Across
1
Kilts set in motion as they get sent flying in alleys (8)
5
Come across an equal in audition (6)
9
Abandons all hope in a spider's web (8)
10
Clears out the white of the eye (6)
11
Christmas dinners have no starter for old prison officers (8)
12
What should be taken if wise man turns up after party? (6)
14
Intoxicated and given to be overbearing (4-6)
18
Gaining ranking after draw is announced (10)
22
In the morning, speaking with no sense of right or wrong (6)
23
Test size ingredients are the most piquant (8)
24
Shelled facility is twisted and sloping (6)
25
Anaesthetised foot has feeling but it's lowering (8)
26
Realise rubbish left out is not so problematic (6)
27
Enigmatic sweetheart gets drunk with Ernie's other half (8)
Down
1
Dignified meeting of lovers under superbly elegant covers (6)
2
Protect and toughen around top of skull (6)
3
Credit the one who portrayed F Gump? (6)
4
Sir Bradley cycled around those who got there first (5,5)
6
By hacking, clear top of the chest (8)
7
The setter, we hear, is able to outwardly decry something aesthetically pleasing (3,5)
8
Listener in tears hits back (4-4)
13
Messenger is absorbed by game that's fast (10)
15
Element found in a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin (8)
16
They learn choral arrangement in two seconds (8)
17
Pessimistic, for example, in domestic surroundings (8)
19
Greatest duty is essentially to lead the largest number (6)
20
Old cronies abandoned leader and fell into disarray (6)
21
Characters in Macbeth? Nice and traditional (6)