1: Big French cheese, Monsieur Parks, arrived earlier (9)
2: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)
3: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)
4: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)
5: Aspirant describing old road movies? (7)
6: Facing defeat on court record? (3,4)
7: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)
8: Looked over recording that included Sea Change (5)
12: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)
16: and 1-down Adherents defer if mistaken for birds (9,7)
18: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)
19: Essay writers essentially met back in apartment (7)
20: Catch up before old crooner talking blather (7)
21: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)
22: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)
26: Capture ten heading north (3)