QUICK CLUES:

Across

3. Watcher (9)

8. Standard (4)

9. Equipped (9)

10. Unimpaired (6)

11. Punitive (5)

14. Recess (5)

15. Cripple (4)

16. Hinder (5)

18. God of Thunder (4)

20. Keen (5)

21. Get to (5)

24. Pour from one vessel to another (6)

25. Two-sided (9)

26. Stigma (4)

27. Mildness (9)

Down

1. Affront (9)

2. Guardian (9)

4. Covenant (4)

5. Shut (5)

6. Starry (6)

7. Finished (4)

9. Stood in (5)

11. Repair (5)

12. Ludicrous (9)

13. Land (9)

17. Drive back (5)

19. Stay (6)

22. Purify (5)

23. Poster (4)

24. Platform (4)