1: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

6: Tax expert set cap (3)

8: First get a French weapon. (3)

9: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

10: Five kills one. (3)

11: Bill board reflected family meal extra (5,6)

12: Compensation check matures (7)

15: Slow passage where rebel leader joins in gaol-break (5)

16: Rinse out pine compound (5)

18: We would embrace tightly in marriage (7)

20: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

21: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

22: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

24: Spew endlessly, and so on (3)

26: Sounds like a bright child (3).

27: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

1: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

2: Making a comeback in White Horse Inn, a musical heroine (5)

3: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

4: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

5: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

6: One who scans game piece (7)

7: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

10: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

13: Boatman from old region? (9)

14: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

17: Dope turned to eat bun, starting off big (7)

19: Implement box for young cat (3)

21: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

22: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

23: Wander around inside territory (3)

25: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)