1: Throw out faulty nib (3)

3: Attack raise with no return (3,4)

5: The time before the first woman (3)

7: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

10: Fragile one from England let out (7)

12: Catholic starts to raise awareness going into public defamation (7)

13: Pantomime character having to join forces around Lake Superior (9)

14: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

15: Firm rear end (5)

17: Recorder describes Mr. Quayle: a little crazy person, quick on his feet (3-6)

19: Grouper swimming to make new formation (7)

20: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

21: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

24: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

25: Denial referred to you and me and Al (7)

26: Anyway - no! (3)

1: Behind and down and out (3)

2: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

3: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

4: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

5: Having red nose, turned back (7)

6: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

8: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

9: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

10: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

11: I shall be sick! (3)

16: Otherwise angered by a fencers call (2,5)

18: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

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

23: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)