WEEKEND CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Society girl with torn lace encounters disaster (7) 5 Best work picking fruit? (4,3) 9 Snack recipe developed in research centre (7,4) 10 Man left yours truly in front (3) 11 Become involved on stage (3,2,2,3,3) 14 State without a type of corn (6) 16 Get away about this time for an adventure (8) 18 Ranting about including one instruction (8) 19 Start a variety of planes (6) 21 Wide range of colour effective over range of micro-organisms (5-8) 24 Are lacking a loud whistler (3) 25 Proud to be this colour? (7-4) 26 Dried grass bird had from conical pile (7) 27 Sonny, my turn to produce equivalent word (7)

DOWN

1 Piece of furniture in newspaper office (4) 2 Fetched the present (5) 3 Jailbird made an effort despite being shackled (11) 4 Theatrical exits (6) 5 Complain estimates included are the most obvious (8) 6 Some buskers found in town in Monmouthshire (3) 7 Preserve bachelor, with the Parisian female at end of day, put on a spicy dish (9) 8 Tell the cab could be about to perform a dangerous act (4,3,3) 12 Brother Kane crushed, suffering from intense grief (11) 13 Old PM’S town in Pennsylvania (10) 15 Monster with crafty insect (9) 17 Aptness about Pa’s undoing bag (8) 20 One angry on the other side (6) 22 Some Tamil announced he is in Italian city (5) 23 Be on time with a smile (4) 25 In favour of support being curtailed (3)