1: War or piecemeal missile (5)
2: Dog of old opium-eater in novel (9,6)
3: Scale Ten after taxes (3)
4: These often go with crosses but they mean nothing really! (7)
5: Aspirant describing old road movies? (7)
6: Make southpaw north (5)
7: Heartland needed improved dimestore notions (6,3,6)
8: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)
12: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)
14: Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)
15: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)
18: Jenny adopted Bill (it's subject to change) (7)
19: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)
20: Number One in facetiousness (3)
21: Alternative part of course (5)
23: A fellow's legs may be protected by these (5)
24: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)
26: Equips for attacks (4)