Observer Everyman

Across

1. A loud attack? Well, sadly, yes (6,2)

5. Wipes beer mats less regularly (6)

10. Perhaps Netanyahu is PM losing backing of Likud (7)

11. Engage some dim Merseybeaters (7)

12. After review, hotel won’t accommodate screeching infant (5)

13. Discerning acts of love (6,3)

14. Hide with Star Trek character getting emaciated (4,3,5)

18. She’d start off falteringly, less likely to get job done (5-7)

21. Cook cassoulet? It’s not worth the effort (4,5)

23. Back-to-back houses leading to a fuss (3-2)

24. Draw what to put on horse, an ornamental trinket (3-4)

25. Increases likelihood of popular verse in, for starters, Times Educational Supplement (7)

26. Composed, seated, relaxed (6)

27. Vacantly using authoritarian dogma, nicks Africans (8)

Down

1. A child’s key (1,5)

2. Once in a blue moon, rate cut in half by bank (6)

3. Bizarrely, I twice knitted image of suspect (6-3)

4. What’s seen with floating torsos? (8,6)

6. Type such as Abramovich (5)

7. Gentleman with symbol of potency: red meat (8)

8. ‘Most fragrant’ wife involved as judge presides over trial (8)

9. Single fine king uneasily delivers premonition (7,7)

15. He arranged veg on hot cooker (9)

16. Vis-à-vis Ola, Tess largely makes interaction impossible (8)

17. Relaxed with name dropping? Something to explain (5,3)

19. Cirro-strati partially forming platforms (6)

20. Passes, lacking energy, making errors (6)

22. Gold is one asset initially included in valuation (5)