Across
1 Poor work disrupting railway (4)
3 Insult hero’s unusually soft style of singing (10)
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9 Director getting Oscar, after cheers, blustering endlessly (9)
11 Labour account about conspiratorial group (5)
12 Stick with demon drink (6)
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13 Pragmatic people referring to ace catalogues (8)
15 Deeds unfamiliar to saint in order to prepare for battle (6,8)
17 Territory shown by map sadly secured by fraud and crushed (8,6)
20 Neighbourhood very hostile about fashionable appeal (8)
21 Call for extremes of exertion before end (6)
23 Heart broken by hard task (5)
25 Sigh woefully about bribe, confounded nonsense (9)
26 Dance with skill, I note, having three elements (10)
27 Contents of rhyme and new song (4)
Down
1 Wine picked up in can is terrible (7)
2 Wandering from pier, awfully sad, missing hotel (11)
4 Assistance guarding against becoming zealous (4)
5 Recoil in anger, struggling after prosperous period (9)
6 Remembrance mostly about one with dream showing obstinacy (13)
7 Fish not caught in centre of activity (3)
8 Refinement in language (6)
10 One man ends all wrangling as leader of South Africa (6,7)
14 Oddity in wrong version of a liturgy (11)
16 Ruined contest, losing force and clinging (4-5)
18 Teacher keeping record on Hawaii identifying marine mammal (7)
19 Investigator with eggs upset bird (6)
22 Bishop during meal raised support (4)
24 Sash used by slob incorrectly (3)