1. Male cat 4. Making much noise 8. Weapons 9. And so forth 10. No longer in existence 12. To put to use 13. Suspended 14. Sweatbox 17. Merits 20. Collide with 22. Points of entry and exit 23. Rather yellow 24. Cooking oil 25. Cricket ground 26. Rigid 27. Musical
Down
1. Female tiger 2. Pad 3. Long narrow excavation 5. Antiquated 6. Sleeping car 7. Infant 11. Abdomen 15. Former Soviet republic 16. Gathering of pus in body tissue 18. Exhausted 19. Heavenly colour? 21. Artificial leg 22. Ruse