Across
1 Cheat to secure point in game (8)
5 Watches wife chasing a wild mare (6)
9 Frenchman wants, initially, to begin again (5)
10 Moderate consumed with rage, initially (9)
12 Lengthens terms of imprisonment (9)
13 Implied I must be bound by discretion (5)
14 Peep’s dish her undoing? A meat dish (9,3)
18 Both comrades badly injured (4,2,6)
21 Genuine about point relating to the kidneys (5)
23 It’s beside the point, a Parisian’s told (9)
24 Tell all to turn up fresh (4,5)
25 Capital I invested in Chesterfield, say? (5)
26 He painted Goliath clasping one? (6)
27 Doctor treated Kurd, an alkie (8)
Down
1 A red used by Spencer is exquisite (6)
2 Pass by poor region (6)
3 WC and bidet he vandalised in film (9)
4 Understand what art collector might want to do (3,3,7)
6 Calm, the leader in trampolining competition (5)
7 Something from the watercolourist? (8)
8 Sumo type in baggy trews, the Parisian on right (8)
11 Eliot’s young Silas bringing in iodine for merchant ship’s captain (6-7)
15 Unerring opener for Sussex, batting with pride? (6,3)
16 Wanting to pick a quicker route (5,3)
17 Send maiden over in carriage (8)
19 Group of people employed on a Hebridean island (6)
20 King Lear, perhaps (6)
22 Synthetic material stored in costly crate (5)
