DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

Across

1 State of dissolution in which things get very hot (7,3)

6 More than one great performer hurts when losing heart (4)

10 Social ritual embraced by weird ancestors (5)

11 I got tools out as investigator of organ (9)

12 To-do gets prisoner ’enry being locked up (5-2)

13 Ottoman ruler given a bit of food for his wife? (7)

14 Cast doubt on earliest gospel? What is the point? (8,4)

18 Police tag’s so unreliable for one managing to break free (12)

21 English politician to go wrong entertaining old ruler (7)

23 Unfortunately inadequate couple of arts graduates in a state (7)

24 TV presenter shows a knight meeting monarch getting excited (9)

25 I had the thing to capture old fool (5)

26 Match that might expose inadequacies (4)

27 Married woman may keep it – and demean man, I fancy (6,4)

Down

1 As one dealing with people not well, I’d come out (6) 2 Inner protections for ships (6) 3 A purer boy doing wrong offers an apology (1,3,4,6) 4 Weed crushed under logs (9) 5 Tramps heading off – they make a musical sound (5)

7 Country fellow providing delivery on cricket field (8)

8 Disappointments with groups needing inner support (8)

9 A building in which political opponents will get cross more than once (7,7)

15 Well-established home, crumbling, finally came down (9)

16 Material engineers brought to Mediterranean area (8)

17 One getting cold with little energy chooses items for mountaineering (3,5)

19 River goes into sea, a place where yachts are seen (6)

20 Abstainer surrounded by British booze? It’s a struggle! (6)

22 Graduate has drink before 10 (5)