CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Satirize fellow from north-east suffused with power (7) 5 Came up with mate’s little flower (7) 9 East End Alf is target set up centring on terminal bigot (7) 10 Turns into suits (7) 11 TV game makes his lordship depressed (9) 12 Aspic jelly used with spiral bandage (5) 13 Lists reversion of a heavy industry (5) 15 In parallel with aspect of a rectangle (9) 16 Insect Dad squashed is left behind (9) 18 Endlessly harass and contradict this girl (5) 21 Nearly tripped over criminal? (5) 22 Staunch terrorist units have biological tissue for therapy (4,5) 24 Film director to cue act on unfinished production (7) 26 The French location of French mathematician (7) 27 Story related about German petty officer by young Frog (7) 28 Churchill defeats the enemy with heavy weight (7) DOWN 1 American soldier in pub is rational (7) 2 Spoil sound of something vitally important in tent (7) 3 Dog loses head finding first tree in open (5) 4 Kilt for big race to cut some dash (8,7) 5 Get lift in with kindly don to see Puck (5,10) 6 I know that’s the wrong spelling but so it came originally (3) 7 Disney film taken to Northern Ireland to show Italian children (7) 8 When crossing oceans, perish due to infection (7) 12 Long stories of short stoves (5) 14 This suitor was in torment (5)

16 Being hard of hearing, we hear, when in charge of computers showing a bit lacking (7) 17 Cut up, inserted prime peg, bound together (7) 19 Depending on latrine arrangement (7) 20 Past-it old bean she replaced (3-4) 23 Fowl to be cooked with head not removed (5) 25 I take chunk of free gorgonzola (3)