The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
8 Clever fellow that's back playing tennis (8)
9 Make up for stupid efforts to get rid of king (6)
10 Last goal certain after header missed (6)
11 Naked, or wear thin pants? (2,3,3)
12 Shrewdest actors accepting nine parts at random (8)
13 Refer to setter the wrong way? It'd make one sick! (6) 14 It's used to reach a dog in Walford (9,6)
18 Mother and child getting fruit (6)
20 Vague and ignorant, but not at home (8)
23 Kind surgeon wrong to swallow drug (8)
24 Gunman back on legs (6) 25 Metalworkers ignoring women in trees (6)
26 Record company values foreign countries (8)
DOWN
1 Old queen taking four around city (6)
2 Financier essentially stops children making announcement (8) 3 Frenchman, say, upset
Welsh (6)
4 Ordinary nuts this genius undid (15)
5 Ten hours travelling from London, perhaps (8)
6 Weak force caught out by Spain (6)
7 Extremely severe case getting drug (8)
15 Journalist lately dancing outside with delight (8) 16 Construction enclosing multiple layers (8)
17 Alarming criminal on the edge (8)
19 Among children, first person appeared (6)
21 Rascal is so foolish, holding back evidence from the past (6)
22 The Spanish first lady's new team (6)
ACROSS
1 Turn loose (7) 5 Prestidigitation (5) 8 Ridicules (5)
9 Source of irritation (7) 10 Thinly (populated) (8) 11 Whalebone support in a corset (4)
13 Dedicated to a religious purpose (6)
15 Two-pint measures (6) 18 Cigarettes (4) 19 Gender-equality movement (8)
22 Trying experiences (7) 23 Manchester symphony orchestra (5)
24 Kitchen fixtures (5)
25 Parsimonious (7)
DOWN
1 Reveals (7)
2 Saint ___, Caribbean island (5)
3 Evaluated, judged (8) 4 Impede the gait of (a horse) (6)
5 Drinking vessels (4)
6 More momentous (7)
7 Banal, hackneyed (5) 12 Penalises (8)
14 Confined like an animal (5,2) 16 Pleasantly warm (7)
17 Goods thrown from a ship (6) 18 Deceives (5)
20 Lazybones (5)
21 Places down (4)