Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 17/05/2012

1 Can merge to let development cause attractive device (7-6)

10 Valuable material sourced from a moist level of air (5)

11 Warning, of course, to come up against premonition (9)

12 Meaning to take on a new top trainer highly respected (9)

13 About to set a limit, having to go over it all over again (5)

14 Have resentment for a long time, following old craft, in the main (7)

16 Hold back brace in humid conditions (4,3)

18 Stimulated a runner to get round to be brought into play (7)

20 Play around with a model in bed (7)

21 Unconscious of the finer things in life (5)

23 Sent off to Saigon, without good impression (9)

25 Many left from staff closing down who were wrapping things up (9)

26 Popular champion returned in state (5)

27 Strive to free up small official announcements (5,8)

DOWN

2 Rent at college could become less (3,2)

3 It’s depressing when audiences give little encouragement (9)

4 Is about to force painter into sacrifice (7)

5 Was entitled to go right, we’re told, into the sea (7)

6 Small reptile found in getting a tortoise too (5)

7 Taste a cos growing up by the North Sea (4,5)

8 Didn’t have long supplying ministers with office furniture (6,7)

9 Is fit to take on a thoughtful individual (13)

15 Expected to see top journalist in favour (6,3)

17 Damage fish with it, to get a cocktail (9)

19 One in cheap lodgings adopting single file (7)

20 Monetary unit, for instance, went before a pound in the country (7)

22 Rings may be left in opening up (5)

24 Although caught out, prevail on one to invest (5)

Wednesday’s solution

Across: 1 Boil, 3 Icebreaker, 10 Hit on, 11 Agamemnon, 12 Normal solution, 14 Blue movie, 16 Omega, 18 Rated, 19 Cut-throat, 20 Break new ground, 24 Embedding, 25 Panto, 26 Point-blank, 27 Zeus.

Down: 1 Behind bars, 2 Interrupt, 4 Crass, 5 Brawliest, 6 Electrotherapy, 7 Kendo, 8 Rank, 9 One-armed bandit, 13 Fastidious, 15 Vicennial, 17 Eloquence, 21 Rabbi, 22 Wagon, 23 Jeep.