CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1

Sign that one’s glass needs a top- up, though one may not mean it? ( 5,7)

9 Overrun Italy, having left for year, and remove everything ( 4,2,3)

10 Summer reptile? ( 5)

11 Interrogate again about blow- up ( 6)

12 Star comedian holds party on comeback ( 8)

13 Marches, for example, years in the making? ( 6)

14 Someone behind bars, extremely rude to abandon a colleague of 2Dn ( 8)

17 Be joined at sea by follower of Cheyney ( 3,5)

19 Old and crumbling mountain over 2000ft ( 6)

21 Went on the Israeli version of Craggy Island comedy? ( 8)

23 Criminal steals electric cars ( 6)

25 Musically all together as final couple leave, expressing disapproval ( 5)

26 He’s written in “sign” where “recruit” is an alternative, resulting in plenty of choice words ( 9)

27 Middling, okay air marshal could be 17Ac’s pick ( 6,6)

DOWN 2

Strangely, keep in affected walk for runner in second position ( 4,5)

3 Source of income claimed by 19Ac, having head start, becomes a success ( 7)

4 Lanark worker in Germany, oddly ( 4)

5 Choked like a river, plus tide going out ( 6,2)

6 Town centre left behind, head for countryside missing raptor ( 4,3)

7 Turn scarlet – that is where to get down ( 5)

8 Literary work of the French keeps both sides in bureaus ( 7,5)

9 Stab catching opposition leader – PM faces no pressure for clemency, as Johnson has ( 4,8)

15 Somewhere in Wallonia, singe the king ( 9)

16 Bust supporter – clutch conceals most of chest ( 8)

18 Metal slants away from manufactured industrialism ( 7)

20 Outside broadcast follows tennis tournament ( 4- 3)

22 Starts to become artistic, setting up equipment for dyeing process ( 5)

24 Agreed twelve months head start to replace resistance ( 4)

MACBETH

Down: 1 Piglet 2 Ornate 3 Evaded 4 Bumper cars 6 Inscribe 7 Trapdoor 8 Peerless 13 Candyfloss 15 Imminent 16 Assemble 17 Audience 19 Letter 20 Kimono