CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

15/6

ACROSS

1. Wherewithal to make and catch returning young creature (6)

4. Material to painting, it may show by how much boat leads (6)

9. Also, about being quietly in the red, is something explosive (7)

10. Husky, light, bantering sort of stuff (5)

11. Take warning the Red leaders have dropped off (4)

12. One may make a pudding on reversed gas-ring (4)

13. One addicted to the bottle thus comes to end of stout ... (3)

15. ... beginning of which, with transformation, he’ll knock back (4)

16. Showing lack of strength for seven days, one is told (4)

19. Some particular marine branch (3)

21. Not all there? Leave each other! (4)

22. Had the sensation it was something material but not woven (4)

24. ‘was haunted By woman wailing for her ______ lover’ (Coleridge) (5)

25. Right in the forefront, his confusion looks like clear cover (7)

26. Started to fall asleep and looked agreeable (6)

27. Points in development one mounts in the theatre (6)

DOWN

1. Place for Escoffier and Adam to get together, perhaps (7,6)

2. Obtain among sailors such things as are aimed at (7)

3. Fresher without a top, it is meant to hold water (4)

5. Got hooked on, and took in a job around the house (8)

6. Little bottles, half a dozen of which are also unfinished (5)

7. No danger on the terraces, such strikers being concerned? (6,7)

8. Pink gold discovered in one of the States (5)

14. So to be a pharmacist, one must do without? (8)

17. Behind the wicket, one pen is wrong in the barrel (7)

18. Of importance as the rest, finally (5)

20. Acted dumb (5)

23. Move up in Pontefract or Thurrock (4)