Across
1 Reject plant in row (6)
4 Benefit to a smaller extent during spree, losing energy (8)
9 Opener getting frantic rocks team (9)
11 Fly westward for example and fade (5)
12 Contemplate display (7)
13 Replace work (7)
14 Excessively excited by role as a nun (12)
18 Serious line receiving chop in silly pictorial story (7,5)
21 Sharp expert in charge capturing rook with bishop (7)
22 Outburst from worker perhaps with spirit after end of shift (7)
24 Servant taking the box back full of drink (5)
25 Writer emerging from cinema terribly pale (3,6)
26 Odds rise rapidly in projection (8)
27 Prime fodder injected with revolutionary colourant (6)
Down
1 Proper defeat, lacking time to break fiendish codes (8)
2 Browse, catching update finally? Anger guaranteed (4-4)
3 Run through desert (5)
5 Racing driver revealed consuming desire and raised capital (5,8)
6 Company, restricted by trees coming up, about to give signal for pause (9)
7 Truly denied going wrong (6)
8 Uncertain about editor being eager (6)
10 Crept over site nervously looking back (13)
15 Agile graduate absorbed by word puzzle, not small (9)
16 Poor old weaver, left out, intimidated (8)
17 Vicious cycle stopped by people showing mercy (8)
19 Preserve most of immense painting (6)
20 Merchant involved in nationwide alert (6)
23 Man under arrest not entirely in ideal position (5)
