LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.

ACROSS

8. In Tijuana, the marijuana is an accursed thing (8)

9. Assure listeners on dry land (6)

10. Riding whip used to make microphone (4)

11. Tom’s threat might be a way to control the heat (10)

12. Sideshow site on beautiful terrain (10)

15. Recycled water he used rain or shine (7)

17. Large dog makes mother inflexible (7)

18. How you could have fled when freckled with wild abandon! (10)

22. Warsaw natives aloof, having widely different tastes (5,5)

24. Am finding directions at end of prayer (4)

25. It’s boiling hot in the kitchen (6)

26. Belief in mediocre den? Certainly! (8)

DOWN

1. Inns cartel also ends oddly expanded (9)

2. Disrupts or puts in dazed state (6)

3. Why replace initials of Lester Lear in the past? (10)

4. In frigate, Auntie spotted cake (6)

5. Local manager maintains composure (4)

6. Old joke about sea trunk fanatic (8)

7. Armed disturbance is a nightmare (5)

13. Spooner led debtor to wrongly addressed post (4,6)

14. Wealth changes effluence slightly (9)

16. Sun-bronzed men on divergent lines (8)

19. Possibility chancellor discarded roll (6)

20. Climbs up to practise them on the piano (6)

21. Dog fighter (5)

23. Experts might come up trumps! (4)