Across
1 Excuse certain satisfaction (8)
5 Beginning with greeting after hesitation letting doctor in (6)
9 Question highest in command (5)
10 Old man, very bold, moving with energy in dance (4,5)
12 Travel in good group involving zero risk, right? (5-4)
13 Share in rent (5)
14 Fantastic help by clerk at code-breaking headquarters (9,4)
17 Underrated beginner in ultimate card game babbled, holding diamonds back (13)
21 Produce alien after appeal (5)
23 Sad poem about soldier perhaps with line in refined style (9)
24 Pasta that pigeons ruined? Not on (9)
25 Father with particular expression of disapproval (5)
26 Variable merits in wishes (6)
27 Stocky son cutting mass of trees (8)
Down
1 Thick soup in container on time (6)
2 Flowering plant first in bloom? Rejoicing about that (9)
3 Hide final pieces of fabulous treasure on island (7)
4 Speak angrily about pressure for plan without initial reconciliation (13)
6 Lack of pretension in manner with pen (7)
7 One resisting authority figure belittled to some extent(5)
8 Superior to receive pass (8)
11 One following order in full adjusted his aerial (9,4)
15 Car is not damaged in tests (9)
16 Poor cleric, without work, in the red (8)
18 Contribute feature below mine (5,2)
19 Idiosyncrasy about service following trade (7)
20 Tips for calligraphy, given excellent new pen? (6)
22 Country in hour covered by a horse going north (5)
Published - October 20, 2018 04:29 pm IST
