Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 Bring something to a halt – to pits, perhaps (4,2) 5 Piece of quiche frazzled? Blame this man! (4) 9 Girl outside a city (5) 10 Cry of approval about commercial show of courage (7) 11 Batting with leg ring is neither here nor there (2,5)

12 Wants hear (5) massages, we 13 Poise shown by good people (5) 15 Chap penniless, right to left (5) 20 Lovely cravat hides modern fabric (5) 22 Dad doesn’t finish wild sprint for vegetable (7)

24 Material added when vacuous fool put on weight (7)

25 Mature droll-sounding writer (5)

26 Geek appears during dinner date (4) 27 Part of jacket becoming wrinkly (6)

DOWN

2 Part of articulated lorry lit – rear, possibly (7)

3 Knight rising in the afternoon to discover light refractor (5) 4 Baby holds in cry of displeasure, as well (2,4) 5 Girl left after church, of course (7) 6 Fill with joy when European behind time (5) 7 Limits some of the unambitious (5) 8 Canadian deer bellows on edge of prairie (5) 14 Bound to dine out following tea (7) 16 Family doctor at home of key person in organisation (7) 17 In the rear of ship, look up above (5) 18 The charm of a soft chime (6) 19 Suggest old timber (5) 21 Caught solitary replica (5) 23 Some explorer unnecessarily has to go again (5)