2: Small piece of fish (3)
3: Relative clause ultimately adopted by the kind (5)
4: Place vermin's raised for new business venture (5-2)
5: Oblique demand for a new church (7)
6: No nuns die tormented by lewd insinuations. (9)
7: Pitchers were transported south (5)
8: Head of truly despicable fellow's horse (7)
9: A number seen having affair (9)
11: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)
14: Support caliph, ultimately; reflective quote is portentous (9)
16: Borderland has acting ruler (7)
18: Italian gentlemen's token or piece of silver (7)
19: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)
21: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)
23: Montana contract cut back (5)
26: Child is to depart, finally (3)