Observer Everyman

Across

1. Electronic fault restricting new display (6)

4. Old bottles, emptied and preserved, hidden (8)

9. Revolutionary nonsense transported critic (9)

11. Shy maiden, poor, left out (5)

12. Rig vote designed to cause feeling of instability (7)

13. Inexpert, united, right behind a friend (7)

14. Important dancer having cracked rib, in alarm, pale (5,9)

17. Sense retreat, for example, brought about by champion defending north vigorously (4,1,9)

21. Monk admitting naughty dance (7)

23. Letter, second sent round by Conservative in club (7)

24. One day, provoked, did nothing (5)

25. Conductor using baton with energy after return (9)

26. Aim to go back aboard schooner perhaps for pleasure (8)

27. Blunder, as edited, partly rubbed out (6)

Down

1. Leaf vegetable? Need, in a stew, about four (6)

2. Vignette, proper text with odd parts missing, read (9)

3. Beginnings of markings usually in curve upward in skull (7)

5. Bird found around rocky crag, lone duck (8,5)

6. Contrast in heart broken by politician, heart of oak (7)

7. Speaker’s beginning course (5)

8. Pleasant fantasy story finally penned by father on quantity of paper (8)

10. Agitators break rule most recklessly (13)

15. Run up with documents from debtors? Not interested (9)

16. Satisfactorily located in row, good home (8)

18. Gang ahead after a scrap (7)

19. Top star is in remake (1-6)

20. Batting, lean and mean (6)

22. Type of whisky available initially in country (5)