The Hindu Crossword No. 2412

Across

 1 Hubby's nervously entertaining a bishop, a primate (8)
 5 Bar in front of tailless domestic fowl (6)
 9 Fabric belonging to me brought back by daughter (5)
10 Goes over and over in front of last carriages? (9)
12 Code word used by local pharmacist (5)
13 Develop complex (9)
14 Offended singer about to retire (3, 3, 2, 5)
18 Complaint over vice in SAS quashed (8, 5)
20 Union creates one, downhill slide involving pound (9)
23 Look at one over French river (5)
24 Faulty narcissistic claim? (9)
25 Love character of abstracts? (2, 3)
26 Listener in study turned, drew closer (6)
27 Sponsor in favour of car, we hear (8)

Down

 1 Initially big cheese, about 50, causes pandemonium (6)
 2 Make smoother using bit of soap and rag (9)
 3 Pompous bimbo cast out (9)
 4 Flustered because Bruce catches one dressing? (8, 5)
 6 One hit hard round siege site (5)
 7 Opera showing in Sacramento's Carmen (5)
 8 She may relieve tension in a ship stuck in European river (8)
11 Nurse is vital to her, suffering after onset of hepatitis (6, 7)
15 Restaurant in which one may be pumped? (5, 4)
16 One who's aggressive when worker takes in cruise (9)
17 A way into developing aircraft manufacture (8)
19 Crossword compiler's dog (6)
21 Primate's turned up carrying one old photograph (5)
22 Animal outside, latest from Whipsnade (5)

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