1: Unfavourable publicity given to metrical composition (7)

4: The unwell were first to be cut down.(7)

7: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

9: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

11: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

12: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

13: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

16: Staying in front, he got moving (2,3,2)

18: The old Queen was said to be a grizzly mother.(3-4)

19: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

20: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

22: Paper boy? (5)

24: Odds of niece being born (3)

25: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

26: Desires unconventional lives (7)

27: Old French act involving British eccentric (7)

1: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

2: Poison with spite (5)

3: Michael Caine, first outspoken host (5)

4: Wrong space that's mined in an Asian land (9)

5: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

6: This food won't give you a heavy feeling (5,4)

8: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

10: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

14: Bushes put the kibosh on Reno's deal (9)

15: Something fishy: verbal Brooklyn women a hallmark of Notre Dame (9)

17: In a pickle about where one should apply the acne cream (2,3,4)

20: Sounds like a bright child (3).

21: Moderator conceals bard's inspiration (5)

23: Apparently observed a part of the play (5)