Coffee Break Cryptic

20 December

Across

1 Ptrepared to caress philosopher (8)
5 Unexciting apartment (4)
8 Resident in Bangor seeing moorland growth (5)
9 It may be checked for drink and meat around midnight (7)
11 Substitute for bear at home (5,2)
12 Virgil's first language: poetry (5)
13 They accept skater in trouble (6)
15 Leave the vehicle burning (6)
18 Burst forth in another upturn (5)
20 Migrating heron is not far from the coast (7)
23 One of three allowed on journey (7)
24 Amusing American chap, we hear, serving mushrooms (5)
25 Direction taken in a Chelsea street (4)
26 Unothodox doctrine, with payment deferred (2,6)

Down

1 Wise men taking a long time on Sunday (5)
2 Fish seen by boat that may be multi-storey? (3,4)
3 Change people in commercial (5)
4 Making slow progress with border? (6)
6 A composer from Newcastle hardly ever seen (5)
7 Try to shield English member in violent storm (7)
10 A work of fiction by a Pole about love (5)
13 The fixed rate for a place of entertainment (7)
14 Alert wild animal (5)
16 Dog near ruins sounded unhappy (7)
17 Christopher takes up net for for small pet (6)
19 Tunis resort for singles? (5)
21 It's right under the settee - until now (2,3)
22 Some of the victims kick out (5)