CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Dirty robe’s centre spot (7) 5 Kabul’s heart lay in favourite kind of bland entertainment (7) 9 Nuclear plant inherited a smell that’s disastrous (5,4,6) 10 Provide capital for recreation ground in the end (4) 11 Worked cog out and hold mitt if it’s a bit hairy (5-3-2) 14 Style of leotard that keeps one well-dressed (8) 15 Expert put gold back into mine shaft (6) 17 Printed material on sign in the Czech Republic (6) 18 Question a ruler’s bizarre arguments (8) 21 Month, drunk, in sea on sauce (10) 22 Saintly aura is half split, half lost (4) 24 A high street rant turned out to be apocalyptic (5-10) 26 Radical’s turn to accept a lot of the writing of an idealist (7) 27 Suspend play that takes the mickey (5,2) DOWN 1 Not in the running to be stoned (3,2,2) 2 Lucky discovery after plunge in composure (11) 3 Keeper held up fencer’s steel (4) 4 Record one’s poetry in many sections (8) 5 Run through musical work, including Ravel’s first (6) 6 Rubberneckers destroying a Byrds’ nest? (10) 7 Long year, short pasture (3) 8 Followed and might have suspicions that are sound (4,3) 12 Doctor changed mode and sign of desert transport (11) 13 City tying up said actor (10) 16 Steals up, ripping off pounds (8) 17 Put in a good word for honour people put into recording (7) 19 Substitute made shot go past post, at the top (7) 20 Article probing distant ancestor (6) 23 Bad name to have in mind (4) 25 Buck chat-up line (3)