7  Superior place to live built up every second in central Godthab (6)

 8  Originally termed Islas Malvinas, this country’s in wild but remote location  (8)

 9  Give peace a chance, she said, with Syrian city and port (8)

10 Capital city of the French leaves Dublin so excited (6)

11 Move a mountain in South Africa (5)

12 Asian capital’s inquiry into priest’s sinfulness (9)

13 Cleans up inside houses (7)

16/5 Revolutionary stirs Austria’s imperial power (7,6)

18 Rocky gorge in front of Alps - hey, oddly it's topical here! (9)

21 Long stretch of river between Eastern Europe and Switzerland (5)

24 At home, bolt back entrance (6)

25 To start with Paul Cezanne designed a backdrop for Gilbert & Sullivan (8)

26 Sprout and lentil starters separately consumed in restaurant might give you wind (8)

27 Hide that’s covered in tallow? No thanks! (3,3)

 2  Old Balkan bloke erected mapmakers’ toilet (8)

 3  Outspoken Muslim gets cut off (5)

 4  Alloys of aluminium in magnesium and americium in arsenic (8)

 5  See 16 Across

 6  Turks once raised saying 'An end to Cyprus!' (8)

 8  Some Asians put one of these outside Afghanistan’s capital (5)

12 Greek island where Mike goes for sun in Douglas’s home (3)

14 When confused, can I start to ask one of the Kiwis, perhaps? (8)

15 Cartoonist grabbing artist’s upturned behind (8)

16 Firth’s progressive appearances in Tinker Tailor Spy  (3)

17 Gun seller and consumer (8)

19 Middle-aged half-Italians served up their ice creams (6)

20 Some chap - pygmy? (5)

22 Unbalanced report of New Zealand explorer's military takeover  (6)

23 Grassy place to carry out assassination? No, not I (5)