8  Two of six mother birds moulted (5)

 9  Calling love to go out for a holiday (8)

11 Sound, reflecting inside the walls of loudspeakers, scratches (7)

12 Set clear boundaries of the complex (7)

13 Union Membership fee? (5)

15 Glittering bits of emerald and diamond fixed to metal hawk (9)

17 Clumsy people in plane drop one large, crushed fruit (9)

20 Nervous? Fasten seat belts! (5)

21 Black eagle flying across Indian cemetery’s entrance (7)

23 For starters, macho Cajun’s about to eat a slice of Tibetan deer (7)

25 A ram slid, hurt butterflies (8)

26 Follower of old Iranian prophet is back in European city (5)

27 Best instruction that may be given to a casino bouncer, say (3,3,6,2)

 1  Participant in a kids’ swimming competition gets seven stars (6,6)

 2  Cassius Clay, for example, - would The Greatest present him like this? (5)

 3  Dirty, shy, nomadic, crude man of science (15)

 4  Come again? Are you Spooner? (7)

 5  Grubby person who accepts a pledge article (7)

 6  Hot subject’s revised plotting is yet to be finalised (2,3,7,3)

 7  It’s designed to be a fast attack vehicle (1-4)

10 Fervently wish boss invites daughter for a rag (12)

14 Got money from the East (3)

16 Straight river, mostly flowing north (3)

18 Tool to hire and fire (7)

19 Cornering a vessel, enemy virtually charged as one (2,5)

22 Invest every nickel and dime, chiefly on Euro’s 50% recovery (5)

24 Trickster kicks out fraud member of the legal system (5)