1: Sailors with thin skins are cinematic celebrities (4 5)

6: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

9: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

10: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

11: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

13: Black-out unhinged LuAnn (5)

14: Conductor taking opera to Northern Ireland twice (9)

16: Reproduce lost ace report (9)

19: Face-off stopped and relieved the pressure (5)

20: Point both ways (5)

21: 24-across bird and a waterbird heard cage bird (9)

23: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

25: Saw palm down (5)

26: Smear record colour - that one (9)

2: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

3: At first, Sonny and Cher having bizarre duel with one providing slots? (9)

4: Arouse interest in Scripture verses after a time (7)

5: Carries small cup and helps out (7)

6: Grant loud colour (3)

7: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

8: Sailors used to rely on this condensation collected in column at edge of deck (5,4)

9: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

12: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

13: Man spread out what sometimes separates father from son? (9)

15: Great conqueror or ragtime bandleader (9)

17: Blamed and nailed copper, scam's leader on the inside (7)

18: They come with corsets sometimes (7)

22: Fiction position (3)

23: Abridged fibre project (3)

24: Road without a pole (4)