Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 10/12/13

ACROSS

1 Shell ties down area of wartime destruction (8)

5 and 6 down Stand-in director permitted to sit with gravity (6,5)

10 Feeling sea-sick with tattered nets entangled (7)

11 Made to wash hair with fake 18 (7)

12 Come to a party uninvited and collapse (5)

13 Wetsuit materials that turn out to be non-seeper (9)

14 Fooled those beginning the race that they’d finished the first course (3,3,8)

17 Film address to the nation (3,5,6)

21 Rot will oust integral domain category (9)

23 Is Mr Bean a heart-throb? (5)

24 Cause late start of next programme about marathon, and ... (7)

25 ... compete with sector on television time (7)

26 Shops on the east coast are in short supply (6)

27 Stuart backs away from uproars (8)

DOWN

1 Divide into two parts and it’s second-rate, is convulsive therapy (6)

2 Burmese city loses unknown religious symbol (7)

3 It’s the gap in cookery that produces basic Italian food (9)

4 Tube movement in wartime, perhaps (3,11)

6 See 5 across

7 I’m taking my personal ID number to Glasgow and England to have an impact (7)

8 The fattest of fat cats, perhaps, makes so much before tax initially (8)

9 Donkey, frequently unfortunate slave to animal doctor, is eminently strokeable (2,4,2,6)

15 About paper: put it another way (2-7)

16 Stock farm with debts owed to academic (8)

18 Tax Cree wrongly for waste (7)

19 Hermitage takes in single Italian artist (7)

20 Condescends to be signed off (6)

22 Customs said to be the pity of disappointed hopes (5)

Monday’s solution

Across: Grid 28: 1 Fellow traveller, 9 Economise, 10 Argon, 11 Trope, 12 Extricate, 13 Acted, 15 Airmailed, 17 Elongates, 19 Eager, 21 Reinsure, 23 Birch, 24 Naomi, 25 Asia Minor, 26 On one’s high horse.

Down: 1 Free trade, 2 Look-out, 3 Ozone, 4 Tripe, 5 Apertures, 6 Eradicate, 7 Lug-sail, 8 Range, 14 Digestive, 15 Aftermath, 16 Dark horse, 18 Orinoco, 20 Gardner, 21 Rondo, 22 Sling, 23 Bumph.