Across
1 Shake tower of strength (4)
3 Fellow enthralled by complicated maths, no novelist (6,4)
9 Level still without one floor covering (7)
11 Colourful display in fantastic bar I own (7)
12 Run into a wild, rough old animal (9)
13 Certain alien back in fashion (5)
14 Artist, good artist with clarity, finally sad about broken pen (7,5)
18 Not familiar with upper-class conduct, same all over the place (12)
21 One with force reflected about love for language (5)
22 Sorry about thousand libels, criminally elaborate (9)
24 Energy in motivation daughter gained (7)
25 Model army’s leader after survival seizing power (7)
26 Painting left strangely grainy (10)
27 Network becomes helpful to some extent (4)
Down
1 Cancel article in disgust (6)
2 Approach keeping fringes of hair yellow (6)
4 Spanish article supporting fashionable guest house (5)
5 Travelling merchant hurt company with game (5,4)
6 Sign of fortitude, having quarrel with superior in error (5,5,3)
7 Judges in time consumed by bias err badly (8)
8 Negative methods receiving notice in these times (8)
10 One doing less well than expected, suffering ruin, ached continually (13)
15 Beatles song certainly rated uncommonly higher than unknown quantity (9)
16 Day in season, endlessly cheerful, described concisely (6,2)
17 Sailor breaking rule or prepared to give a hand? (8)
19 Beautiful guess (6)
20 Refuse to accept hard defeat (6)
23 Stop working for lord (5)
