GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO. 27,477

ACROSS

1 Admirer pulling sausage skin from dish of game? (7) 5 Into loveless jive/ salsa dancing, am I potty? (7) 9 A success for Lloyd Webber, somewhat inevitably (5) 10 See 25 11 Daughter inspired by the influence of granny, perhaps, after heading for shower to get cleaner (4,6) 12 Avian that’s

smoked (4) 14 Gloucestershire opener in desperate chase dropping catches — players get lessons here (5,6) 18 Fine lifesaver having stepped down, one in the majority (8,3) 21 Head shaved in bed, that’s proved painful! (4) 22 Man offering personal advice, lunacy gone mad! (5,5) 25,10 Feeling initially around letter bag, need letters for children’s favourite game? (9,9) 26 Sweet thing hard to forget in ancient Chinese text (5) 27 Little jerk inspiring

one to beat giant (7) 28 No explosive energy

for runner (7)

DOWN

1 See 4 2 Welcome in outskirts of Ontario, an American statesman (6) 3 Best thing to bury a spy, so desperate to feign death (4,6) 4,1 Joint declaration of nation, great effort (5,6) 5 Fickle type appeared to welcome leadership of Hitler and Trotsky (9) 6 Womaniser’s tool (4) 7 Point put in to ham about right for butcher’s device (4,4) 8 Single weapon briefly in contact with a Roman emperor (8) 13 Cruise too flipping grand for PC travel (10) 15 In eating badly, chips primarily causing immune response (9) 16 Weak figure entering testament in support of the devil (8) 17 Intellectually threaten to push city’s outsiders around (5,3) 19 Fighting, it arises during a party (6) 20 Beginning to

brag, bird hunter (6) 23 Stretcher on after awful injury, demolition all ends up (5) 24 New painting

lifted hero (4)