cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 American chemical company taken in by staff person on the fiddle perhaps (8)

5 House’s top storey left out, contrarily (4)

9 People farming small-scale little vegetables and animals (8)

10 It’s not very long and very small (6)

11 Grand bit of cricket attended by neither head of state? (8)

12 Fifty diets represented on the menu? (6)

14 Discovered one in a hundred will offer charity, say (10)

18 The nude ran, wobbling below (10)

22 Resoundingly haughty king’s dropped out, university’s admitted (6)

23 Cabinet’s award going to Shakespeare in Love ? On the contrary (8)

24 Trapped in poverty, having to keep dry (6)

25 Guided westwards, with sensitive state of the east (8)

26 Sky can be seen through this bit of pottery? (4)

27 Crooning about tango is creating irritation (8)

DOWN

2 Without wishing, fast watch rudely gets stuck around five (6)

3 Runs meeting rockers? (6)

4 Scientist whose research needs looking up (10)

6 First to get over splintered railing (8)

7 UK ministry, talking shop with its counterparts, will meet volunteers in spring (8)

8 Cultivating grass in Crosby? (8)

9 Section of biography perhaps shows anger when sacrificing rook for pawn (4)

13 What’s needed for 1 part of refrain – strum enthusiastically! (10)

15 Putting coat on, yearns for old-fashioned measurements (8)

16 Dead drunk, imbibing barely changed (8)

17 Cyber bullies set about the old over moving beds? (8)

19 Secure in wrecked boat at first (6)

20 Hip and excellent island state (6)

21 Going up, for instance, from French border (4)