Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

3. Friend has a place for a meal that’s tasty (9)

8. In that case there’s a bird near the back of the covert (4)

9. Mary Stone in disorderly retreat (9)

10. Confer so that a replay can be arranged (6)

11. Was conscious of the sound of many cattle (5)

14. Hurry as the change is made (5)

15. From the river I explored the lake (4)

16. See 18 Across

18 & 16Ac. This encircles the globe (9)

20. Distress signal goes around before noon in Aegean location (5)

21. Choose some of the science lecturers (5)

24. What waders do to move the boat (6)

25. Not entirely how one shows preference (9)

26. The man in charge after a little hesitation (4)

27. Quietly starting again and taking things for granted (9)

DOWN

1. A youngster from the second mate’s point of view (9)

2. Boring enough to fatigue certain people, we hear (9)

4. Nautical cry from a sailing vessel (4)

5. Saying it’s a commercial era (5)

6. Tear it when changing clothes (6)

7. Sounds like an act of traditional learning (4)

9. Nothing more than southern stretches of water (5)

11. Beater causing deer to go round the end of the copse (5)

12. Animal roamed wildly in arid surroundings (9)

13. What the politician delivers on television? (3,6)

17. Composition made up of two letters, one hears (5)

19. They hold food of a staple variety (6)

22. Delight a church member (5)

23. Soft melody needed for a duet (4)

24. Devise tailless aircraft (4)