CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. One seeking to lose weight might go in for chaff (6)

8. An increase in salary both is and are achievable (5)

9. Bits of melodies heard as one uses the colander (7)

11. Being dashing with ladies, they irritate workers (8)

12. Gets, and holds fast, one's personal luggage (5)

15. How wide the look of pleasure that hasn't begun! (4)

16. It is not even curious (3)

17. Where duck may be scored before five by a learner (4)

19. Makes the point register the label in craft (5)

21. Vetted and deleted, or seen mistakenly in the record (8)

24. Team such as Southend, where one may find 10 (7)

25. Credit given to large number that is surrounded by felony (5)

26. Roll of names showing bird to have lost nothing (6)

Down

2. To him, work may be all play (5) 3. Man on the road guided one to being walked underfoot (8)

4. Try to get through, but get the engaged sign (4)

5. To march up and down a barrack square may create a hole (5)

6. Mark a twelfth part of the Zodiac (4) 7. Some old dish of food looking like a dog's dinner! (4)

10. They are formed of many particles raised along the shore (4,5)

12. There's no excitement in being so cultivated (4)

13. Fights the right-wing examinations (8) 14. This factor, being something added, may be positive (4)

18. The necessary unit appears in my holding (5)

20. Move statement of fiscal policy that's inconclusive (5)

21. Prepare to fire a bird (4)

22. There's no score about a thing it's handy to have (4)

23. Well-liked, but not easily affordable (4)