CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. The mortifying of human toil one twice had to adjust to (11)

8. Wealth in clue open to negotiation (8) 9. Simplicity of the second vowel repeatedly heard (4)

10. Bad weather most unfortunate around end of September (5)

13. Round journey turns out right at the end (4)

16. Paradoxical measure revealing how unflurried one is (4)

17. Smaller quantity the French take on a steamer (4)

18. A pitfall is a bit of a setback (4) 20. What choir may sing for Sarah in the afternoon (5)

24. Leave intact part of a blood vessel (4) 25. Male horse and its accommodation no one can return to (8)

26. Where to put something on over the counter? (7,4)

Down

2. An aurochs won't finish run with us around (4)

3. It's not fit to be at home when pet is put out (5)

4. Get debts with police force Northern Ireland put up (5)

5. Not being active, nitre can be used (5) 6. Following in order to cut vice one's entangled with (11)

7. Renewed spirit of hers men fret about (11)

11. Poor turnout of about fifty in the lowest deck (5)

12. Unreasonable desire of homo sapiens for first-class turnover (S)

14. Do what one's told by old governor in Turkey (4)

15. Parasite might baffle attempt to hold it (4)

19. Wine grape, not one quietly to be given up (5)

21. Material isn't a woven form of it (S) 22. Soothes one in the periods of 16 (S) 23. Weight can almost do one in, having nothing (4)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Artifice 4. True 8. Tug 9. Route 10. Nap 11. Careful 12. Floss 13. Pronouncing 17. Idiom 18. Triumph 20. Dye 21. Nylon 22. Ink 23. Note 24. Splinter Down 1. Attack 2. Tiger 3. Cruel 5. Rundown 6. Expose 7. Perfection 9. Refinement 14. Raiment 15. Hidden 16. Shaker 18. Tulip 19. Moist