cryptic crossword
ACROSS
5. Bar servings stolen on board ship (5)
7. Bridge club that’s ahead gets the medal (4,5)
10. Entire upper-class changed the entourage (7)
11. The delivery of the guy who chucks them out? (7)
12. Nothing to it, deodorant won’t be required (2,5)
13. Have a break, remove the unfinished temporary accommodation (4,3)
14. Time off work to say goodbye (4,4,5)
19. Prattles on about breakfast items (7)
21. Unexpectedly con him about a haircut (7)
23. Cutting the pilfering (7)
25. The soldier embraced one who’s more sentimental (7)
26. Teams clean with a glancing blow (9)
27. It’s up to go formal and it’s down to rebuke (5)
DOWN
1. Foreign noblewoman could swindle the Māori fool making a comeback (8)
2. Significant events, they mark the distance (10)
3. An old car located in odd parts of Bloomsbury (4)
4. A shilling on Tom to get a lynx (6)
5. Contract a physician (6)
6. Meaning of small change articulated (5)
8. Throw over the French with a laugh (7)
9. Groans about the garment (6)
13. Tentatively at first question and overcome the slave driver (10)
15. Pastry items Sir Alec changed (7)
16. Disastrous ANC vices require shots (8)
17. Scoundrels put the alcohol into the ship (6)
18. Carroll’s animals get the annoying person on board (6)
20. Deceptive outward appearance of the amended cafe ad (6)
22. Dreamed he had embraced the work (5)
24. Hold that gets a brief complaint (4)