Plain #5 by Mango


ACROSS
    1    Suspend temporarily — remove Ollie’s partner first (8, two words)
    5    Kinda soft or squidgy (6, two words)
    9    Entire ox roasted — what an effort! (8)
    10    Fellow taking a month in French estate (6)
    12    Five — not down!— cried for drink (5)
    13    Drunk caned a lot, as the story goes (9)
    14    Items courier distributed like a pro (12)
    18    Stud getting involved with internee’s not concerned personally (12)
    21    Britain, and the whole of Ireland once, the first to admire Fonteyn? (9)
    23    A main course in Nasik or Madras? (5)
    24    Product of writer about love (first of wives gets drowned) — Rebecca? (6)
    25    Grown-up friends with time for one with several mates (8)
    26    Take in tax agreement (6)
    27    Innovator’s regularly confused with one? (8)
DOWN
    1    ‘Urinate’ in school parlance (6)
    2    Plan to grow old and decrepit (6)
    3    Détente mostly overcoming stray nuclear threat? (9)
    4    Dairy product farm blends with foie gras (12, two words)
    6    Nothing, nothing like an egg (5)
    7    Turner’s outside doing drawing (8)
    8    Northern boxer’s cracking punch — one in the last round (8)
    11    Variable discount rate’s covering removal? (12)
    15    Put away after Tartan Army’s third game’s over! (9)
    16    Cooked buns turn brown (8)
    17    Laid back character’s invitation to call (8, two words)
    19    Bacon could be tastier if fried without eggs initially (6)
    20    Conflict involving Italian–English food supplier (6)
    22    It may take three days to level it (5)
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