CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Head of pharmacy, petite, smashed tube in lab (7) 5 Curt prince in Sikh headdress briefly turned back (6) 9 Fresh wood’s unfair treatment (3,4) 10 Writer’s at heart of Dublin probing the sewer’s cover (7) 11 Now and then repair seed carrier (3) 12 Italian one’s unexpectedly put under government control (11) 13 One carrying fat primarily is probably this (5) 14 Nearly phone the army, cancelling a current treatment (9) 16 Sort of squash billygoat on head? (9) 17 Ring back about one aromatic shrub (5) 19 In work, left French article that’s unsuitable (11) 22 Reduced air in cask (3) 23 P&O artist’s first mythical woman (7) 24 Strip is bored in different places (7) 26 English composer has written off to get perfect example (6) 27 Erratic series about university put out again (7)

DOWN

1 Normal location of event restricted social climber (7) 2 Legal authority to forewarn poet possibly at close of play (5,2,8) 3 Driver’s often pulled out here and there in odd places (3) 4 Story turned up about one Israeli port (5) 5 Long-distance traveller turns to a comic touring area (9) 6 Educated girl consumes a yogurt dish (5) 7 About 50 appear in magazines maybe as image enhancers (6,9) 8 Only US soldiers leaving Lyme Regis in trouble (6) 12 Explosive constituent’s a bit disconcerting in retrospect (5) 14 It identifies organ supplier in London or Cardiff (5,4) 15 Very healthy banks split in two (5) 16 Radar spots capturing first of many wartime balloons (6) 18 Assemble a hundred on even ground (7) 20 Still river keeps cool (5) 21 Less than two foreign articles (5) 25 Almost leave out runner in snow (3)