Observer Everyman

Across

1. Knocked back food – a French dory, filleted – and wine (8)

5. Primarily vulgar, scornful, insulting gestures (not suave)? (1-5)

10. Heartless to steal books; sick to destroy covers (7)

11. Baedeker: it really captures Red Sea land (7)

12. Seconds before games return to racecourse (5)

13. I’m surprised and tense, wearing expensive headgear (5,4)

14. Partitioned while trembling, trembling (11)

18. ‘Shameful’ gin cocktail: not promising to get one in (11)

21. Drink most of champagne, having briefly eaten out (6,3)

23. Finally performed ceremonial dance somewhere in Asia (5)

24. Told a story? Have a little rest (3-4)

25. Mostly insincere, no good and a bit of a chore (7)

26. Deadly reptile on island: my God! (6)

27. Encourages a boy to find something to eat (3,5)

Down

1. Unpleasant to live with poet around (6)

2. Direct section of Cairo bus trip (6)

3. Everyman’s in a tumult, wildly offering threat (9)

4. Losing potency, facing defeat in struggle (14)

6. Scandalous, hearing about the Third Man? (5)

7. Most of singers getting hot drink, shortly, for composer (8)

8. Those whereby duty is getting into going without? (8)

9. Increasing power, Virgin Queen to gain sway (14)

15. Diligent lasses find autocue’s failing regularly (9)

16. Very bad to see yours truly excluded from biomedical engineering (8)

17. Uppishness seen as Southern aristocrat topless, Derby scandalised (8)

19. Judge’s drawn Nigella oddly (6)

20. Uneven judge made criticisms, ignoring knight (6)

22. What’s found in bathroom of India, ultimately? (5)