This blog is scheduled a week later than normal as the entry date was put back to Wed 4 November because of the postal dispute. I found this a very easy puzzle, 13 mins
* = anagram
ACROSS
1 DETROIT (tried to)*
5 SOP HIS M (maiden over, cricket)
9 BAR BRA STREIS (sister)* AND
10 S (foresT)EED
11 BOW Double definition
12 DEN IS
13 DOES KIN
15 KE (RAT 1) N
17 CHIPPER Double definition
19 PUNTERS Ditto
21 L LAMA
23 COL Abbrev for Colonel and a mountain pass
24 SA LEM Lunar module
25 BROUGHT INTO PLAY Double definition
26 Edith SIT WELL
27 AIR HEAD
DOWN
1 DE (BA’S)ED
2 THREE MEN IN A BOAT (Atonement bah I re)*
3 O (A R) ED Oxford English Dict
4 threaT EST BAN (absent)*
5 SAR (A WAy)K
6 PRIED “pride”
7 I CANNOT TELL A LIE Famously said by George Washington after felling tree
8 MAD (I) SON One the early US Presidents
14 worK I P
16 editoR AN
17 CELEB(E)S In Indonesia, also known as Sulawesi
18 RE (CITy)AL
19 P (O LENT) A
20 SA (MO YE) D
22 (t)ANGLE
24 S POOR