1		Escape with fine, lenient (6)
4		Oval racer to have in mind, almost (8)
10		Failing that love has where it's wasted (9)
11		One in bed, some still up indeed (5)
12		Water the flowers? (5)
13		500 is worth 1,000, 26, possibly 3 (9)
14		Be as killers are? Next time, maybe (11)
16		Negative comment one holds back (3)
18		The total is not everything declared (3)
20		Unnecessary publicity? Still, suggest it (11)
22		Tell me to foil a murder (3,4,2)
23		Gunner's noise against Othello's back (5)
24		Do the first part of it (3-2)
25		Drug designer, corrupt, given life (9)
26		Careless US police force taken by elite troops to hospital (8)
27		Head of communications? Waste of space, more like (6)

1		To begin with, foot sloggers ordered Gallic delicacy (5,4)
2		Get through an encounter with death (7)
3		Difficult to meet an unknown author (5)
5		Royals meet Irish criminal, having a joke inside (5,9)
6		One running in fear? (4,5)
7		Not a pic, perhaps, but words added to it (7)
8		Oddly neglected, ordain church as farm (5)
9		CBI - highest few I could expose? (3,5,6)
15		Carpet salesman on edge, can do without company (9)
17		Hermit's last to start getting stick over month in France (9)
19		Girl, plain one, ugly lad supports (7)
21		Female clothing only looks Chinese, say? (7)
22		It isn't a mirage, although nothing's the same (5)
23		Roman poet runs off to find guard (5)