CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

// ACROSS 6 The lover put one inside a pen perhaps (5)

7 It’s used to carry wine following a rugby gettogether! (8)

10 One smoker could be annoying (7)

11 The bird is a nut holding the Italian back (7)

12 Every single one is after a troublemaker to charge (7)

13 The staff holds the male animal using knotwork (7)

14 Come home lighter for the second game (6,5)

19 Study groups for conservative girls (7)

21 The individual looked biased (3-4)

23 Comic admits a brief thousand are outside (7)

25 The floozie is after parking in America for the cocky newcomer (7)

26 They discuss volumes and reserve a driver perhaps (4,4)

27 Curiously adore the mountain nymph (5)

// DOWN

1 Garden flower left on Noah’s boat to incite (8)

2 An absurd goal for an African country (6)

3 Political party grasping the instrument for novices (10)

4 Starts to stupidly catch unwanted porgy fish (4)

5 Bill a spy firm for the tree (6)

6 Could be a rum ghost (6)

8 Request colitis treatment (7)

9 Beneath some of the flounders (5)

13 Silent over the bad smell of the elephant? It’s incomprehensible (5,5)

15 Stock us in error with a type of grass (7)

16 Knock out punch for a farmworker (8)

17 Dirty look given when the boat left (5)

18 Revised the diet in front of Edward (6)

20 The splinter group is initially lacking a lawsuit (6)

22 UK railway station for an American entering the public school (6)

24 Sounds like the end of the yarn (4)