Times Cryptic #26664

2017-03-04

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Across

1a

Unwilling to move fortune into busted flush (8)

9a

Rising ground enclosed in English pit (8)

10a

Craft reversing into view without turning (8)

11a

Say equine group with no leader goes over Lipizzaner's performance? (8)

12a

After triumph in vote, a means to escape (4,2,4)

14a

The writer's accepted by Pound as a member (4)

15a

Ultimately, hatred favours hostility (7)

17a

Fuel being short hampers officer commanding bishop's area (7)

21a

Possible report of banger with cured meat (4)

22a

Sumerian city recitation, recalled in over half of Bible, one addressed as a blessing (4,2,4)

23a

Heart surgeon tours unknown beastly place (8)

25a

Limited changes involving Liberalnot right now? (3-5)

26a

An accountant trained to overturn world of study (8)

27a

Playwright's wife leaving area admits clubs hold opening (8)

Down

2d

Note informant among 52 scholarly people (8)

3d

Backed-up transport to make sound of airways (8)

4d

Square vaguely remembered losing a grand (4)

5d

Failed to take away the air of disappointment (3-4)

6d

Barnsley's wingers splitting team twice in a row (4,2,4)

7d

Where to arrange flowers around climber almost like Japanese knotweed? (8)

8d

Mimic runs performing group with no name (8)

13d

Prepare to do battle with a rump steak somehow (4,2,4)

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15d

Swallow to flap without gusto? (8)

16d

Flight of fancy was arty ingénue's debut (8)

18d

Blue note in middle of Alcina? Don't talk like a fool (8)

19d

Writ in inferior American-Gothic style? Not for Scots (8)

20d

There's nothing that's disgusting about mounting support for shortest book (7)

24d

Belly accommodating large surfeit (4)