1: Deplorable! Sad wife ugly every second (5)

4: Arranger of mere songs put in the shade (4,5)

8: Cavities from wrong practices (7)

10: Making a comeback in White Horse Inn, a musical heroine (5)

11: Gang has finished chasing one left alone (9)

12: One who takes after beggarman (5)

14: Settler-constructed bridge (7)

15: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

16: Evil twin and its dupes (7)

18: Christo redesigned Big Bird (7)

19: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)

20: Funny noises can rise from below (9)

22: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

24: Blank answer embodies Asians, briefly (7)

25: Lost one shekel in spaces under desks (9)

26: Run around near a stadium (5)

2: Support a deranged original (11)

3: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

4: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

5: Seek trail (2,5)

6: One may be a very long time (3)

7: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

8: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

9: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

13: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

17: Down under - thoroughly (2,5)

21: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

23: Fiction position (3)