No 16, Bee Crossword 007

Set by: Bee

Note: Bee is also known as Alice.

Across

1 Collapsed standing on street outside burnt out fire (7)
5 Gulp back after bear's head and tail ripped off, exposing cotton wool (7)
9 Nut from national rifle association flipped outside Colorado (5)
10 Hard bend in rambling Italian country (9)
11 Delivers sermon to sheltering English recipients (10)
12 Turns up in damp shoes (4)
14 Trick lousy tutor, if by lucky chance (12)
18 Mound of earth, telly case, dustheap, empty tray, broken egg (6,6)
21 Wrenches guts in knots (4)
22 Miracle ground discovered by the setter (10)
25 Bloke with broken toes accepted on condition by political party (9)
26 One thousand ladies shelter from the cold (5)
27 Mumbling description of milky pudding leads to detention (7)
28 Extremes of action in liberal England starts the holy siege (7)

Down

1 Tie the middle of March up with government duty (6)
2 Escapes as a chasm splits open (6)
3 Bride to be joins church in Scotland from this day on (10)
4 Sea birds loose head under death shadows (5)
5 Dead man embracing undoing merits a kind of religious thought (9)
6 Roughly half an unknown quantity of butter and flour (4)
7 Religious celebration follows the coast of Africa? (4,4)
8 Watch after vessel for a blind man (5,3)
13 Trick: disintegrate back into weird distorted shape (10)
15 Slowly start to yield, after Edward promises drop of liquor (9)
16 Beat and kick endlessly in a kind of gymnastics (8)
17 Horrible images in dreams (8)
19 Science department retiring, allow a dance (6)
20 Distasteful old linocuts regularly ignored (6)
23 Death register is oddly amusing (5)
24 Desperate for a haircut! (4)

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