cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Medieval tournament, not

old, is fair (4)

3 Show's former location (10)

8 Plainchant in service (8)

9 Right in front of you and me,

hard apple (6)

10 Wicked nuns stripped in front of Christmas decoration -heartless! (6)

11 American representative not

characteristic (8)

13 Toil with same ground that is

most fertile (8)

14 Fingers perhaps something

found in excavations (6)

16 Felix's short sleep? (6)

19 Reportedly eavesdrop in this

direction (4,4)

21 Gossip with school facing

lows, it's said (8)

22 Open a French shawl (6)

23 Subtle difference when one's

leaving pest (6)

24 It is said to be coming from

young child (4,4)

25 Pastime building card-castle

(4,6)

26 Weather when sun god is not

out? (4)

DOWN

1 Couple jibe endlessly about average man in the street (3,6) 2 Number of orders booked

many years ago (3,12)

3 Group of organisms, green

sort (7)

4 Display insect under leaf (7)

5 Hurried round fish, kept it

moist (7)

6 Judging people's feelings is what one might be doing getting into bath (7,3,5)

7 Old province of birth (5)

12 Back at sea (3)

15 Older lamb's family's fleece

(9)

17 Round bit? (3)

18 Be first individual to enter

wharf (7)

19 Offer more in order to take

the lot? (7)

20 Not easily disturbed by question and answer in rising river (7)

21 Young fellow in charge of

sound (5)