8  Someone who's Big Dave's opponent? (7)

 9  Pick up, put down - must be a trick (7)

10 Alcohol, it seems to me, lacks colour (5)

11 Flipping Bob's a flapper (5,4)

12 Furthest from roomy refuge, concealed weapon (9)

14 Big Dave's outside entering cellar regularly (5)

15 Incomplete publication Big Dave orders in anyway (8,7)

19 Book adult left behind (5)

21 Candidate wanted job at University, lecturer attracting worker (9)

23 Dave perhaps at cross dresser's pick-up place (2,7)

25 Mark edges of Big Dave - not very out of shape (5)

26 Dave turned up and Norman retreated (7)

27 Typical slight to Big Dave - leader lost temper (7)

 2  One builds and another pulls to pieces (6)

 3  Characters gaining access to Dad's weapon (8)

 4  Tea and toast (4)

 5  Enter repeatedly on form (2-4)

 6  Christ essentially died, sung about resurrection (5,3)

 7  Fireman Sam's first to meet King and Queen (6)

 9  Means to relax cryptically using Dave's site (9)

13 River Mersey's source, polluted point needed special treatment (9)

16 Chest exposed during arithmetic, maybe that's one for the cells (8)

17 Had dance, rocking around Bermuda Hotel (8)

18 Gossip about Art Centre losing track of cocaine (8)

19 Sally's black cat talks back (secretly) (6)

20 Big weight dropped? Right, at last Dave's thin (6)

22 Elevated North American forest resembling a chain of mountains (6)

24 Laughter about capsizing ship builder (4)