1: Don't indicate so much that's futile (9)
5: Some barbarians turned up for money (5)
8: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)
10: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)
11: And not in town, ordinarily (3)
12: Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5)
14: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)
15: Tim ate one unsavory ape (7)
16: Crime's delays? (4-3)
18: Cover-up file conceals, ultimately, wrongdoing by one female (3,4)
20: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)
21: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)
22: Relieves each emergency service (5)
23: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)
24: Plastic shelf for meat (5)
26: Chinese are able to sound extremely subtle (9)
27: Wool is leading stocking fabric (5)