Weekend crossword 13/08/2011

ACROSS

1 Choose to ignore alternate characters' outlay (4)

3 Even I have zest when getting on level terms (10)

10 Less than half the smelling-salts burst (5)

11 I expel vet violently using meaningless oath (9)

12 Old school subject dealing with stale news (7,7)

14 From inn mutter about sustenance (9)

16 Short attempt with released fish (5)

18 Small shoot in season, not new (5)

19 Colourful spinner? (3,6)

20 Key place of learning? (4,10)

24 Not long putting warning device on one of the cattle (9)

25 Yet I'd been transformed by spiritual being (5)

26 Prospered if shoulder had been put right (10)

27 Old part of the stage directions (4)

DOWN

1 Informality, unusual self-assurance after dropping ref (10)

2 Lawyer finds it as allowable alternatively (9)

4 Search for that French thoroughfare (5)

5 Fixed location had been copied out (9)

6 Line of possible convicts' sameness on display (8,6)

7 Comparatively frosty (5)

8 Developed some meagre witticisms (4)

9 What envelope is doing to correspondence (8,6)

13 Heavenly body going over the lines I'd reportedly followed was out of touch with reality (6-4)

15 Sure to be troubled by inclusion of duplicating machine that's wrong (9)

17 Giving ministerial orders (9)

21 One has two turns to one's heart's content (1,4)

22 Fellow coming from the provinces (5)

23 One's provided interjection expressing incredulity (2,2)