CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Ignore redevelopment in this area (6) 8. Tidiness shown by a religious fraternity (5) 9. Jersey is, by error, to come into flower (7) 11. Soft soap is not so elevated by your leader (8) 12. It wobbles with a little explosive (5) 15. Strike up some space under the roof (4) 16. Starts swilling the yard, the place being filthy (3) 17. The reddish colour of a stretch of water (4) 19. The people in a firm may come to the support of a pilgrim (5) 21. Peevish suit a cop makes up (8) 24. Whipping it with a rope for making things fast (7) 25. Sign it’s right to leave after six (5) 26. A skit about a fisherman will be profitable (6)

DOWN

2. Pen not needed by girl to run off and get hitched (5) 3. Let us, in a way, separate it with a nonconductor (8) 4. He’s an unsophisticated fan who turns up holding one (4) 5. Excel, one is told – this being what one excels at (5) 6. Do nothing that might have led one astray (4) 7. Where a vicar was to pound it in a mortar (4) 10. Abundant fuel about pint (Latin) (9) 12. Stimulating shock is lot different after 1st July (4) 13. Arrow-maker joined Beaumont to write plays (8) 14. The ego of the Spanish in Sinn Fein (4) 18. Small brother at school is given a sort of key (5) 20. Made to pay if turning up at the wrong end (5) 21. Schoolboy warning of a hollow in the rock (4) 22. Come away with it after successful audition? (4) 23. Maize porridge US Uncle makes with phosphorus (4)