CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Recent danger averted where plants are sold (6,6)

8 Boat constructed from original copy of another boat (5)

9 Remorseful second thoughts concerning informal night passed in the money (9) 11 Spends the night initially sleeping in cultural home (6)

12 Circumspect when heard to be separate (8) 14 Summed up Spode item I smashed (10) 15 Create CD from stream (4)

18 Be anxious about carved pattern (4) 19 Happen to arrive at route over mountains (4,2,4)

21 Type of sweets given to mischievous kids (8)

23 Transformed mood in game piece (6) 25 Sickening about injection into heartbeat (9) 26 Dart I throw in set of three (5) 27 Anti-smokers get married, yes, and split up day 9 (3,9)

DOWN

1 Omega-6 acid is put in more stuff to make it supposedly desirable (9)

2 To turn round in lot in turn (8)

3 Catch sight of online undercover agent (4) 4 Clean rivet prepared for bridge support (10) 5 Advance warning of overtime given in pleasant surroundings (6)

6 Hair colouring that’s new in appearance (5) 7 Old injury given scope till domesday without alternative, leading to strep infection (7,5) 10 Recant when sword-swallower’s activity overwhelms individual (3,4,5)

13 Young person follows first two in musical interval (5,5)

16 International friendship centred on Northern Ireland with everyone in agreement (9)

17 Presented show along with other people when hot codes were worked out (2-6) 20 Swell gets invoice that hurts (6) 22 Spare treatment for abuses (5)

24 His sake may be invoked in exasperation at animal energy (4)