Cryptic crossword

By Derek Allen

ACROSS

1 Does it tell us the blooming time? (6,5)

9 Inform against traitor aboard (3,2)

10 Source of great profit underground (4-4)

12 Coming from freezer Matthew in Swiss village (7)

13 Doctor in chino removing cartilages (7)

14 Courage never faltering (5)

15 Pat, she too became bonesetter (9)

18 Seize children and enter into a dispute (4,5)

20 Lady in chains? (5)

21 He frets over flood (7)

24 Launce, fish that has been beached? (4-3)

25 More friendly buzz having crime cracked outside (8)

26 One in dry environment a new giant (5)

27 Parisian chips? (6,5)

DOWN

2 Interlink a generous part of chemical bond (7)

3 Just troughs ie to be removed (9)

4 Purple tree (5)

5 Left one thousand on river repeatedly, river in Africa (7)

6 Beaten about before taking a donkey (5)

7 Rigidly cold? (6,5)

8 Programme journey into space (4,4)

11 Leonard's unfriendly suspicious stare first at part of photographer's equipment (7,4)

16 Incorrect rate more certain to be official (9)

17 See taint develop in liqueur (8)

19 Unfeeling in-being? (7)

20 Not much of a racket in recess for meals! (7)

22 In time there's an anaesthetic (5)

23 Shirt in raised position on part of leg (5)

Tuesday's solution

Across: 1 Blackcurrant, 9 Faceted, 10 Praline, 11 Tend, 12 Fiend, 13 Alms, 16 Sucrose, 17 Drafter, 18 Fascist, 21 Glitter, 23 Dial, 24 Pupas, 25 Stub, 28 Lolling, 29 Topknot, 30 The very place.

Down: 2 Laconic, 3 Cote, 4 Codeine, 5 Repined, 6 Alas, 7 This lot, 8 Welsh rarebit, 9 Fit as a fiddle, 14 Tonic, 15 Manic, 19 Scarlet, 20 Thuggee, 21 Giantry, 22 Titanic, 26 Rite, 27 Opal.