Across:
1 Risk (CHANCE) limits chain of evidence (limits ‘chain of evidence = CHANCE),
4 Describes one of those not in harmony (OFF-PITCH) on The Bench (on the bench/sub = OFF-PITCH),
9 Ticket holders perhaps (WIPERS) go back and forth on a rainy day (WIPERS),
10 He may be forward (FRONT MAN is a forward in a football team) for a singer in a band (FRONT MAN),
12 Centre (HEART-) doesn’t provide comfort (-ACHE) (HEARTACHE) for those in pain (HEARTACHE),
13 Unable to make ends meet (NEEDY) with seed money missing some? (‘seed money’ missing ‘some’ = eedny = NEEDY),
14 Rude (DISCOURTEOUS) detective (Detective Sergeant = D-S-) imprisons one (-I-) polite type (-COURTEOUS) (DISCOURTEOUS),
18 At a stretch (SPREAD-EAGLED), this is a feast (a SPREAD-) for the swingers to get (-EAGLE-) on first date (first ‘date’ = -D) (SPREAD-EAGLED),
21 A (A-) father (Father/Priest = -PP-) lost (-L-) home ultimately (‘home’ ultimately = -E) (APPLE) to a crabby sort! (crab APPLE),
22 Not emotionally committed to anyone (FANCY-FREE) from the bakery (cake = FANCY-) giving out for nothing (-FREE) (FANCY-FREE),
24 It’s tough (ABRASIVE) for American (A-) supporting a woman (-BRA-) from JB Keane’s play (-SIVE) (ABRASIVE),
25 Humiliates absent Thai (‘humiliates’ absent ‘Thai’ = umiles = MUESLI) put out for breakfast (MUESLI),
26 What the doctor does (hospital ROUND-S) around hospital ward (-ER-) (ROUNDERS) for a game (ROUNDERS),
27 Name of the man (-RON-) in The (The = TH-E) (THRONE) Queen rests on this (THRONE).
Down:
1 That woman (-SHE-) got first for design (first for ‘design’ = -D-) inside Jersey’s (COW-S) (COWSHEDS) parlour homes? (COWSHEDS),
2 Judge (APPRAISE) in papers (papers = APPR-SE) excited (anagram indicator) over a (-A-) leader’s injunction (leader’s ‘injunction’ = -I-) (APPRAISE),
3 A measure of the gold (CARAT) ale taken from the à La Carte (‘ale’ taken from the ‘a la carte’ = acart = CARAT),
5 Power (FORCE-) catering (-FEEDING) (FORCE-FEEDING) for those rather controversially preparing the foie gras? (FORCE-FEEDING of duck/goose for foie gras/pâté),
6 Lines up an (lines up an = PENINSULA) adaptation (= anagram indicator) in Iberia, for example (PENINSULA),
7 Sets up (= reversal indicator) agent (rep = -PER), runner (mat = TAM-) and doctor (doctor/meddle = TAMPER),
8 Loves (HONEYS) pets? (HONEYS),
11 Childish type has all the symptoms of being rash (SCARLET FEVER) and embarrassed (SCARLET) by nervous excitement? (FEVER) (SCARLET FEVER),
15 Persecuted (OPPRESSED) old (O-) soft (soft/piano = -P-) media (-PRESS-) writer (-ED) (OPPRESSED),
16 Turns up (= reversal indicator), officer (officer commanding = OC = -CO) worked the land in Russia (serf = FRES-) and in America (LA = AL) (AL FRESCO) in the open air (AL FRESCO),
17 Sets-up (= reversal indicator) old partner (ex = -XE) with one (-I-) means of broadcasting (feed = -DEE F-) from island (I-) (IDEE FIXE) – it’s an obsession (IDEE FIXE),
19 Fundraiser (BAZAAR) in very strange (“bizarre” = “BAZAAR”) state (= homophone),
20 Illuminating comment (APERçU) from a (A-) college (-C-) in South American country (-PER-U) (APERCU),
23 Juvenile type (YOUTH) of Yankee (Y-) on holiday (-OUT-) at hotel (-H) (YOUTH).