Across
1
Little girl read out first of lessons at church (9)
6
Maximum resentment reported (4)
8
Graves would be included here (4,4)
9
Meeting conducted with spirit? (6)
10
Shows scorn but never without five on board (6)
11
He worked with deadly chemical (8)
12
Latest bulletin about coups d’etat Scot dismissed (6)
15
Codebreaker admitted to private education (8)
16
Protection for half a day is almost hell (8)
19
Nobbled one horse dealer (6)
21
Lights out here in France, it’s decreed (8)
22
Feature of Barnet Hospital rebuilt losing house (6)
24
Fruit, almost a pound once topped (6)
25
Accepted model flag for the regiment (8)
26
Could be Wight or Lewis, (Lewis) partially! (4)
27
Second donkey wandering afar to small tree (9)
Down
1
The Stones’ memorial? (5)
2
May precede tavern in the town (7)
3
Set out, covering team departures (5)
4
Pull back leading troops president upset (7)
5
City’s tired wingers’ desire to get to final (4-5)
6
Hear cop busted illegal fisherman (7)
7
Section of grammar review of Aeneid (three chapters) (9)
13
Trousers added to rowing team (4,5)
14
They may pass on what they know (9)
17
Caught nieces playing with physics, say (7)
20
Smear tactics from one leaving Orcadian, maybe (7)
22
Up mountain, two sharp bends and a square (5)
23
They could be spare in City restaurant (5)