CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,612

Across

1 Simple dish homeless patient cooked (7,8) 9 Very small isle’s missile (9) 10 A place to keep things up (5) 11 Material from lake along with piece of land in it? (5) 12 Act to secure Spielberg film an Oscar perhaps (9) 13 Plant’s automated payment system rejected debts (8) 14 Progress of you and me in Anglican Church (6) 16 Monitors report of Bohemians (6) 18 Toper or libertine mostly in retreat, held by doctor and in Germany (8) 22 Flops create serif, apparently (9) 23 Pound belonging to Heath Robinson (5) 24 Honour an independent Arab (5) 25 Person awaited on stage to hold mass, that woman’s sponsor (9) 26 Provider of child benefits in disorganised firm hates charts (6,9)

Down

1 Looks happy picking up current figures of speech (7) 2 Forgetting men injured in the East (7) 3 Imprisoned frequently, I am last to escape with moments to spare (2,3,4,2,4) 4 Simple detective left out joke (8) 5 Servant reclined, getting up after me (6) 6 A felonious agent corrupted worldwide body once (6,2,7) 7 Foot, Left-winger with short period in office (7) 8 Limit time among former Engineers (7) 15Holy warrior terribly scared about pursuit of Saracens (8) 16 Bread making cool, fab rock (7) 17 Liking to take top off displaying charm (7) 19 A poor actor receiving support in Lincoln? (7) 20 Girl coming out on craft abandons ship (7) 21 Very unfortunate US soldier in vehicle overturned (6)