cryptic crossword

ACROSS

7 Meat commercial with a

dance (7)

10 Spinning device that’s no

different in reverse (7)

11 Check fool is kept in dock (7)

12 Collapse three notes (7)

13 Musical success the egotist’s

priority? (6,3)

15 Quick writer (5)

16 Elated, having reached the

North Pole? (2,3,2,3,5)

21 On the fat side? Way off! (5)

23 Fan’s to drink dark bitter (9)

25 Country show, say, US city

rejected (7)

26 Little money for the police?

(7)

27 Translation of dialect in

fortress (7)

28 Explosive device to drop, designed to catch fire ultimately (7)

DOWN

1 On the fire, perhaps, old flier

(8)

2 Blonde nothing special (4)

3 Cooler day starts to disappear,

gradually ending (6)

4 County supplies workers (6)

5 All over the place, Emirates

could be hotter (8)

6 Cleric is meddling with

opening of text (6)

8 Note short dress on male (5)

9 Soldier almost cried about ending of war in Belgian province (7)

14 Idiot of astonishing

foolishness, primarily (3)

17 Opinions still extremely

tedious (8)

18 Trendy joint (3)

19 Giant beginning to whimper

over flea, perhaps? (7)

20 Lack of respect, inside or out

(8)

21 Rare defect on church (6)

22 Angry outburst – job to

contain one (6)

23 Regular fix (6)

24 Time at this point for a

comforting word (5)

26 Quote attributed to Vespucci,

tenuously (4)