4  For feminine sex appeal, clean up (6)

 9  Stone heart of crook's accomplice (4)

10 Charlie, for example, to hold back Mark (10)

11 Reason I have to attend test (6)

12 It's not totally legal - I sneer about method of preserving food (8)

13 Words to express the magic of the osprey in flight (3,6)

15 Sprinter to run like lightning (4)

16 Agitates ardent admirers (4)

17 According to Spooner, nose of dog is so long (6-3)

21 Depict former Vice-President, with finale too soon for one audience member (8)

22 Say "You look a state" (6)

24 Embarrassing own goal: dip in a place where only paddling is allowed (6,4)

25 TV cook nearly makes high quality food here (4)

26 Allows 4s (6)

27 Understood to be naked in one's own house (2,4)

 1  Politician's collected wisdom appearing after I beg piteously (7)

 2  Overwhelmed by evil little hairlike growths (5)

 3  Sunbathe on vacation by Greek island's harbour (7)

 5  Quiet drink at first is profligate (6)

 6  Free to go and redistribute loot of mobster, oddly abandoned (9)

 7  Queen's duty is broadcast this evening (7)

 8  Lounge in area suitable for making mobile calls? (9,4)

14 Miserly pound foolish swine hoarding yen (5,4)

16 Following colleague around a cemetery initially results in misconception (7)

18 Man's jacket is found in the middle of abattoir (7)

19 I lunged indecently to gratify a desire (7)

20 Party the head of the BBC and journalist avoided (6)

23 I love following topless Norwegian Queen, making accompanying sounds (5)