CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Well structure base where I’m all for pot being passed round (3,8)

9 Carried out again with left-wing identity (5) 10 Everyone enters attempts to produce vegetables (8)

12 Hit back at fat duck (7) 13 Performance is cancelled by exhibitionist (4-3)

14 Each can decided not to go out for a meal (3,2)

15 Lied at bet to fix information on when to sail (4-5)

18 Taboo on behalf of offer to study (9) 20 Appoint to position in store at junction (2-3) 21 Most CIA members are related to the body (7)

24 Signs on for silent assembly before sunrise begins (7)

25 Welcoming team of players that’s mine (8) 26 Goes out with none but bird (5) 27 Sporting rags, purchaser reckons it’ s not cricket (11)

DOWN

2 Go for gun in hostelry where reserved (7) 3 Online news item no longer relevant when due later (9)

4 Gather elements of a church service (5) 5 Quarrel has knock-on effects (7)

6 Give up vigour of reasoning in proportion (5)

7 Loudly proclaim angle on reef swimmer (11) 8 Worshipper arriving too early for marriage ceremony? (8)

11 Aiming at preferences produces unpleasant lingering sensations (11)

16 Decent sap made a mess of moonwalk, say (5,4)

17 Gets a ticket for over-16 at The Works, for example (8) 19 Solemnly re cites complaint one’ s brought in (7)

20 Log into traffic diversion measure in city on the Rhine (7)

22 Doctor seen for each one who was depressed (5)

23 Be violently at odds with collision from right to left (5)