CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eye trouble has Tim back in hospital complex clutching heart (12)

9 Burns once having the duty to remove bishop, perhaps (9)

10 Portray decorator’s fool’s errand when going after 13Ac (5)

11 Barred and veiled, but not very, concealing sign of something wrong (6)

12 Violently kick lots of 13Ac hose (4,4)

13 Put salt on sunburn and check pattern (6)

14 Old and almost totally serious, I love this Italian air! (1,4,3)

17 Absorbed in binges, tediously (8)

19 Roll mesh cap, often 13Ac (6)

21 Where the chips are guaranteed (2,3,3)

23 Exchange sides after a coach is victim of mistreatment (6)

25 Strobe lighting exposes dagger marks in text (5)

26 Celtic FC put on Highland dress left to right – a voluminous undergarment (4,5)

27 Former natural fabric producer from Tomsk, while more affected (8,4)

DOWN

2 Something between boiled egg and grass, probably 13Ac (6,3)

3 Hardy lass has time to get part of the picture? (7)

4 Fitba’ fans following 13Ac (4)

5 Badly mistaken and most unpleasant (8)

6 Go back to calculate pattern, essentially, of pupil’s reflex to light (7)

7 Tricky-sounding bid to get to West Irish town (5)

8 Crashed, retook test around end of autumn and closer to Aberdeen pottery centre (5-2-5)

9 Pressing requirement to vote in Republican – absurdly ironic (8,4)

15 Setter taking risk wandering about in brand-new frock, often 13Ac... (9)

16 ...so has wee arrangement to visit the theatre (3,1,4)

18 Distinctive, such as constable drunk when following 13Ac (7)

20 Reveal sub-moon fluctuation (7)

22 Looking back, answer: “trousers” was essentially correct if 13Ac (5)

24 After 13Ac, Scottish crime fiction open to semi jocular endings (4)

MACBETH