1: Woman politely restraining cad on pavement (7)
2: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)
3: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)
4: Weapons in a womans speech (11)
5: Later round without an opponent (3)
6: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)
7: Question prisoner and German spirit (9)
8: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)
12: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)
13: Teetotaler tipples, keeping awake (5)
15: Turn over extra-strange IRS filing (3,6)
16: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)
17: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)
19: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)
22: Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)
23: A couple upset after end of big cheese (5)
25: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)
26: You audibly ram partner (3)