CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,325

ACROSS

1 Elegant official in Spain and Germany (7)

5 Flowers possibly split around centre of study (6)

9 Accept as valid stink about university body’s end in time (3,4)

10 Lab OK I suspect beginning to regulate unit of pressure (7)

11 Fool in lounge dropping pound (3)

12 First person, it’s said, linked to part of cricket that’s attractive (3-8)

13 Get stuck into group at work (3,2)

14 Learn duet for playing as is? (9)

16 All others start to wander in select airport (9)

17 Two dots for organ in the body (5)

19 Engineer treads outer paths for business? (5,6)

22 Moment, reportedly, for convulsion (3)

23 Personal weapon improperly raised by Frenchman (7)

24 Get rid of ill-mannered sort lacking right solicitor (4,3)

26 Runner David has energy after minute in woman’s yard (6)

27 Steer it awkwardly in Italian city (7)

DOWN

1 Decorative strips from Rhode Island, very black, on front of shipment (7)

2 Travel cancelled over article? Manage to get very angry (3,3,3,6)

3 Section of main anthem for Indian side (3)

4 Stop to collect odd parts for old electrical component (5)

5 Accept a sponsor in shock? (4,5)

6 Name in turn around island for flowering plant (5)

7 Republican toils going wrong in cultivation of image? (6,9)

8 Woman making proposal about equipment (6)

12 Artist Max in east of France touring river close to Dijon (5)

14 Victor’s predecessor has coat for lady in a consistent way (9)

15 Folds smart jacket in the U.S. we hear (5)

16 Urn remains for stuff put in fertiliser (6)

18 Sick teen sadly discarding second item of clothing (7)

20 Delight shown by European once here? (5)

21 Source of tension, assuredly, in Asian region (5)

25 Part of job importing Japanese sash (3)