Across
1
Very tailored cut-offs, a means of improving film star's look? (4,5)
6
Made contact material (4)
8
Red Star was consumed with passion (8)
9
Soft buttocks alongside? Ignore (4,2)
10
Noel possibly involved in extremely fishy crime (6)
11
They will bother runners? (8)
12
Secret police's unchanging state (6)
15
Elected to wear fancy stripes — not quite original (8)
16
Diamonds, together with collar, falling from the top (8)
19
Hard time of day is the most intense part (6)
21
Brothels in kingdom's housing capital (8)
22
Good looking but very absent, taking name instead — 'Forsaken' (6)
24
Prudence, the Nazi organisation's pet (6)
25
Scoffing oriental king is tucking into fish (8)
26
Go downhill and start to turn for take-off? (4)
27
'Duck includes some hot and cold starters' (reluctant kitchen aid) (9)
Down
1
Bird turned up covered with special foam (5)
2
Possibly, as a root system lies around our ground (7)
3
Boat makes blunder entering fishery boundaries (5)
4
Draw level with Nick on horseback (5,2)
5
Police officer amusing billionaires (5-4)
6
Rocky acts as if one's out to be a political authoritarian (7)
7
Any birth mishandled after onset of labour is a perplexity (9)
13
Brand new dart-maker (9)
14
Turned up, had a look round, rather puggish (4-5)
17
Show contempt for party that's split (7)
18
An appeal for honesty just before affairs (4,3)
20
Station escort guarding dramatist (7)
22
Fifty-one clubs accepting your texted words (5)
23
Right to replace meal centre's list (5)