Across
1 Record attempt to suppress second hanging (8) TAPESTRY
5 An old calculator may make a graduate swear endlessly (6) ABACUS
10 Slang used to describe popular US city (7) LANSING
11 Storm following hail is normal (7) AVERAGE
12 Swallowed drop of daiquiri before row (5) DRANK
13 A red agent murdered in restaurant (3,6) TEA GARDEN
14 Fellow grasping nothing at university? Revision is required (12) PROOFREADING
17 Scam at Wimbledon? This could help one make a good return (6,6) TENNIS RACKET
20 Touching, calling for pardon (9) REMISSION
23 Some nifty rollerblading in Austrian province (5) TYROL
24 Fruit, a necessity over in South Africa (5) SATSUMA (7)
25 Former PM (Labour) turned back on a number (7) BALFOUR
26 Hack holding page with prominent headline (6) SPLASH
27 Located near each other, residential streets, extremely elegant (5-3) CLOSE-SET
Down
1 Was first to enter extremely Spanish city (6) TOLEDO
2 Fruit – it may go off (9) PINEAPPLE
3 Keep carrying weapons and refuse to compromise? (5,2,4,4) STICK TO ONE'S GUNS
4 Proper shock, female leaving (5) RIGHT
6 New Bled artist’s keen to give one pleasure (4,3,8) BEER AND SKITTLES
7 Daily, daughter could bring a vegetable (5) CHARD
8 Authoritarian English novelist (6) STERNE
9 Writer’s article about a depressed US city (8) PASADENA
15 Five sat out, then left for jamboree (8) FESTIVAL
16 Film noir, too grim – American (9) NOTORIOUS
18 Credit is doubled for use in emergency (6) CRISIS
19 County town originally producing wine (6) CLARET
21 Copper, and others, after leader of mob? (5) METAL
22 Chemist opening in Bury during Christmas (5) NOBEL
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