| AVERYANCIENT | Silly Myleene Klass thrived - financial red herring? How it stinks (The 27) (1,4,7,3,4-4,5) |
| PILCHARD | Returning lip to Charlie isn't easy, as it could be a sort of red herring? (8) |
| ITO | "How was ___ know that was a red herring?!" (***) |
| REEMPLOYS | Takes advantage again of lough tip for maintaining red herrings? (2-7) |
| SUPPLIES | Makes available to drink with port and red herrings? (8) |
| GREATYARMOUTH | Resort town in Norfolk that is the birthplace of singer Myleene Klass (5,8) |
| LEGEND | Title won by Myleene Klass in 2023: I'm A Celeb ___ (6) |
| CLASSIC | _____ FM, radio station whose presenters include Myleene Klass and Alexander Armstrong (7) |
| MEEKLY | No NE lass, Myleene Klass is angry with submission (6) |
| SEWAGE | What people get paid in the Home Counties? It stinks! (6) |
| ONE | 2000 compilation album of The Beatles (and chart number reached by each of the 27 singles featured on the album) |
| UMBRIEL | One of the 27 known moons of Uranus named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare or |
| EURO | Currency used by 20 of the 27 members of the EU (4) |
| THENAGAIN | On the other hand, the 27 gets a home (4,5) |
| COMETH | Advances of old star? How it hurts to be rebuffed! (6) |
| PARTRIDGE | Grey -; gathering on the ground in a covey, a farmland game bird that thrived on the Western Front in no-man's-land during the First World War (9) |
| ROTTENEGG | It stinks to be the last one in? (6,3) |
| MANICHAEANISM | One of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia, that thrived between the third and seventh centuries |
| MUD | When my name is given to such a pack, it stinks (3) |
| CHARLES | 22 of the 27 15 compiled herbals in Savoy (7,7) |