Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

6 Co-star Leo cried artfully in

mock grief (9,5)

9 Five perform in three rings,

making magic (6)

10 Within reason, court shows

godliness (8)

11 Fill bus with convicts finally to

be transported? Yes (8)

13 Look, it can fly! (6)

15 From space, circling, this is

seen heading back (6)

17 In empty pub get poor fare and cheap accommodation (6)

19 Racial technicality – first half

needs sorting (6)

20 Penetrating a long way, troops start to destroy barns here (8)

22 State banks are in trouble (8)

24 Sporadic tiff breaks out, getting ugly now and then (6)

26 Guys in leathers regrouped,

in a manner of speaking (7,7)

DOWN

1 In middle of lesson she’s trim

and cool, moving around (14)

2 Pressure on Germany to supply reservoir (4)

3 Old fellow in battered Golf to

stop working on net (3,3)

4 Spotted person hit ball from

here with anger, rattled (8)

5 Criminal left something under

the carpet (4)

7 Slight gains ultimately accepted (6)

8 Men upset Dickie and David losing lead in old voting areas (6,8)

12 Polish actor (5)

14 Fit complex into city? That’s

clever (5)

16 Analysis of any crest should

reveal this perhaps (8)

18 Recently old apartment’s

beginning to expand (2,4)

21 I had left sculpted figurehead

in sanctuary (6)

23 Whitewash passage nearly

(4)

25 Follow path, not river (4)