1: Top teams try VISA out (7)

5: Huge, brave lion (3,4)

8: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

9: Road without a pole (4)

10: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

11: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

12: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

13: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

15: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

17: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

18: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

22: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

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

24: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

25: That woman has articles put in case (7)

26: Scared, pay to cover up dent (7)

1: Poison with spite (5)

2: Correcty confused city ref (7)

3: Unable to act, I cast 'Rent' (5)

4: Pulls Americans (5)

5: Lots of risk in deal with lawyer (9)

6: Chap securing pad or new sponsor (9)

7: Former husbands surrounding prettier performers (9)

10: Point back to itself. (5)

12: ABC mascot collapsed tunnels (9)

13: Stateside bananas: most like a rock (9)

14: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

16: Gather together for a church service. (5)

17: I hear idle, I see peaceful and happy (7)

19: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

20: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

21: Lustful inside, eager and young (5)