cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Perhaps worker is one in pub, hiding face, disinclined to mix (10)

6 What Sugarloaf artwork

captures at a distance (4)

10 Flog close-grained wood (5)

11 Grannie so loose, working

out (9)

12 Open University almost immediately accepting folio (7)

13 View about the Parisian's

artful trick (7)

14 Fish dish a monk's seldom

cooked (6,6)

18 Guessing game leads to liars

being devious (5,2,5)

21 Quick learner, free from

affectation (7)

23 Old leader in tragedy greeting

play's eponymous hero (7)

24 Draw attention to man in a

city in Arizona (9)

25 Had on about son being

poorer (5)

26 Follow story on the radio (4)

27 One of nine sisters in hospital, many I suspect associated with former college (10)

DOWN

1 Shady area in port vacated by

husband (6)

2 List of charges, the result of

quarrel crossing a river (6)

3 Teacher in coach -- note

tension (14)

4 Superintendent of police

finally stopping joyrider? (9)

5 Gather a large amount (5)

7 Legitimate target in 'Splat the

Rat', say (4,4)

8 A pasta in capital before

endless drink (8)

9 Girl's Sinatra recording brings

nothing but pleasure (5,3,3,3)

15 Insect crawling on dry flag (9)

16 Deem appropriate to hold

and fine Italian (5,3)

17 Smoked beef over butter

followed by pig's heart? (8)

19 German boy mounted popular British coin some years ago (6)

20 Chap, for example, with a

wine shop in Malaga? (6)

22 Some vanilla, not plain (5)