CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Stick head of eel inside, filleted (5) 4 Isabel mishandled descent (6) 10 Revolting male hoots off-puttingly (9) 11 Buffoon takes head off fish (3) 12 Tiny southern shopping arcade (5) 13 A potentially valiant, but not new country (6) 14 See-through patterns ran randomly (11) 18 Spice section of hotdog in Germany (6) 20 Wife shortly about to pass out (5) 23 Look both ways (3) 24 Rouses old trouble without a scent (9) 25 Relation is more distant, we hear (6) 26 Comic party (5) DOWN 2 From a harbour see landing beach (5) 3 Aztec, he longs to keep level (7) 5 Sound of sheep upsetting table (5) 6 Great happiness about toenail (7) 7 Girl from Los Angeles on ship (4) 8 Material left in advance (5) 9 Girl’s baby gets role appearing with US singer (5,6) 15 Without goal, tear clothing (7) 16 Lack of openness in book (7) 17 Architect’s sound bite (5) 19 Wander, after opening gambit, to some trees (5) 21 Canoe wrecked in the sea (5) 22 He worked among the lesser fellows (4)