WEE THINKER

Across

1 Set upon speaker’s admission of tiredness? (8) 5 Spoil some interior detail with these paints? (4) 9 Choose from pork or masala curry (5) 10 Serial I translated, from Jerusalem perhaps (7) 11 Almost strange block of water (4) 12 Union paper? (8) 14 Department with drawers? (6) 15 Conclusion needs fixing, though not at first (6) 18 It might be played on the lawn in dry weather (8) 20 Opposed to being in quarantine (4) 23 Manual work, note, for former female students (7) 24 The way to tear team outfit (5) 25 Lean left into bird (4) 26 County, not all, rest different (8)

Down

1 Question directions if crooked (5) 2 Author by the right obstacle (7) 3 Have a quick look in Tuscany (4) 4 No side turning for an inventor (6) 6 Passive miner taken inside (5) 7 Being afloat, son is feeling unwell (7) 8 Rude teacher, an enigmatic leader (7) 13 Unrestrained, a politician during wild, impassioned speech (7) 14 From memory, where the lungs are (2,5) 16 To block polluted drains with nitrogen takes guts (7) 17 Shortly gauge drug ring (6) 19 Listen to head case with boat (5) 21 Popular set’s ideas (5) 22 Man, for example, is seen with foreign article (4)