CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Create some grants to allow for mitigating circumstances (4,10) 9 Stars have a lot of money in place with a hot climate (7) 10 At present, twice, but is not getting anywhere (7) 11 Did one rant and rave on Sunday about some short stories? (10) 12 Georgia adopted two fellows, but it was a mistake (4) 14 Close down hearing, when about to win some over ... (6) 15 ... and jogged the memory when about to care for a little boy (8) 17 One in force leads society to draw up strategies (8) 19 Drink with priest and Italian runner in Syrian city (6) 22 Take home some sixth year notes (4) 23 Follow custom and practice with small 17 across (10) 25 Seem to rig up place for asylum-seekers (7) 26 Looksatalternativestructure,initially.it’sa monstrosity (7) 27 Find some soldiers at times in homesteads (14) DOWN 1 Made a mistake in translation, so got it all wrong (14) 2 Keep a considerate revolutionary in the family (7) 3 Coming in to show character at face value (10) 4 Opens the door to allow trespass (4,2) 5 Rambled about having gone off course, and raved about it (8) 6 Tidings from the north-east, west and south (4) 7 Green engineers came back having had a long day (7) 8 US personified: society turned out to show dishonesty (14) 13 Did a factory rush to build a channel to power a wheel? (4-6) 16 Salesman rails about act of vengeance (7) 18 Left or right, that’s taking on small trucks (7) 20 Term used for a naming word, to indicate without meaning (7) 21 Number-crunchers identify venomous creatures (6) 24 Close to territory in the Far East (4)