1: Tolerates relative's big game trophies (9)

5: Inspects quantities of beer (5)

8: Chided after empty Russian plane left the country (9)

10: Cull out from top ten (3)

11: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

12: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

15: Cant this band collect any moss? (7,6)

17: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

20: Louse can rise (3)

21: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

24: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

25: Burial of radical author steeped in meaning (9)

26: Interprets, for the audience, the woodwinds (5)

27: Guy tails Rod's agent (9)

1: An inadequate food? (5)

2: Certainly, Mr. Gore welcoming Republican is bizarre (7)

3: At home, the rust Ive cleaned up was very invasive (9)

4: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

5: Beatnik embraces nude in nightclub (7)

6: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

7: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

9: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

13: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

14: Taxi in a log house? (5)

16: Curtailed clothing allowance possibly a revolution factor (4,5)

18: Good girls in spectacles (7)

19: I am starting to sail in Lake Dunk (7)

22: Ms. Lane swallows last of lean cuts of meat (5)

23: A chair may be material (5)

24: Standard style of music rejected (3)