1: Satire will become popular (4-3)
4: Shell compensate for loss in certain risky starts (7)
7: Cryptic constructor, perhaps, dims somehow in value (9)
10: Actress Myrna taking call nearby (7)
11: Beethoven's first love - sculptor or composer (7)
13: Behind and down and out (3)
14: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)
16: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)
17: Abridged fibre project (3)
18: Contrarily leave closet for result (7)
19: Left out cheese for parasites (7)
22: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)
24: Liqueur prices let loose (6,3)
25: Body of bounder having to swear (7)
26: Giant star, a Newton, gets allowances (7)