4  It's a puzzle. Jack, originally, was going around with one girl earlier (6)

 9  Curse, finish off spirit with ax ultimately (4)

10 Reviewing about revenue mostly left inside (10)

11 Immortal three in ermine coat (6)

12 Home, a middle easterner has, on the French type of soil (8)

13 Spooner says sweetheart pesters for ballroom dances (5,4)

15 Satisfaction from power trip (5)

16 Some manic rowdy spectators (5)

18 Cat zoning out became conscious (9)

21 Slam worthless patchy horse (4,4)

22 Revolutionary track car race demonstrates 'the Spirit of the East' (6)

24 Praise site made for a cake shop (10)

25 A couple of questions - Life expectancy, by all conclusions, is a little lower in Scotland? (4)

26 Beat and add egg at first to the mixture instead of margarine essentially (6)

27 Well, nothing heard anew (2,4)

 1  Second hiatus arranged for a spa treatment (7)

 2  Relax! Become more lenient (5)

 3  Taking top off, let her dance to a number (5)

 5  Sort of, at home, elsewhere (2,1,3)

 6  The man in a red suit is on a voyage, so we hear, to a Californian city (5,4)

 7  Contrived and rounded up cattle right away (7)

 8  Success from surfing coolly (6,7)

14 N-bound publication (9)

17 Run! Nasty bar hub altercation (7)

19 Mean kind of weapons (7)

20 In actuality, Sensei went to pieces (2,4)

22 The one Beth follows, brew noodle soup, without onions, for starters (5)

23 Game played with mallets in Cairo, Queensland (5)