cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Section of Rubicon I consider

very famous (6)

5 Turncoat failing men (8)

9 Popular party game,

unfinished as a result (2,11)

10 American soldier cutting

orange in pieces for girl (8)

11 Fertiliser in plant container

has worked (6)

12 Dance, ignoring a Greek

character (6)

14 Instrument: I’m clued cryptically, by first of reversals (8)

16 Visit Democrat in decline

(2,2,4)

19 Mentally slow, not acute? (6)

21 A poet eating nothing on a

train perhaps (6)

23 Clear French own goal in

game (8)

25 Astonished as lorry makes a

loud noise at the front (13)

26 Piece of evidence, not so great, leaves one bewildered (8)

27 Stop working and go to bed

(6)

DOWN

2 Fancy that man entering

running race (7)

3 More attractive Mediterranean

resort close to Gibraltar (5)

4 Potential MP maybe frank

over high tea (9)

5 Stop living with firm

traditionalist (7)

6 Dowdy woman following

behind (5)

7 Against inflexible limit (9)

8 Be responsible for poetry

written in Old English (7)

13 Lose one’s temper with a female wearing shirt-like garment (4,1,4)

15 Take care of a rook left

injured (4,5)

17 Like the M25 section spoken

about? (7)

18 Spanish girl learning to

gatecrash parties (7)

20 Corner netted by rising

reserve in game (7)

22 Avoid bumper car? Not quite

(5)

24 Source of inspiration in spring

(5)