2: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

8: Pitchers were transported south (5)

9: Shoos stray housecats (6 3)

10: Listening to playwright's baloney (5)

11: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

12: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

13: A key passage (5)

15: Get rid of Tom for trip to North Pole (3,6)

17: UCLA urea tests involve internationally recognized scientists (9)

18: Sense of location, we hear (5)

19: Complain about the horse (3)

20: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

21: Tender translator of runes (5)

23: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

24: Short time for the Irish (5)

26: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

1: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

2: Nothing we have to pay (3)

3: Noted Methodist almost turned up here, not there (9)

4: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

5: Firm rear end (5)

6: In abundance, doing a bun dance (9)

7: Tide, for example, has to stop fellow (9)

9: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

13: Burial place of a Kennedy girl, not an Askew (9)

14: Traded partners for sprint ~ (5,4)

16: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

20: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

22: We turned up with endless Irish pitchers (5)

25: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)