CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Sort of services at the church get-together (6)

4. Kind of bean or pea for a mouse (5,3)

9. Nerve cell that gives one run-around (6)

10. Worried intensely how to gain dose of it (8)

12. Irrigate a sort of pool for sport (5,4)

13. Surplus copies of deliveries (5)

14. Thousand notes grocer distributes to one selling off barrow (12)

18. They add fancy detail with their stitchwork (12)

21. Moves gradually to the borders (5)

22. Having lied, it can change to being exactly the same (9)

24. High-rise dwellings for soldiers or workers? (8)

25. With the company present, stick together (6)

26. Any gesso can be moulded into flower bunches (8)

27. Scythe it out with a sort of cough (6)

Down

1. A round snack (8)

2. Titled lady cuts one’s capering (8)

3. Take the forenoon for your and my love affair (5)

5. Foreign army men and their disease (12)

6. Sort of Chinese division of Switzerland: see the difference! (9)

7. Having seen us routed, it follows (6)

8. None older than t’ Leeds version of it (6)

11. Call my crime nothing dodgy in the way of business (12)

15. Men she fuddles with gin, getting them entangled (9)

16. They save cress, mixing it with rue (8)

17. Ancient instrument the rest play like this (8)

19. Keep one back to dine at mess (6)

20. Stones, as placed round the entrance (6)

23. Long in it, being elderly (5)