4  Poor people, not posh, in rags (6)

 8  Politician covered in melted sugar - this is at home in the main (7)

10 Social worker from the tropics in a room with books about young artists, primarily (4,3)

11 Time, after loss of one shilling, to restore confidence of royal bursar (9)

12 Come in for peanuts and beer regularly (5)

13 Soldier types, leaders of legion, combat American terror, not half (7,6)

15 At home, against team with class, being rash (13)

20 Scientist used to catch fish, I hear (5)

22 Accepting eccentric Cambridge head of department’s leaving for Norway (9)

23 Worker followed usher to see show (7)

24 I'm a student put in detention by a new school's principal with 8, 10 across and 2, say (7)

25 Yours truly in the outskirts of Liverpool, unknown and friendless (6)

26 Bird enveloped by cheers, following a Greek goddess (6)

 1  Drunk son in stockings (6)

 2  Clone me a moving clothes horse, a creature that changes colour (9)

 3  I'm out of date - that's the difficulty (7)

 5  I'm not so much after the best as without direction (7)

 6  Correct former legislation (5)

 7  Gas giant, having a spell of dizziness, under narcosis, finally (6)

 9  Large feast on blanket or table (11)

10 Asserting such a thing may do the trick! (11)

14 Throw ice at T-rex and get out (9)

16 General beginning to look after Queen in cricket ground (7)

17 One who accepts things as they are on a record (7)

18 Crack and ecstasy left in a place of worship (6)

19 Discovered in part of college: static discharge (6)

21 Terrible groan coming from the larynx, perhaps (5)