2: Substitute for ants terrible racket (5,2)
3: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)
4: Public school game on festive occasions (4,5)
5: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)
6: Upward in Aspen (or thereabouts) (5)
7: King John's last to find out (5)
8: Trying restful turns around ship (9)
14: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)
15: Make new plan for back pasture (9)
16: Literary device may be fey? (5)
18: Guess I'm gettin' old and wise at last (7)
20: Kitchen appliance is pumpkin-colored, apart from the top (5)
21: Confer higher rank upon former adversary's first lieutenant (5)
22: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)
24: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)
27: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)