CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Used spade quietly and undermined it (6)

8. Misplace nothing inside that's unconstricted (5)

9. Sort of horse has to be got with nag somehow (7)

11. Got one's barrow going, having turned Lady Day into it (8)

12. Something gelatinous for John first to yell about (5)

15. Is eager to wail over the departed (4) 16. In certain knowledge it will make its mark in writing (3)

17. Flag-girl (4)

19. Range the South can deal with (5) 21. Fuel takes ages to get round body of aircraft (8)

24. Yale he's ordered to produce Hair (7) 25. Don't go for the cane (5)

26. Made repairs red, and altered it (6)

▶ Down

2. Make one smile about Emu, as it were (5)

3. Peevish way nut leapt at it (8)

4. Mark of knock hidden tentatively inside (4)

5. Gaol has a ringing sound to it (5) 6. Pulled over one's eyes, one is hoodwinked by it (4)

7. Corner round which one would be mad to go (4)

10. Reg might affiance himself to a fruit (9) 12. Something to 2 needs the king to be in the pack (4)

13. It's a letter all round (8)

14. Dry spot in the sea lies awkwardly (4) 18. The paint will come off like a bit of snow (5)

20. Give one a thrashing with something sticky (5)

21. How quickly Lent goes! (4) 22. Swarm up a bone in the leg (4) 23. Looked over what turned up in parade yesterday (4)