1: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)
 2: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)
 3: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)
 4: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)
 5: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)
 6: How Nero holds one in control (5)
 7: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)
 8: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)
 13: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)
 17: Head of Immigration leads rare uprising in tiny travel plan (9)
 18: E.g., lead Boston finally out of cellar, American League (4,5)
 20: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)
 21: Take off from small runway (5)
 22: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)
 26: Begins seeing another divorcee?   Deplorable. (3)
 27: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)