Across
1 Chose bar, newly built in Welsh resort (8)
5 Blunder made by fielder at Oxford? (4-2)
9 One instrument after another producing a piece of music for an old dance (8)
10 Type of sausage obtained from one of the Greek islands, mostly (6)
11 Detest gaudy bar small house installed (5)
12 Ten inside a large church in a Devon town (9)
14 Formal clothes is what a woman may wear at a funeral, we hear (7,5)
18 St Michael viewed differently after the play (3,9)
21 Sword found in former Catholic burial ground (9)
23 Last of a series of home games (5)
24 A gallon in pool is unsatisfactorily small in amount (6)
25 Overwhelm one person in religious order with fruit (8)
26 Most certainly with more justification (6)
27 Visual faculty certainly needed in rowing crew (8)
Down
1 Retreat from wood ahead of pack (6)
2 Blue celestial body close to Mercury (6)
3 Exceptionally good ball in championship match (5,4)
4 Tyrannical whaler, at a pinch a cruel seaman (7,4)
6 Pick up king, then knight (5)
7 Sparkling repartee - it should bear fruit (4,4)
8 Tedious talk about border plant (8)
13 Corny moment involved dog in classic tale (11)
15 Demonises criminal in a state capital (3,6)
16 Arrest me for flying flag (8)
17 Liking poem’s initial charm (8)
19 Write a note, then another, in a Malaysian state (6)
20 Article left in shelter, a special gift (6)
22 Lively lager and stout (5)
