1: Representatives from west coast ball club recruiting a woman manager - the first (9)
4: Whip stuff with energy (5)
7: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)
9: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)
10: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)
11: Tess spied wrinkled skirts (9)
12: Gingrich said Reagan should not be charged. (7)
13: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)
16: Dawdles aimlessly and walks funny (7)
17: Best work it out with mother (7)
18: Lineman circled South Carolina once, and settled down (9)
21: Small piece of fish (3)
23: Show off Mark's Mazda Miata, for one (6,3)
24: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)
25: Give in and offer up (5)
26: Run a piece peculiarly devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasures (9)