1: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

4: Direct object (3)

6: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

8: Did a boob resemble navel? (7)

10: Pour dripping over tack (5)

11: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

12: Its near the tradesmens entrance after dark (5)

13: Navigate by terse directions (5)

14: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

16: Nixon-Reagan era political appointments (9)

17: Casts off shacks (5)

18: Path of planet - or particle (5)

20: Poem about social worker left with grace (9)

23: Lazy person paid Leroy a little (5)

24: State goddess gets in first (7)

25: Feel sick from crack? (3)

26: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

27: Supporters, but not for long (7)

1: Collars rowdies in the audience (5)

2: Dowdiest rear in Mexican party, almost (9)

3: Down by one shot (5)

4: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

5: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

6: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

7: Loudly certain Woodbridges a near-certainty (5,4)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

13: Dining on donuts, for the sake of argument? (9)

14: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)

15: Closely observes public transport viewing problem (9)

19: Half-resembling flashy jewellery (5)

21: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

22: Cycles within easy earshot (5)