Observer Everyman

Across 1. Job with club for instance providing communication (8)

5. Thrust cable into place (6) 9. Inspire some vigorous exercise (5) 10. Inhabitants are found, right away? Rubbish (9)

12. Sensitive novel varies in power (13)

14. Oppressed in US city before retreat (5)

16. Musician with universal appeal, revolutionary artist in essence (9) 17. Examiner, one with new part accepting pressure (9)

19. Saint in denial? Not nice (5) 20. People in battle hiss corrupted

institution (13)

23. Anger, apprehending name as false (9)

24. Paved area with odd parts for plants I love (5)

25. Sense of taste? Mate scoffed (6) 26. Extend popular line (8) Down

1. Grating remark added to letter about criminal court badly set up (10) 2. Incentive none initially reject (5) 3. V-shaped mark? There’s one in tail of exotic bird (7)

4. Swede perhaps in love with Greta to be confounded (4,9)

6. Agent left in charge with author’s first copy (7) 7. Write a line on obligations and sanctions (9)

8. Survive after all others (4) 11. Creature with message in horror film, quietly breaking equipment over time (7,6) 13. Unadventurous treatment of hot meat, say (4-2-4) 15. Distribution, rapid, less organised (9) 18. Alien clutching unknown metal, cold and dead (7)

19. Drama, musical drama, mostly unsuccessful type (2-5)

21. More taking part in next rally (5) 22. Without firmness proceed unsteadily (4)