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1d. Fish entered highly explosive cover
HIDE

25a. Determining the order of most of the dancing in middle of night
SEQUENCING

27a. Oddly poor environment for popular picture
PHOTO

Parses for the above please.

1. ID is a fish (in crossword land at least) in HE (short for high explosive). ‘Highly’ is a bit of a stretch.
27. HOT (popular) in PO (oddly poor)

Thanks again...I thought the fish was IDE, which is what threw me. Thanks again.

25 sequenc(e) dancing, in is in clue, g is middle of night.

Thanks rusty.

3d. Telephone message is unmanned,we hear
VOICE

12a. Retailers' sales pitch
SHOPPING CENTRE

13d. Very clever person packed underwear item?
BRAINBOX

19a. Neighbour coming round for instrument
TUBA

Parses for the above please.

3 ?

12 "pitch" as in "site" rather than "spiel"?

13 BRA IN BOX

19 ABUT (neighbour) backwards

Thanks chrise.
That 3 clue is doing my head in.

I suppose the message would be "voicemail", and "unmanned" would be without the "mail/male", but the definition, "we hear" would then have to be doing double duty. A bit of a mess of a clue if that's right!

Thanks chrisE.