Solution to the THC # 9008

Across

 1 It brings warmth to the home by burning … wood; note location (9) FIREPLACE {Double meaning}

 5 Bone of flightless bird found in France (5) FEMUR {f (emu) r}

 8 Follow the breeze that helps the flier on course (8) TAILWIND {Double meaning}

 9 Revive something unpleasant that a quiet guard messed up (4,2) DRAG UP {quiet = P + GUARD}

11 Handbill that a lifer distributed (5) FLIER {LIFER}

12 A decent leg break can be disregarded (9) NEGLECTED {DECENT LEG}

13 Quit the computer programme with a record below par (3,3) LOG OFF {Double meaning}

14 A short joke on the monorail? (3-5) ONE-LINER {double meaning}

16 One’s time wasted by interval in music (8) SEMITONE {ONE'S TIME}

18 Lizard from Antigua runs wild, losing time (6) IGUANA {Antigua - t}

22 Disfigured man died, hiding shape (9) MALFORMED {MALE + DD + FORM}

23 Temporary peace is real around beginning of Christmas (5) TRUCE {Tru (c) e}

24 Being beaten is accepted by Carlos in good humour (6) LOSING {Car (los in g) ood}

25 What is the satellite doing or, alternatively, chewing up? (8) ORBITING {or + biting}

26 Depend on pocketing a soft response (5) REPLY {Re (p) ly}

27 Boy, Delhi University grad, gathers a protective group (9) BODYGUARD {boy + DU + grad}

Down

 1 Two notes, nearly complete, could be deadly (7) FATEFUL {nearly complete = full - l = FUL + FATE}

 2 A fence is complaining bitterly (7) RAILING {bitterly complaining = R + AILING = a fence}

 3 The capacity of a lawyer to get the legal authority to act for another (5,2,8) POWER OF ATTORNEY {Double meaning}

 4 Canvas roof seen in the dawn in gloomy weather (6) AWNING {d (awn in g )loomy}

 5 Flash in the sky had Lord Ken fighting for a spell (6,9) FORKED LIGHTNING {Lord Ken fighting}

 6 Explosive power of an atom, e.g. nitrogen, splitting (7) MEGATON {ATOM EG N}

 7 One who attacks, carrying power, is more quick (7) RAPIDER {Raider + P (power)}

10 Pain that went with ecstasy in Irving Stone’s work (5) AGONY {Direct}

15 ”How long shall mine — be exalted over me?” (Psalm 13) (5) ENEMY {Direct}

16 Some embroidery, quite enough in extremes of summer (7) SAMPLER {quite enough = AMPLE, extremes of summer = S R => AMPLE in S R}

17 Feeble youth who bleeds over work (7) MILKSOP {bleeds = milks, work = op (as in operation)}

19 Chemical found in animal analysis, including uranium (7) ALUMINA {animal + U (uranium)}

20 Archdeacon, though outwardly old, evened the score (7) A VEN GED {Old = aged, archdeacon = Ven. (as in venerable)}

21 Fuss over a socialist, greatly admired (6) ADO RED {Fuss = Ado, socialist = red}