ACROSS

  1. A little volume – no tremendous deal –
      Describes an honour kept for those who kneel. (8)
  5. How to remind oneself to go to the doctor? (4)
  9. Being conveyed shoulder-high: not concerned. (5)
10. Big spread sounds like financial institution nous. (7)
11. Sector lost insurance by year just breaking even. (4,8)
15. Lady happening to find wading bird. (5)
16. No-parking plaza around each pretty flower. (6)
17. Church in position to bring new symbiotic growth. (6)
19. Boys with some madrigal to sing? (5)
21. The timber line: an awesome thing with no end. (12)
24. 8’s character takes on a sense of the ridiculous. (7)
25. Inspire to have done with helpless humble pie! (5)
26. Tory left opposition to simmer. (4)
27. Piece of wood with heavy weight at end of chain. (8)

DOWN

 1. High or low point failure as light goes off. (4)
 2. Accountants investing old capital do Brazilian dance. (7)
 3. The ad the girl objected to is not serious. (5-7)
 4. Be taken in by a clever bird making holes. (6)
 6. Top pupil back: excellent marks around to give out. (5)
 7. Inaccurate, dishonest, beyond the fringe. (8)
 8. Workers joining up three times in USA? Too bad! (12)
12. Some paper demanding law in place of rule. (5)
13. A sign of a break: that’s what we need. (5)
14. By reversing in to entrance, shocks doorkeepers. (8)
18. Henry the first only served a flat fish. (7)
20. Scary silent movie place figure. (6)
22. By those people, an English tune is composed. (5)
23. It’s odd – one seems unfaithful to infer –
      To show a plant where flowers don’t occur. (4)

Every letter of the alphabet occurs at least once in the solution

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