LONDON TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Prominent display to promote protective covering (10) 6 Empire pictures is screening “The Ten Commandments”? (4) 9 Remote inns prepared hearty soup (10) 10 Article that reflects historic change in India (4) 12 Allow prince to be very nasty indeed (6) 13 A chemical weightlifters might try to get a heavenly body (8) 15 Being a landlord primarily, my inebriated clients go staggering home now? (7,4) 18 Smart type takes hatchet — heartlessly heading to collect wood for fire (6,5) 21 Attempt to arrest a physician pursuing a very old physicist (8) 22 Hoodlum’s a chicken when facing term in Newgate (6) 24 Club with hot tub (4) 25 Fictional tale recalled in broadcast (10) 26 Some corn needed initially to make bread? (4) 27 At first farmers say yes to grass being placed about for them? (6,4)

Down

1 Demonstration with politician stuck in traffic (6) 2 Bowed old instrument seen around North America (6) 3 A strange task in school, we recalled, on an area in Canada (12) 4 Black vessel beneath small river (4) 5 Some stars running wild in south Minorca (5,5) 7 Python crushes extremely nourishing old animal — having no teeth (8) 8 Conservative has to manage radical writer (8) 11 Flier sides with head of physics in old boarding school (5,7) 14 Instrument Turner employed after lots of anguish (10) 16 Term for this? Clamber possibly! (8) 17 Journo’s note on beer (8) 19 Pitman trimmed shepherd’s companion (6) 20 Withdraw service (6) 23 Hero’s vain when speaking (4)