£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 Pasta shapes in the Barcelona bar food maybe (5) 4 A bottle party without any tins? It’s not possible (2,3,2) 8 Let pals make two essential items for the learner driver (1- 6) 9 A fire burning in a hearth in Elgin possibly (5) 10 A Scots poet initially may adapt kids’ awful rhymes (5) 11 Strafe in an indiscriminate way, and at a quicker pace (6) 14 Make off with what could be stale (5) 16 Wild West transport for the theatre platform (5) 18 Craftily left UN when able to speak a language smoothly (6) 21 A lad left the playboys to go to the dramas (5) 24 A Eurocrat without a car? Arrange for a travel plan (5) 25 Big success from the easily upset – Hi, Trump! (7) 26 All get stuck into the test to find the greatest in stature (7) 27 What a monarch did when lured away (5) 1 Spill the beans – it’s only partially intelligible (4) 2 An alternative to lager for fussy Lee and a pal (4,3) 3 Cast off and head out to sea from shifty Al’s site (3,4) 4 Eat a light meal or snack in Gino’s hotel (4) 5 Dinnerware that’s locked up in a church in Arbroath (5) 6 Noel leaves the neon light for the hours of darkness (5) 7 Which bandit is among the slot machines in Rome? Edna bolted (3-5) 12 Climbing in Bute, Sam finds a film site (3) 13 Behave in a way that invites punishment – and somehow irk fatso (3,3,2) 15 Grow older and mature after returning from Vegas (3) 16 This person in the army is older when ordered (7) 17 Rarely cooked lamb? Say it’s really dreadful (7) 19 Typical! Uncle’s so unreasonable – always ludicrous primarily (5) 20 It’s nice to embrace Evelyn at first – she’s one of the family (5) 22 Scots bounce around the tots (4) 23 A heavy, dull sound – a bit of danger under the damaged hut (4)