SIR LANCELOT'S CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Possibly heading in to the red – that’s unanticipated (3,2,3,4) 8 Angry at the dead being laid out behind house (3-6) 9 Tit flying around in a cold upper room (5) 11 Spoils the beginning and end of holiday getting muddy (6) 12 Shorten time centaur is allowed to roam free (8) 14 Wondered about rapidity with which a cult was mysteriously taken in (10) 16 Excited, recalling part of bingo game (4) 18 Artist with religious education is uncommon (4) 19 Get more attention than defunct programme containing commercial (10) 21 Opt-out diagram that might be part of a wedding plan (3,5) 22 Element of noise surrounding Samuel’s teacher (6) 25 Drag the man to left of avenue (5) 26 Tattooed too heavily and attracting the attention of the bank manager (9) 27 Flag like this as celebrity’s pain was more important (4-8)

DOWN

2 State dairy product has had the top removed (5) 3 Examine again in connection with booty taken (8) 4 Commotion not yet finished (2-2) 5 Some fruit for Chuck’s more senior sibling perhaps (10) 6 Discovered nonsense poet, not without love (6) 7 Galloping steed called in and moved away (9) 8 It leads to the end in sentence (11) 10 Wore gym slip surrounded by family and a person of the cloth (11) 13 Regretfully mulls over one being taken to be wonderful (10) 15 People in Brussels ensure OAP suffers (9) 17 Farm worker, female, has record to pursue (8) 20 Arrived at the R&A with photographic gear (6) 23 For example, American one put up portrait (5) 24 Great alliance of Maine and Georgia (4)