Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Hand-warmer the French use to deaden the sound (6)

4. Bit of hosiery one is keeping in store (8)

9. Money makes the King (6)

10. The engine is stopping while one’s playing for time (8)

12. Being unbiased, Lima has a trip organised (9)

13. In Essex, to laugh is to praise one (5)

L4. Changed shape of mood in cat, if I adapt to it (12)

18. Where to protect invention of tent if cape is made of it (6,6) 21. To be precise, it’s the way to enforce payment (5)

22. Sickness can be hell: halt one variety of it (3,6)

24. It’s obvious that a mother or father will go around quietly (8) 25. Determined way in which one followed somebody (6)

26. Birds of the sleek sort, nothing less (8)

27. Sort of measure me with no end of artifice (6)

DOWN

1. Cult of male pride, comma – his mistake! (8)

2. Horseless highwaymen of past do have to adapt (8)

3. Inner material furnishes ocean-goer (5)

5. Little battle rhymes with gossip (6,6)

6. Named the driver’s right to have cancelled it (6,3)

7. Fools do, it is put about (6)

8. Single engagement with broken leg – it’s a bit of a laugh! (6) 11. Left to one’s judgment, credit is loan arrangement (12) 15. Toady may say nice things about King Edward (9)

16. One in country community is ill, grave as can be (8) 17. Systematic way the MO is worked out when CID turn up (8) 19. An observation one may notice (6)

20. Ornamental sort of grass Pa’s making map of (6)

23. Run off to a union meeting (5)