cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Dirty ancient moat in ruins

(11)

7 East European, not fan,

regularly dismissed Italian food (7)

8 Loud yob turned on defiant person (7)

10 Decorate a foul docked boat (8)

11 There’s nothing in it for cleaner (6)

13 Stated function for token (4)

14 Manage a day with man around home (10)

16 Disheartened luvvy is upset with fee, strangling female in OTT

manner (10)

18 Tool setting diamonds into stripped hazel (4)

21 Asians initially in raptures, when receiving TV panel show (6)

22 View sand shifting in theatrical movement (4,4)

24 Locate part of muscle, taut: issue’s back (7)

25 Implements one used to cut fruit (7)

26 They’re tight mass, fish in

confines of cans (11)

DOWN

1 Predicting the outcome of vocation (7)

2 Martial artists primarily needed in shark film, not Western (6)

3 Believe in West Ham pairing from the beginning (4,3,3)

4 Dope, lamebrain, fool – not

all there! (4)

5 Perfumed woman leaving case in lorry (8)

6 Commend hospital department getting on top of fungal disease (7)

7 Mushy peas I resist in shops

(11)

9 Unmerciful soldiers scrap on eastern ship (11)

12 Gas emitted by people in bed? (6,4)

15 Developing site, friend

causes possible damage (8)

17 Note in former European money beside oneself (7)

19 Stand that is first to sell flowers (7)

20 Alternative to pink fluid container (6)

23 Buzzer with quiet sound (4)