CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Carbohydrate is the way to put one's back up (6)

8. Such money as one is prepared to spend? (5)

9. With little science everybody goes to work for shellfish (7)

11. Left a bit, indeed (8) 12. Unlawfully take it from the waste altogether (5)

15. One may, on the cricket field, hold water (4)

16. Passage for progress through the water (3)

17. Filming of scene on which one is out for what one can get (4)

19. Cook uses her best shrimp starters (5) 21. Somehow got Gunderic on a diet (8) 24. Like an ant, it appears in the wrong metre (7)

25. Just about fifty, and showing intuitive faculty (5)

26. Make a dash for the etchings, their last first (6)

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2. End of Hamlet: about one act doesn't have to be spoken (5)

3. Sappers are apt to be trustworthy (8) 4. American bonnet covers head and back of neck here (4)

5. Intermission may be compiled by snooker player (5)

6. Early feeding requires it to follow 5 (4) 7. I'd the sound of it having taken a look (4)

10. Lasting sort of way for a train to run on (9)

12. Sounds unhappy, therefore begs for example to depart (4)

12. Long ribbon put right inside a kettle (8) 14. Where men eat together, muddle may be created (4)

18. There are twenty to make incisions in it (5)

20. Stick to the tempo, where conductor's concerned (5)

21. It floats right behind one at sea (4) 22. Face made by boy who turns up around one (4)

23. Being precious, they knock the heart out of the bugs (4)