Monday 10 August

Across

1 Teased, wearing tatty clothes (6) 4 End of play is baffling (6) 9 Love university, but fail (4) 10 Virginia’s eerie quality? (10) 11 A pretentious type rejected one little-grown tree (6) 12 Bubbling tureen is making us very hungry (8) 13 Isolate small wader scratching back at barrier (9) 15 One submissively bent is taken to offer respect (4) 16 Very British marketplace (4) 17 Rehearsal for musical that has prearranged result? (4,5) 21 Note a mishap, tumbling shawl (8) 22 Edit colourful performance (6) 24 Fondness for use of paperclip (10) 25 Stimulate husband, outwardly feeble (4) 26 Charitable society has new head, a public official (6) 27 Most useless papers in case (6)

Down

1 Emphasise lost sheep is found? (3,4) 2 Bill for garden features (5) 3 Eating out as an artistic activity (7) 5 A penny accepted by ticket seller to leave the Tube (3,3) 6 Some Mormons ignore Catholic dignitary (9) 7 Girl from South America banned, leaving the borders (7) 8 To keep smooth, shave, then change: utter bliss (7,6) 14 Feeling unwell, throw off outdoor coat (9) 16 Simple skill in bridge (7) 18 Fabric of lowest quality last to be used (7) 19 Very old person’s nice tan misguided (7) 20 Spot that woman’s musical instrument (6) 23 A quantity of drug wife’s swallowed: look for water (5)