CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Show us claim that’s been misapplied (7)

4. Is to be commended for changing diapers (7)

8. Meat is infrequently found so underdone (4)

9. Has no equilibrium, so is deranged (10)

11. Temporary difficulty with carbon light maybe (6)

12. The environment can be nice: beam about it (8)

14. Suffer lack of wit? O, tough! (2,7)

15. Lead singer on instrument that’s above the note (5)

17. It’s not as sweet as a moisture extractor (5)

18. How one might steer dory or warship (9)

19. Driver has to root about in the thin fog (8)

21. Board over shopfront shows if casa is wrong (6)

23. Prudent management in RI (10)

24. Nab a rib, say (4)

25. Having come down in the sea, was abandoned (7)

26. Stream coming from evil rut (7)

Down

1. Red maggot turned, its home pledged (9)

2. Padded jacket for restraint made by artist with vest from America (15)

3. Join up with an old torch (4)

4. Matter-of-factness with which rat maims GP (10)

5. In the bag, a migratory S American bird (5)

6. Perhaps Henry’s sold cocoa where he should be taking lessons (9,6)

7. A wrinkle one may be able to avoid (5)

10. Escort sea duck out of it (6)

13. Study how to go down and deign to do it (10)

15. Its reader knows there’s more to come (6)

16. Pet manner, once reformed, is there for good (9)

19. Moved listlessly with a two-wheeler to look at (5)

20. German state was wealthy around the East (5)

22. Disc arrangement shows where it was cut (4)