£100 PRIZE CROSSWORD

1 The reason you have to stir a sauce (5) 4 Try to get a lively pet, Matt (7) 8 Strippers on the beach stun Sid surprisingly (they’re in a state of 2 Down) (7) 9 Roam from east to west with one of the New Zealanders (5) 10 The boy returned and followed me to get a bravery award (5) 11 Mint US coin for an aunt’s son perhaps (6) 14 Pose when the first of the suspects goes inside with the bandit hunters (5) 16 A French delicacy brought back from an Italian shop (5) 18 Taped laughter in the soup factory? (from silly Dec and Nan) (6) 21 Smith’s heavy metal equipment in a Mediterranean villa (5) 24 Take a wee seat inside – don’t go out for a meal (3,2) 25 Flip over hat measurement (7) 26 Smoked herring for sleepers? (7) 27 A culinary herb that helps to make healthy men (5) 1 A road-repair marker upset part of Greenock (4) 2 Strip off and use the topless sun gown (7) 3 Take someone’s liberty away and somehow save Len… (7) 4 …and a few of the hospital’s oldies as well (4) 5 Rhythm from terribly exciting music – powerful overtures primarily (5) 6 Satellites? The planet Jupiter has 69 of them (5) 7 Altering arrangement for a three-sided percussion instrument (8) 12 An old storage container unearthed in Burntisland (3) 13 In deep trouble – and without a paddle? (Eureka! PC comes round) (2,1,5) 15 Spot on! Opt out to track down a mummy’s boy maybe (3) 16 Dan’s tip-off – look for a children’s play area (7) 17 A stomach problem? Yes, Di must go into a city (7) 19 It’s put on the wrong way round when still in bed (3,2) 20 Irene annoyed Mr Els the golf ace (5) 22 Parts of a stage play that have the cast bemused (4) 23 Raised in Senegal with Hollywood’s Mr Wilder (4)