Liked FRANCHISE, POCKET, LIE-IN, NERVE CENTRE and SIDECAR. I've depicted what I thought were the theme entries, let me know if I missed any.ACROSS1
American football player and journalist entertain gangster on
Face
book (8)
HALFBACK (HACK outside AL + FB)5
This may be pressed in panic (6)
BUTTON (CD)9 Individual grasping
balance problem of the outgoing
inspector-
general gets the
hint (8)
OVERTONE (ONE outside VERTigO)10
A cover for the arm in a
thin cardboard container (6)
SLEEVE (DD)11
In Greenland, doc arranged for
a hormone source (9,5)
ENDOCRINE, GLAND (IN GREENLAND DOC)*14 Reportedly snatches the
hinges (5)
RESTS (~WRESTS)16 Team packs
rocks sculpted with
a bottle opener (9)
CORKSCREW (CREW outside ROCKS*)17 A European country confiscated
his licence (9)
FRANCHISE (FRANCE outside HIS)19 Par
si salesman's selection of
agave fibre (5)
SISAL (T)20 Trainee briefly free when not at home for
something mutually beneficial (14)
INTERDEPENDENT (INTERn + inDEPENDENT)23 Anger may result in heating up of the space under
this (6)
COLLAR (CD)24
Disconnected Roman censor follows felines in retreat (8)
STACCATO (CATO after CATS<=)25 Tower's
resistance overcome by the
power of
money (6)
POCKET (ROCKET with P for R)26
Worn-out Democrat's ouster
predicted by accident (8)
DECREPIT (PREDICTEd)*DOWN1
Thug's
scarf (4)
HOOD (DD)2
Oversleep like
infants
enlisted
in
nurseries initially (3-2)
LIE-IN (Acrostic)3 In speech, reforms
everyone in the pool (7)
BETTORS (~BETTERS)4
Tending to draw in after having
let narcotic break down (11)
CONTRACTILE (LET NARCOTIC)*6
Leakage losses rile revolutionary captured by angry
Sue (7)
ULLAGES (GALL<= inside SUE*)7
Synonym finder's
suture has unravelled (9)
THESAURUS (SUTURE HAS)*8
Lone welder getting a facelift is
a wastrel (4-2-4)
NE'ER-DO-WELL (LONE WELDER)*12
Headquarters may
never let the king move up to the hub (5,6)
NERVE, CENTRE (NE(+R)VE(-r) + CENTRE)13
Policeman on the road finds the jam maker's business
page (7,3)
TRAFFIC, COP (TRAFFIC + CO + P)15 Streetcars sent up to
ex-cricketer Bedser by
a know-all (5,4)
SMART, ALEC (TRAMS <= + ALEC)18 A bouquet for the
daughter clearing out the
sulphur in the
ship's ropes (7)
CORDAGE (CORSAGE with D for S)19 Criminal
disg
race to get rid of the
good
cocktail (7)
SIDECAR (DISgRACE)*21
American civil rights organisation's tax ID written backwards in internal
account (1,1,1,1,1)
NAACP (PAN<= outside AC)22 Fri
jol, temporarily concealed, may give
this to a Mexican cook (4)
JOLT (T) Not quite sure how this ties with the definition
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