Spaces Between Words.

Example clue 'Winner makes script finale (14)' has 14-letter solution 'in first place'.

Across:
8. Some sort of ego saga a long while back (8)
9. Julie has silicon up front - a blockade (5)
10. Tax raised in sale vying for profit (4)
11. That nice upset in flagrante (10)
12. Sin off limit (6)
14. Heavy old decreaser makes inroads (8)
15. Moral confused the single West Coast liberal (7)
17. Travel abroad by plane taking yen in insult (7)
20. Bete noire, insect and mammal (8)
22. Adjudicator has antipodean truck to prove wrong (6)
23. Badly need Volvo to pass by succession to (10)
24. 128 cubic feet of wood right in hoax (4)
25. Principle that's the same both ways (5)
26. Sorry loner in example pretty soon (8)

Down:
1. Fatigue might cause a spell of shivering (8)
2. Catch sight of eastern mole (4)
3. Altered variable that is dead (6)
4. Fertiliser with PH swapped for burning residue (7)
5. Perennial snake with house by Delaware (8)
6. Throw out or fidget aimlessly (10)
7. Greek letter posted round European Community will cause reverberations (6)
13. Tom tangled up with undies will make noise (10)
16. Growing in a heaped mass, maple is against a note (8)
18. Be indefatigable - untie endless circle (8)
19. Use soft repetition with Monsieur for now (7)
21. Fruitfulness, a time of fertility, but without a penny (6)
22. Tenant has right to go in (6)
24. Low temperature century for the aged (4)