Sunday Times Crossword 4786

Across

1 Bishops on vacation drinking like fish (4) 4 Finish cool pint with me after work (10) 9 Capital of Tobago undergoing rebuilding (6) 10 Blood group screened by staff on call for bypass (4,4) 11 Sandwich filler finished butter and last of piccalilli (8) 13 Honourable church organist’s first US number one (6)

14 Openly gay footballer hosting society ball (10) 16 No power to free oneself of guilt or desire? (4)

17 One seen in brass bath with naked man? (4)

18 I acted a lot differently in wedding dress (10) 20 Mozart? He was a hit with the ladies! (6)

21 Do this if I’m shocked about boyfriend? (4,4) 23 Upset stomach I had after slice of lamb cut off the leg? (8)

24 Nurse and model making first time last for hours (6) 26 Writer puts up tenor inside those top-flight lodgings (10) 27 Heads of state ignorant to extremist plot (4)

Down

2 Song and dance act led by original member of Abba (3)

3 Display of tennis? (5) 4 Bread and tea with dad and relations round (7) 5 Harried men in Kings Cross expecting trouble? (7,8) 6 Left a Parisian and dear French chap eating at oneish? (7)

7 Cat with natural bent to avoid conservative (creepy sort) (9) 8 Chopper maintenance (4,7) 12 A cold flat that you must inhabit? It gives one the needle (11)

15 At first I worried about heading to laughably old elevator! (9)

18 Fuss over service area that might raise the roof (7) 19 Places test-match players may try to get in rucks (7) 22 When one’s to follow central plots in Band of Brothers? (5)

25 Worry copper’s round to take off bachelor (3)