1: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)
3: Mischievously cheat on board for packets (7)
4: Type of sketch taken from thin album (9)
5: City train bears the woman's name (5)
6: Backward Nevada city or city singer (7)
7: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)
8: Run away with Cockney stride (5)
12: Fool to join recital (3)
15: Essays about old dramatic works (9)
17: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)
19: Lies for each twelve men (7)
20: Lawless brute having fun with fair play (7)
22: Declare leniency even heartless to be this! (7)
24: Zoom back from the deeps (5)
25: For Summits, speak out of order (5)
27: Later round without an opponent (3)