For ease of producing this solution I have numbered the crossword and clues conventionally.
| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 7 | EXPLOIT | |
| Take advantage of scheme mostly used in evacuation (7) | (PLO)t inside EXIT | |
| 8 | GRANDEE | |
| Angered drunken Spanish nobleman of the highest rank (7) | Anagram of ANGERED | |
| 10 | ARMING | |
| Doing damage down at the front supplying weapons (6) | (h)ARMING | |
| 11 | ANACONDA | |
| Outdoor adventure store operating in different parts of Canada (8) | ON inside anagram of CANADA | |
| 12 | STUN | |
| Taser caused sharp pain mostly (4) | (STUN)g | |
| 13 | RABBIT EARS | |
| Religious leader pulls apart broadcast receiver (6,4) | RABBI + TEARS | |
| 14 | BETTING SHOP | |
| Gambling centre is to take place adjacent to rough nightspot (7,4) | BE + anagram of NIGHTSPOT | |
| 19 | TROCHANTER | |
| Irregular crater not apparent around hard part of femur (10) | Anagram of CRATER NOT outside H | |
| 22 | SALT | |
| Section of analysis altered common preservative (4) | sanalysiS ALTered | |
| 23 | ESTRANGE | |
| Established area is split up (8) | EST + RANGE | |
| 24 | BRAISE | |
| Sprig of basil to enhance stew? (6) | (B)asil + RAISE | |
| 25 | REAMERS | |
| They bore me in lifts (7) | ME inside REARS | |
| 26 | PSALTER | |
| Note added to letter to change devotional book (7) | PS + ALTER | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | EXCRETA | |
| Old Greek islander reduced waste (7) | EX + CRETA(n) | |
| 2 | ALLIANCE | |
| Everybody misinterpreted a nice partnership (8) | ALL + anagram of A NICE | |
| 3 | SINGER | |
| Voice recording short of length, right? (6) | SINGLE minus L + R | |
| 4 | TREATIES | |
| Surprise that is added to first part of secret agreements (8) | TREAT + IE + (S)ecret | |
| 5 | ENCORE | |
| Men not opening centre with an extra performance (6) | (m)EN + CORE | |
| 6 | READERS | |
| Resolution breached by a revolutionary written up for university lecturers (7) | RES outside [A + (RED reversed)] | |
| 9 | CARBON STEEL | |
| Moulded bracelets containing active metal alloy (6,5) | Anagram of BRACELETS outside ON | |
| 15 | TRAINERS | |
| Coaches organised rest with wet weather intervening (8) | Anagram of REST outside RAIN | |
| 16 | OBSTACLE | |
| A telco’s worked around hub’s final difficulty (8) | Anagram of A TELCOS outside hu(B) | |
| 17 | TRUSTEE | |
| Guardian’s sign of deterioration in area of golf (7) | RUST inside TEE | |
| 18 | BLISTER | |
| Second-rate celebrity’s elevated spot? (7) | B-LISTER | |
| 20 | CHROMA | |
| Macro rewritten about high quality of colour (6) | Anagram of MACRO outside H | |
| 21 | ROBUST | |
| Powerful coach involved in corruption (6) | BUS inside ROT |
