1: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

3: Examples of containers (5)

6: Sock a prophet (5)

9: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

10: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

11: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

12: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

14: Unusual? A French name, a short rogue (9)

18: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

19: Stan's partner is central to Follies (5)

21: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

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

25: Privy to accessibility (11)

27: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

28: Follow in broken suede shoes (5)

29: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

1: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

2: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

3: Defiant call for change holds up addition to building (9)

4: Act upset over kindergarten's interruption of seaside dessert course (9)

5: Firm rear end (5)

6: Lists scoundrels (5)

7: Just desserts for Alpine tumble? (9)

8: Currently well-supplied? (5)

13: Control, coerce, and strengthen (9)

15: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

16: Beside, its aligned so poorly (9)

17: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)

20: Total for the match (5)

22: Transfer back beat (5)

23: Lightweight cat (5)

26: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)