Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Working closely with another, shouldn’t get cold fingers (4,2,5)
8. Was attentive to the din steel made (8)
9. Being principal male figure, he gets back the gold (4) 10. If coarse in mind, everything is included (5)
13. File right at the top of something with scales (4)
16. Being sour, it will help one to swallow carbon (4)
17. He’s a fool to supply varnish for old aircraft (4) 18. ‘There’s a breathless ___ in the Close tonight’ (Newbolt) (4) 20. Made one’s request in the guise of a sheep-tick (5) 24. Native intelligence made negative by American (4)
25. One demo about the 3 Rs somehow reflected it in glass (8) 26. Weeping has me writhing, and what a pity it is! (6,5)
DOWN
2. Part the church took in upsetting the Spanish (4)
3. Dull way to provide medical man with a listener (5) 4. Hasn’t got dense potential (5)
5. Different article seen in gold (5)
6. Hilt some can manoeuvre to make it give goods for coins (4,7)
7. It is inclusive if one takes it up with the mind (11) 11. Musician’s alternative is so upsetting with a conclusion (5) 12. Can, in the endless heavens, be something malodorous (5) 14. Something tiny to get included in period before noon (4) 15. Care about the absence of woman who isn’t married (4) 19. Owns taciturnity first and last may be too quick (5)
21. Sits in nigh every odd injury (5)
22. Third planet in order from sun may be described as soil (5) 23. Killing, giving up without hesitation skin one beats (4)