CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 27,807

Across

1 Elderly relative erring unfortunately not showing good spirit (5,7)

9 Hormone in wild lupins lacking source of protein (7)

10 Intelligence reduced by not working (3-4) 11 Date juice (7) 12 Platitude with unusually morbid note (7)

13 Clear deliveries ahead of time (5)

14 Meet in Ely perhaps with naive beginner only just old enough to drive (9)

16 Lost for information about baroque? (9)

19 Barrister should be succinct (5)

21 Sense I’m out to give you punishment? (7)

23 Examiner’s car rubbish reversing (7)

24 Change ten euros, dropping the last on the road (2,5) 25 Opening sign (7) 26 Eleven others played with seconds, with no duck yet (12)

Down

1 With top off beer guts get wobbly motion (7)

2 Partially curtail mental illness (7)

3 News interrupting unusually dire television service (6,3)

4 Unprepared — and all is oddly British (2-3)

5 Unused to outskirts of Welwyn Garden City? (3,4)

6 I have briefly raised volume before getting sensitive (7)

7 Best volunteer to keep goal is one who hasn’t slipped up before (5,8)

8 Broadcast Floral Dance? No, that’s settled! (4,3,3,3)

15 Museum the French will claim is ruin (9)

17 Shame about TV detective (7) 18 Old boy’s remedy may be unfamiliar (7)

19 The point of retirement is to live with little money keeping afloat at the end (7)

20 Suspects given Tango — it’s consumed by Northerners (7)

22 We sat around in glow (5)