Cryptic crossword

ACROSS 1. Attractive, but small-minded about the Right (6)

4. Smiled affectedly at spider getting me upset (8)

9. Animal in the home might tie with the little and feminine (6) 10. Street taken by lugger turned it into a tussle (8)

12. Pitman presents nice moral entanglement (4,5)

13. Drug ring I’m up to supplying (5)

14. Design of building, chair, etc: true way of fashioning it (12) 18. Sinuosities of a hundred on five: solution is wrong (12) 21. A caper one can’t get out of (5)

22. Omits the foliage when it’s in blossom? (6,3)

24. Clergyman takes tea without any embellishment (8)

25. Was gloomy when the army doctor got up (6)

26. It is informative, by the way (4,4)

27. The Engineers may judge how to buy pledge back (6) DOWN 1. Whitener used by churchwarden? (8)

2. Be spellbinding at the front door maybe (8)

3. Tribal symbol encountered with Old Testament being given up (5)

5. Bury Stella right among the stars (12)

6. Wealthy and powerful, he put car-lot in order (9)

7. Get back, for example, in the wet (6)

8. Like a vision of Miss West turning up to dry out (6)

11. Putting too low a price on dual run, given the run-about (12) 15. Sort of triangle one sees with coils twisting (9)

16. Without rise or fall voice has no ‘No’; to me, that’s wrong (8) 17. Line joining heat-spots upsets this more (8)

19. Ballerina twirling cane when doctor is around (6)

20. Layers, as seen when tart is swallowed up (6)

23. Woman about to give one the go-ahead may bring it to mind (5)