Observer Everyman

Across

1. ‘Don’t get so excited’? I’m astonished and illuminated! (4,2)

4. Break-fast time? (6)

9. DCI endlessly wedded to poetical writing: Morse is a good example (4)

10. Insufficient funds to obtain biscuits (10)

11. Disrespectfully, the Queen’s on the side of a road leading to a windswept village (6)

12. Miracle cure: get practically starkers, caked in dirt (5,3)

13. Spicy snacks go with Italian lager (9)

15. Goitre has no appeal: it’s a queasy sight (4)

16. Scammers, pests and menaces, primarily (4)

17. I’d like to sleep easy after a massage (3,6)

21. French can add butter to both sides of pain (8)

22. ‘Vigorously resist habits’ - one who has them (6)

24. With time to spare, foolishly romanticise a far-off place (10)

25. White lie, mostly tall story ultimately (4)

26. The aged are welcomed into German band (6)

27. Rail is missing from banister (6)

Down

1. Sweet treat, cold, with superior casing (4-3)

2. Toothsome Ganymede, essentially Greek character (5)

3. One of us overheard where vitamin C can be found (7)

5. 19 martial arts are on the rise? Not entirely (6)

6. Company, they say, with problem, so it’s said: Freeman Hardy Willis, say (9)

7. Twig taken from trees all Gipsies regularly ignored (7)

8. Rhyme, but not reason? (8,5)

14. One who you hope leaves their coat in your home (9)

16. Embarrassing when ghastly performer appears in chorus (7)

18. Sauce added principally into Italian food? (7)

19. Sell, rat out: characteristic of The Sun, etc (7)

20. Quietly pounce and land in water (6)

23. At the outset, straining posterior muscle produces an amusing noise (5)