Observer Everyman

Across

1. Occasion of remembrance that’s made city’s air altered (9,3)

8. Decorated knight embraced by beloved (7)

9. Follow bad decline (4,3)

11. Levels attained by performers free from pressure (6)

12. Contrive pretence, first off, about card game (8)

14. Uncertainty about field set by captain initially for entertaining pair (6,3)

15. Hard to follow editor, coming back with point showing intensity (5)

17. Visual work with idiosyncrasy (5)

19. Infallible dessert with soft top (9)

21. Overdrawn? Some restraint here desirable (2,3,3)

23. Nothing right with bargain in trial (6)

25. Scraps in trenches (7)

26. Letter from saint in English collection (7)

27. Last moment in episode with leaders in historic hostilities, once in control, retreating (8,4)

Down

1. Soldier for instance carrying on, a guy trained to be an adviser (5,4)

2. Inorganic substance during time breaking large mass up (7)

3. Bank’s team (4)

4. Chanting, enthusiastic about country (10)

5. Improved condition that is seen in teddy’s stuffing (7)

6. Unaccompanied in general on errands (5)

7. Name elevated poem about time with care remembered (6,2,4)

10. Poem read as memorial with frequency here, not out of order around autumn (3,3,6)

13. Hold hot flannel so anxiously (4,6)

16. One who demonstrates corruption getting into trouble (9)

18. Playwright in church sorry about end of talk on old verse (7)

20. Left company outside one entrance to building (7)

22. Child, a learner, unqualified (5)

24. Network in south restricted by northward border (4)