2: Confuse cast (5)

5: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

8: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

10: Start reducing salt? (3)

11: To get revenge, we tail a terrorist hiding in retreat (9)

12: Navigate by terse directions (5)

13: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

17: He explored star (7,6)

20: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

22: Permit me; I rearranged busiest schedule slots (5,4)

24: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

25: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

26: Records that could be hits (7)

27: Shabby and insolent, having no trace of breeding (5)

1: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

2: Put down explosive material about a union member (5)

3: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

4: Justify jingoism? (7)

5: Alien in spa written up for 'a display of greenness'? (7)

6: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

7: Pinker and harder to find (5)

9: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

14: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

15: Period email feature (3)

16: No nuns die tormented by lewd insinuations. (9)

18: Shocks friend overwhelmed by rude slap (7)

19: A vagrant fishing-boat (7)

20: Examples of containers (5)

21: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

23: Literary device may be fey? (5)