WH crossword

ACROSS

1 Initially the winner (2, 3, 5, 5) 9 Just the fish for a photographer (7) 10 Cheerful French frier (7) 11 Doughboy mixed general a drink (6, 3) 12 Noted roué who sailed around the world (5) 13 Key office workers (7) 15 Baby’s father first supported nihilistic art movement (7) 17 One who gets on with the landlady (7) 19 Artillerymen very old — and showing it! (7) 21 Man dressed in headgear of poor quality (5) 23 Ordered comrade to get presidential escort (9) 25 Contemplates reasoning with one’s lad? (5, 2) 26 Attempts to meet Lawrence in Italy (7) 27 Helping me to tint design, but getting mixed up (2, 3, 7, 3)

DOWN

1 Perceptible percipience (7) 2 One American author — or two (5) 3 Declared former spouse made demands (9) 4 Attacks commercials for Japanese pill bottles (7) 5 Come into one’s inheritance and prosper (7) 6 What the snooper did from utter arrogance (5) 7 Back State that’s ringing and asking for aid (9) 8 To make money in France is no joke (7) 14 Performed to the end, although exhausted (6, 3) 16 Roundabout way to find amusement (9) 17 They could make graduate sick in the Channel Islands (7) 18 Chivalrous tale unites Catholic and Anglican (7) 19 Knock onomatopoeia (7) 20 Pete and Des differ most profoundly (7) 22 Some of Grandpa’s sepia photos faded (5) 24 A model held up to aspiring fable writers? (5)