Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Runner’s pain caused by a suture (6)
8. Melodramatic way to get shot of it after luck had half gone (5)
9. Shellfish to wash away around California (7)
11. Felt a try might be achieved with butter (8)
12. There’s nothing in the rest scattered in the stock laid up (5)
15. Outlying trading-post in place of trail-leader (4)
16. Starts shifting to Yorkshire where pig is concerned (3)
17. A tree that is yellowish green or white in caustic earth (4)
19. Progress at sea measured by such as are tied (5)
21. Is to aim nib at it with hope of advancement (8)
24. Walked back around a fellow while sleeping (7)
25. His and her version of it her makeup (5)
26. In Tyne perhaps it is passed by the nonagenarian (6)
DOWN
2. Understood, it goes without saying (5)
3. Put up with a letter ‘0’ written thus (8)
4. The beastly footing on which it’s live (4)
5. Sails with the clerical profession (5)
6. Cheese on British Rail that is to follow (4)
7. In a nonchalant way avoid lying in part (4)
10. Put grub in bed? It helps things grow (5,4)
12. Discriminatingly examine it if in the street (4)
13. Member under a chieftain can slam around the North (8)
14. Find me on a ship where I eat with my mates (4)
18. Bad weather produces most rain initially (5)
20. Doctrine held to be true going up and down (5)
21. Singing voice is a lot different when it breaks (4)
22. Carriage for the dead coming out of 6 (4)
23. At twelve o’clock, only off? (4)