Across
1 High, as mature hams (8)
5 Working with American on island, heading west (6)
10 Level up late, audacious to some extent (7)
11 Unsettled, startled, devoured abruptly (7)
12 On 2nd of March, sit back for storyteller (5)
13 A better piano? Fitzgerald is unaccompanied (1,8)
14 Failure for starter, summer pudding: one’s not swallowed much (7,4)
18 Manic choral arrangement befitting royals (11)
21 Races after admiral, oddly wanting to make speeches (9)
23 A Brontë vacuously missing the point (5)
24 Customer spluttering ‘Rudeness!’ cut short (3-4)
25 Horribly legally decapitated (7)
26 Greek character, politician, heartless tiny fool (6)
27 It’s likely that Ray’s idea is kinky (1,4,3)
Down
1 Request loudly a spa treatment (6)
2 Tennis champ’s a lot of fun in Spain, I agree (6)
3 Perhaps Magritte, creator of unsettling images, the old revolutionary, produces revelation (3-6)
4 Fruit salad ingredient? That’s not technically a fruit etc etc (7,7)
6 Expensive taste epicure has (5)
7 Gall bladder – boo! – removed without hesitation (3,5)
8 Examines cocktails in the Queen Vic (8)
9 Cruddy actor was cast as Chicken (7,7)
15 Horribly evil friar’s removed a tree (6,3)
16 A little insect eaten by son (8)
17 Everyman is grabbing ten and dancing together (2,6)
19 Searches for weapons (6)
20 Primarily, something your zodiac’s ‘yoking’ gives you? (6)
22 Regularly defective drier’s best turned off and on again (5)
