1: After Burton, the wild part of a person turns meek (5)
 4: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)
 6: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)
 9: Shining silver base (5)
 10: Seedy lawyer is short on rest, disturbed (7)
 11: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)
 13: Evidently, the French are mixing heavenly (9)
 14: Part turning two ways (5)
 16: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)
 17: Bilbo got misled about a necessary part (9)
 20: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)
 21: Grass present round container (7)
 23: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)
 24: Host seems clever, off and on (5)
 25: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)
 26: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)