Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. What sort of hiding might make male connect? (11)

8. One might appear greedy so to reach and pass (8)

9. Festive performance for a convict on his retirement (4)

10. Die to over-dilute the Scotch (5)

13. Garment from the sub-continent could make Paris quietly (4)

16. A prop, for argument’s sake, with tip-top inclusion (4)

17. It’s a sign that there are people: ring first (4)

18. Copies and publishes essay student starts (4)

20. Skilled at making a department, in short (5)

24. Collapse found along the coast (4)

25. Throw dice even by way of proof (8)

26. Figure on learner driver getting into head what car needs (6-5)

DOWN

2. Beasts, of which ten are to be found in one variety (4)

3. Provide sustenance and react to change (5)

4. It’s crooked, like week that turns up with loss of direction (5)

5. Moves slowly laterally and shelves fifty ahead (5)

6. May entertainment be provided by men, or is card wrong? (6,5)

7. Italian boy set ten up they perform with strings attached (11)

11. Noted work, or works of Ancient Rome (5)

12. Nanny will run up: she is disheartened (5)

14. A lot of men with guns − Marines? Yes, including them! (4)

15. Being unadorned, how one might soundly carry it off (4)

19. An indication of boiling cuppa in writing up (5)

21. Being liable to go down, I have to be held by doctor (5)

22. What’s downtrodden that will make things work? (5)

23. Name in bits for making up showing how to use needles (4)