CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Fellow residents make dull friends (9) 8 Longed for wood on the day (5) 10 West and east go mad for dessert (5) 12 Talented with drink (3) 13 Twins have to gain (3) 14 All right for artist to have vegetable (4) 15 Recent change to middle (6) 16 Small sailors are celebrities (5) 18 Fellow to steer away? Rot (6) 20 Leave out of room itself (4) 22 Hoping to include fastener (3) 23 Bemused with creature (3) 24 Heather is a woman (5) 25 Same trouble with underground (5) 26 Cuter diet performance shows conviction (9) DOWN

2 Left woman to the right of the moon (5) 3 Reportedly bound to ebb and flow (4) 4 Swear about getting new reply (6) 5 It happened in the Seventies (5) 6 Cutlery gets fodder to spoil (5-4) 7 Care for military command (9) 9 Flexible cats lie around (7) 11 Appealing not to lose the lot (7) 15 Scared to include transport (3) 17 Shelter has a new occupant (6) 19 Pest involved with current ill will (5) 21 Group of musicians finds Edward subdued (5) 23 Give out wrong time (4)