Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. It's not safe to get it from the garden (6)

8. Throw dice right at the end for scrumpy (5)

9. Old boy routed nothing out he could thrust forward (7)

11. Piper going about in an underhanded way like an eel (8)

12. Flat for woman in the fifties (5)

15. Have a short time off if it's not quite twelve (4)

16. Fairground attraction for the timorous (3)

17. Very bad way to be, back-to-front (4)

19. Invite eleven world leaders obliquely (5)

21. State, in short, friendship can be a disaster (8)

24. Temporary stay for the South on including a day in France (7)

25. Shakespearean spirit is one shown in a production of Lear (5)

26. About 550 cattle start a fire (6)

DOWN

2. Am a university athlete, but non-u: stroll on! (5)

3. Green perhaps surrounds a short road with him tending beds (8)

4. Retinal bodies cover two broad areas finally (4)

5. Room to manoeuvre south and manage the rest (5)

6. Little advantage in greed: generosity uncovers it (4)

7. Crockery carrier will attempt to hold last of china (4)

10. They don't forget to help as net is thrown for them (9)

12. Where Venetian bathers have cover and nothing more (4)

13. Culinary measure for pot as one turns it around (8)

14. Lupine creature turning up to run like water (4)

18. Fish one was nasally aware of (5)

20. Sign on the left one is right to alter (5)

21. A very reticent person will assert one has left (4)

22. Produced, like eggs, face-upwards (4)

23. White rose bowl thus (4)