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)