Across
1 Actor in tie prepared for reading (10)
6 Cutting some medication back (4)
9 Reminder, pretty short of time (3)
10 Finished a paper’s last feature, good and comprehensive (11)
12 Horse that is taken into lead by excited lad (7)
13 Shameful refusal to stop rotten bilge (7)
14 Still together (2,3,4,4)
17 Cope in confusion with temperature hot and unhealthy (6,7)
21 Fool to accept measure of current ridicule (7)
23 Roused son, weary, around middle of afternoon (7)
24 Preserve proverb about duck, very large waterbird (6,5)
25 Number in fact working (3)
26 Flow restricted in sound (4)
27 Reset sadly faulty balances (10)
Down
1 Ready to admit limits of exotic formula (6)
2 Steady in honesty, missing our place in Ohio (9)
3 Engineer changing the old formats (6,7)
4 Lever altered in error (7)
5 Middle of rock song including new instrument (7)
7 Go up and start to cut branch (5)
8 Tenacious, endlessly referring to line in comic verse (8)
11 Vice-consul yet to get involved in a row (13)
15 One with anger up in north mistaken for successor (9)
16 Understood appeal to support rascal left in charge (8)
18 Strict about working this evening (7)
19 Return and break mineral (7)
20 Foul island covered with smells? Run away (6)
22 Excavated and raised material (5)
