Observer Everyman

Across

1. A complete shambles, maybe setter’s to be given time out, quick! (4,9)

8. Primarily, extremely meddlesome matchmaker (Austen’s) (4)

9. Acerbic Greek character can provide pudding (5,5)

10. Altogether where Dorothy’s dog food ended up (2,4)

11. ‘Blah blah blah’: review of 48 Hours? (4-4)

12. Parliamentarian to persecute revolutionary, Spooner reports (9)

14. Perhaps, Sergeant Major, perhaps (4)

15. Famous sportsman, ‘The Greatest’ (4)

16. Stride around shopping centre making chit-chat (5,4)

20. Print pitch for pigeonhole (8)

21. Dicky Benaud is one going from Vienna to Belgrade (6)

23. Horror-movie figure harshly bullies a headless dog (4,6)

24. Lawyer’s not finishing cheese (4)

25. Furniture that might be rustproofed and extremely baroque? (4-6,3)

Down

1. Tenor spotted piece to include: grand! (7)

2. Some ragù: a nourishing substance with distinctive smell (5)

3. Promise to put a wager on US novelist (7)

4. Parliamentary business, one May’s adroitly amended (5,3,7)

5. Prepares sourdough loaves, perhaps: essential things (we’re told) (6)

6. Nasty coat needing alteration, no matter the price (2,3,4)

7. Sick, tired, essentially stoned ... considered fit (5,2)

13. A fortune’s laid out for horror movie (9)

15. Piece of Laurel and Hardy finally, a fable that’s funny (7)

17. ‘Salud!’, dit Emile (un peu reactionary) (7)

18. Tried to influence bid with bloke losing £1,000, sadly (7)

19. Adjudicator, curtly, after brief look, to increase price unfairly (6)

22. Bigwig to apprehend rising pong (5)