Across
1
Flipping anxious old monarch failing to provide items for scoffing fools? (7-7)
8
Say butter's rejected, getting this instead? (5)
9
Reliable staff one's hired to work in TV or film (8)
11
Opera company led by Latin American revolutionary (7)
12
Condemn point put in plain language (7)
13
Vacuous twerps without intelligence? (5)
15
As far as US leader's concerned, getting invaded by Germany is ruled out (9)
17
eg McCartney, Boy George at first, and a member of Morrissey's group? (9)
20
Green vehicle reversing into rural settlement (5)
21
Called for managed fund to save mobile phone company pounds (7)
23
Whence two gentlemen came and left to get sedative (7)
25
Sweet soldier brought in kind of battery for defence (8)
26
Blithe Spirit's leading character back in the country (5)
27
Novelist pens mad, inauthentic and pedestrian advice (5,5,4)
Down
1
Making valueless nude? Monet is in Giverny framing it (12)
2
Maybe Holly Hunter wants filling in sandwich (5)
3
Train strike's beginning, which creates worries (9)
4
Bosses regularly filling bigwig's drink quickly (4,3)
5
Country's financial district gets universal love, almost (7)
6
Very brief rule of old Indian scripture (5)
7
Said why tucking into crab dish could be a danger, in the main (9)
10
Fun for eg young Boris, having surprisingly low mental age (4,4,4)
14
Banks perhaps following current news host (9)
16
Terrible triteness has the capacity to fascinate (9)
18
Invalid thinking 'I'm going to smoke last of tobacco up' (7)
19
Try lots of port and case of amontillado, guzzling gallons (4,1,2)
22
River Seine's banks not straight (5)
24
Refusal to accommodate crooked car dealer who breaks the law (5)