1: Artist back on the issue of causing inflamation. (5)

4: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

6: Get rid of Bush (5)

9: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

10: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

11: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

12: Content little rest for the painter (5)

13: Later round without an opponent (3)

14: Regains no recollection from thinking (9)

16: Standard cart coming back with jam (9)

17: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

18: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

20: Love to influence the polar type. (9)

23: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

24: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

25: Handle two-thirds of the world (5)

26: Anyway - no! (3)

27: Authority, for example (sic) (3-2)

2: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

3: See Dennis, unfortunately, in poverty (9)

4: Drive off returning outcast (5)

5: Bill accepts new slant in Jack's Magic Ladder? (9)

6: Sued Elvis for uppers when blue. (5)

7: Tempory respite about the goal. (9)

8: Bugler to stand playing in fields of war (13)

9: Ratty cavalier redressed in proper horseman's uniform. (7, 6)

13: Angrier warrior (9)

14: I am in football country for bankruptcy (9)

15: Nothing, absolutely (almost) nothing, disturbs cool guys' covers (9)

19: Small area of land for unchanging Chinese (5)

21: Hot, like one expressing disapproval? (5)

22: Literary device may be fey? (5)