1: Opposed to commercial lyrics. . . (7)

5: Siphon windy painter? (5)

8: Larvae can appear to contain cure-all (7)

9: Twister: Rent a Party! (7)

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

13: Many ethers (7)

14: Preconceived opinion about the crud jeep I dismantled (9)

16: Essentially, what boy is wearing (3,2)

17: Your leg? (5)

18: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

19: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

21: First significant battle with many bees. (5)

23: A teetotaller in an imitation coat wielding a pick-axe (7)

24: First cryptic?! I nail it! (7)

26: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

27: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

1: American capital supplied plant (5)

2: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

3: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

4: Formerly thoughtful and dear? (9)

5: Throw mud at information (5)

6: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

7: Jump all over Kegler, say (9)

10: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

12: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

14: Cops and I abandon frayed trampoline (9)

15: Lily Tomlin's character: teen siren runaway (9)

20: Fancies and gets hard around (5)

22: Damage surrounding most of old tooth (5)

25: Frost to cover the cake (3)