4  _____ Fire, indie band from Montreal, Canada (6)

 7  The surname of Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke's characters, Wayne and Waynetta (4)

 8  The cryogenically frozen central character from Futurama (3)

 9  Position in rugby notably held by Martin Johnson and Bill Beaumont, for example (4)

10 A chinese plum tree or genus of small dinosaurs (3)

11 Informally, a thick slice of bread (8)

13/27       Medium-sized game bird of the pheasant family (9)

14 The ____, Dostoevsky's novel about the eponymous saintly Prince Myshkin  (5)

17 Flowering plant with edible green seed pods, also known as 'lady's fingers' (4)

19 Actor whose name is usually preceded by the initial R, except in his breakthrough role in Full Metal Jacket (3,5)

21 Star of Cold Mountain and Contagion, Jude __  (3)

22 Robin ___, late Labour MP who resigned as Leader of the House over the war in Iraq (4)

23 A serve in tennis in which no contact is made with the ball by the opposing player (3)

25 American jazz guitarist, Joe ___ (4)

26 Author of Cider with Rosie, _____ Lee (6)

27 See 13

 1  Stringed instrument tuned in the same intervals as the viola, but an octave lower (5)

 2  Large wooden poles, tossed in Highland Games (6)

 3  The start of a game of ice hockey, face __ (3)

 4  In mathematics, a straight line always approaching by never meeting a curve (9)

 5  Civil and religious leader of a Muslim state, seen as a successor of Mohammed (6)

 6  Interior design, such as Rococo, say (5)

12 A non-technical term for a tsunami (5,4)

15 George Bush Jr's middle name (6)

16 A three-legged alien machine from the novels by John Christopher and the 1980s BBC TV adaptation (6)

18 The currency of Sweden and Iceland (5)

20 To follow as a consequence (5)

24 Organ denoted by the prefix 'auri-' (3)