The Herald Sunday crosswords
ACROSS
1 5 9 10 11 12 14 18 22 23 24 25 26 27 Uncle shown dodgy piano by old man (8)
Parson's strange garments (6) Hit officer and top journalist (8) Heartlessly butcher tradesman (6) Plan some developed to produce growth (8)
Country is backing king (6)
An MP lied or distorted - it's the same either way (10) Poison two women (10) English student just making team (6)
Bill stops duck being lark (8) Saw six sheep close to field (6) First class (and second) letters (8) Defy terrorists in base (6)
Cut in France is most harsh (8)
DOWN
1 2 3 4 6 7 8 13 15 16 17 19 20 21 Nuts about church in photograph (6)
Delight in goodness, embracing everyone (6)
Accidents caused by medicine abord ship (6)
Dwarf who saved or wasted (10) Light seen around one blue fence (8)
Small swimmer worked as doctor (8)
Walked in road, getting wound (8) Majority suffering hearing loss? Not good (5,5)
Witness crowd heading off with computer (8)
Spies having seconds after kipper (8)
Singer eating jellied eels? That's unsubstantiated (8)
In bloke I see ill-will (6) Location accommodating foremost of aristocrats (6) Where flowers grow, it's flat (6)