Across

1 Furry cuties streak pell-mell after setter (8)

5 Paper attached to cheque? Objections rebuffed (4)

8 The Third Man is fit for an audience (4)

9 ‘Weep in each chamber’: one line removed from Gospel of Timothy etc (10)

11 Following journey, drained latte and large alcoholic beverage (6)

13 Gold coin, sovereign, not initially in circulation? (8)

14 Step around the comatose stoker, finally reaching lowest-grade berths (8)

16 Re-focus on cryptic instruction for finding holy books? (4,2)

17 Transported round island (6)

19 Overconfident restructuring of UK soccer (8)

21 Man of cloth out of sorts in mitres (8)

22 Rock from Dordogne is sedimentary (6)

23 German in production that’s amazing (10)

24 Man of letters turned up to pen a line (4)

26 Fellows in London street (4)

27 Senior cleric replaces last bit of white rock from Ur (8)

Down

1 Rabble heads for Marquess of Bath (3)

2 Obscure recordings, maybe, held by phone company (7)

3 Joker and face card found by space between pews (5)

4 ...also, we hear, unspecified pair (7)

6 Racing pundit, perhaps, ends reduced jail sentence (7)

7 Mad Mike robs trains? Tries for better ideas (11)

10 Root getting bowled before India caught with machine-like quality (7)

12 Equipped afresh raised dorter, mostly suitable for accommodation (11)

15 A good person welcomed by some European 24, say (7)

18 Rev. Spooner’s moving air religieuse finds a powerful tool (4,3)

19 One hundred wild rhinos from far south-west? (7)

20 It’s high time for diocese to accept short entreaty (7)

22 Russian author turns fifty (5)

25 Interior of fire-damaged funerary vessel (3)

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