1: Why blood is thicker than water? (8,7)

7: Five kills one. (3)

8: A sample makes sense (5)

10: Throw mud at information (5)

12: Attack set up by funny-looking little green man (5)

13: Recipe including bull's heart is first class (7)

14: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

16: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

18: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

19: Brand on utilitarian stocking: 'Krispy Kreme' (5)

20: Hesper's fresh fields (7)

22: Literary device may be fey? (5)

24: South of France, an African country (5)

25: Shoelace tip has baby bird losing its head (5)

26: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

27: Author of Birds on the Wing may rewrite (6,9)

1: After harvest fruit is seen again (9)

2: Fiction position (3)

3: Lug worm finally being a symbol (5)

4: Pass mould (3)

5: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

6: Root for mounting might (3)

9: Crushed bones, say, as source of sauce (4,5)

11: Shout it out loud - alternatively, mutter quietly (7)

13: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

14: Embarrassed when a graduate took off (7)

15: Lick up pal (3)

16: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

17: Evil colleague, for example, breaking in contrary to law (9)

21: Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)

23: Frequently decimal? (5)

24: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

25: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

26: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)