Cryptic crossword

ACROSS 1. Was stuck with it, being leased out (6)

8. Painting given back to first two dealers in commerce (5) 9. The crowd murmur of pie being made of its sticks (7) 11. Was shaking, at having tripled about a thousand (8) 12. Could be a tour right round a cathedral in Cornwall (5) 15. Half-turn made repeatedly in a ballet skirt (4)

16. This may be the limit to the vault of heaven (3) 17. Governess in Siam spent some time in India (4) 19. Particular chain used to hold a tree (5) 21. Reckon, on leaving, it is not so much 14 (8) 24. Depot might hold gold for producing tin fish (7) 25. Pretends they are not the real thing (5) 26 Promises to get out of the water in Germany (6) DOWN 2. From there, it may put one out (5)

3. Labour, nothing less: number halved, but it may blossom (8) 4. Spiteful gossip is what comes off in the wash (4)

5. Stops the flow in parts of the pipes (5)

6. A sad cry from one in law upset (4)

7. Was told one lost a number of cattle (4) 10. Intermission quickly taken with first meal (9)

12. Adds the drams one retrieves from rubbish (4)

13. It’s all right to hold a fruit, but this is gall (3-5)

14. It is evident one has measles, being 21 Across (4) 18. Around Spithead the shell fragments may have been a vacuum (5)

20. Drink to die for, if in credit (5)

21. This floats a long way back to start, finally (4)

22. Lay it on thick for Madeleine (4)

23. Drunkards thus found the street to be up (4)