Across
1
Employment à la Ubers – or horse-drawn carriages? (3,7)
6
House detective, part employed (4)
9
Sufferer sedated, calm (10)
10
A sucker rejected some bubbly (4)
12
Grim, noon, dog barking: you can’t say this now! (4,7)
15
Exciting under canvas by the sound of it (7)
17
Twin, having consumed gin, recalled puzzles (7)
19
Harlequin inexhaustibly portraying some characters: that’s the tonic (7)
20
Comic interlude – but does it describe a darkness? (5,6)
23
1/28 oz good butter (4)
24
One drawing things out – using this? (10)
25
Cushions in apartments (4)
26
Naughty child is on the loo (but only half) somewhere in Slovakia (10)
Down
1
Drop golf ball that’s been lifted high (4)
2
Jerk, English in French holiday home (4)
3
Where youngsters’ habits may be unpleasant? (8,4)
4
Mostly unwelcome sound: O, Everyman is most unwelcome! (7)
5
Least brief amount of time? I’m … I’m not sure (7)
7
Horse that provides sustenance in the main (10)
8
More like preliminary version, read aloud and increasingly windy? (10)
11
Learning, fast, to arrange relatives’ accommodations (7,5)
13
Grand! I have beer – and dog returning to offer support (4,1,3,2)
14
Spooner’s to provide support for violinists etc (6,4)
18
Shepherd who played up front for England? (7)
19
Queen in time to introduce Alien V (7)
21
Volcano where the stake’s raised (4)
22
Primarily, oceanic ravenous creature: aargh! (4)