WEEKEND CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Most of game Frenchman had with toastie (6-8) 9 Only Ted moved in a marked way (7) 10 Rex in trouble with one of the family (7) 11 Cover new body of water in Swiss town (10) 12 Cheap cut? (4) 14 Note my alternative word origin (6) 15 Two ciphers when there is no visibility whatsoever (4-4) 17 Test a new shoot on one’s tongue (5,3) 19 Some group overconfident that it can be raised to a horizontal position (2-4) 22 Lady not starting to display distinctive quality (4) 23 Planning in the mind another upgrade, minimum included (8,2) 25 Criminal fraternity’s sordid social circumstances (7) 26 Inclined to present a particular view (7) 27 Person moving in high circles (5,9) DOWN 1 Privately trusting one friend (14) 2 Show greater endurance than troublesome tout, say (7) 3 Agent subject to insurance (10) 4 Might, before 24 hours, be a distress signal (6) 5 Excellent chaps in upper house (8) 6 No end of anger concerning press (4) 7 Make someone mentally unbalanced while renovating huge inn (7) 8 Might this leggy creature make sudden disappearance from stage? (8,6) 13 Involved endlessly in tangle (10) 16 Bit of food Greek character and I found in river (8) 18 Make one nervous when there’s been a fiasco (5-2) 20 To do with plants Tel gave out (7) 21 Lady from swamp has been cut short, has been cut short (6) 24 Find out about scrapping over record (4)