The Hindu Crossword No. 2405

Across

 1 Hope desperately to live with a girl (6)
 4 Sample mushrooms brought over by one, on soldiers (8)
 9 Best pair shown off by new brooch (9)
11 Boy, one pecked by bird (5)
12 Yen is lent abroad with a passion (9)
13 Very bad, though legitimate after 50 (5)
14 Boisterous exuberance shown by beast on shorts (6,7)
18 Festival in a Texas port (6,7)
20 Might one be seen in church in Dungarpur? (5)
21 Hermit wandering round lake over in Cumbria (9)
24 Prevent a check pinning rook (5)
25 A bad experience whilst out after dark? (9)
26 Horace, say, posed with girl at beginning of tour (8)
27 Sportsman in corner to the right (6)

Down

 1 Landlord, well-known one (8)
 2 Evident across centre of Britain (5)
 3 Sink in dock? (5)
 5 Near girl running (5-8)
 6 A gallant French actor (9)
 7 Reveals fine cracking in upright poles (9)
 8 Want the French to give a pointer (6)
10 Extracts from papers showing scripts US gent improved (5,8)
15 Working together, playing live (2,7)
16 Tune on instrument, one that can't be heard! (3,6)
17 Feeler I put out about prince and nobleman (4,4)
19 Keep one's ears open on board clippers (6)
22 Ancient language used in full at inaugurations (5)
23 Message from mother, one intercepted by the Spanish (1-4)

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