The Hindu Crossword No. 2401

Across

 1 Clever clogs may get smack later (5,5)
 6 Attempt crazy turns (4)
10 Might one be had in Paris today? (2,7,6)
11 Offer involving new tie (4)
12 Convert polyester some-how (9)
14 Needing treatment, a host's in shock (8)
15 Spread out, former partner on vessel with daughter (6)
18 Incidents in eastern outlets (6)
19 See Maureen and the girls making treacle (8)
21 Train sets, awfully strong (9)
23 Engrave some trinket cheaply (4)
25 Lots confuse card cut with nine of diamonds (5,2,8)
26 Forward, foremost of strikers in front of goal (4)
27 Sounds Liverpudian? (6,4)

Down

 1 There's a bullet in this Luger (4)
 2 Successful applicant makes a suggestion in letter (9)
 3 Proven in desert, a tent did remarkably (5,3,6)
 4 A bugle call, most unlikely on station (4,4)
 5 Caught by worker working in Chinese port (6)
 7 Sluggish, river round centre of Aberdeen (5)
 8 Duke, with less hair on top, has altered? Nonsense (10)
 9 Given unlikely pretext, buy, say, a linen embroidery (6,8)
13 Leave to produce records (4,6)
16 A colleague, one not enjoying full membership (9)
17 They may help to make things clearer in meetings (8)
20 Draw short amateur cracksman (6)
22 Father, first to name bewitching singer (5)
24 Prepare for publication in English - delete Italian (4)

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