Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

6 Hearten ten with something to eat (7)

7 The comedian is an idiot returning the salad green (7)

9 Let loose some of the Mounties (5)

10 Everyone in Tai Tapu initially gets drinks - they’re whoppers (4,5)

11 Bow before one and leave for the Australian town (7)

13 All the changes are deadly (6)

15 Private mass for a government department? (6,7) 18 Codgers are upset losing the grand decorating styles (6)

20 The musicians could be a bit so-so (7)

22 Unhappy, tip-off the backer that it could be New Zealand (4,5)

23 Start off the run to get a snake (5)

25 Pronounced church wear that’s redundant (7)

26 Fall for the produce farmer? (7)

DOWN

1 It’s up to be quiet and it’s out to sing vigorously (4)

2 The Native American on the jetty is scarier (8)

3 Struggled I hear with the merit of a Texas city (4,5)

4 Georgia perhaps admits the upper-class figure (6)

5 Fifty tucking into sacred wines are found in the garden (10)

6 Crikey, it’s the trail left by Hansel (6)

7 You and I left the learner in good condition (4)

8 Loud American with the Italian musket (5)

12 The playwright takes an age returning with the inexperienced driver - chicken (4,6)

14 500 come up with a risqué form of government (9) 16 The lawbreaker leaves the instrument on the hill (8)

17 Union leader is more certain it’s an extortionist (6) 18 Guys are flops around the end of the race (5)

19 Difficulty initially removed with foreign money (6) 21 Soldiers are oddly deficient of poems (4)

24 The fool starts to dine out with cowslip wine at last (4)