Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS

1 Composer Simpson is satisfactory (6)

5 Small foreign coin I’d brought back with me (4)

9 Flowers in Comoros estate (5)

10 Sharp response about accepting one job (7)

11 Settler – unusually grim worker (7)

12 Nothing agreeable put aside (2,3)

13 Old Lord North and an alluring temptress! (5)

15 Penny contributions, or where they are held? (5)

20 Mention island in madcap riddle (5)

22 Turning bluer with the Spanish disease (7)

24 Holidaying, one has chopped veal (2,5)

25 Bitter cold in dry (5)

26 Exactly like South African myself (4)

27 A dunce returned with hot back-scrubber (6)

DOWN

2 Stupid fellow, for example, has first-class weapon (7)

3 Complicated Ascot opera (5)

4 Kate takes in artist as form of self-defence (6)

5 Oil and damp damaged certificate (7)

6 Confirm as aid for beleaguered Africans (5)

7 It’s most important to prepare (5)

8 Take great delight in raising the bar (5)

14 Political territory in Harlem I rated (7)

16 Bloke not entirely on song gets disease (7)

17 Descendant, male, about 101 (5) 18 Hardship, or agreement (6) 19 Useful in Bath and York (5) 21 Pal OK, dancing the dance (5)

23 Bribe a nobleman to conceal party (5)