Across
- 5. Reportedly muscle pain, American punishes the naughty (6)
- 11. Ms Thorn encloses jumbled lake dweller (4,4,7)
- 13. Horse to ruin con, messed up (7)
- 15. Creeping hosts include haunter (5)
- 20. Shapeshifter in flower, ewe returning (8)
- 22. Elusive creature in summer maiden (7)
- 23. Switch up AC, abracadabra! Contain blood-sucker (10)
- 24. Regrower another way, hardy (5)
- 25. Risen, confused, alarm! (5)
- 26. They have an arresting gaze. I hear their bloody wound is healed (6)
- 27. Abominable, despite myself (4)
Down
- 1. Rough up bigot of ape man (7)
- 2. Tip one three times excluding an hour, gives a stony glare (10)
- 3. Leech to improvise anger (7)
- 4. Baby holding one again, lost in Russian legend (4,4)
- 6. Nature spirit about stray (5)
- 7. Reptile encountered in basil is knee-high (8)
- 8. Batch I'm erasing, contains conglomeration (7)
- 9. American monster, pull over Cruella (6,5)
- 10. Find in hallucinogen, ie wishmaker (5)
- 12. Mammoth mangled in flying monster (7)
- 14. Half a horse? A penny to hear an alternative (7)
- 16. Dog twisted up, bus career cut short (8)
- 17. Great bird initially roosts on castle (3)
- 18. Lizard in old rag only (6)
- 19. Unhappy harvest mistake loses first relative death (4,6)
- 21. Wailer, ruined has-been (7)
- 24. A bird woman, a stringed instrument and a question (5)