8  Grand palace of the Arabic meat supporter (8)

 9  Henry Morgan hollowed out a large songbook (6)

10 Cook book about man and small butterflies (6)

11 He might shoot fellow following Spencer’s associate (8)

12 Young woman’s graduate papers (4)

13 Meetings make mum so pissy (10)

15 Dracula, in my poor remake, is concerned with 2 circulatory systems (15)

19 Fight liberal about Facebook’s obsolete hardware (5,5)

22 Cultivated area of affluent America (4)

23 When are schools out? Er...? (4-4)

25 Farrow’s mother generates unwholesome atmosphere (6)

26 Perhaps Mickey’s taken first of shaving foam (6)

27 Around fifth of November, invent a snack with scones (5,3)

 2  Distant sea is not wild (6)

 3  Deep things acknowledged at first via text message (6)

 4  Heated clash with spy boss (4)

 5  City where obsolete motors are buried, it’s said (8)

 6  It’s leaked out man is involved in racket on the rise (8)

 7  Middle-Eastern peace overture unfortunately rejected before noon (6)

14 Bits of metal occupy unusually large tool shed (5)

16 IMF draws up small condition (8)

17 Old king encountered queen; by this, resistance was assessed (8)

18 Bear in mind note on minimal requirement for club (8)

20 Outcry in America: centre-left supported by travellers’ uprising (6)

21 Parliamentarian caught in lie beginning to tremble, one clinging to rocky support (6)

22 Dream of Germany – a painful shock (6)

24 A lot’s left out of rotting ground cover (4)