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)