No 13725, Thursday 01 Dec 2022, WrdPlougher

Solution to 7A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS

6   Disconnected cables partially entangled around two knobs at the hub (5) LOOSE {cabLES}* over {knObs}{knObs}

7   Observant article about electronic currency (4-4) O?E?-E?E? (Addendum - OPEN-EYED  {OP{E YEN<=}ED - See comments)

10 Brahms and Liszt tuning crwth, essentially tightening screw (4,3) WING NUT {TUNING+crWth}* What is 'crwth'? See comments 

11 "Please speak about tight fist!"... (7) SATISFY {SA{FIST*}Y}

12 ... employees beginning to shout near busy emergency room, barging in (7)  EARNERS {Sh..t+NEAR}* over {ER} 

13 Temporary short-lived reputation (5-2) STAND-IN [CD] (Addendum - STANDINg See comments)

14 Ring this nicely, finally press this to find the point marking the door to a man's heart? (5,6) BELLY BUTTON {BELL}{n...lY}{BUTTON}

19 Allure of the French monsieur initially opting to wear inverted hairpiece in America (7) GLAMOUR {LA}{M}{Op...g} in {RUG<=}

21 Bend our crooked boomerang (7) REBOUND*

23 Topical dances for the eyes (7) OPTICAL*

25 A 'friend' primarily into fashionable western Italian composer (7) ROSSINI {ROSS}{Into}{IN<=}

26 Tuk-tuk nearly covering one mile, starting to behold a faraway place (8) TIMBUKTU {TUK+TUk}* over {1}{M}{Be...d}

27 Oil container, crude truck filled with energy for a thousand (5) CRUET {TRUC(-k+e)E}*

DOWN

1   Above stall, in conclusion, right place to store cereal (8) CORNCRIB {CRIB}<=>{iN}{COR}

2   Every other step except the first in dance party involving spirits (6) SEANCE {StEp}{dANCE}

3   Oracle's black ash — absurd hearsay without a bit of accuracy (10) SOOTHSAYER {SOOT}{HEARSaY}*

4   Date back origin of fossil to be in the lead for reward (4) FEES {SEE<=}<=>{Fo...l}

5   Learned as a poem (6) VERSED [DD}

6   Advocate raw honesty, finally inspired by real revolutionary (6) LAWYER {raW}{h...tY} in {REAL}*

8   Snippet of garbled text about unfinished race (7) EXTRACT {ECT{RACe}T*}

9   Striving, striving in the second half to grasp story's ending (5) VYING {striV{s..rY}ING}

13 Raw cabbage a Turk sure appreciates, primarily shredded (10) SAUERKRAUT {A+TURK+SURE+Ap...s}*

15 Swinging iron club — rough's first cut of Simba, perhaps... (4,3) LION CUB {IrON+CLUB}*

16 ... lush, trimmed — after putt essentially gets buried in green... finally, endless rain forming spiral-shaped water body? (8) NAUTILUS {LUSh}<=> {pUTt}in {g..eN}{rAIn} Clue as convoluted as the solution?

17 Silver, coarse and bright (5) AGLOW {AG}{LOW}

18 Air defence division at sea (6) ADRIFT {AD}{RIFT}

20 Ain't at sea at first, secure (6) ATTAIN {AINT}*<=>{AT}

22 Bites roughly, getting at first cut, cut (6) BISECT {BISE{Cut}T*}

24 Similar to social media icon (4) LIKE [DD]

Reference List

Emergency Room = ER, The in French = LA, Monsieur = M, Fashionable = IN, Mile = M, Energy = E, Thousand = K, Date = SEE, Air Defence = AD