Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. The bar may be used for game chip (7)

4. With the established practice of the professional soldier (7) 8. Looks sleepy as son comes back holding daughter (4)

9. Tell cordon to break up if governed in such a way (10)

11. In order to eavesdrop, I grew a version of it (6)

12. Feet over-involved, with no instruction from whip (4,4)

14. There is yet space in the housekeeper’s pantry (5-4)

15. Use a car on motorway to root it out (5)

17. Half-Duke Tom spent some time in Venice (5)

18. Getting elderly, is seen to change one’s perfume (9)

19. It is not safe to cruise around the Northeast (8)

21. With a Cuban, a native can show fruit of a plantain (6)

23. Papers’ leaders also tried one out (10)

24. Accommodation not wanted by motorist (4)

25. A touching line from a gent turning to the National Theatre (7) 26. Deadly manoeuvres round top of escarpment must be held up (7)

DOWN

1. Admitted it made sense of CD (9)

2. Is being talked about by cousin, Sir: sudden alteration (5,10) 3. Applaud what may be square to a mathematician (4)

4. In which one left the daily grind for privacy (10)

5. Blindly feel King George went to work on the East (5) 6. Convallaria to leave filly hotly contested (4-2-3-6)

7. High pressure feature in part first given the bird (5)

10. Quarters requisitioned for a wager housing the sick (6) 13. Compulsion of Conservatives to train Thatcherite leader (10) 15. Service book for a girl I’m following up (6)

16. Withdrew from Crete – drat that! (9)

19. Irrelevant for the writer to turn up inside it (5)

20. Mean to shut up shop (5)

22. Pleased to get girl’s first boy (4)