Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Junior lion has swallowed woman − dear little chap! (6)

8. Era is capable of supplying an increase (5)

9. More can be got from where violins were turned out (7)

11. European flying to the opera (8)

12. ‘The curfew tolls the _____ of parting day’ (Gray) (5)

15. Hands up: it’s time! (4)

16. One person at Beehive may be a mischief-maker (3)

17. Move a very little way towards an island (4)

19. Pay warder to fix wood (5)

21. Shapely seat of US administration (8)

24. It’s neither sharp nor flat, as one would expect (7)

25. Got the glue out and kept at it? (5)

26. Corrects me in extremities (6)

DOWN

2. That woman has no comeuppance, being a bird (5)

3. Murmuring low is having a beef without beginning to! (8)

4. It’s a bit of a drag to tie something so tightly (4)

5. First and third of tarts to finish cake in a twinkling (5)

6. Company unlikely to produce a yield? (4)

7. Churchman to hide another inside (4)

10. A man of parts, but purely mechanical! (9)

12. This pin, most important in group, is one to give a ruling (4)

13. Alcoholic solution of drug may give one a shade of colour (8)

14. Arab craft demonstrates in what way after December 1st (4)

18. Demand to be in a non-u bus as one lies and soaks it up (5)

20. First of emigrants to put ashore to find the animal (5)

21. Job for a man of letters? (4)

22. In France you and I show common sense (4)

23. It’s given to an American but may be Christian here (4)