Cryptic Crosswor

ACROSS

1 Boost for man, we hear (6)

5 Arrived with accountant and yours truly (4)

9 Make a test when to speak (5)

10 Ranges of unusual carpets (7)

11 English MP meeting the Queen, or sovereign (7)

12 Total to speak (5) 13 Not even lady rejects commercial, strangely (5)

15 Cleverly conceal slow start in song (5)

20 Left one support on the scales (5)

22 A hundred left outside were agitated (7)

24 Payment for residents of Buckingham Palace (7)

25 Testify that token was clipped (5) 26 Sect axed about fifty (4) 27 Pinch the Spanish metal (6)

DOWN

2 Flavourless popular drink I had (7)

3 Attorney dropping wife for chicken? (5)

4 Dad’s to sample small cake (6)

5 That woman surrounded by young animals – little angels! (7)

6 Sacred song about totem (5)

7 More underdone, though less common (5)

8 Half-changeable island (5)

14 Flyer fell at end of mile, unfortunately (7)

16 Vegetable put old Latvian off cue (7)

17 Warning a permit on right (5)

18 East African’s knowledge not returned (6)

19 I had wild love for part of America (5)

21 Marshland shrub – where? In France (5)

23 Relating to the city, going back and forth (5)