Across
1
Doing loads of laundry, holding one article for Americans (14)
8
Fleece coat taken from tiny, caped figure (5)
9
What The Guardian offers with bizarre glee, stifling a disapproving comment at first (8)
11
Improves image of new business that has succeeded later (5,2)
12
Wine, dry white ultimately? It’s for one in the party (7)
13
A little glower from subscriber losing face (5)
15
Leader to lead with a venerable lady in the family (3,6)
17
Maybe retired proofreader picked up fund of money (9)
20
Some work, not nothing, followed by soft drink (5)
21
Mistreated male Arctic bears oddly ignored cupcake (7)
23
High officials specifically given rise at work (7)
25
Concerned with stance in job, in dropping off item for gents (8)
26
Rating of chess games? Run off to arrange a match (5)
27
Doctor probing experimental chemistry and physics, of a sort (14)
Down
1
Watch others play with e.g. gun before magistrates (4,3,5)
2
Dry batter Garry’s cut (5)
3
You don’t pay for lodging in this lake location (9)
4
Decline to say why snooker player picks up cue (2,2,3)
5
Some rock clubs plugging unhip Queen composition (7)
6
More than one key feature of supermarkets, we hear (5)
7
Almost Biblical event he ignored in dark time (9)
10
Bags of pressure on dodgy dealers after dodgy deal (5,7)
14
Nitwit poking second husband makes a bit of a scene (9)
16
Inhaling joint, relax in swimming area, a channel of the Persian Gulf (2,7)
18
Suffer ruin, broken by Tory Brexiteers (7)
19
Fun in bar after backing track (7)
22
Furry beast right to leave pig, rat, snake or weasel? (5)
24
Source of complaint that is about grasping officer (1,4)