Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Pull a long face after company’s fraud (3-3)
4. Talks to a higher authority, reportedly, for approval (6)
8. Choke learner employed in weird circumstances (8)
9. Work hard on an advertising jingle (6)
10. Mountain man’s fishing equipment (6)
11. He had put in clues especially designed for book (8)
12. Acquisitions chap briefly kept in money bags (9)
14. Two performers expected to arrive before end of act (4)
16. Weaponry causes damage after hospital’s opening (4)
18. Unfashionable duo arranged time and circulated (6,3)
21. Potato is stuffed with a soft bread (8)
23. One employed to serve member in company of outlaw (6)
24. A load of bread and dripping catering for everyone (6)
25. One resting in mansion corrected a sleeping problem (8)
26. Rushes to river specified in message (6)
27. $1000 secures body parts (6)
DOWN
1. Behave playfully as cat turned on parrot with dog around (3,1,5)
2. Peer stepping in for a specialist diver (7)
3. Person who is encouraging and not taken in by a delusion of grandeur (5)
4. Delivery has limitations of time right away? (4-5)
5. New video shown in commercial should be given a wide berth (7)
6. Centrepiece of massive shopping area is not very big (5)
7. The man is admitting street robberies (6)
13. High temperature - it is restricting onset of patient’s viral disease (9)
15. Established house behind opening to unique waterways (9)
17. One who is able to deliver, without using one, is more flexible (7)
19. Yellowish-green Eurasian finch is shown in film (6)
20. A sermon prepared for those involved in a row (7)
22. He created works with feeling (5)
23. Ingredient of pesto as described in short advertisement (5)