5 down (5 words) indicates the change to be made to a number of clue answers before they will fit in the grid. The affected letters, as entered and in clue order, offer the denouement (perhaps disappointing as 5 down!).
ACROSS
1 Visa? Believe Queen, say, will provide it (6,4)
7 Instrument off-key? Not at first (4)
9 Biblical language used to frame order for booze (4-4)
10 Caravan driver, say, starts to run over lots of people! (6)
11 Intelligent book – agreed? (6)
12 Amount of money received for service in posts? Several such amounts, actually (8)
13 Conspiratorial activity piquing interest? (10)
15 Transport system – boat by side of Exe (4)
17 Safe arrival limits a large amount of concern (4)
19 Betray one working to secure wartime relic (6-4)
21 Clap blue movy that should be blameworthy (8)
23 Place in fashionable University already established (2,4)
24 Girl I’m backing to produce religious book (6)
25 I’m a girl mostly attracted to article about creatures (8)
26 Dance in heartless orgy (4)
27 Pleasing limits to decorative illumination (10)
DOWN
2 Barking or Reading’s river (3,6)
3 Boat? Dead right – on working on border (7)
4 Light nonsense upset church (5)
5 See preamble
6 The German operas suffice for heroic action (7-2)
7 Crime writer, male, encountered in Derby? (7)
8 Doctor’s after organised relaxation in the US (1,3,1)
14 Leader of group wanting a lusty Italy? (9)
16 Rewritten clue to ‘charged particle’, using clear parts of speech? (9)
18 I’ll have a job interrupting most of left-wing response (7)
20 Tangle of weed invading most of fundamental type of rice (7)
22 Join components of vegetable tin up? Quite the reverse (5)
23 Decoration here in France’s no good (5)
Solution
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