5  Back up representative - it's a cause of inflation (4)

 9  Hit buffers - multiple snubs result (7)

10 A profit - not for the first time (5)

11 Heartlessly ready to be manipulated, he changes colour (4)

12 Song, say, in backward African country (7)

14 One who is cruel has no hesitation in forcing disaster (6)

16 She may be found in Grays and Rayleigh (6)

19 Say "it's fast" (7)

21 Shot? Shot! Nonsense! (4)

24 Amin books a nitwit (5)

25 Constant outfit (7)

26 At the outset Kelvin easily got some barrels (4)

27 Lets out, and lets out again (8)

 1   Tractor mostly comes back for wagon (4)

 2  Avuncular term for one's son (2,3)

 3  Tells how scholars may be arranged (7)

 4  Ending? Not starting! It's getting less strenuous (6)

 6  Not ventilated, and not shown (7)

 7  Police vehicle drivers turn up on the borders of Panama (5,3)

 8  Fringe report (4)

13 Star skater is confused (8)

15 Lowering beef fat when recipe is mislaid (7)

17 With one leg each side of the bike, I stared gormlessly (7)

18 Animal you and the setter accept without proof (6)

20 Food evenly fed as test (4)

22 Grasses up retailers (5)

23 Prophet hiding in Syria mostly (4)