1: Guided into the West (2,3)
5: Its cold! Hurry up and ground it ... (5,2)
8: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)
9: By no means the cleverest, anyway (9)
11: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)
12: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)
14: Rambling tales are out of date (5)
16: Reportedly cruises the internet for laborers (5)
17: Gore locked in little boy's room (5)
18: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)
19: Chatter about some pay-back (3)
21: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)
24: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)
25: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)
26: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)