CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,057

ACROSS

1 Food colouring causes affront to some extent (7) 5 Unfashionable tricorne, perhaps? (3,3) 9 Cryptic setter hosts upper-class person on board (7) 10 Issue European speech Conservative’s ignored (7) 11 Hug Democrats? That’s unusual (3) 12 Glass scenery for receivers once (7,4) 13 Inert compound? No, it’s explosive (5) 14 Rotten team worn out, having overcome English (4-5) 16 Would prison guard audibly use this to join boards? (9) 17 How Russian flower appears on map of the countryside? (5) 19 Trustworthy engineer probes lines (11) 22 Top officer sent back projection (3) 23 Novel author welcomes eastern one in U.S. (7) 24 Crew assembled boxing ring as souvenir (7) 26 Vital to eat even bits of fennel with enthusiasm (6) 27 Colour TV broadcaster wasted on radio (3,4)

DOWN

1 Strike teacher’s order (3-4) 2 Ceremonial block located on end of line under new station (10,5) 3 Girl doesn’t finish routine … (3) 4 … born extremely dirty and poor (5) 5 Defeat obvious argument about hotel (9) 6 Make a hole in coach (5) 7 Boxer, mad about canary, wrecked food processor (10,5) 8 One in Paris is working for complete agreement (6) 12 Salad plant growing up among lesser celandines (5) 14 Duty changes after factory system to raise output (4,5) 15 Yankee in Ireland upset eagle’s nest (5) 16 What’s different about Royal Marines? Friendliness (6) 18 French article describes stormy lough for the Listener (7) 20 Where canoe gets tossed about? (5) 21 Hits coach carrying house member (5) 25 PM’s gracious touring area (3)