1. Cuts or prunes
5. Stair
9. Singer Fitzgerald
10. Monetary unit in Yugoslavia
11. Young plants
13. Male offspring
14. Metal bar
15. Taut
17. Direct
19. Latin for "King"
22. Frailty
24. Beat badly
25. Hotels
26. Whimper
27. Tidy
1. Not more
2. Margarine
3. Abundant
4. Unhappy
5. Rotates
6. A citrus fruit
7. Therefore
8. An earlier time
12. A passenger ship
16. Magistrate
17. Lameness
18. Tree sloth
20. Sicilian volcano
21. Portico
23. Not max