5  Catch a coin that isn't worth much (6)

 8  Brown designed inn on Cam (8)

 9  Googled regularly for "type of fish for aquarium"? (4)

10 Somewhat indelicate source of exotic food (4)

11 Students could become money-makers by going topless (8)

13 Spicy root that grows primarily in centre of Nigeria (6)

16 Colour of chopped livers (6)

18 Make a mess of southern dish (8)

21 Lady Jane's horse? (4)

23 Choice fruit retrieved in corner by good boy (or so he says) (4)

24 Fuel that's cleaner, firm and pale in the middle (8)

25 Old variety of fruit (6)

26 Like a coward, give loud shout of pain (6)

 2  Whisper strange ideas (5)

 3  Noises from pen when starting oblique writing (7)

 4  Being more quick-thinking, run after doctor trapped in African river (7)

 5  Against song ending with a dance (5)

 6  Perhaps all great Asian nations started heathen? (5)

 7  Blow up General Assembly (7)

12 French king's interest (3)

14 He might spike one politician's beer and run (7)

15 Tuck into some meatballs (3)

16 Such bacon is variable in quality (7)

17 Natural logarithm I'll calculate truncating by two thirds (7)

19 A head of department with little time for business management (5)

20 Long time before getting facial hair (5)

22 Time to muse (5)