CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Sign of a wish for peace found on the tree (5,6) 9 Egg-shaped Old English tank included (5) 10 Shocked when one had eaten quickly (7,4) 11 Colour uniformly used (5) 12 Want brief amount of time (8) 14 Appoint eccentric inane Tom (8) 15 Where one may end up in stitches? (7) 17 Regretful acknowledgement for a poor specimen (7) 20 In point of fact a new cut friend completed (8) 21 In defence rule another must be sky-blue (8) 24 Brown protected Italian giant (5) 25 During flight it gets under one’s feet (5,6) 26 Something used in carrying out suspended sentences (5) 27 In clarification written out in full (4,2,2,3) DOWN 2 Start off omitting a meal (5) 3 Minister making some civic arrangements (5) 4 Warder loses female bird (3-5) 5 Doctor that is taken in by a book going round (7) 6 A hook kid removed from island in the east (8) 7 Bird from the country (6,5) 8 Bowler in the van (8-3) 12 Making deductions (11) 13 Showy display Estonian tot performed (11) 16 Not a tear-stain removed from toy (5-3) 18 Penny and bishop entered developing choir’s pieces of music (8) 19 Does one ride round in circles? (7) 22 How to play in go-slow movement (5) 23 Lists region around the north (5)