Cryptic #20 - by Symptomatic

NB: the squares in blue are ignored by their respective clues' wordplay.

Across 1 2 3 4 5 6

5 Victorian town 7 8
market, perhaps
(4) 9

7 Greek recipe 10 11
written
incorrectly - 12

missing its first 13 14

letter (4)
8/5DBeer and tarts
spilled by the 15 16 17
base of a natural
log outside
Brandenburg
18 19 20
Gate (5-6)
10 Appear to
succeed (6) 21 22 23
11 Nullified
rejection of study 24

- took issue (7) 25 26

13 God of Norse
and Roman 27

origins (5)
14 Partly caught up
in huge outbreak
(8) 25 Spanish 6 Probability of an each other,
15 One joining three gentleman rose, event, such as a showing tongue
excited (5) student getting (8)
poles to bars (4)
26 Oppose Western initial insurance 19 Oldest Maori
16 Jack and Oliver cover (10)
opinion (4) pesticide in use
are drunk (5)
27 Hazing ritual 9 Constant, (6)
17 Ice to travel relentless, off-
involves much 20 A way to strike
downstream limits (4)
courage (4) antimony around
noisily (4)
12 Drunk as a Taunton (4)
18 Queen, in Down snake? (7) 23 Amphibian and
stadium, with 1 Two articles 13 Symptomatic is whale head
inside-out about one place at the head of caught in
leggings and in Greece (4) revelling fisherman's load
protective
2 Great drama with congregation (4)
clothing (8)
nudism somewhere in 24 Spin a yarn? (3)
20 Injury to top of occasionally Iceland (10)
spinal column for causes arguments 16 Yes, German
poor lad (5) (8) paleo nuts can be
21 Freight company 3 Long for cash (3) spicy to the taste
behind ticket (8)
failures (4-3) 4 Hustle a heartless
superstar (8) 17 Famous nanny
22 Waiter puts fish and famous
by onion peel (6) 5 See 8 Across
singer facing

Symptomatic