1: A grim ball gown, uncomfortable in increasing temperature (6,7)
7: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)
9: Leave Carol, with little taste, spreading rumors (9)
11: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)
12: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)
13: Bury terror when its said to raise its ugly head (9)
15: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)
16: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)
17: Pests in a census? Distorted. (9)
21: Erin's heir is hardly content (5)
23: Carol keeps cool Austrian coin (9)
24: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)
25: Sluggish trainer takes part (5)
26: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)