CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Milk-sugar put out for Leo’s cat (7)

4. Attacks a lass and is confused about it (7)

8. A word that is in part proverbial (4)

9. Decode club’s name first registered like this (10)

11. A simpleton may find himself in the soup (6)

12. Remove leg that could put a team in disorder (8)

14. The opening aura one adapts lung to (9)

15. Formed into a mass a deck could be made of (5)

17. How the French, etc, may vote one in (5)

18. Female reveller may teach ABC around the North (9)

19. He may give one a ring, if one pays him for it (8)

21. Dog sounds warning that gets bigger around start of lunch (6)

23. Stimulated by date, till it went wrong (10)

24. Half original return made by social security payment (4)

25. Smartened up by the RUC, hurried round (7)

26. Think back on what a shiny surface might do (7)

DOWN

1. Even Latin can come from the east of the Mediterranean (9)

2. Fizzy drink and a bread we can trot out (10,5)

3. Sea-eagle seen entering another nest (4)

4. Criminal associate of Mac police may start chasing (10)

5. It’s chaos, fun as it may be (5)

6. It’s there in print, see, as one extreme or another (2,5,3,5)

7. A fine riddle Eve is turning out to be (5)

10. As an insult, it’s flimsy (6)

13. It’s under the plough and ball: are they different? (6,4)

15. Band of warriors with endless chore to perform (6)

16. Two garments, or a black one with cut-away skirts (5-4)

19. They invaded Britain with jets making u-turn (5)

20. Call one about a flowering tree (5)

22. One may have to put up with a Kodiak (4)