CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Superior ground is better than black gold (7) 5. Rush to save old pages, loose (6) 9. Such power would be in doubt with a switch at the top (7) 10. Rolls out web addresses covering National Farmers Union (7) 11. Partially remunerate Oz runner (3) 12. Damp Oslo lab polluted fluid for transfusion (5,6) 13. Egyptian king or teacher (5) 14. Small stroke restricts private web producer (9) 16. Signature tune’s amazingly good, and then some! (5,4) 17. Left a non-drinker with energy drink (5) 19. Poor Asians rely on avoiding large monsoon (5,6) 22. Gangster gets rid of round scuttle (3) 23. Anger over 100 Young Conservatives’ private transport (7) 24. Red mother conceals spy (7) 25. Ordinary vehicles obtain special awards (6) 27. Dutch assistant gathers support for transport (7)

Down

1. Unruly tenant holds midnight function (7) 2. Restore normality after ruining pie with spice and ketchup (4,2,3,6) 3. Spain sustains operating unit (3) 4. Learner in the past absorbed rare composition (5) 5. Stroking round posh child who’s abandoned (9) 6. Last parts of buffalo that should be stewed? (5) 7. Councillor tucked into short pig snack, cooked like these? (4,11) 8. Lewis’s lion beginning to teeter at an angle (6) 12. Lighter, naked, holding last of clothing (5) 14. Healthy advice to tobacco users: ‘Like coke’? (9) 15. Many long to grasp this yarn (5) 16. Pulses make a variety of broths (6) 18. Dwayne’s drunk but upright (7) 20. Initially you usually can cultivate agave properly (5) 21. French writer climbs small tree (5) 25. Leave a former Portuguese colony (3)