Guardian 27645

This congeries of vulgarity was set by Neil Walker, whom The Guardian sees as 'cheeky and modern'. So we have coital positions with a condom and orgasm, urination, prostitution, drug use and addiction, after smooching, with snot. It's 'look at me I'm saying naughty words', poo-wee-bum childish. The puzzle is here.

Across

1 Show bank book (8)
PROVERBS - PROVE + RBS - presumably the Royal Bank of Scotland

5 Developed castle, ultimately went down with knight taken (6)
EDUCED - (castl)E + DUC(k)ED

9 Guide for meeting people at club? (8)
RACECARD - RACE (people) + CARD - the question mark is to indicate 'for example'

10 Mad mother turned murderer (6)
MANIAC - MA + CAIN rev.

12 Learning about name inside record (5)
ENROL - N(ame) inside ROLE rev. - record in the verbal sense of writing a name in a list of members, say

13 Greeting with bow at end of day following queen's order (9)
HIERARCHY - HI + ER (queen) + ARCH + (da)Y - originally referring to priesthood

14 Aged ten, snot loosened having swallowed cold medicine (12)
DECONGESTANT - (aged ten snot c)*

18 Run out in strip to the game (12)
PROSTITUTION - as in 'on the game' - (out in strip to)* where 'run' in an anagind

21 Go with beer and spicy food (9)
PEPPERONI - PEP (go) + PERONI - an Italian biera

23 Check web address: rude one (5)
CHURL - CH + URL - it's an archaic Germanic word for an ordinary bloke, living on in 'churlish'

24 Head did act when ordered (6)
ADDICT - 'head' is slang for a drug user - (did act)*

25 Flight path for pilot on superjet cleared (8)
STAIRWAY - S(uperje)T + AIRWAY (path for pilot) - referring to a flight of stairs

26 Expression of delight finally, pay one penny to go (6)
YIPPEE - (pa)Y + I (1) + P(enny) + PEE

27 Street covered in smoke, let me see fast car (8)
DRAGSTER - DRAG (smoke) + ST(reet) + ER (let me see) - FOI, or it would have been, except ath I didn't believe he would have drag = smoke until I had crossing letters to confirm

Down

1 Copper locks up idiot for a very long stretch (6)
PARSEC - ARSE (idiot - more vulgarity) inside PC (Police Constable) - it's about 3.26 light-years, a large distance

2 Steer at front of thing possessing wheels? (6)
OXCART - CAR (wheels) inside OX (steer) + T(hing) - also an &lit

3 Office data analyser that's fast is superb (9)
EXCELLENT - (Microsoft) EXCEL + LENT (fast)

4 Detailed writer needs time, hard lead and a rubber for this (5,7)
BIRTH CONTROL - BIR(o) + T + H(ard) + CONTROL (lead)

6 Tot and adult play (5)
DRAMA - DRAM - a tot of whiskey, say + A(dult)

7 Tom Thumb interrupts gossip (8)
CHITCHAT - HITCH (thumb) inside CAT (tom)

8 Does crack and cocaine lines within department store, primarily (8)
DECRYPTS - C(ocaine) + RY (railway lines) inside DEPT + S(tore)

11 One could do a clean with crew and Jack (12)
WEIGHTLIFTER - W(ith) + EIGHT (crew - in a rowing boat) + LIFTER (jack - for a car) - weightlifters often do a clean and jerk - but I suppose they have to do the first one first

15 Walk aimlessly in grass, having a pet (9)
SMOOCHING - MOOCH inside SING (inform on someone)

16 Realisation I didn't catch that one squeezing spot (8)
EPIPHANY - PIP (spot, as on a playing card) inside EH (I didn't catch that) + ANY (which here is supposed to = one, as in 'anyone', I suppose)

17 Modified Lotus regularly went faster on the outside (6,2)
SOUPED UP - OU (alternate letters of Lotus) inside SPED UP

19 Wife, not in normal position, coming first given sex trick (6)
OUTWIT - OUT (not in normal position) + W(ife) + IT (sex)

20 Actor's introduction in porn film (6)
PLAYER - (P)orn + LAYER (that kind of film)

22 Present case for music on the radio (5)
EMCEE - a way of writing MC, referring to the Master of Ceremonies, who presents, also a homophone ('on the radio') for the first and last letters of 'music' - M ... C

KEY

to abbreviations/terms/symbols which may have been used

(raga man)* = anagram of 'anagram'
cd = cryptic definition
dd = double definition
incl. = inclusive (hidden word)
def. = definition (synonym, literal)
rev. = reversed
anagind = anagram indicator
homophind = homophone indicator
surface - the apparent meaning of the clue, disguising what's really going on
&lit. - a clue in which the whole clue is the 'definition'
COD = clue of the day (imo); FOI, LOI, first/last one written in

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Garry Gillard | New: 20 October, 2018, 1043 AWST| Now: 20 October, 2018