Cryptic crossword

Wednesday's puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Just with old-fashioned person being honest (4-3-6)

10 Attempt to leave business currently in Pakistan (5)

11 Domineering after slum rebuilding (9)

12 Advice on a different way of evading tax perhaps (9)

13 One does not care to give this gesture of indifference (5)

14 Affirm that it has been cleared out (7)

16 A long way off being unfriendly (7)

18 Archdeacon is operating game (7)

20 Invite an action when unleashed (4,3)

21 Doctor Love has work but will flag (5)

23 Pick of the bunch (3,6)

25 Order I'm unclear about (9)

26 Some terminological reasoning (5)

27 One cannot be forced to make this confession (4,9)

DOWN

2 A duo and I played acoustic device (5)

3 Remainders, pounds used in payments to artists for later use in films (9)

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4 Candidate found there was no motorway in Spain repeatedly (7)

5 Stop payment to us during pay out (7)

6 They employ you and me with hesitation on Sunday (5)

7 Dismissed soldier from rodeo farm (9)

8 Last thing investor expects to receive (5,8)

9 Imaginary air journey? (6,2,5)

15 Study first one mentioned, an adapter (9)

17 From ESE, a gale's confused flighty creatures (3-6)

19 Saw coin Ted spun (7)

20 I will in another pail put lava fragments (7)

22 Contract for prize-money (5)

24 Bit of a snag, growing hostility (5)