Solutions to THC # 8933

Across

1 Noblemen's circle, a club with people of similar age (4,5) PEER GROUP

5 Body part that is a complex instrument (5) ORGAN

8 In Emergency Room, sexton is treated with muscle (8) EXTENSOR

9 Stem the flow of delirious chants (6) STANCH

11 More certain to be a headless Shylock (5) SURER

12 Poets with push arranged to open a business establishment (3,2,4) SET UP SHOP

13 Works Department in valley may lag behind (6) DAWDLE

14 She brings fragrance to life (8) PERFUMER

16 Revolutionary Nazi group chap, a pawn maybe (8) CHESSMAN

18 One who runs after another drink after one ... (6) CHASER

22 ... unravels one puzzle prevailing everywhere (9) UNIVERSAL

23 Cause injury, to body or mind (5) WOUND

24 Protean creature, could be a moa perhaps (6) AMOEBA

25 The ICU tried desperately for a drug (8) DIURETIC

26 Soldier's target (5) ENEMY

27 Vendetta that dismayed double of daughter (5,4) BLOOD FEUD

Down

1 First of palaces, rented, gave satisfaction (7) PLEASED

2 Dine on cold deer, say, and be forced to do something humiliating (3,4) EAT CROW

3 International deliberative body badly shot? Blame greasy lens (7,8) GENERAL ASSEMBLY

4 He plays an instrument in French wood mentioned in book (6) OBOIST

5 Elated, like Tenzing Norgay must have been once (2,3,2,3,5) ON TOP OF THE WORLD

6 Material with spirit — good meat (7) GINGHAM

7 One not expected to be successful in cooking poor hen (2-5) NO-HOPER

10 Parent failing to start is different (5) OTHER

15 A flower that is found in time (5) DAISY

16 Guts revealed, yours and mine, behind bars (7) CRUSADE

17 Typical example of Poe's work with time (7) EPITOME

19 It goes back and forth carrying people (7) SHUTTLE

20 Socialist, reportedly exploited, lost weight (7) REDUCED

21 One lacking pigment is out on bail (6) ALBINO