CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Agreed engineers must be in team (7) 5 Bad-tempered, like denizens of seashore? (6) 9 Native medicine concocted without iodine (7) 10 Accountant finally decided it should be set in gold, twice (7) 11 Regularly repair organ (3) 12 Old clerk maybe with zero increase to play it by ear (11) 13 Scrap rupees stored in hut (5) 14 Woman reported faulty recreational vehicle (4,5) 16 Cook dares to broadcast with a whiskey – with this in it? (4,5) 17 A fly flies round tree at last bearing foliage (5) 19 Factual programme made country angry (11) 22 Tory abandons subject associated with man (3) 23 In Arundel it is totally exclusive (7) 24 Newspaper backs Polish and German state in Africa (7) 26 Some leaving early, ready to move off (2,4) 27 Is one crushed by big swimmer somewhere in North Africa? (7)

DOWN

1 Unit of conductance that is supported by crew in ship (7) 2 UN did not procure tanks, suggesting factory shortage? (15) 3 It was used in wars for battering mutton perhaps (3) 4 Old coin American found in tube (5) 5 Fancy Caroline hugging Mike’s fuel supplier! (4,5) 6 Car, old, designed to please the 11s (5) 7 They covered tricky changes in habit around Minehead (7,8) 8 Terry swims under a vessel (6) 12 Leave money to old wife after death (5) 14 Wheel turned round, operating device for ignition (9) 15 Ring head of Yeovil corporation (5) 16 Newspaper covers dodges regularly without notice (6) 18 Israeli school thrashing is heavy (7) 20 Ocean beginning to engulf state (5) 21 Superior boat in trouble rounding Beachy Head (5) 25 I left country and fled (3)