6  Ward puts college before time (4)

 8  “Fully Grown”—Rhode Island gym (4)

10 Price exhausts leaderless wardrobe department (8)

11 Initiate legal proceedings without literature is nice to look at (4)

12 “Bring down, and after, left” (4)

14 Access by decapitating soldier standing guard (5)

17 Sheet wrinkled—not those (5)

20 Crockpot recipe moved with the sunset (4)

21 Performs parts of a play (4)

23 Rectified sins have evaporates (8)

24 Baby goats slip last to front (4)

25 Experience… release returns (4)

26 Finales following ready in French feigns (8)

 1  Takes legal action on second catching Sabathia’s hit (7)

 2   Long, narrow cut altered enumeration (4)

 3   State total (5)

 4  Cross over well-behaved indeed (5)

 5  Writes after love begins (5)

 7  Sister holding ring could be proper or possessive (4)

 9  I get older holding grand picture (5)

13 Provides outfits for speeches without commercial break (7)

15 Tango nerd danced latest craze (5)

16 Say, “Watch Step” (5)

17 Crank what’s first in it turned back with saint (5)

18 Loathe swallowing snake makes waste? (5)

19  Steam losing a part of a wine glass (4)

22 Rorschach inkblot held below the mouth (4)