CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 They cut through the mist where government department stays in luxury tent (3,5)

5 Nothing’s wrong that doesn’t end (6) 10 Barrister on television is a rather odd East European (7)

11 See exhaust soil (5,2)

12 Italian writer has over fifty bacteria (1,4) 13 Record not a paying proposition for one who understands (9)

14 Insect in good bunk has novel dates in pioneering aircraft (6,8) 17 Racetrack decision, perhaps, is foregone conclusion (6,2,6)

21 Dracula character seen as fortune falters (9)

23 Woolly scholar rejected white rum (5) 24 Illegally trade vehicles (7)

25 Umpire buried in hard work? No, in clover (7) 26 Flocks to store drug in hides (6) 27 Musicians like pieces of chicken (8)

DOWN

1 Transfer return of tunnelling rabbit hunter (6)

2 Mouth ailment caused by Louisiana cuisine one left (7)

3 Boeing air transport is supposedly primitive (9)

4 Say you didn’t know alpine code rang false (5,9)

6 Ill-treatment puts vehicle in casualty (5) 7 Percussionist to start off kneeling originally (7)

8 Work on gravity in occupation is first class (3,5)

9 Short street viewed opposite meeting with alien (5,9)

15 Substantive shriek of laughter about our dairy product (4,5)

16 Issues with second heavy male over consumed sugar (8)

18 Turn over, lean over (2,5) 19 Homeopathic remedy with scannable function under new heading (7) 20 Gives up slidey puzzle (6)

22 The Spanish Laplander, we hear, is impish (5)