Observer Everyman

Across

1. Top courier lost somewhere in the Antilles (6,4)

6. Tom Baker, to start with, is grave (4) 9. It uncovers having the heebie- jeebies! (7,3)

10. Duck spotted regularly in The Mall (4) 12. Composition of Kern: ‘Tolstoy, Russian Icon’ (4,7)

15. One of the faithful seen back in rickety local (7)

16. Farage cut off before broadcast about African country (7)

17. Cockney’s a tool, they say, with charm (7) 19. Rendezvous with Everyman after work – get in! (7) 20. Revolutionary for citadels to be overthrown (5,6) 23. Stagger backwards giving lecherous gaze (4) 24. Troubled? Assuage trouble with a pet (7,3) 25. Audibly expressed frustration with BBC4, perhaps (4) 26. Ant’s friend, celeb: ‘Unlimited speed? Slow down!’ (10)

Down

1. Bolts, being cut up (4) 2. Neurotic hides cash (4)

3. One of a crew to cause online offence on empty vacuous platform (7,5) 4. Touch up a painting of deranged headless forester (7) 5. Eastwood close to becoming president (7)

7. Tax excessively deliveries by coach (10) 8. Make call to your lady, answering initially with expression of disgust and roar (5,5)

11. Catcall girl at first; that is, make a play for girl at first, skipping (oddly) wine and music (6-6)

13. Fats Waller treated for cataracts (10) 14. Novel describing Cameron becoming Tory leader? (7,3)

18. Having drunk a litre – about a litre – finally appreciate beer (4,3) 19. Samiest, re-hashed figure in collage (7)

21. Clue: sidearm’s concealed (4)

22. Fairy-tale figure masticating gore (4) • Solution next week