| COHERENT | It's #26-1 without sections (8) |
| LONDON | Players 1 without 8? (6,8,9) |
| RELAPSE | Soldiers by lake take off without section and fall back |
| ZONE | Area = 26/26 + 1 (4) |
| DATES | 15/8/2023 and 26/1/2023, e.g. |
| BITBYBIT | 0 x 1 - so gradually 5 became 12, 22 26, 1 down 3, or 19 21 (3,2,3) |
| ALAN | Singer Jackson with 26 #1 country hits |
| ATEAM | Elite group worried by a key figure in 26 (1-4) |
| OTISREDDING | American soul singer who died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, was released |
| OMELETTE | You can't make one without breaking eggs (8) |
| DUMBBELL | A boxer may use one - without the ring? (8) |
| CRACKERS | They hit one without any reason (8) |
| FATALIST | Weighty celebrities and one without hope (8) |
| MAHARANI | Queen mother managed one without slightest sound of laughter (8) |
| COMMONER | I'm amazed, screening 2001 or one without a title (8) |
| CASTRATO | Terminally allergic American returning more than one dessert with coconut centre for one without nuts (8) |
| EVICTION | Such an order may leave one without a home to go to (8) |
| FRUITION | French film for all the family, one without sex getting close to completion (8) |
| MEATHEAD | One without good judgment volunteers to bury explosive in grassland |
| TACONITE | Rock and jazz fan rejected, one without sex appeal |
