CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Over and over again in some periods (4,5,4) 10 Fastening a small number with very large, at the end (5) 11 In the past, anxiety led to need for supplement (9) 12 Hunt out goals in a bombardment (9) 13 Is away a lot, initially, taking some odds and ends (5) 14 Did one man make a copy of a stamp? (7) 16 Get ahead of an opponent to break the record (7) 18 Learn, eg, about one gathering pieces of information (7) 20 Cross-over point for ministerial allowance (7) 21 Get round at some speed, to speak out (5) 23 Pile of earth at the start included carbon. It didn’t cost a lot (4,5) 25 Has to do what a man has to do (5,4) 26 Developed high place in Greek taste, in the past (5) 27 Army get order to take bridge. They can concentrate on it (9,4)

DOWN

2 Press into service, at first, with clubs (5) 3 Promotion to a great height in rising ground (9) 4 Feel uneasiness about additive in transportation (7) 5 Properties located in some Oriental countries (7) 6 Brown had to leave to join a dance (5) 7 Did a firm mean to construct a large computer? (9) 8 It’s built on sound foundations. One’s confident about it (2,5,6) 9 Get near, in the end, to area in a courtyard, for instance (8,5) 15 Nationwide generally held to be in vogue (9) 17 Artist in Tosca turned out protective clothing in bad weather (9) 19 Is about to be apprehensive at a final bastion (7) 20 Get right back into a difference of opinion, in a final passage (7) 22 Did two hands prefer charges in order to proceed (5) 24 More will appear in the next rally (5)