4  Ball and socket in place (3,5)

 8  Situation creating car noise (8)

 9  Throw up beginning travel on ship (4)

10 Feeling weak in loud bar (5)

11 Hesitate after a couple of pints in house (7)

13 Doctor was not ... a doctor? (6)

15 Is in reality changing its sex (6)

18 A little sewer rat I chased all over the place (7)

20 Thin slice is all but keeping hot (5)

23 Noise heard again from City house (4)

24 Digital agreement (6,2)

25 Return attention (8)

26 Adds small children (4)

 2  Suffer at home with dog (5)

 3  Pulses fast before I start to land safely (7)

 4  Pay attention to the front of Horatio's boat (4)

 5  One makes record up, somehow (8)

 6  Animal not terribly entertaining (5)

 7  Need a hankie, you say? Easy (2,5)

10 A small number opening Friday every week (3)

12 Engineer to open it reaching up? (2,6)

14 Day in a prison for Nigerian, say (7)

16 Soon getting front of house to occupy (7)

17 Visit Canterbury? (3)

19 Sailor due money, we hear, from home (5)

21 Safe jump (5)

22 Channel avoided on the radio (4)