CRYPTIC 320

ACROSS

1 Material for binding bricks could be explosive (6)

8 A curl or a treatment that sounds divinely inspired (8)

9 Half of them seen before chief to raise a design (6)

10 Gate money finished in acquisition of control (8) 11 Unpleasant substance of some heavy rock music (6)

13 Details having deferential feelings for another (8)

16 Man stood around inside with an extinct mammal (8)

19 Be of concern to bring into the country (6)

22 Possibly take off locks in a troublesome period (8) 24 Pendent ornament not as selectively shown (6) 25 Reasonable lies used for a knitting pattern (4,4)

26 Work history used to make a fresh start (6)

DOWN

2 Type of gastropod mollusc kept in for merchants (5) 3 Sharp-pointed branch moved north (5)

4 Put on work list to be newly restored (8)

5 Tree’s covering the noise of some hound (4)

6 Outburst of enthusiasm for animal’s cover with mineral (6) 7 Grant to an inventor for a type of leather (6)

12 Milky fluid from a tree starts us panting and sore (4)

14 It’s disastrous being on the left side (8)

15 Old Roman statesman’s staccato ending (4)

17 One starts new mail delivery for a living thing (6)

18 They instruct us to rust away (6)

20 Puts on airs when sits for an artist (5)

21 The man in odd sign of catarrh (5)

23 It’s quite simple in time as you can see plainly (4)