Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Celebrates dancing round

piano, upright (11)

10 Coffee or tea, we hear, inside

old container (5)

11 Report of frozen deluge

creating vision problem (9)

12 Correct current slang for

‘beggar’ (9)

13 Epic poem is long. It’s also

dull, initially (5)

14 United trained to take on

Newcastle finally … (6)

16 … Bury facing new wingers

from Arsenal inside (8)

18 Excess praise one’s Queen

rejected (8)

20 Consent from top admitting

Church doctrine’s first (6)

23 Suitor with reaction to

innuendo (5)

24 Handy gear for relocating

plant (9)

26 Improve conditions spreading

deeper love endlessly (9)

27 East River capsized craft (5)

28 Kill like elite force with crime

destroyed (11)

DOWN

2 Scoffed feta at beano,

regularly (5)

3 Force to accept this compiler

twisting proposition (7)

4 Emperor about right to hold

tide back (6)

5 Warning of drink round

around time (8)

6 Row about dodgy art for

gents, perhaps (7)

7 Weapons and helmets for war

at sea (5-8)

8 Light playing in arcade (8)

9 Pure, natural duet moving

journalist (13)

15 Bolts sailors do on empty

decks (8)

17 A small room turned up

around lobby – heaven! (8)

19 Drops containing skin of

elder extracts (7)

21 Punish Conservative over race

(7)

22 Experts of French exercise a

school head embraces (6)

25 Maudling ran Treasury

accepting gift (5)