CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. One doesn’t want company left in secure compound (7)

5. Close Scottish bank over in New York (6)

9. Pianoforte managed nine grand in old German money (7)

10. Dishonourable man with mother hiding current metal (7)

11. A court’s part in play (3)

12. Swelter awfully over ore, putting in kilos? I do that (11)

13. Weather lady who rules lines (5)

14. Choose a player to give this lift to child? (9)

16. Teams drinking lager recalled skiing manoeuvres (4-5)

17. 500 in a party make sense (3,2)

19. Frank organised fight in marquee (11)

22. Painting’s social on regular occasions (3)

23. Pressure’s on to restart venture (7)

24. samples food holding old kitchen device (7)

26. I take flight crossing British meteorologist’s line (6)

27. Stand for conductor or conversely play banjo maybe (7)

Down

1. Substitute ribbed material with delicate fabric (7)

2. Artists’ trunks? They usually hold clothes (6,2,7)

3. Vessel, foreign one, containing rupees (3)

4. Very good score in Gleneagles (5)

5. Perhaps chains pet with fasteners (9)

6. Sound car reaches finish in Monte Carlo (5)

7. Building new smart rock band to tour Rhode Island (6,3,6)

8. U.S. rail company’s fate revolves around timetable principally (6)

12. They make it easier to see small muscles (5)

14. Mercenary ship in River Plate foundered. 50 lost (9)

15. A snare’s set up some distance away (5)

16. Exercises suit different heads of primary schools (3-3)

18. Bunyan’s hero, devout student, determined (7)

20. Drivers quibble about banger perhaps (5)

21. Compound in Leicestershire (5)

25. Like special beast of burden (3)