5) 19 Learning Latin in unusually posh chairs (11) 22 Cold feeling in leg on the way back (3) 23 Nearly 11 cops at lift (7) 24 Biometric analysis shows it interacting with this bug (7) 26 Witness agreed to be recalled about this sanction (6) 27 Sadly I seem trapped between extremes – my downfall? (7)

DOWN

1 Smell Dutch spirit – it’s unexciting (7) 2 Reserve stall of cod, say, on cape (15) 3 Setter’s grasped small unspecified ideology (3) 4 See round centre of Sark at dawn perhaps (5) 5 Electrifying burn pierces object (9) 6 Strange beat oddly in dance (5) 7 Organise Open on same court at same time (15) 8 Smoker in church seen moving in fringes of choir (6) 12 Military exercises bore (5) 14 Sir Alan reportedly flogged plant (5,4) 15 Finish unique selling point limiting European Union (3,2) 16 Hawser injured seal (6) 18 Communicate at high speed? (7) 20 Let art supporter line up at the top (5) 21 Our kind’s not completely kind (5) 25 First piece of machinery rotating? Yes (3)