1: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

8: Love on night shift (7)

10: From memory, next to courage (2,5)

11: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

12: Sissy's fabric cleaner suggested by the Rev. Spooner (7)

13: Fool to join recital (3)

14: Swine met end, tied and dyed (9)

17: Creates nucleotide sequences, written about time after time (9)

18: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

20: Dinner trousers get sodden at drinks. (4)

23: Powerless to move, as shiner tremendously shows (5)

24: Dieter's cooking changes again (7)

25: Heroin's prepared approaching land (7)

26: Bugler to stand playing in fields of war (13)

1: Silver cap for crewless name (7)

2: An unthinking person for the most part, relative eats red fruit (9)

3: Cabaret, nearly empty, takes prize (9)

4: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

5: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

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

7: Apartment behind English school reflective place to write (7)

9: Asian river ordeal; it's upset manufacturer (13)

15: Leave Carol, with little taste, spreading rumors (9)

16: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

17: Woody is to eviscerate Human Resources, that is (7)

19: Continual wind up by the French shortstop (7)

21: Acid destroyed brace (5)

22: Uneven ships cable made from hemp (5)