1: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)
2: Call for help oddly stops (3)
3: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)
4: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)
5: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)
6: Preliminary form of conscription (5)
7: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)
9: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)
11: Bishop has support from this criminal (5)
14: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)
15: Worshipping, as 51 sing following marriage vow (9)
16: City train bears the woman's name (5)
20: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)
22: Expose the French heavy weight (3,2)
24: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)
27: In all, just a little peak. (3)