Wednesday 8 April

Across

1 Also, the ship outside left without power (9) 6 Boxer, turn into cook (4) 8 Frenchman retires following quick tie (8) 9 Like TV’s fabulous creature? (6) 10 Pay company to be involved in Minecraft? (6) 11 In December on retreat, large corporation is in fancy dress (8) 12 Dairy products not good in tents (6) 15 Private Harry cries over broken toe (8) 16 Diagrams describe Number 10’s vehicles (8) 19 PR wins hearts with “Vote for Monster” (6) 21 British heavyweight losing no time with friend in a cruel manner (8) 22 Nuts in games headphones (6) 24 Scandinavian against topless rambling (6) 25 Communication network to estimate when metal gets twisted (8) 26 Idiot stealing contents of bicycle rack (4) 27 Wealthy travellers’ bad teeth, black and small within (3,3,3)

Down

1 Essentially stretches to exercise (5) 2 Old Tudor building inspires love in the open air (7) 3 Joint fishing expedition or something else inside? (5) 4 What? Bottle upended spilling a bit of fluid? That’s painful (7) 5 Teams who struggle with scoring initially become secondary attractions (9) 6 Fellow heading to Eastbourne – a funny, true story (7) 7 Henry travelled around with Welsh woman and old African (9) 13 Novel she wrote about one being different (9) 14 Best to be standing when overwhelmed by little attention (9) 17 Reconsider skating here round the resort (7) 18 Broadcaster unhappy with colour of Manchester club (3-4) 20 Minor setbacks; involuntary complaint (7) 22 Criminal reducing volume of capital money? (5) 23 Drink served up by host on vacation after dark (5)