1: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

4: Country encircling one's country (9)

8: Stud was working with tiny fragments of wood (7)

9: Sour substance made from grape plant and fish (7)

11: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

12: Child, bask by the sound (3)

14: Part, or bring together (5)

15: Kids' swabs getting dear (7)

17: Substitute for ants terrible racket (5,2)

20: A poem about electrolysis (5)

21: Draw the knot (3)

23: Unstained slip covers (9)

24: Beatnik embraces nude in nightclub (7)

25: Foolish old African dictator concerned with the ear (7)

26: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

27: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

1: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

2: Representatives from west coast ball club recruiting a woman manager - the first (9)

3: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

4: Bury 'im for the meantime (7)

5: Evolve from crude Velo predator (7)

6: Scholars in Sunday School a long time (5)

7: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

10: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

13: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

16: Pictures capturing Ranger's first excellent baseball player (9)

18: Vagrant's foot caught in spinning machine (7)

19: Foster charged in hours (7)

22: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

24: See, you are a cad. (3)