Observer Everyman

Across

1. Fruit salad (6)

4. Catching chum? Bait is unnecessary (1,3,4)

9. Headbanger? (6)

10. Runs obtained by English in cricket, perhaps with no-one watching (2,6)

12. Clumsy tragedian, not a star (3,5)

13. Four admitted to surrealist festival (6)

15. Make little ‘uns surround chaps with flowers (6-2-4)

18. PM having shag and a lie-down (9,3)

21. President to be suspended, admitting nothing (6)

22. Opposite number in disguise, seen intermittently (8)

24. Left . . . left . . . voila! Cubs assembled shelters (8)

25. Home with tatty walls, heartless relatives (2-4)

26. Special sci-fi device that’s used by Banksy (5,3)

27. For starters, I’ll serve this halloumi marinated in strips (6)

Down

1. Drunken teens endlessly abounding on resort island (8)

2. In conversation, Damon is keen on Spanish performers (8)

3. ‘Buoyant Eel Thief ’, unusual Booker winner (3,4,2,6)

5. Bowled over by two names for old capital (4)

6. Art event that Serena wasn’t in time for? (3,5,2,5)

7. Fantastic to unwind, they say (6)

8. Shock: describing most of the bible as cobblers (3,3)

11. Men I see struggling? (7)

14. Biblical character, fellow apparently lasting forever (2,3,2)

16. Impose second of levies on North Carolina fish (8)

17. Evening of fun with squeeze, getting into a kiss? Not half (5-3)

19. Some writhe besottedly in old city (6)

20. Lover’s ravished you (6)

23. Booze cruise: case of white? Not quite (4)