ACROSS
1 How to succeed? Tear about City with energy (6)
4 Throw together cheval à l'anglaise and tête de porc cordon
bleu (6,2)
9 Poison remedy involving hare's innards (6)
10 A request for help about best heat-resistant material (8)
11 Drug I'd found in present Santa distributed (14)
13 Enormous adult orang-utang decapitated, twitching (10)
14 Where to find fashionable society on the Fourth of June (4)
16 Inhale upper, maybe - not heroin (4)
18 Bush denial crackers? Crackers to go along with it? (6,4)
21 It's hot in restaurant - cool off once in car (6,3,5)
23 Camels, for example, look cunning (8)
24 Think almost ninety injured and dead (6)
25 One involved with Queen? Mel B, conceivably (5,3)
26 Earth? Level it! (6)
DOWN
1 Secretary of State runs reserve (4)
2 Official reveals my whopper! (7)
3 Aspirant could be biased (8)
5 Watching cycling, Serb breaks into applause (11)
6 It needs support around base and support on the outside! (6)
7 For example, wide court passage (7)
8 Verbal indication of what has been spread across decades (4,5)
12 E-café struggling with unlimited Internet access charge (8,3)
13 Manoeuvre past avoiding entrance charge? (9)
15 Fully reflective lens sustaining scratch with hard bits of metal (8)
17 Greek character is moronic lunatic (7)
19 Case of light ale drunk outside National Theatre by sailors (7)
20 Spilt glycerin, though not in the cloth (6)
22 Periodically organize current uprising (4)
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