Across

6 Observing hydrogen being absorbed in the void (7)

7 Good type of wine for relatives (7)

9 Bear with saint at first (5)

10 Doddery bishop met girl dancing around front of nave (9)

11 Lordly status of real crazy Dominican (7)

13 Think about more devoted fellow becoming priest (6)

15 Kid’s party acts arranged for 17 March (2,8,3)

19 Poem or tale has such deathly content (6)

20 Rough ground by the outskirts of Londonderry (7)

23 Expert to battle with part of Scripture (9)

24 Person sent back hospital meat? (5)

26 American politician’s semi-sermon about military alliance (7)

27 Quiet South Island church keeps short religious observance (7)

Down

1 St Thomas regularly seen in portico (4)

2 Watched daughter cutting material up (6)

3 Kitchen equipment gets grime out (3-6)

4 Rorschach test pieces, being the work of poor tattooist? (8)

5 Mindless loss of life? (5,5)

6 Settled in street surrounded by poverty (6)

7 Look up ‘A worker is worth his ____’ (4)

8 Sanitise skin bandaging for example (6)

12 Entire term suffering in solitude (10)

14 Boffin dispatched is beginning to travel around Channel Islands (9)

16 A terrible experience — tot getting sozzled with liqueur (8)

17 Son derides old farmers’ clothing? (6)

18 Fruit eaten by elderly cheetahs (6)

21 Trump the French to create anger (6)

22 Awe produced by loud organ (4)

25 European worker ascending Sicilian peak (4)

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