CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Announce Delaware is linked to county in Ireland (7) 5 Squeezing you into costume requires force (6) 9 Honour benevolent comic, ignoring vet (7) 10 Singer, very professional, pens article (7) 11 Runner is coming back over summit of Kilimanjaro (3) 12 Try small fleece on girl — it’s absolutely authentic (6,5) 13 Queen’s consort ignoring bishop’s warning (5) 14 Popular team dismissed completely (6-3) 16 Vehicles (one overturned) book-end hot Golf GT? (6,3) 17 A shout reverberates in passage (5) 19 Wooden structure — tackle row with it possibly (11) 22 Bakery product that’s coiled at the back (3) 23 Letter from good person in English stately home (7) 24 Clip Republican in bar (7) 26 Make last customised EU token incomplete (3,3) 27 A young horse impresses Yankee and English helper (7)

DOWN

1 Like whalers raising pace, each releasing chain (4-3) 2 Ridiculous kind of eccentric act of deception (10,5) 3 Special Branch seize minister’s vestment (3) 4 Sporting occasions short of time equally likely to happen (5) 5 I’d upset old poet and chemist perhaps (9) 6 Transfer plant to new container boozer set up (5) 7 Second beauty title for controversial U.S. torch-bearer (6,2,7) 8 Headgear which inspires old priest (3,3) 12 Mount horse to make progress (3,2) 14 Harsh increase, having changed sides (9) 15 Duke, lush, did what lushes do (5) 16 What makes curl or wave (6) 18 Zane Grey, losing heart, stumbled across Thailand river (7) 20 Some paint round first bars (5) 21 Old salesman put up a show in Covent Garden (5) 25 Bill’s partner? I’m surprised (3)