Times Cryptic #26768

2017-07-04

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Across

1a

Home again by tea time bringing sauce (8)

5a

One that would catch pillow talk perhaps, after your blood? (6)

9a

Sentence that could be long? Therefore no good tweeting (8)

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10a

Fur freak feeling rejected (6)

12a

Support for constitutional edict backed: ruler to remain (7,5)

15a

Page Three, perhaps, right to be hidden from vicar (5)

16a

Romantic chap going out with Doris (9)

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18a

Sir comes in tired: check for purpose-built seat? (9)

19a

European poet's kind, touching hosts (5)

20a

Broken rubber in many bits of some value (6,6)

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24a

Foreign girl having legs round but short (6)

25a

Alumni better out of sight? (8)

26a

We hear boy's going to a best friend's place (6)

27a

One shelled out to get a printer? (8)

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Down

1d

Hope for one's changes to be made by sexton? (4)

2d

Wind and cold where surfers go? (4)

3d

As bill passed on involving millions, this certainly ....? (4,1,4)

4d

Heroine of rank an inane article rubbished (4,8)

6d

Drama queen visiting much of Europe and America (5)

7d

What we pay pub to host European party: a figure to toy with (6,4)

8d

Footballer outstanding at the back, awfully like a rock (10)

11d

Presumably thin sailor left in house, puzzling (12)

13d

Fail to lift trophy? Pretend not to notice (4,1,5)

14d

Northern town where a county council cut mobile phone signal (10)

17d

Desire this so-called lustre, etca ruby possesses it (9)

21d

Jack beams when picked up (5)

22d

Sting mouth: a hazard of course (4)

23d

Where couple covered up for PM once (4)