Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 20/01/2012

Friday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Attempts to put a stop to incursion of people trying to be fashionable (8)

5 Use throttle with power to make changes (6)

10 Application was misrepresentative when put into operation (7)

11 Bury, for example, in whole subject of 7 (7)

12 Scottish baron writes one article within another (5)

13 About story: it can be fixed (9)

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14 A time when nothing goes right will, with minor alteration, come sooner or later (3,2,5,4)

17 Redundant, like bin men (10,4)

21 Small cup of which set is made originally (9)

23 Mechanical device that works equally well in reverse (5)

24 Spanish island that’s small and round (7)

25 One rink ripped out to produce early wheat (7)

26 He gets in with spiteful women and is unfaithful (6)

27 Puts weight on potential weaknesses (8)

DOWN

1 Snack that’s appetising with nothing in it (6)

2 Elucidate former level (7)

3 Strongly make the point to go back by car (5,4)

4 Church official says a person could be Gorbachev (5,9)

6 Come into garden terrace (5)

7 A large “B” (but more likely a small “b”) may be involved in this (7)

8 Stubborn with every set of lines (8)

9 Straightforward involvement that’s not compounded (6,8)

15 Stiff upper lip shown under cane thrashing (9)

16 Don is neither here nor there (8)

18 An email composed in sheets (7)

19 Places around web domain show television programmes (7)

20 As an afterthought, phoned in to report wartime crashes (6)

22 Cards that say ‘Thank you for the tripe’ (5)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 1 Superintendant, 9 Utensil, 10 Granted, 11 Dream world, 12 Able, 14 Oddity, 15 Incident, 17 Look over, 19 Essays, 22 Arid, 23 Schoolroom, 25 Emotion, 26 Engrain, 27 Assassinations.

Down: 1 Squadron-leader, 2 Pretend, 3 Resumption, 4 Nelson, 5 Egg-plant, 6 Draw, 7 Notable, 8 Advertisements, 13 First light, 16 Descends, 18 Ominous, 20 Avocado, 21 Modern, 24 Lira.