Across
1
Coo! Perhaps it is time to put on ring (8)
5
Minority backing a little Conservative chap following probes (3,3)
9
Female we bet I will spoil with love (4-2-2)
10
Substance secreted by oleasters, side by side (6)
11
Cycle around Herts town in the direction of Iron Age settlement (4,4)
12
Writing on edge of pot (6)
14
Start of briefing is not as in agenda: answer party with opening issue at table (3-7)
18
After heated clashes with many, agree fixture for big match (4,3,3)
23
Drunken evolutionary bar rant expressed heartfelt feelings (1,4,3)
24
Maybe excel with muscle, rippling amount! (6)
25
Such eliciting notice from potential addressees? (3,5)
26
One’s first moved to travel on e.g. bus with three conductors? (6)
27
Poor school rings out each time for a progress-checker (5,3)
Down
1
Gathering with hostility in cave (6)
2
Deliver clarification on penalty (6)
3
Isolate copper, in contact with fluorine repeatedly (3,3)
4
At Centre, valet is catching Wooster purloining last of garden rakes (10)
6
Impetuous folk stop TV show’s interruptive material (8)
7
American university academic merging upcoming pre-Congress activities (8)
8
Good health points effecting switch in what paper shops do (8)
13
Was sorry about adopting writing system with no ‘B’ mechanism (10)
15
Reason a trip to the tobacconist is on and off? (5,3)
16
Lovers – bonkers – at it again indoors (8)
17
Ways to engage with a model (8)
19
Admitting Arts Academy deserted very fine composer (6)
20
Plant U-turning keeps of course wasting energy (6)
21
Planted smackers on breasts, so reported (6)