1: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

5: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

7: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

9: Country encircling one's country (9)

11: Ship sails with masts surrounded by doom (7)

12: Sounds like actor Stephen's a scavenger (7)

13: Hangs tough, concealing apprehension (5)

14: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

15: Individuals put skill into baked goods (7)

19: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

20: Pair are only a short distance from the dance (3-4)

21: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

23: Love sounded wrong for aunt and primate (5-4)

24: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

25: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

26: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

1: Richard Crag? (5)

2: Auto manufacturer meeting a lieutenant in 'The Ancient Mariner'? (3,4)

3: It's over, over, over, kept apart by past payment (7)

4: Turning back, Sid went in to astonish naturalists (7)

5: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

6: Dressing of malt and beans to make horse tender (9)

8: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

10: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)

13: A large bird or a large mammal that flies by Monica's sister (9)

16: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

17: For motivation we are led by a Demon and Frog. (7)

18: Ryes, gin, rum in shooter? (7)

19: Responds to a state with a royal bearing (7)

22: I had been at the front, and retired (5)