ACROSS
1 A small part by the miller's
son's somewhat unreasonable (1,3,4)
5 To take food and drink together
has strong emotional effect (4,2)
9
Reveal truth about old Burmese leader returning and German
heading off (8)
10 Take to the air crossing animal park backwards with
promiscuous woman (6)
11 Cave dweller near Northern Ireland
needs nurse to have a gas? (8)
12 Heavenly body with
hydrogen tail is approaching (6)
14 Speak sharply to
fierce woman making a bloomer (10)
18 School head
featuring in legal document needs to observe timekeeper (10)
22 Give encouragement to unknown ruler — cockney
possibly (6)
23 Guide's wrong, heard to circle small
river (8)
24 Reply to article by monarch about the
Devon area (6)
25 Wearing small item of clothing
round shoulders – raised them? (8)
26 Put
responsibility on part of horse's tack (6)
27 Deep soled shoe
found on stage (8)
DOWN
1 Decorates beautiful youth losing his
heart around redhead (6)
2 Entirely at home with
Dorothy's dog (2,4)
3 It's low to force submission
from child's milk supplier (3-3)
4 Can lenient
characters mark this every one hundred years (10)
6
Each and every rowing crew on hands and knees? (3,5)
7 Period of time with no work for blacksmiths? (5,3)
8 Afterthought at day's end, of sound made by cash
register's getting inside one's head (8)
13 A copy
Ralph made a mess of – believed to be but – probably not true
(10)
15 Personal targets aiding the opposition (3,5)
16 Allowed to sell drink and drive (8)
17
Heavenly and French man! Fact (8)
19 Commanding
officer's quiet, not one to act frivolously (6)
20
Heartless gang holding a French hooker's keen to fight (4,2)
21 Rarely, around mid-Wales, fashions make a
comeback (6)
