Friday 10 July

Across

1 Drug supplier cut short proposal in church (6) 4 Comic character in yellow? (6) 9 Greek actress partly redirected Hollywood production? (4) 10 Poor US Feds demolished Fruit & Nuts? (10) 11 Peter Kay at last playing key characters again (6) 12 Briefly visited butcher’s next to Scottish city (6,2) 13 American making a comeback with bronze in former territory (9) 15 9 sailors from the East (4) 16 9 having afternoon in bed (4) 17 Great-niece unfortunately lacking the focus of Blake Lively (9) 21 Rock maybe cut mountain climber (5,3) 22 Rod Hull’s beginning to get into battered fries (6) 24 Austrian barman hiding half of national treasure in 9 (10) 25 Attila the Hun originally behind old curse (4) 26 Tennis player getting journalist stoned (6) 27 Joe Swash oddly hoarding article of Spanish treasure (6)

Down

1 Member of nobility beheaded 9 in castle (7) 2 Imagined being a queen in fancy clothing (5) 3 Oriental festival ending in confusion (7) 5 Incentive rising in motor racing (6) 6 Old joke by judge giving pardon (9) 7 Mother has fixed idea about River Island (7) 8 ELO apparently created a bit of atmosphere (8,5) 14 Wooden bench with section removed for brewing accessory (3,6) 16 More than one whoopsie from Business Secretary’s empty threats about women (7) 18 Heart of Hugh Bonneville ultimately captured by fancy-free Paddington Bear? (7) 19 Imagines day in Rome includes scoff (7) 20 Wipe bum (6) 23 Finally calls 999? (5)