4  Haphazardly build northern city (6)

 8  Coffee is for these 100 failures (7)

 9  Boy caresses rear-facing chicken (7)

11 Author's drug-filled jellies delight heads of corporate enterprise (5,5)

12 Doubtful I'll fight for you initially (4)

13 Ancient stone tablet hidden in toothpaste laboratory (5)

14 Fleet commanders laid arms after skirmish (8)

16 An elegant picture: Fortified wine and limitless spirit! (8)

18 Behold! American with curly tail is appalling. (5)

20 Watch ripples in the water come around (4)

21 Troublingly deep in sect of leggy nuisances (10)

23 Drunk old Pole becomes Holy Roman Emperor (7)

24 Someone who took the long way back to Rome? (7)

25 Antelope must turn to stone, says Spooner (6)

26 Former partner is hanging around the French outcasts (6)

 1  Italian beauty is a ringer first (5)

 2  Old, British, fit, and filthy (7)

 3  Dope to tie the knot with Spanish girl, we hear (9)

 5  Loose relative blows top (5)

 6  More cheeky than usual by the edge of the dock (7)

 7  Unexpectedly yelled, "Fun!" in the required manner (9)

10 Unnecessarily complex but handy periodical about pest (9)

13 Writer of catchphrases for Wolverine captured by psychic (9)

15 More than one kiss happening in the big movie theater (9)

17 Look upwards during match for tropical bird (7)

19 Tool for eating some gluten's illegal! (7)

21 Ma bows on this device roughly 45 inches inside Colorado (5)

22 Odds these are not timeless episodes? (5)