CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Independent young reporter in state should see development (10) 6 Group offering advice after son shows evidence of healing (4) 10 Reputation of old party sure to be exposed (5) 11 Soldiers will be this ignorant having lost one source of news (9) 12 Old account describing renovation of chair (7) 13 Treat with contempt as showing signs of exhaustion (3,4) 14 Imaginative log quietly growing (12) 18 Plant that’s traditionally seen at breakfast? (5-3-4) 21 Help for newsreader reporting traffic congestion? (7) 23 European setting one boxer in bronze (7) 24 Popular accountant stifled by banal complex (9) 25 Joint covering end of ski lift (5) 26 Prison lift (4) 27 Where you may find children with no class? (10)

DOWN

1 Line offered by Boris, panicked about answer? (6) 2 First-class option (6) 3 Disallow winning golf shot, getting concession (10,4) 4 Law enforcement staff? (9) 5 Coppice material seeing boost in Eire regularly (5) 7 State agents must arrest a married bloke (8) 8 Repartee may be poor – at home with a case of gangrene! (8) 9 Establishment figure discovered in the RAF upset about head of government (8,6) 15 Summary with bank opening late must be just so (9) 16 Slight injury of a supporter is no different (8) 17 Delighted, seeing European Commission interference (8) 19 Note story with universal setting (6) 20 Last of casualties has bare wound (6) 22 Half of them will have trouble getting message (5)