Observer Everyman

Across

1. My jape is silly, overshadowing isolated overnight events (6,7)

8. Bootlegging, excluding number that’s suggestive (4)

9. A nun, woozy with a cigar from somewhere in Central America (10)

10. Small amount of money Everyman’s hiding, getting stick (6)

11. Without a plan to lose home, becoming derelict (8)

12. Dame; unsettling macabre author, uncomfortable reading including eerie Rebecca, primarily! (2,7)

14. Some Blairism that’s essential in vision (4)

15. Tasteless rubbish! American! I’m off ! (2-2)

16. Monsieur altered canton to include limits of Basel and an Alp (4,5)

20. Scratching head, orthopod’s performing skilful manoeuvre (4-4)

21. Haunt with unnatural sobs describing evacuated entrails (6)

23. Leafy green – or cheese and white wine? Not half ! (5,5)

24. Complain as storyteller returning (4)

25. Strict type of ballerina, initially narcissistic drama queen withholding support (4,3,6)

Down

1. ‘Table’ in France: a single dish with water (7)

2. Writer in bliss before seeing cheque ... gutted (5)

3. Troll using some ‘gammon’ stereotypes (7)

4. Correspondence from overseas resort captured Tropics (7,8)

5. Equality – with prince becoming king – it’s seldom seen (6)

6. Ordinarily, flipping Luxembourg and Austria mostly backslide, ‘neutral; independent’ (2,7)

7. They rebuke people found on roofs (7)

13. Topple after a little Negroni and fizz as starters (9)

15. Pour most of the whiskey out – what you may do later? (5,2)

17. Also, the German harbours run as per specifications (2,5)

18. Time to note: what was more savoury now more indecent (7)

19. Tea, followed by tea dance (3-3)

22. Hone temper (5)