Across
1 Trouble troubled Sid and Burt (7)
5 Girl's endless anger in auto repair shop (6)
9 Had defeated daughter to drop off (5)
10 Dubiously get leader consigned to obscurity (9) RELEGATED*
11 By river, dare building sitting rooms (7)
12 Telling sweep of fish trap (4,3)
13 Dekhiye, the old left and somehow hoofed it (5)
14 Badly need goodwill, having lost fine attempt (9) (ENDE*)([-f]AVOUR)
16 Boy to match a kind of bridge hand (5,4)
19 Firm's top man gets a shade (5)
21 More eccentric with a more pert officer commanding gone (7)
23 And big iron endlessly distributed by African city (7)
24 Artist after artist to avoid short, frilly dress (2-2,5)
25 Indian aunty sports primarily haldi shade (5)
26 Old English essayist’s mettle mentioned (6)
27 Finishing one's i's (7)

Down
1 Study well for a project, not just clean, wash clothes and iron (2,4,8)
2 Where you can expose yourself and bask, no doubt (3,4)
3 A cow is ... (losing dollars and getting tense doubly, it is said) (7)
4 Dandy includes request for memorandum (9) {B(ORDER)EAU}
5 Short gun girl held up in prison camp (5)
6 Large dispersal and retrieval of top-class finery (7)
7 Don to enjoy really (3,4)
8 Letting one's opinions know, without giving facts, masks its ideal origin (14) EDITORIALISING*
15 Blasted boy up on a boy (9) (DET<=)(ON)(A)(TED)
17 Sailor with a container comes up — it's pale red in colour (7)
18 Put out again about the controversy (7)
19 Fair play by noise-maker (7)
20 Delhi thief and a soldier are leaders of movements (7)
22 Paid encomiums, leaving out Physical Director's uplift (5)