Coffee Break Cryptic

2 July

Across

1 Direction for traffic remaining behind castle (4,4)
5 Facile and insincere and taking liberties? Not entirely (4)
8 No end for reluctant states (5)
9 Pariah not at home with actors (7)
11 A symbol of authority must involve respect (7)
12 Lee is unusual name for girl (5)
13 What's left of property? (6)
15 Commanding officer entertained by one clergyman or another (6)
18 Fire that's hot inside cabin (5)
20 Record about American sailor providing ingredient for pie? (7)
23 We heard vowel sounds (3,3,1)
24 Stone outside good school (5)
25 Profound philosopher's first seen by river (4)
26 Some politicians were definitely acknowledged (8)

Down

1 Poet providing king with grub (5)
2 Mountain enshrouded in severe storm (7)
3 We may hear lean composer (5)
4 Female cow? Buttercup, for example (6)
6 Plenty of boys retaining nothing (5)
7 Please German sailors with bird (7)
10 Subject of article by yours truly (5)
13 Some colleges say education is attempted (7)
14 Nominal figure about right (5)
16 One expecting payment for warhorse? (7)
17 Armed conflict I observed in part of London (6)
19 A clipped English accent (5)
21 Small team for prison guard (5)
22 Uninteresting commercial for nymph (5)