Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 20/03/13

ACROSS

1 Drawings that in Paris are pleasant to look at (11)

9 Greeting using expression of surprise in the manner of the French outside (5)

10 Times of varying fortune on rollercoaster (3,3,5)

11 Put on disguise while travelling fast (3-2)

12 No end of ride with last word on plant (8)

14 Dig out a cave, Tex ordered (8)

15 One of nine embraced extraterrestrial model in dance! (7)

17 Epicurean, he had bent coin (7)

20 Alley kid becoming refined (8)

21 Game mag John exchanged with George initially (8)

24 They’re below one (5)

25 Record weight, daughter having interwoven figures (11)

26 Covered in tannin, Japanese person skilled in camouflage (5)

27 Chicken free running amok with piece of ornamental cloth (11)

DOWN

2 Easily, but not to start with, insinuate (5)

3 Follow, follow Romeo inside (5)

4 First principle is that smallest one should accept very little money (8)

5 Fainted, does now deteriorate (7)

6 Quarter of hospital room in direction of the Orient (8)

7 Spring writer? (8,3)

8 Shrill ringing follows it (3-8)

12 Buffer area collapses, say, before one (7,4)

13 Thinking about taking into account (11)

16 Scottish trinket (8)

18 Rioter, he manipulated choice (6,2)

19 Plant fastening mechanism underneath border (7)

22 Go round double speed (5)

23 Diving bird upends huge mass of ice with energy (5)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 1 Room at the top, 9 Patella, 10 Cannich, 11 Tome, 12 Agile, 13 Wend, 16 Nonplus, 17 Spinose, 18 Harbour, 21 Troupes, 23 Saps, 24 A page, 25 Aria, 28 Oloroso, 29 Agonist, 30 Stereotyping.

Down: 2 Ottoman, 3 Melt, 4 Teargas, 5 Hackles, 6 Tang, 7 Primero, 8 The die is cast, 9 Put on the spot, 14 Bloom, 15 Bigot, 19 Raptors, 20 Reprove, 21 Taggart, 22 Permian, 26 Pose, 27 Coop.