Guardian Cryptic #27802

2019-04-23

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Across

1a

Display unit of wine and spirits (3,6)

6a

Young men take pounds before promotion (4)

8a

Guess all exotic birds(8)

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9a

on releasing 500 others (6)

10a

Staggers around Britain to find revolutionaries(6)

11a

collecting ’orrid skinless English fruit (8)

12a

Crockery a setter used right away (3,3)

15a

They make seats for small snakes to carry 6 down (8)

16a

Good girls excited to hug male travellers (8)

19a

Rule over Sweden then quit (6)

21a

Colour of letter turned down (4,4)

22a

After raising internal temperature, warders become animals (6)

24a

Advanced new colloids, they work wonders (6)

25a

Mum's upset to wear medical support when roughing it (8)

26a

Social workers said to have outstanding knees? (4)

27a

Could luxury tops help society's snobs? (9)

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Down

1d

Old official always rises outside, close to sunrise (5)

2d

Iconic cricket commentator supports a large number of stickers (7)

3d

Doubly hard to leave diabolical island (5)

4d

Perhaps flies home etc recklessly within seconds (7)

5d

Posh, posh car breaks exhaust, losing powerQueen to give up (9)

6d

Generous party member(7)

7d

plays dangerous CD, so drops an E, perhaps (5,4)

13d

Being around 6 + 10 + 100 dividing 7 evenly? (9)

14d

Drink in a twentieth of a minute? (6,3)

17d

They fire doctor, ensuring I go (7)

18d

It's smoked after playing the Ashes without test opener (7)

20d

Puny people like seafood (7)

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22d

Special amount of money docked for incentives (5)

23d

First to last rock band (5)