NOT SO EASY

ACROSS

1. Is on one's feet, but tries to find a seat (6)

8. Dig deep endlessly when about fiftyfive (5)

9. To picture the words (7)

11. One thing knitter does, as in the law (8)

12. Depend on being quietly included to make a comeback (5)

15. Hide the beginning of knowledge in wrongdoing (4)

16. To be inquisitive is necessary to India's knowledgeseekers (3)

17. He's a caution, but may make one better (4)

19. Muscular combmaker to cook heartlessly (5)

21. Last arrangement with skingrowth for the stout (8)

24. Move unsteadily North, ginfuddled, finding it wearisome (7)

25. Get to be liable to be at home with a dog (5)

26. Walk a little way (6)

2404 DOWN

2. Swap business that may be a way of livelihood (5)

3. Making clear profit, about a pound, is annoyingly stinging (8)

4. With something afoot call for silence for party to return (4)

5. Deck Pole up in an outer part (5)

6. In soccer organisation the French may be unwelcome visitor (4)

7. Pool for a Frenchwoman of family (4)

10. Money popularly is unavoidable (9)

12. Chance threequarters of 15 being wrong right at the start (4)

13. Was examined for security clearance and put on in the cinema (8)

14. Say one didn't appear in the garden yesterday (4)

18. Such enemies as cause a quarrel given up among Poles (5)

20. The last round bit of fish also to be halved (5)

21. Don't read right through what may be full of rubbish (4)

22. Chief bit of bridgebuilding, perhaps (4)

23. Was a teacher soundly so strung up? (4)

1. Downhearted 8. Extracts 9. Bath 10. Psalm 13. Rain 16. Moor 17. Maze 18. Neat 20. Emend 24. Army 25. Practise 26. Outpatients

2. Oath 3. Nears 4. Extol 5. Tiber 6. Detrimental 7. Changes over 11. Alive 12. Midge 14. Alas 15. Nova 19. Tryst 21. Merit 22. Niche 23. List