1: Clip securing a bow at the front of sister's dress (5)

3: Get your paper here! Amphibious creature seizes steamship; a number dead (9)

6: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

8: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

9: Non-clerical song (3)

10: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

12: Publication for children (5)

14: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

16: Sounds like a bright child (3).

18: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

20: Former name for joint audition (3)

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

23: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

25: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

26: Writer producing page behind a king (9)

27: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

1: Intoxicated with dances and drinks (9)

2: Bends clasps (7)

3: A vine sometimes can seem green (5)

4: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

5: Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5)

7: Find out scout (3)

9: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

11: Worthless even when recycled (3)

13: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

15: Tears material, tears material (9)

17: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

19: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

21: What models do when embraced by former Democrat leader - all is revealed (7)

22: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

23: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

24: Follow south for lecture (5)