Sun Express Skeleton

[redglenys]

1a a cake baked off air [7] ?a???r?
11a pilot without status being candid [7] fr?n?l?
17a paper round stipulating early starts, perhaps [5] e????
23a dirty old cloth dropped by tragedian's cast [7]
26a facing front, a boy spies a girl [7] ?e?i???
3d call out Horatio next [11] ??h?r?????n
18d composer not finishing new material[5] ????n
21a friends overly prepared in the morning [5] ?a?es
Help please

[vetuste_ennemi]

3D is EXHORTATION[anag]
11D f(rank)ly
21A MA+tes[rev]

[vetuste_ennemi]

1A possibly Made+ira[anag

and the composer's - Sati[e]+n?

[vetuste_ennemi]

23A stained[anag - "rag"]

[Davemano]

1a Madeira. Made(baked) with anagram Air
17a Essay. Stipulating Early, starts reversed, and Say(perhaps).
23a Stained. Remove Rag(dirty cloth) from tragedians, then anagram.
26a Felicia. F Eli Cia.
18d Satin. Sati(e) with N(ew)

[redglenys]

Thank you all very much for all your help

[Frustrate]

11a frankly (f(rank)ly rank = status
1a Madeira (made)air = ira
21a mates overly = am reversed