Across DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

1 Number on University Challenge team notice one’s slept in ( 4- 6)

6 Long gradient with no parking ( 4)

9 Patriarch’s account in prophetic book ( 5)

10 Affection’s gone west – moving out in progress ( 9)

12 The French bird over country seeing all the wildlife ( 6,7)

14 One questioning what’s in mailbag – no stickers? ( 8)

15 Long dull passage covered in loose rock, apparently ( 6)

17 Modern work – revolutionary work with character ( 3,3)

19 Propeller engineer carries west ( 8)

21 One starts a speech that another puts a stop to ( 9,4)

24 I had to restrain rattier drunk becoming angry ( 9)

25 Playwright in limbo, seeing odd characters cut ( 5)

26 Part or whole read aloud ( 4)

27 Biscuit trademark with flower rejected ( 6,4)

Down

1 Juliet visiting France, Italy, India and another country ( 4)

2 Row after meeting of countries leads to release ( 7)

3 Bar very piercing clarinets, playing as one in the town hall? ( 6,7)

4 Film outline in which arsenic wrecked love ( 8)

5 Something for the mind that’s offered in a tablet? ( 1- 4)

7 Twirl in tango with violin, losing head ( 7)

8 Cast- off worker sad to receive note ( 4- 2- 4)

11 In clues, yearns to be funny, superfluously ( 13)

13 Moist sea creatures British caught, not Germany – they won’t go off ( 4,6)

16 Leo, maybe journalist, definitely not up to be recruited ( 6,2)

18 Computer aid for good memory ( 7)

20 Revolutionise karaoke to collect rising gains ( 5,2)

22 Bury theatrical writer misses opening ( 5)

23 Bargain brooches sent to the north ( 4)