Across
8
Stopped and taken into 17 (8)
9
Subject of article by author (5)
10
Avoid Peking, for example (4)
11
Illegal hash not a possibility for Irish club (10)
12
Brilliance leads to generating every new idea unusually speedily (6)
14
Farewell to an American featured in essay on a raconteur (8)
15
Bubbly MP's date is minted (7)
17
Keep like custard, it's said (7)
20
Spies holding writer disregarding Western standards (8)
22
Mild bit of bonking in e-book backfires (6)
23
Bad oil? Bargain first (10)
25
Delete periods of history before the end (5)
26
Dealing with a beating (6,2)
Down
1
Turn game off causing row (8)
2
Drink quickly and kiss (4)
3
Somehow assist stoppage (6)
4
Most innovative (and most nervous) (7)
5
Meticulously removing awful scum could give assurance (1,4,3)
7
Union Cameron angered heartily (6)
13
Compiler's perhaps felt irrelevant (10)
16
Work unit comes back in before time for tea (4,4)
19
Misery afflicted Danes boarding ship (7)
21
Tropical tree in the shrubbery (6)
22
Japanese train is shot (6)
24
Group not allowed to broadcast (4)