2: Hit for designer Vera, reportedly (5)

5: Drink has little zip (7)

8: Child can be heard getting out of bed at dawn. (3, 2)

10: Happening on a par to first Thanksgiving (5)

13: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

14: Egad, a saw, run in reverse (5)

15: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

16: Makes a comment about trendy vice (5, 2)

18: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)

20: Heard about ark's leader taking census; just worthless (2-7)

22: Old-time Persian country radio stations? (5)

23: Lawyer keeps it short (5)

25: They occupy the space of many workers (7)

26: Remove a couple of statues before writing on some tombstones (5)

1: Delay American writer in South Dakota (7)

2: Gained a hearing (3)

3: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

4: Elizabeths dad to love flying set (5)

5: Mr. Upton dressed, one suit being just like any other? (2-5)

6: Disturbed intruder, pet disturbed. (11)

7: Transplanted tissue from, originally, George Raft (5)

9: Moist rice suprisingly a source of arousal. (9)

11: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

12: Conducts true incomplete search before Tuesday the 5th of August (9)

17: Nerve cells that could make nose run (7)

19: Craft, if employed in trade (7)

20: Its near the tradesmens entrance after dark (5)

21: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

23: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

24: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)