DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Feeling very happy with ale passed off with fruit drink (7,2,5)

10 Bird slow to follow suit (7) 11 Involving sight of coalpit disaster (7)

12 One close to home with serious intentions (2,7) 13 Keep stocking around the university (5)

14 Opinion piece in the commercial press (6) 16 Miner trashed rubbish bin in Chinese capital (8) 19 Aridness ruined fish (8) 20 Stole cosy place back from cat (6)

22 Scottish group introduced glen to a resounding noise (5) 23 Mouthpiece for a cyclist? (9)

25 Heap rubbish about mine becoming a legend beyond the grave? (7) 26 Snow-ravaged gorge is a walk in the park! (2,5) 27 Brother and illegitimate issue by Sen Tom Foolery? (6,8)

DOWN

2 Sucker for Seoul cooking (5)

3 Very hastily attending the front of the aircraft, first class, with due deference (2,1,8,4)

4 Felt hearty and not odd, though number (6)

5 Early supporters have stake in alcoholic drinks (8) 6 Spoil the chances to get some satirists connected? (3,3,7,2)

7 Annul or reform around court during the night (9) 8 Split level’s ultimate standing among the privileged (5)

9 Accounts for indefinite articles (8)

15 Change aviator in different ways (9)

17 Have in mind to not end it in tears (6,2)

18 Yours truly made Amish bishop a term of respect in India (8)

21 Limit put on great leaps forward? (6)

22 Chapter with lots of pages that are off-white (5) 24 Raises esteemed divisions and faces them in battle (5)