CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Proper, neat vessel form (9) 2. Let dent appear when stung in such a way (7) 3. Japanese boxes, Sir, on being otherwise (5) 4. Unite, and make it flood (8) 5. Things that happen to level the street up (6) 6. Previous writers I have followed, as being very dear (9) 1. Heightened awareness of the Seventies sins (13) 9. It may be an orchestral gobetween (9) 10. How to deal with a suit in the newspapers (5) 11. Sailors from Epsom? (5) 12. Sets off for the College in assignations (9) 13. A cat-bed I arrange, and leave the throne (8) 15. A tabloid glass (6) 18. Could give me lamb to preserve with fragrance (6) 20. Time environ was changed: he’ll make it up (8) 23. A bright star that could prove a sun (9) 24. There’s a fortune to be made with such a pack (5) 25. A boy who goes down to the sea? (5) 26. Dog from Malta, and one that differs (9) 27. Reference work, clean copy, idea comes from (13)

DOWN

7. One who perspires in a woolly (7) 8. How one puts a question of attitudes (5) 14. Heating value of food may be fair: colic, it causes (9) 16. I run 24 Down into a fictional country (9) 17. Hollowed-out design one got, nail being misused (8) 19. Bet Pa is about to Christen one (7) 21. One, in being smeared black, delayed (7) 22. Sort of skiing with a tall blond type (6) 23. Bags one dismisses (5) 24. From Croatia, raised a papal crown (5)