Across
1
Plant’s core cultivated with soil to reproduce (5-9)
8
Bulb repeatedly lit with current suppressed (5)
9
Fighter turning up to register after soldier (8)
11
Strange US diet – belly of fella gets thinner (7)
12
Revealing outfit? Mini skirts a new look, ultimately (7)
13
Both ends of laces threaded by feeling holes (5)
15
In case of doubt, is your husband inside cheating? (9)
17
Wake wanting bit of medicine at hospital (9)
20
Boxer knocking the stuffing out of Teddy boy (5)
21
Luger pistol at the front modified with a silencer (7)
23
Son getting punched, not hard, is floored (7)
25
Naked old woman in apartment (8)
26
Underwear, without padding, so plain (5)
27
Notice member bending rules (8,6)
Down
1
What might make a full house from pack? Run following suit (5-7)
2
Boris saving skin? He finally left Oxford college (5)
3
It rains, empty sewage at sea, this might get dirt on surface (9)
4
Did face set day after surgical procedure? (7)
5
Deal close to drug mule taking tablets in grams? (7)
6
New Year bill at the end paid for by plastic (5)
7
Shortness of balls: second over at the crease (9)
10
Meeting sweethearts – they’re easy to take out (7,5)
14
I learn it off by heart, essentially with other things (5,4)
16
Have more than admired dress? Exposed on top (9)
18
A sequence of four letters about one native (7)
19
Online reference needing number and name (7)
22
Reason I pass; lecturer reflecting on college (5)
24
Old-fashioned piano, on property, missing foot (5)