Across
1 Face endless people giving a torrent of abuse (8)
5 Incendiary liquid buddy used in Vietnam (6)
9 Coin kept popping up (2,6)
10 Moderate, English politician during short period of office (6)
11 Artist brought in can teach (5)
12 Italian poet holding passage back for socialite (9)
14 Kept mistress, monied maiden originally (12)
18 Had meal with group, filling entire pub (8,4)
21 Hospital doctor pressing substance right into bottom (9)
23 How Alfie ends is unimaginitive (5)
24 At home and abroad, to some extent (2,1,3)
25 County players in blue (8)
26 Understand article in revolutionary newspaper (6)
27 A depression involving her advocate (8)
Down
1 Fine titbit (6)
2 Drawing power of a quiet ringing of bells (6)
3 Foreign count, rare storyteller (9)
4 Sole wage earner in new diner/bar? Unlikely (11)
6 Operative, a well-bred fellow (5)
7 It contains supplementary material that may have to be removed (8)
8 Butterfly in car (8)
13 British, further gangster in fraternity (11)
15 Playing field’s ending marriage (9)
16 Getting hot under sun, moving in large numbers (8)
17 Motionless deer seen by worker after noon (8)
19 Locality around a monarch’s official residence (6)
20 Get going and defeat Italian (4,2)
22 Pity some Irish-Americans (5)
