Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Cloak to pace about in (6)

4. Stroke of bat: away? Take the car! (3-5)

9. Restricted in width, ran back to the line (6)

10. Water the beer for the first man (5,3)

12. It has to be German industrial city that twisted tail (9) 13. Unsophisticated single person standing in part of church (5) 14. Where inventors seek protection from coffin at Pete’s connivance(6,6)

18. Public officers’ jobs among ten dances I am entered in (12) 21. It’s painful for 100 on the racket (5)

22. Uncomfortable, sick, like troops not at attention (3,2,4) 24. Expounder of the next open variety (8)

25. It’s the habit small company must come to (6)

26. He hesitates to change their order when in red revolution (8) 27. Was afraid to fade Sappers out (6)

DOWN

1. Utter scorn with which Constance will allure one (8)

2. Flea, maybe, might spare it a sorting-out (8)

3. The corn — not EC — is prickly (5)

5. Nonsense: to play the violin, a craze that led to upset (6-6) 6. Man in order, man in CID? 0 — that’s a non sequitur! (9) 7. No upright type in capital iconography (6)

8. Team sees French pupil going North (6)

11. It is not doing as one’s told throwing dice? No, beside it! (12) 15. Three-quarters of a shilling, old money, to be as right as? (9) 16. Calamity Sid turns up, flower! (8)

17. Dee meets trouble when so highly regarded (8)

18. A whole lot of writing laid on the wall? (6)

19. Between camshaft and valve knock quietly, love! (6) 23. Cessation of hostilities by NI police in half the team (5)