1: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

7: What this puzzle is (3)

8: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

9: Implement box for young cat (3)

11: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

12: Though run over again, MP hasn't died (5)

14: Lawman inside fires back, hits female (7)

15: Gets bastion rebuilt (7)

17: Screams Yes! around line 50 (5)

18: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

22: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

24: Child is to depart, finally (3)

25: Have bananas now (3)

26: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

1: Find, in ego trips, a confused lot of brilliant kids (6,9)

2: Dull nicks on a car, we hear (5)

3: Crazy ogre royal? I hear you! (5)

4: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

5: Frenzied recital piece (7)

6: Seat for conditions of foreign currency deals (5,2,8)

8: Heavy metal group X (4)

10: Idle talkers to go, with one final word about the vessel (7)

12: Tits are flying birds (7)

13: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

14: Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)

16: First cryptic?! I nail it! (7)

19: A prison in motion (5)

20: Choose to take the top off (3)

21: Made clear how in directions (5)

23: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)