5		Chirac needs Canadian capital to expel French water oceanographer (7,8)
9		Giant about to live as an inhabitant of a mountainous region of Asia (7)
10		English resort has point on cross with opening (7)
11		Body art events held regularly in Edinburgh? (7)
12		Frost to end flight from this country (7)
14		Don’t starve in Seattle! (3)
16		Learns about boron from this gigantic ice shelf (6,1)
19		Small loan for diving vessel (3)
20		Belgian city has nothing on this seasonal wreaker of destruction (7)
22		It’s craftily associated with 5 ac. (7)
24		Incas so misrepresented in Italy (7)
25		No women around? It’s just a phase! (3,4)
26		Unlikely Orkneys’ dirt came from such a deposit laid down by water wind and ice (11,4)

1		Do some housework on vessel in wind-eroded area (4,4)
2		I see to my relocated US national park (8)
3		Sweetheart Avis transported from town of N. France (8)
4		Backwoods ex-President? (4)
5		Aircraft student division gets wind in the upper atmosphere! (3,6)
6		Sailor in bed is a famous navigator (5)
7		Stretches of beach in Wales and Scotland (5)
8		French department circulating memos (5)
13		November, short UK bird relocated in central southern europe (9)
15		Section of Ballantyne’s ideal industrial connurbation (8)
17		SE Asian capital managed to continue (7)
18		In Istanbul a way of protecting an African city (8)
21		Afghanistan’s its largest producer, dope! (5)
22		Di leaves N. American ‘Promised Land’ (6)
23		Acidity/alkalinity indicator too innacurate for a snapshot (5)
24		What’s the point of a crescent moon? (4)