Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Men cane colt, or otherwise give it a good hiding (11)

8. Put too much on one’s plate for it to pass (8)

9. A recidivist who has returned for the festivity (4) 10. Doctor, being on his lonesome, may sink and die (5) 13. Length of dress in Madras finally wore an air of change (4) 16. Don’t execute one with the rope that holds the mast (4)

17. It is a portent that females should lose their leader (4) 18. In sea-sickness, first of passengers does what others do (4) 20. Make it fit to adopt it as a change for nothing (5)

24. Horn, say, that may cover the shoulders (4)

25. Words that one has strung together may condemn one (8) Count the pleat that unfolds with a car’s identification (6-5)

26.

DOWN

2. Animals that upset one include the hyrax finally (4) 3. Provide grub for butterfly grub, in part (5)

4. Crooked way to request new beheading (5)

5. Tired gesture used as one slowly moves within it (5) 6. In which hobby-horse rids romance of any change (6-5) 7. Figures with strings of which Maori set ten out (11) 11. Horse given to Aida, say, to make film of the Wild West (5) 12. Example of 11 might have been Roman (5)

14. The particular mysticism that shrouds the host (4) 15. Except for starter of escargots, everything is off (4)

19. Old ship got it up to put to sea (5)

21. Dull and expensive? That’s about right (5)

22. Leaf in the corolla unfolded into a plate (5)

23. Make something woolly for bone to mend (4)