1: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)
2: The time before the first woman (3)
3: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)
4: No one told sister (3)
5: Top card? Excellent! (3)
6: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)
7: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
8: Classic Australian theatre patrons shocked in Dee Why (4,5)
12: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)
13: Pattern upset clients (7)
14: Vet injured spine before court (7)
15: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)
16: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)
21: Reportedly scans orchestra section (5)
23: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)
24: Help found in Adelaide. (3)
25: Perform part of play (3)
26: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)