Across
1
Gets sex in centre wearing pair of smalls (6)
5
Look around the empty place (6)
8
Director from Italy collapsed first (7)
9
Tramp working to fill-in for top person (7)
11
Growing business? Good – get firm, initially lost, to enter promotion (6,9)
12
Woman did lie about duke (4)
13
Firm with smoking gun? Fit with a silencer? (10)
17
Better talk after email is hacked (10)
18
Bowl over with star catching last from mid-wicket (4)
20
Unknown state of steel that’s wearing at front (15)
23
Pulling through idle chat in middle of night, grabbing number (7)
24
Docking fee from price in the end after beer turns in barrel (7)
26
Arm-twisting? Getting robe over uniform (6)
Down
2
Romantic couple not excited: back to being boring through trip (9)
3
One sacks Republican adviser on right (6)
4
Wife-swap and make love with Romeo – one goes both ways (5,4)
5
Tree-hugger from left to disagree having ignored leader (5)
7
One husband not in short swimming trunks (5)
8
Mad at flat décor ultimately concealed by Prime Minister: reason close allies lost respect? (11,6,8)
10
Drunk intended to grab woman’s bottom: big deal? (4,7)
14
Found holes in up-ended can: opened with sharp tool (9)
15
Beats virus: a lot suffering (9)
16
One might be scrambling with bride getting kit off (4,4)
19
Race and Archie’s skin linked with King Charles and Queen (6)
21
Supporter to wear yellow (5)
22
Blows a fuse as resistance fades (5)