CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. An icecream to blow, rather than suck? (6)

4. A psychiatrist will evidently get less (6)

9. Is without skill, but worthy of one’s attention (7)

10. Ahead of a military man it will almost tremble at nothing (5)

11. Put out what watch shows to have been returned (4)

12. Depression is despairingly begun with drink (4)

13. Animal king is after the Spanish (3)

15. Words and music for it at a very low price (4)

16. Don’t continue if it’s such a small amount of liquid (4)

19. Father returning to first last, as is fitting (3)

21. Green quality will not quite finish if Ivy loses her head (4)

22. Tale-teller initially to regret being factual (4)

24. One gets little Dorothy to hold one, silly fellow! (5)

25. Follow on heels of a swimmer – it’s a shark (7)

26. Make it longer ten, in Roman and English, held by editor (6)

27. Inn-servant may have been lost on a half of beer (6)

DOWN

1. Study temple at four being imprisoned when thoughtful (13)

2. Keeps guidelines for rider at getting up inside (7)

3. Recedes in a tidy way? (4)

5. Entertainer gets right inside Ely tavern (8)

6. Angered a strike-breaker that is on the outside (5)

7. Roughly construct what knees do in trepidation (5,8)

8. Ring the bells around end of conviction about punishment (5)

14. Eggs in their shells are like record still standing (8)

17. Favouring one party, it’s not all there (7)

18. Avoid greed, a vestige of which turns up in part (5)

20. Dance – give it a turn (5)

23. What one does as time goes on for so long (4)