CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fiddle with private investigator’s seafood (6) 8 Trollop beginning to shine brass instrument (8) 9 Racing track circuits partly collapsed (4) 10 Bill ducks social prohibition (5) 11 Strip legislation to some extent (4) 12 Collect the rag somehow (6) 14 Thing entering Kent, it yawns (6) 16 The Spanish leave guest-house, but return to jacuzzi (3,3) 19 Loudspeaker will irritate after time (6) 21 How 007 describes his career in observation game (1-3) 23 Vagrants wasting time on slopes (5) 25 Think nothing of concealing cluster (4) 26 I trade when it’s unusual person who’s impractical (8) 27 In the shop a queue cannot be seen through (6)

DOWN

2 Double tea dance (3-3) 3 Thin fog was yearned for, we hear (4) 4 Line is round pub (6) 5 Narrow track made by ring in wood (6) 6 Muse about Australian runners (4) 7 Concerning the historical feast (6) 13 Smash success? (3) 15 Little unfinished container (3) 17 Edison may be in legal position, sportingly (6) 18 Feathered friend welcomed on the golf course (6) 19 Salad ingredient also found around carpet (6) 20 From centres of York smog, blue decorative alloy (6) 22 Time, end of May, one hears (4) 24 Flyer sees others heading west (4)