The Hindu Crossword No. 2424

Across

 1 Circles receiving well-informed summaries (5-3)
 5 Reportedly well-made cab (6)
 9 Where the buffalo roamed, what could provide the ingredients of stew? (4,4)
10 The North wind carried a drop of snow (6)
12 Dear boy offers a flower (5,7)
15 Smell from European river, it's said (5)
16 Cannabis supplied by a tough old bird - it helps a writer to keep going (3-6)
18 Woman's with German husband in South African town (9)
19 Follow directions given by girl (5)
20 Trusts social changes can result in a cheap way of travelling? (7,5)
24 A gardener may use one at home to make lots of money (4,2)
25 Went ahead and provided loan (8)
26 Song written by subordinate, no expert (6)
27 Gather fool has badge that's incomplete (8)

Down

 1 Line, last in verse from former Poet Laureate (4)
 2 Threatening - peculiar guy, about 50 (4)
 3 County constituencies from an earlier time? (9)
 4 Watercolours, notice, on trousers one is wearing (6,6)
 6 A charge for crossing a bridge leading to island (5)
 7 Expert has slotted one in its place, loosely (10)
 8 Popular brand old lady's
11 Exchange swords for flick knives (12)
13 Security's after one breaking into college (10)
14 Unfriendly nation gives the plain unvarnished truth (4,6)
17 Exaggerate about condition (9)
21 One on business on a Spanish island (5)
22 Blackleg kept in pickets' cabin (4)
23 One led astray, not working (4)

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