Across
1
Flavour enhancer that’s stored in tabernacle? (6,8)
8
Choose frames painter knocked over for 1960s works (2,3)
9
Give a different view of Everton’s no. 1 punching his rival – penalty! (8)
11
Clement Attlee oddly put away nine crackers (7)
12
Maybe May queen returned small, boring articles (7)
13
Country’s popular backing, after a revolution (5)
15
Nursing funny person, strips back hospital bed (5,4)
17
Brilliant partner of blind, extremely unusual fellow (9)
20
New books with leading detective – this may be qualified as “noir” (5)
21
A river over to the left? A river in the Americas (7)
23
It’s used to pass water Arthur Ashe finally ordered (7)
25
Sign Pinocchio’s fibbing about current VIP (3,5)
26
Touching some butter from the east that’s available (2,3)
27
Criminal case of infraction – hundred euros pinched (14)
Down
1
People who sing gospel – it soon rocks! (5,7)
2
Quaff drop of Drambuie, and chuck it down (5)
3
Winning big, about to cut bananas (2,3,4)
4
They have imperfect eggs you reportedly put in boxes (7)
5
Coffee cups Debbie emptied – she might get rowdy (7)
6
Perhaps Winchester student gets in everywhere (5)
7
It has a clock dial one fixed in vacant den (9)
10
Poor US singer way ahead of what Jay-Z did? (4-8)
14
After a reshuffle, failed to note cause of unemployment? (9)
16
Picaroon gets shower working at first, which is perhaps topping (9)
18
Ducking and running under one bar swung around (7)
19
Kind of cross, hosting unmannerly PM (7)
22
Tomorrow singer from 13 must be introduced to Queen (5)
24
Where to keep bucks, perhaps, for a US detective (5)