Hindu Xword 8202

Across

1 Diplomat, one getting married, keeps money where the patient gets attention (10,4)

8 A number Pole leaves needing water (6) THIRTY

9 Liquor, neat one, set flowing (8)

11 An ideal thing? What a vision: Queen Mary II? (9) DREAMBORN(?)

12 Give up what is produced (5) YIELD

13 A not-so-heavy barge (7) LIGHTER

15 In drink, I'd be lacking interest (7)

17 Egg's white or blue? Man confused (7) ALBUMEN

19 Notice a point editor modified as needed (7)

21 Savage old Indian law: beginning of limitation (5)

23 Overcome awful flu? That's clever (9)

25 Rigorous trial to assess worth of new cats' diet (4,4) ACID TEST

26 Accusation made by Daily Globe heartlessly (6)

27 For Phoebe, diet isn't somehow irrelevant (6,3,5) BESIDE THE POINT

Down

1 Cronin's fortress? (7) CITADEL

2 A racket for getting the best points (5) NOISE(?)

3 That is the final word: no more negotiation (9) ULTIMATUM

4 Musical compositions for ten? No, it is wrong (7)

5 Coarse sounding, venomous creature caught in the track (5)

6 Cricket side: the spinners turn up immediately (2,3,4)

7 Required to be made into dough, it is said (6) NEEDED

10 The kind of grapes that are hard to get (4) SOUR

14 Material, B-grade, in English fashion (9) GABERDINE

16 High flier takes steps in vessel (5,4)

17 A bar to hold very loud, noisy quarrel (6)

18 Greeting a team with poles — odd (7) NAMASTE

19 Moral fall, failing to start church recess (4) CHER

20 The water in the milk, say (7)

22 Stick used in some flat hits (5) LATHI

24 Italian physicist who cooked a bit of meat in a raging fire (5)