2: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

9: Form of denial mistaken as yin/yang (9)

10: Big affectionate bears blunder (5)

11: Ties fraud's spar to the Rev. Spooner (5,4)

12: Anger that is constraining response (3)

13: Asked for quote in 3-D (9)

15: Courses finish with Decline and Fall (5)

16: Canoe lost in sea (5)

17: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

20: Number One in facetiousness (3)

21: Pests in a census? Distorted. (9)

23: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

25: Gainers demonstrated by swimming baritones (9)

27: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

1: Flutter the eyelids over the French shellfish (7)

2: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

3: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

4: Outfit wins Tet Offensive (7)

5: Dragging endless returns from a tightwad (7)

6: Ms Starr has a gun, a mere toy (9)

7: Inactive side (3)

8: Lament the first person heard in good judgment (4,3)

11: Man admitting setback for islanders (7)

12: Maybe I'm upset with reason (7)

14: Creature of habit goes in to pay upon receipt of drink? It's puzzling. (9)

16: Also-ran gestates, bearing fruit? (7)

17: Like a big cat, snaky fish consumes Spanish toddler (7)

18: Raised the former Mr. Gore and Mr. Kennedy (7)

19: The king did not stand for it when he heard that he ogles her. (4, 3)

22: Catch first fish? Hold fast (5)

24: Start reducing salt? (3)

26: Aliens set off (3)