Monday 1 June

Across

1 How Monet changed Paris, for him (8) 5 Creates small chess pieces (6) 9 Flowering plant with bacterial infection’s left out (8) 10 Unusual steel boxes very slender (6) 12 Antelope from European country (5) 13 Criticise member of orchestra ignoring Conservative guest on game show? (9) 14 Send explicit message to gent regularly seen in musical group (6) 16 Nevertheless, start to test idea (7) 18 Bleak agenda covering emission (7) 20 American cavalry commander organised truces (6) 22 Parrot part of the bible loudly, some non-traditional material (9) 23 Greatly affect stupendous hosts (5) 24 Seat in parliament offered up for favours enacted, primarily (6) 25 Intense dislike of one training the fleas (4-4) 26 Fight is interrupting break (6) 27 Evidently live broadcast that is not heartless (8)

Down

1 Stupid mistake from that woman protecting member of parliament (6) 2 Places where rubbers are readily available? (7,8) 3 Time to study grooved rubber on a tyre (5) 4 Dog, cat, cat? (7) 6 Father with six big cats in exhibition buildings (9) 7 Alleged tweaking shocked US union official (7,8) 8 Watch Virginia, perhaps, nursing muscle (8) 11 Biting insect? Bite back (4) 15 Model T Ford safe for compromises (5-4) 17 Cunning tabloid, perhaps, that can catch pests (8) 19 Cycling saddle corrodes (4) 20 Train my team’s leader, for example, back in office (7) 21 Commercial opening in liturgical season (6) 23 Inappropriate single person blocked by female (5)