The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Garment not required in audition (8)
5 My firm’s backing explorer (6)
9 Socialist housing rent free (8)
10 Lower back (6)
11 Guys covered in sleet, that’s bad weather (8)
12 Talk about extremely large house (6)
14 Coin produced by two men in mint (10)
18 Low walls in strange central European city (5,5)
22 Brilliant handle attached to club (6)
23 Fling Bill in ditch (8)
24 Cricketer’s buffet (6)
25 Celebrated after old flame rang (8)
26 Time to admit shop’s mistakes (6)
27 Books finished by one’s fiancé (8)
DOWN
1 Vet in diguise (6)
2 Pedestrian with no way to get posh car (6)
3 Frontman of Queen supporting heavy metal (6)
4 Fetch wheat after cooking rabbit (4,3,3)
6 Catch, say, in this place (4,4)
7 In class, shout about bogies (8)
8 Lady tees off in demure fashion (8)
13 A slogan mangled by Old Norse tongue (5-5)
15 Friendly barmaid oddly ignored telegram (8)
16 Some chances to replace predecessor (8) 17 Building conviction to entrap soldiers (8)
19 Tempt old king to embrace a knave (6)
20 Song and dance over a penny (6)
21 Regularly dread following team of Sheffield United (6)