8  English maiden followed by media is stately lady (7)

 9  Mate recalled setter's denial following arrest (3,2,2)

11 Bump about a splinter (4-3)

12 One who scoffs cereal covered in sherry, oddly (7)

13 Introduce pressure to buzzers to get electronic sounds (5)

14 Wire support to grip the bust (9)

16 Pain suppressant, one for a parentless child, given on purpose (9)

19 Tree-dwelling creature heading for arboreal parts rejected Oklahoma City (5)

21 Food manufacturer left diary hidden in cask (7)

23 Where one might find kipper, perhaps, that is being eaten by dog (3,4)

24 With bad stomach, cook's thrown up in demonstrations (7)

25 Outskirts of London around mid-sixteenth century, soak up book's setting (7)

26 After time, drunk provocative girl becomes a joke (5-7)

 1  Using vegetable in recess to give gratification (7)

 2  Plain drunken lushes needing energy boost (7)

 3  Dying to exist with abandon (4-5)

 4  Creeps defaced countryside boundaries (5)

 5  Care taken over frequently getting up in haste (7)

 6  Bearing on a vessel to corrode (3,4)

 7  With the Queen underneath, take her bra off and flirt (12)

10 With audacity, heading off very fast is stressful (5-7)

15 Privates find information on foreigner's European country (9)

17 Temptress cheered up, grabbing pal's behind (7)

18 Retreating soldiers of Indiana find good shelter (7)

19 Not one peacenik on the march that's found with joint (7)

20 Buff a china pot endlessly (7)

22 Tests egg-cosies so regularly failed (5)