CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

It makes coffee pot, or clear version of it (10)

6. A singular opera or other piece of music (4)

10. Gift that brings trouble is nice old cheapo maybe (8,7)

11. Almost a whole county might rend and yield (9)

12. This is the key to a mixer for gin (5)

13. How one influences leading Socialist manners (5)

15. Gradually gets narrower spills (6) 19. The charm of a slipper and tanktop (6)

20. The striking effect that was held back in the Vestal ceremonies (5)

23. Rustic from Peru rallies to it (5) 24. In which the post will go on the right lines (4-5)

26. Being nearer there than here, there’s no turning back (5,2,2,6)

27. The first trainee to request a job (4)

28. The acerbity that somehow enters in pieces (10)

Down

1. Advocates of Leo, say, might pass pit (7)

2. Force one to adopt two means of transport (8)

3. Short weight given to a single atmospheric layer (5)

4. It’s in the nature of narrative to ad, clean as it may be (9)

5. A wild-sounding award (5)

7. In a factory one may be easily influenced (6)

8. Man finally creeps about in a short overcoat (7)

9. Tree Parr planted out in a formal garden (8)

14. Feign it’s a mule of a sort (8)

16. How to tie top cat in an underskirt (9)

17. A pretext that’s certain to be a source of gratification (8)

18. A low wall might trap an anthropoid inside it (7)

21. Occupants of nest at start of November (7)

22. Eisteddfod officials did endlessly rush about (6) 24. Plain clothes must half be made to fit (5)

25. It is not our time to be the one who’ll inherit (5)