7  Rapid growth resulted from his efforts to deceive (9)

 8  Dull, British and repressed (5)

 9  For poor service, sued seven Parisian saleswomen (9)

10 Its grapes could be divine (5)

12 Isle that needed exploration at first in its interior (6)

14 Killing cut short service (holy) in France (8)

15 Get rid, get rid of film network (4)

17 People possessing a bit of nous have their attractions (5)

18 Nice and keeping footballers from going (4)

19 For this much port, not a problem (3,5)

20 One who is able to grasp nothing becomes barrel maker (6)

22 Angel, say, is cast out of heaven (5)

23 News when great opera is abridged in performance (9)

26 Being a Romantic type, he embraced a German (5)

27 Trying to resolve whether 26th or 32nd (9)

 2  Chicken out of seeing lord's younger son embracing paramilitaries (6)

 3  Secret originally often concealed by sect (6)

 4  Tina initially joins husband to create little one  (4)

 5  This might require mousse to be prepared from richer ingredients, with a hint of almond (8)

 6  Fifty days that changed dire estate (10)

11 Profession of sorority to god (4)

13 Cheer up, finding protection for inventor (10)

14 Mountain of interest to Hector, numerate to some extent, if backward (5)

16 Lean diet designed to be feature of prominence in news reports (8)

17 It connects A with C (4)

20 Will echo reverberate around massive... (6)

21 ...old court when Braun returns on eighth day? (6)

24 God, it's painful to climb (4)

25 Wind up, say, around a foot of metal  (4)