1: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)
2: Complain about the horse (3)
3: Excellent osseous dark wood (5)
4: French scientist tears up plays (7)
5: Cry at nothing and hope to be only slightly cowardly? (9)
6: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)
7: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)
9: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)
11: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)
14: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)
16: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)
17: Funny men smothered in dismal country (7)
18: Brand on utilitarian stocking: 'Krispy Kreme' (5)
19: Nothing virile about British actor (7)
20: Storey's fantastic seafood (7)
22: City train bears the woman's name (5)
24: Sense of location, we hear (5)
27: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)