Devlin’s Diabolic Cryptic Xword

Across

1 Betrothal ends the longing inside - or he is still single! (8)

5 Singles loved by tennis players (4) 8 He enters a temple for grain (5)

9 One of the WAGs of British rugby players? (7)

11 Keep alive? Plant us in soil! (7)

12 Sword fight that comes between neighbours? (5)

13 Show off extremely forgetful relative (6) 15 Intend contacting extraterrestrial on Mars, for instance (6)

18 Bird starts nesting - on monarch’s head? (5)

20 A bad driver turned up (7)

23 Country where men scramble around in the dark (7)

24 Hidden store of money, we hear (5) 25 Where tools are kept or discarded (4) 26 Read Pip’s novel to be informed (8)

Down

1 Game birds follow bee sound (5)

2 She is involved with Alec somewhere in London (7)

3 Run in the next race (5)

4 Shape of circle extended after start of bulge (6)

6 Tidy partner of the weightlifting jerk (5) 7 Half the spectators support us turning on the accused (7)

10 It can be made from the insides of buffaloes (5)

13 Sad face, sad faces (7)

14 Some assassin in Japan (5)

16 Beginners turned on by bad habits (7) 17 A buck in trouble gets front page support (4,2)

19 The weight of a snow leopard? (5)

21 Come back with some Singapore currency (5)

22 Run inside without feeling fear (5)