Across
1 Stop copper, a good sort (3,3) CUT OFF4 Alarm! Oil running out, here in Texas (8) AMARILLO
9 Mysterious, first half of Cats penned by composer (6) ARCANE
10 Note a pal changed with no effort (2,1,5) ON A PLATE
12 Girl volunteers to cage first of hound dogs (5,8) IRISH TERRIERS
14 Article located in ruins? That's hearsay (9) ANECDOTAL
16 Painter from eastern state (5) ERNST
17 Colonel knocked back a litre in nearby pub (5) LOCAL
19 This could be best fare (including duck) (5,4) ROAST BEEF
21 One who exposes referee? (7-6) WHISTLE-BLOWER
24 I tell lies about one from Jersey, perhaps (8) ISLANDER
25 I rowed angrily with a strange person (6) WEIRDO
26 Ninety, possibly, round centre of Naples, and teeming (2,6) IN PLENTY
27 Paper is written after the end of Michaelmas (6) THESIS
Down
1 Generous daily, albeit misguidedly (10) CHARITABLE
2 Pleasant to touch, climbing cat I let out (7) TACTILE
3 Fine island bird (5) FINCH
5 Drink fizzy wine and rare malt (7,5) MINERAL WATER
6 Mean about gift (9) REPRESENT
7 I suffer over boy's affair (7) LIAISON
8 Frank, old writer (4) OPEN
11 Withdraw, exhausted, to a sanctuary (4,1,7) BEAT A RETREAT
13 Where teachers may be, in form fatso's vandalised (10) STAFFROOM
15 Flirting, daughter before marriage (9) DALLIANCE
18 Female creature's sitting on border flower (7) COWSLIP
20 Yachtswoman Tracy saw red, drifting round close to dockyard (7) EDWARDS
22 Doctor about to inject into raised part of foot (5) LEECH
23 Sister's short skirt (4)MINI
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