1: Weapons to attack BS, involving way with words (11)

5: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

7: Prepare too much for apparent downpour (9)

10: Essentially, what boy is wearing (3,2)

11: Smaller golfer (7)

12: Strangely, Salerno is a city in France (7)

13: Left behind? Shiver violently and wither (7)

14: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

15: Skill is extremely tangible for a performer (7)

18: I'm great novel detective (7)

20: Stare at severe blemish (7)

21: Small item showing what poodle parlor may do (7)

23: Mother is outside with Muslim priests (5)

24: Local bounder flooded field, say, producing fruit (9)

25: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

26: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

1: British Petroleum dispute (5)

2: Love nest a real sign of being pretty easy (3-4)

3: Disparage report (7)

4: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

5: Make milder ground sausage (7)

6: ...implies it hasn't changed (5,2)

8: See its violent broadcast? (10,3)

9: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

15: Some steamer I caught for Columbia (7)

16: Gee, Etna exploding can't be more than twenty years old (7)

17: Bad example or examples (7)

18: Monday spent in thought (5)

19: Sickens up, reels with disgust (7)

22: Rule for finding direction between-times? (5)