Observer Everyman

Across

1. Liberal excluded from US only today, outrageous, really! (3,4,3)

6. Luminary Morris finally introducing art nouveau? (4)

9. Amorous, old, perverted and smelly (10)

10. Rod’s pale before date (4)

12. Having three refusals from Merkel, called phone number (4-4-4)

15. Politicians Dimbleby’s confused by disappearing (3,4)

16. ‘Let’s go, prepared, ahead of time?’ ‘Stop interfering!’ (3,4)

17. Man leaving big city for smaller city (7)

19. Revamped attire’s more attractive (7)

20. Suspicious alarm tingles vaguely (8,1,3)

23. Some dilemmas in 1815 novel (4)

24. Neither con breaking loose (10)

25. Criticises as ‘plainish’ every now and then (4)

26. Following fashion, vacuous lightweight to fall for small diversion (5,5)

Down

1. For starters, your aunt might steam veggies (4)

2. Heartlessly using lady is offensive (4)

3. Dispatched Devil to Wales? A superstition (3,5,4)

4. They’re often presented at Christmas, films that few enjoy (7)

5. Australian given to reflection? Laughable (7)

7. Smoke rising in unopened kind of bomb: funny … and serious (10)

8. Who’s in the doghouse? Bloody Everyman and colleagues (3,7)

11. Books where reproductive organ is seen in amphibian, exotic creature (3,9)

13. One who’s woolly and disreputable? (5,5)

14. A meal with beans cooked for one on deck (4,6)

18. Unexpectedly, see vibrating neutrino losing energy (3,4)

19. Flower opening initially, offensive scent emitted (3,4)

21. Wife: ‘tapas includes cheese’ (4)

22. Upside-down bats with cause to be unconscious (4)