Solutions to THC # 8957

Across
1 Missile fired at night, at best a wild guess (1,4,2,3,4) A SHOT IN THE DARK
8 A conqueror captured by a convict organisation (6) VICTOR
9 Snooty bridge partners with funny, non-English hobbies (8) SNOBBISH
11 Gutsy man’s unusual, involuntary eye movement (9) NYSTAGMUS
12 Pace bowler who could reportedly restrain boy (5) TYSON
13 Provided with an objective, was in debt (7) ENDOWED
15 Bird that shows dog-like pleasure? (7) WAGTAIL
17 Sender, disturbed about union, suffers (7) ENDURES
19 Cultured man, slippery type but excessively polite (7) GENTEEL
21 Come again for a fresh cure, right? (5) RECUR
23 Errors made by press in a thousand and one runs (9) MISPRINTS
25 Quashed, like an order appealed against (3,5) SET ASIDE
26 Audio equipment for some austere orchestras (6) STEREO
27 Is it stridency, I wonder, that makes for personal psychosocial conflict (8,6) IDENTITY CRISIS
Down
1 Go ahead, dish out a loan (7) ADVANCE
2 Trick a corps leader in unfinished dwelling (5) HACKS
3 Old conflict culminating, inter alia, in the burning of Troy (6,3) TROJAN WAR
4 Tool that a worker spotted (7) HANDSAW
5 First appearance of a university being in arrears (5) DEBUT
6 Control, say, and restore to old position (9) REINSTATE
7 Carbolic acid corrodes phone line initially (6) PHENOL
10 In the middle of some pyramids … (4) AMID
14 … set aside a dead edict for revision (9) DEDICATED
16 Current producer or, reportedly, a valuer of the unit of heredity (9) GENERATOR
17 Way out for a female monster needing change of head (6) EGRESS
18 Resting place that may make him a sad deviant (7) SAMADHI
19 A deep cut in guinea deposit (4) GASH
20 What may be learnt at school may, to a smaller extent, take in boy (7) LESSONS
22 Colophony sir, no kidding! (5) ROSIN
24 Levels of achievement of a small number on British mail (5) NORMS