CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,216

ACROSS

1 Brag about doctor’s verbosity (7) 5 Pressure on US city police to be cool (6) 9 Fizzy lager disheartened lady to a great extent (7) 10 Someone getting on line in Dorset for a change (7) 11 I’m surprised Henry is leaving clarified butter (3) 12 Constant factor in business achieving minimum waste (11) 13 A posh German drilling tool (5) 14 Flawless former English woman retains place (9) 16 Eavesdropped on each wife getting dressed outside (9) 17 Devout Anglicans cherish eastern component (5) 19 Revolutionary rulers welcome top vocal supporter (11) 22 Tease member (3) 23 Agent imports popular nearly-new wood (7) 24 Mum conceals a skin blemish, applying this? (7) 26 Ancient leader of Egypt invested in a precious metal (3-3) 27 Irish spirit has been crushed (7)

DOWN

1 British record not available around old Italian city (7) 2 Cultivating trade, demand ginger and nuts (6,9) 3 Hole in one card (3) 4 Herb, your erstwhile setter (5) 5 Check text for old bloke screening article (9) 6 A sub diving in Channel originally detected by this? (5) 7 Simultaneously dismantle steam bath in here (2,3,4,6) 8 Yankee replaces last character in cave, feeling ill (6) 12 Dog brings up piece of big rock (5) 14 Very good golf score I’d read out, not needing glasses? (5-4) 15 One parades in Edinburgh quietly in support (5) 16 Cover area in busy scene (6) 18 European married couple hug (7) 20 Copier, rare one, old (5) 21 Disband march on Beachy Head (5) 25 Numbers upset child (3)