Crosswords

ACROSS

1 Turns up on craft to get sports equipment (12) 9 Exercising males tore stretchy material (9) 10 Animal's hip nursed by Doctor Hamish, ultimately with love (5) 11 King with new gown returned transformed (6) 12 Passed on drinking large amounts of water, being sick (8) 13 Cloths prepared to take place of content in pillows (6) 14 Instrument cut graduate second beforehand (4,4) 17 Linked to its place of origin, bread from US state (8) 19 Revolutionary piece about China is explosive (6) 21 Corrected a pedant penning about musical entertainment (3-5) 23 Mostly small old article of ancient civilisation (6) 25 Corners first of chess pieces to be sacrificed for knight (5) 26 At home, tidying being disturbed is an affront (9) 27 Plain nettle very much aromatic (12)

DOWN

2 Part of bed to be in high position (9) 3 Taught to plaster at last, within two days (7) 4 Enter money to fuel up car (4) 5 Queen, perhaps, on one horse, hitched up garment (8) 6 Birds turn all directions but north (7) 7 Captains sleep on board ship (5) 8 Notes Mongol fiend wrecking yard (7,5) 9 Biting around primarily rigid chop is very noisy (12) 15 Regulary on road, politicians giving speeches (9) 16 Expert on American female waterfowl (8) 18 Large body of water's too endless in size (4,3) 20 Tickling on the hearth, perhaps (7) 22 Test pressure on top of building (5) 24 Sample of lemonade, not port (4)