CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A curative use for earth (ice put round it) (11)

8. Store can come from an earlier member of the family (8)

9. A bird that was marked by the BSI (4)

10. My shot perhaps lost nothing but the ancient traditional stories (5)

13. It’s not used, time given to pond creature (4)

16. Something that rusts right inside a particle (4)

17. It is almost a crime to be a wife in Germany (4)

18. The surface extent of the space alongside the basement (4)

20. The last patriarch to pray about a greedy woman (5)

24. How to put out the hour it is to be returned (4)

25. Company had rotten turn-out with this old instrument (8)

26. The tear-off portion fare can be worked out from (11)

DOWN

2. German wine to put into pawn (4)

3. Being out of practice makes us try it anew (5)

4. Dog shampoo chosen for its contents (5)

5. Nominal as the payment is, it is all right in number (5)

6. Made it easier to face it, and lad it replaced (11)

7. Ruin is its end – court can arrange that (11)

11. Ought to be taken tail-first if it’s hard to eat (5)

12. Separate verse form from it (5)

14. It is almost too soon to be noble (4)

15. A desire for good cape to appear (4)

19. Change one’s ego in one’s other self (5)

21. In part, it is a mourning for a love affair (5)

22. Wine grape one has to pinch upside-down (5)

23. Fragrant Bulgarian oil may be taken either way (4)