Guardian Cryptic #27720

2019-01-17

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Across

1a

Trump, perhaps, to slip up badly (8)

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5a

Exerts heavy pressure on jointshortly notices (6)

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9a

House in miniature around back of Hyde Park (8)

10a

Haddock, part of it with bread (6)

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12a

King's ambassador fine, say, following commotion (4,2,5)

15a

Gun, one produced on stage(5)

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17a

an animal with no lines stars (9)

18a

A number shared meal (3,3,3)

19a

Foolish to eat a bit of radicchio leaf (5)

20a

Play, with this? (1,5,5)

24a

Chemist's position serious (6)

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25a

Forty-eight hours backchat that's boring? (4,4)

26a

Representative comes out of bin cleaner (6)

27a

Relax, supplying energy for one in grief (2-6)

Down

1d

Film course for one with a problem (10)

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2d

Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley (10)

3d

Waiting period as posh car collects bachelor (5)

4d

One's group of rebels relaxed at first in comfort (12)

6d

Sounds of foxtrot that are heard in the wings (6,3)

7d

Family member is cow (not daughter) (4)

8d

Suggesting Louis XIV collapsed? (4)

11d

Fussy car rental (4,2,6)

13d

Get people back into perpetual strife? Nothing in it (10)

14d

From barn, as horse led out, they steer (10)

16d

Judge's last case bringing back memories (9)

21d

Almost home, where this is? (5)

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22d

Succeeded with hat, lost it with feet? (4)

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23d

Man's house and college spoken of (4)