The Cryptic

ACROSS

1. Verify mad chess move (10)

6. Began singing while another musician freestyled ( 4 )

10. A good run in the lavender field, perhaps? (6,5)

11. Take away kitchen’s odd sorbet ( 3 )

12. Cockney held her firstborn ( 5 )

13. Counterfeits accept four pardons ( 8 )

14. Stared when I wept noisily ( 9 )

16. King turned famous pig into a meal ( 5 )

18. Swimmer got better, so you quit finals ( 5 )

19. Includes joint and politician gets high ( 9 )

21. Oat curry stirring implement (5,3)

22. Puzzle showoff ( 5 )

25. Place to study uranium and nickel ( 3 )

26. Thrilled to vote for Republican, if one eradicated borders (11)

27. Old man, see why voice is cracking ( 4 )

28. Outspoken landowner consents to legal education (3,7)

DOWN

1. Policeman posted again to share Powerpoint slides? (2-7)

2. Opposition leader and a communist travelled by boat ( 5 )

3. Innovative retailer boasts renewable energy sources (5,9)

4. Skip over fuel spill, optimistic ( 7 )

5. Prepared food for feline – minced deer ( 7 )

7. Long-beaked bird sadly bit his wife – without fail (5,4)

8. I had extraterrestrial encounter ( 4 )

9. Psychiatrist performing hip-hop audio and putting it in film? (6,8)

15. Come again, crazy narcissist? ( 9 )

17. Straddles finest cycles ( 9 )

19. Septic hole rapidly absorbed bacterial infection ( 7 )

20. Transformed English gallery in sludge ( 7 )

23. Capture outspoken witnesses ( 5 )

24. Guzzle good unleaded petrol ( 4 )