Cryptic Crosswor

ACROSS 1 A vehicle, one behind hospital in Cuba’s capital (6)

5 Move fast as second cloud – look out! (4) 9 Stupidly lied about hot new city (5) 10 Lara dug away bit by bit (7)

11 Punishment when money supplied, with article nicked (7)

12 Yarn concealed by many Londoners (5)

13 Cyril performing at London theatre (5) 15 Push to partly banish overtime (5) 20 Left ear’s broken by intense beam (5) 22 Hug me having returned with couple (7)

24 In favour of mushrooms as surgical instrument! (7) 25 Toughen, that is, having to sprint backwards inside (5) 26 Flock waiting to cross river (4) 27 Deny whistle-blower an Aussie truck (6)

DOWN 2 Either side of fasting season, get payout in abundance (7) 3 Unfamiliar fabrication in article (5) 4 Cornered and grabbed broken leg (6)

5 Resolute enough to stop the bloodshed (7) 6 Standard American university, Yale at heart (5)

7 Take on and compete regularly (5) 8 Set down carelessly cheap wine (5) 14 One serial exported from Haifa (7) 16 Against one going over a channel bridge (7) 17 Make mistake finding small downy clump (5) 18 Hear strange bloke making water-heater (6) 19 Doctrine reading the same backwards (5)

21 Good man takes uncooked dried corn stalks (5)

23 Concise case notes (5)