The usual enjoyable bag of tricks from Quixote. A couple of inventive clues stood out for us: 6 down and 17 across.
ACROSS
1. KOPECK ‘ok’ backwards, followed by peck ‘a little kiss’
4. UNF(RAM)ED ‘Like a picture perhaps’ would have been more accurate, unless a picture is always unframed
9. T.A. P DANCER (pranced)*
11. FENCE dd
12. MO RD ANT
13. HARMFUL (half rum)*
14. RABBIT WARRENS (I want rarer B&Bs)*
17. REVOLVING DOOR cryptic definition ‘rood’ is door backwards, hence ‘revolving’. Nifty
21. OM I NOUS
22. IDA HO AN ref. Princess Ida, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame
24. PET RA
25. OPHIDIANS (India shop)* A new word for us, but easily guessed
26. SORCERER (errors)* around CE
27. M(ART)EN
DOWN
1. KIT E MARK
2. PIP ER
3. CHA PAT I<
5. NOR< THE R.N. IRIS H Hope you all understood that parsing! The definition is much easier than the S.I.
6. REFEREE Felt this one was very inventive – the shortened version ‘ref’ makes an appearance in ‘Macabre film’
7. MANIFESTO (aims often)*
8. DEE PLY
10. COSTWOLD STONE (olde Scots town)* We spent a lovely weekend in the Cotswolds for El’s birthday last year, but were chased across a paddock by a young bullock, which was not so lovely. The stone is very distinctive though
15. BARRI(ST)ER
16. B(RINGS)IN
18. VI O LATE
19. GRAND P A
20. CORP(U)S Short for Corpus Christi, which is a college in Cambridge, and also the other place
23. O PART
Excellent puzzle which I finished and enjoyed!