2: Seasoning for lark (5)

4: Savage welcomes United Nations' interment (7)

7: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

8: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

11: Everything, including meat, in stew is nutritious (9)

13: The instruction for derelicts is inclusive (5)

14: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

15: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

17: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

18: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

20: Shakespeare character speaking overhead (5)

21: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

22: 7-down relic? (6,5)

24: A representative may be a scamp (3)

25: Loathes key English exams (7)

26: The ultimate in tepee doctrine (5)

1: Great conqueror or ragtime bandleader (9)

2: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

3: French scientist tears up plays (7)

4: What this puzzle is (3)

5: So disgusting no-one takes part? (7)

6: Film relay got mixed up (5)

9: Note: it's holding back army base's updates (9)

10: Asian river ordeal; it's upset manufacturer (13)

12: By no means the cleverest, anyway (9)

16: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

18: Midwestern city lost its soul (2,5)

19: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

20: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

23: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)