8  In kill, forward knockout punches back, so making palest shots count (10)

 9  Desire to make it the end of the radius bone (4)

10 Drag in m/kg/s dragged out much longer (4)

11 These ruddy enormous birds cradling secesh president lost mind on drug! (4,6)

12 It's my intention to live without air transport (7)

13 In film, Klinger finally winning the heart of Hawkeye Pierce (5)

15 Something deceptively lovely running in 25, say? (7)

16 On backing, tips for 7 and 25 come off - second favourites in cocktail bar! (3,4)

19 A basic wooden item, it's turned to Britain (5)

21 Race cunningly - head round the quick way! (4,3)

22 Ordinary man wading into disputation endlessly and for ever (7-3)

25 O'Brien's sure to be in this mix! (4)

26 Barbarian irritated husband (4)

27 Excess of Excesses: The Dulcet Truth  (4,6)

 2  Opening Kentucky Classic letter Pipe entered "Fantasy" (5,3)

 3  Forgetting inevitability of funeral, dresses down (5,5)

 4  Minor celebrity's the reverse of 9 (1-6)

 5  See Raleigh's state, spending a bit of private time together (4)

 6  An Arabian citizen, I'll support the old people (6)

 7  Which of 25 and 11? 25 (4)

13 Good Protea relations accepting sport back are all right settling in? It's very simple (10)

14 One dictating "pull" in part of Florida skeets operations (10)

17 Agriculturalist's tip, not a cert in garden science (8)

18 Soaring rackets smothering Fen city with nastiness (7)

20 Indian paymaster drunk in Paris with tipsy Sikh (6)

23 Stop top broker ignoring the odds (4)

24 The devil to catch (4)