1 Trolley acts up at a time when subjected to friction (8)

5 Warrior positioned as rearguard to the empire (6)

9 The Spanish paddle together in a sprightly way (5)

10 Dame bathes in sauna to an annoying extent (2,7)

11 Rational bend I took inside to get depressed (9)

12 Coming from below, inched up to get a hoist (5)

13 Arrogant pen filled with a kilo the wrong way (6)

14 Half a dozen thumris unsilently, played in course of the lesser liberal arts (7)

17 Total shit spread across the narrow bridge (7)

19 Pots morph into songs using bits of Electronic Arts (6)

21 Addendum to commercial domain to get machines informally (5)

23 Princesses inherit position and break up (9)

24 A disgusting hotel full of porn is attractive for some and repulsive for others (5,4)

25 Toiled away alone to find the hoard (5)

26 Meditative cult followed by girl, reportedly, in women's quarters (6)

27 Incur unnecessary repercussions to make the brew (8)

1 Exclaim in indignation for planting maple as emblem (6)

2 Deplorably fattens you in archaic fashion for backup (9)

3 Tempt lonely censors catastrophically to cause unfortunate incident (11)

4 Deliberately going without betel nuts but with alacrity (7)

6 Dress up propagandist using irrational numbers with a point (5)

7 The voyeur put a finger on the little fellow (3,5)

8 In time the speciality of doctor is determined (6)

12 Snowy nerve tissue? (5,6)

15 Oil paintings not showing mountain are the driving forces (9)

16 Rajnikanth may actually be able to manoeuvre this quite stylishly, but with sidepieces!! (5-3)

18 Position obtained by standardising vociferous gangster (4-2)

19 Troubles companions about the way (7)

20 "Hey, presto!" ejaculated the under-cover agent on memo being referred to formally (6)

22 Jerk the satellite took in Russia (5)