5/1D/25             God created Lucifer? They're the perfect couple. (1,5,4,2,6)

 9  See 21 Down

10 Hotel seen in the right light, only more so (7)

11 Countryman, one with Arabian sent back? No thanks. (5)

12 She gets drunk with gin, men getting involved (9)

13 Appeals in reserve, lack of time for poetic offence (12)

17 Copycat killer finally arrested by men as Poirot ordered (12)

20 I'm surprised about tiling being shattered - by this? (9)

22 Wind circles around (5)

23 One not appreciating where cinders may be? (7)

24/14       An electric fence at the deer farm - it's solely my responsibility (3,4,5,4)

25 See 5

26 Net fully unfurled in a graceful manner (8)

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 2  Look again at second-hand tyre when temperature's dropped (6)

 3  It makes things more bitter (i.e. acrid) if brewed (9)

 4  20 perhaps hallucinating on expired pickled olives (4,9)

 6  Mars - mankind's initial objective, NASA's third (5)

 7  Small racket clipped net on return, creating strains (8)

 8  I'm about to try, for example, filling leading male roles (4,4)

10 Fiery oriental dish devoured by office worker and other people (13)

14 See 24 Across

15 Chauvinistic one is taken in by improper joshing (8)

16 Written defence of a game - soldier has one (8)

18 Disappear, turning up in tent for cultured stuff? (6)

19 Illness crucial in being lucky (6)

21/9 Heroic woman, cheerless bird, some say (5,7)