Times Cryptic #26721

2017-05-10

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Across

1a

In High Mass a participant inserted insulting language (7)

5a

Son replaces hydrogen in car perhaps, causing blister (7)

9a

Gorilla at bananas? It could be in zoo (9)

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10a

Squeeze money out of some miserable editor (5)

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11a

Pick ridiculous expression about cold method of dispatch (8,5)

13a

Flood finished chap the Spanish abandoned (8)

15a

Stick ambassador in the middle (6)

17a

What, in time, controlled capital (6)

19a

Give up gold points in panic (8)

22a

Service chiefs (American) work with ruler and current procedure (5,8)

25a

She would display initiative finally in revolution (5)

26a

Change poles for stopping streetcar (9)

27a

Last of experiments with canny bloodsucker (7)

28a

Study large people's gravestones (7)

Down

1d

Diver has drunk gallons (4)

2d

Free, about to go on holiday, it's said (7)

3d

A short bird hauled up deep plants (5)

4d

In Paris, he has quit butchering for a change (8)

5d

Marines board vessel to find pests (6)

6d

Fatty uses cab travelling around Devon regularly (9)

7d

Make boxes millions burn (7)

8d

Winemaker's big blunder in Times (10)

12d

Order in vessels, small, very deep (10)

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14d

Standard-bearer indicates runner in Cardiff (9)

16d

Heath upended board to go ashore (8)

18d

Emperor beginning to hate English pope (7)

20d

Record one volume, for example (7)

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21d

A course of action ending in surly indifference (6)

23d

Rocket launchers initially led by the nose (5)

24d

Horse mushrooms, more than enough for birds (4)

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