CRYPTIC CROSSWORD LYRICAL

Across

1. Sounds like forty changes in forethought as preparation for surgery (13)

9. Pompous bimbos act in a strange way (9)

10. Italian dough is beyond a conclusion (5)

11. Wind on such doublings as are returned (5)

12. Driving back, rigs never adapt to it (9)

13. Page in book one could apprehend losing hydrogen (8)

15. Sort of acid used in aspic, richly revealed (6)

18. Sorrowful old tour-leader tries to change (6)

20. One living in community house, half-German (8)

23. Agree mine should supply a collection of animals (9)

24. Rears around something like a saw (5)

25. Bread the mine gives thanks for (5)

26. It may have paid her to be associated with Eros (9) 27. One may popularly be in two minds about it (13)

Down

1. Starting on adult life, be up to making it with perfume (9)

2. Tree material low dome is constructed from (7)

3. IT sends one such letters (5)

4. One locked away by tree nine planted out (8)

5. Several Covenanters were around in the recess (6)

6. I am not all there, but that’s fair (9) 7. It’s near to turning out more unpleasant (7)

8. Latin chanted outside is not the pure language (5)

14. Well-known signature giving Hugo a part to play (9)

16. How great can a South American port be? (9)

17. One new, posh sort of bodega (4-4)

19. How could one ingest lights? (7) 21. Sort of knot Igor and a Phrygian king made (7)

22. Substitute rates put out with an unknown quantity (6)

Identify the songs and the singer or band

1. I’m special, so special/I got to have some of your attention, give it to me!

2. There must be some way out of here/Said the joker to the thief 3. Jimmy quit, Jody got married/I should’ve known we’d never get far

4. Fun and sunshine/There’s enough for everyone

5. Yes I’ve been black but when I come back/You’ll know, know, know 23. One may get ample sugar from it (5)

24. Range about to make the cattle loose (5)