Across
1
Pay graduate £50, getting light fixture (8,5)
10
Live well in Cap d'Antibes, back in pleasant surrounding (7)
11
Defeat of king going around with authority (7)
12
Liquid waste, you heard, hard to be extracted from river (5)
13
Learn about officer with hurry to get fitter (9)
14
Field only half a top European team (5)
16
Wake when US students may have English or science? (9)
18
Given a stretch in gaol, need criminal to accept time (9)
19
Material that is found at the end of a sonnet? (5)
20
Got up and dressed (6,3)
23
According to Picaroon, for example, Spaniard's agreed (4,1)
24
Jewel you picked up in place you often go (7)
25
Very small amount of venom in a lizard (7)
26
Party member blamed for crime is suitable for gardening leave? (5-8)
Down
2
Stink over goal, bit dubious, forming part of score (9)
3
Idea which reappears with a lot of force in London (5)
4
Answer with irritation a character missing in EastEnders? (5)
5
Meat wife leaves potted or roasted (9)
6
Aunt swimming in bay, topless — and bottomless, too? (2,7)
7
Nurturing love, maybe pet one furry animal (5)
8
Argue deep Tory reforms will be old-fashioned still (13)
9
Wrong about gripping, entertaining book (13)
15
Painter is drinking gallons with energy to draw (9)
16
Synthetic material, red like fancy fur coats (9)
17
Speaker, losing head, dances naked: this causes irritation (9)
21
End up admitting reading is less well done (5)
22
Projection of scoreline showing victory by nine goals, almost (5)
23
Department store regularly invests millions upon millions (5)