Across
- 3. Chopped mint gambit
- 5. Wrapped up in blanket, a miner could easily take you into a very deep hole (8)
- 7. Block the other Johnson's instrument
- 9. More confident with you at mountaintop (7)
- 10. Licensed aeroplane crashes - what a way to travel (10, 7) (see 23 across)
- 11. Matchmaker inwardly decides on giving final performance (4,4)
- 12. After screw-up, public transport service's start goes off with a bang
- 16. Whip with wire tip, gruesome sort
- 18. Coachman hears crumbling Scottish mansion (13)
- 22. Even school leaver starts to understand adult life
- 23. Licensed aeroplane crashes - what a way to travel (10, 7)) (see 10 across)
- 24. Reversible boat? (5)
- 25. I, one cast adrift, kidnapped by cultists (8)
- 27. Sounds like was wicked by Loch Awe (3, 8)
Down
- 1. Redhead with real ale drink (6, 3)
- 2. Spice with tops of kaffir lime and nutmeg, say? (7)
- 4. This sucks, doctor
- 6. Consider island (4)
- 8. Sarah's motorbike dispatched for breakfast (8, 7) (see 21 down)
- 10. Con relation
- 13. Bird that is green
- 14. Stretching limits of credulity, go preaching dogma
- 15. New reviewer's doing all right
- 17. Kid is soppy before onset of naughtiness
- 19. Cross restaurant
- 20. Barrister's setter (4)
- 21. Sarah's motorbike dispatched for breakfast (8, 7) (see 8 down)
- 22. Sounds like queer riff could be Scottish (6)
- 26. Romish swine's ashtray pan