Across
1
With choppers battle-ready? (5,2,3,5)
9
Excellent: Miss ‘d’Urberville’ and love to return, finding border region (7)
10
Mouldy Frenchman tears up when cleaned up (7)
11
Is the writer to be sold, my friend? (5)
12
Poorly raised oaf, as previously discussed (9)
13
Evil doctor to tattoo most of infants? Covering bottoms up (3,5,2,4)
17
With endless fury, aunt tasted a dodgy, unhealthy ingredient (11,3)
20
Fixer-up ran over to stable? No (9)
23
Principally relative association that indicates odds? (5)
25
Spanish maybe brainier – almost devious (7)
26
Acrobat, one who in 60s was iconic (7)
27
Is Douglas on a peninsula … ? (2,3,2,2,6)
Down
1
A cow’s audible ‘Goodbye’ (5)
2
Offer ring to one who’s not intended? (7)
3
Spot Mark and point … (3,3,3)
4
Poo-poos a kabuki’s characters in Japanese port (5)
5
Spooner’s advice to Great Expectations lad considering using pawnbroker where money may be found (3,6)
6
Judgment in hearing’s parallel (5)
7
Everyman practises hygiene, you say? Baloney! (7)
8
In this place, heartless simple tune that’s passed down (8)
14
Pests playing sitar – with tin whistler at the end (9)
15
Calm rests for hospital staff (9)
16
One shooting around outstripped hare, backing over – primarily, this one’s charged to protect (8)
18
Source of warmth, lad’s pronounced grin (7)
19
Opposing bulk of US territory, Caribbean island (7)
21
What may you get from chavs, ignobly? (1-4)
22
New England gentleman getting up, out of bed (5)
24
Cockney mob loudly rowed (5)