LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.

ACROSS

1. Coco ran around US animal (7)

4. There’ll be singing in the streets when monarch gets behind public transport (7)

7. Car I bought is too long for reindeer (7)

8. Gone a strange way to European seaport (5)

10. Reduction modified to do the honours (9)

12. Clocked actors Robbins and Harris (5)

13. Causes swelling in tongues of fire (8)

15. Mahatma using ginseng and hibiscus (6)

17. Raced Dad when she came in (6)

19. Big cities have big letters (8) 21. Rewritten tales become boring (5)

22. Hereditary cat learns to adapt (9)

25. Cops start to put the heat on con man (5)

26. Food-lover needs remedy after dodgy pie (7)

27. Be sulky about azure shade (3,4) 28. Prefect not quite flawless (7)

DOWN

1. Wrecked if I’d mentioned being redressed! (9)

2. Orange vegetable said to be a stone weight (5)

3. Runabout contains gold for Pacific island (5)

4. Sausage that explodes loudly (6)

5. Zodiac archer appears as guitarist (11)

6. Thousand in front of canyon or piano (5)

9. Drifter heard garden ornament commercial (5)

11. Where statue or hero is placed (2,1,8)

14. Piece of music as originally penned (3)

16. At home, put dry-cleaning fluid on the rocks (9)

18. Gaze inside Augusta reactor (5)

20. Coax Cal and Joe to join forces (6)

21. Dismisses noisy sax (5)

23. Damaged peach is not worth much (5)

24. Wake up in trousers (5)