June 2022 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 A container in sought-after precious metal (8)
• 5 Caught the man under a pine (4)
• 9 Gutted juvenile getting strangely blue about current period of celebration (7)
• 10 One who dawdles in bridle road (5)
• 11 Join one thousand and The Queen alongside gullible outsiders (5)
• 12 Inflammatory condition church is coming across (6)
• 13 Press band about question (6)
• 15 Marsupial starts to pick off some satsumas with hesitation (6)
• 19 A river has got strong and ready for growing (6)
• 21 Bury : Milan? (5)
• 24 Pipe is blocked with a coin (5)
• 25 Country house abomination with a copper covering (7)
• 26 Verbally mention location (4)
• 27 Utterly destroy 21 in cathedral city (8)

Down

• 1 Lumpy jam, astonishingly, camouflages nightwear (7)
• 2 Golden bream is swimming around (5)
• 3 Sells in terrible condition (7)
• 4 Rough section of revolutionary June venue (6)
• 6 Criminals seize unlimited plump caryatids (7)
• 7 Count those ultra-popular football finals (4)
• 8 Showbiz tiresomeness holds back glamour (4)
• 14 Where a treaty was signed resolving hurt etc. (7)
• 16 Over-equip French friend's folding business (7)
• 17 Could be Freddie or Gustav's composition (7)
• 18 Evacuated because a prisoner has given signal (6)
• 20 Two elements of placebo therapy (4)
• 22 Article on home counties, not the other ones (5)
• 23 Supplements oddly missing from candy with dubious wrappers (4)