Special, Sunday 15 Dec 2019, Buttershot

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit your three answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   Poorest revolutionary to get a trial (8)
5   Say spikes meat pieces (6)
9   Dramatic light on artist's lines (8)
10 Appreciates valleys around Utah (6)
11 Damage royal's brands (8)
12 Ward's cost (6)
14 Stage found in park (10)
18 Describing the old drifting across Italy (10)
22 Run in your birthday suit (6)
23 Collect dope and sign out of some motel (8)
24 Stunned by web in our times (6)
25 Axe trees for fuel (8)
26 Recalled London district's dug up (6)
27 Presages development of christian rite (8)

DOWN
1   Post article (6)
2   Resent improper records (6)
3   Consent to curl hair on it (6)
4   Trying to lug some gale damaged wire outside (10)
6   Guerilla cuts/shoots guides (8)
7   Water's odd ring around one fish tank (8)
8   Delays Soviet Union's outlays (8)
13 Nag mystics about exercises (10)
15 Are dupes used to convince ? (8)
16 Perhaps Instagram a fish tackle (8)
17 Point at the end of agreement in South Africa to track foriegn nationals (8)
19 Cross out River's grant (6)
20 Shape alumnus' hunger (6)
21 Social worker to take on underworld fags (6)

Across Lite version can be accessed at BUTTERSHOT 2

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 06 Dec 2015, Buttershot

Welcome Buttershot.
Three answers per commenter as usual till 6PM (Annotations to be compulsorily provided with answer)
As far as possible please give all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   Pawn by pawn learner gets an advantage (6)
4   Day when bloodsucker's cut and withdrawn (8)
10 Advances to servants (9)
11 Power circle attached to a city till 1978 (5)
12 Mount resistance in tights (5)
13 Halt a perk dispensed to this fighter of 11 12 (9)
14 & 25D Shanghai isn't prepared for this 23 hero (7,5)
16 Consumes rare teas (4)
19 Say fly or insect (4)
21 & 21D Very dreadful man to desert besieged, quiet mother of 23 officer (7,6)
24 Water on soldier's a solvent (4,5)
25 Sinister Mark's yen (5)
26 A great stop (5)
27 The French partners block out disaster brought about by a drink (5,4)
28 Bell chimes for a fight (4-4)
29 It is said to bring out a smile in Jack perhaps (6)

DOWN
1   Buy influence (8)
2   Bird intercepts former American bootlegger outside (8)
3   Blacken stern with some epoxy (5)
5   Obstetrician's view is vulgar (7)
6   Henry cuts snake's stomach to find some road laying material (9)
7   Armed forces find captured men rising (6)
8   Does the journey to the grave begin from here? (6)
9   Drag in a leather jacket (6)
15 Permitted to carry real reforms inside Germany (9)
17 11 12's decorated officer and mariner's a study (8)
18 Look after a dairy product for a pale person (8)
20 National upgrade of Goan network (7)
21 See 21Ac
22 Risk probability (6)
23 Some Kashmiri unionists moan about this Himalayan region (6)
25 See 14Ac

Across Lite version can be accessed at BUTTERSHOT 1

Enjoy.