Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS

1 Spoil drink on border (6) 5 European stick (4) 9 Spinach ordinarily covers Mexican snack (5) 10 Mad Hatter’s menaces (7) 11 Shakespearean character to return greeting (7) 12 A club record (old) (5) 13 Go up cold leg, possibly (5)

15 Make a test when to speak (5) 20 An area of the North Sea covered with water (5) 22 Leave resort, about to see red (2,5) 24 One mist swirling round will make things damp (7) 25 A birdie? No, better! (5) 26 Instrument to lean against on the way back (4) 27 Lob map over with self-assurance (6)

DOWN

3 2 Boy liquor Develop put (7) hydrogen large menacing in cold sound (5) 4 Country not in a mess (6) 5 Commercial in cuts to displays (7) 6 Goes first to Yorkshire city, reportedly (5) 7 Taking front off sound system will rile (5) 8 Tacos cooked for a town (5) 14 Graduates hold cap for Hindu sage (7) 16 Mixture of hot stuff round US city is returned (7) 17 Buddhist spiritual law making a mark, possibly (5) 18 Business items taking time and trouble (6) 19 Garden parties and some buffet, especially (5) 21 Farewell and fade in gold (5) 23 Metal at a pinch, we hear (5)