The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 Willingness to please is curious, claims Capone (12)
8 Overlook gorge alongside (4,2)
9 Viler gal confused rural resident (8)
10 Unsupported claim of foul at goal line (10)
11 Pipe in bath last to corrode (4)
12 Quietly agreed to one 3‑D layout (6)
14 In addition, kept in gold Shakespearean castle (8)
16 Five‑armed creature, a brilliant swimmer? (8)
19 Gave an address to read out (6)
21 Blockhead to cheat officer (4)
22 N is a doomed plan (3‑7)
24 Finding faults is of vital importance (8)
25 Sailor leads girl to convent head (6)
26 Troubled Malta prouder when protected (6‑6)
DOWN
1 Move slowly and don’t start to scribble (5)
2 Hoodwink over major road’s metal (7)
3 Placed ideally in conifer (9)
4 Bill is ready to sing (7)
5 Exhausted everyone at home (3‑2)
6 Decent northern moderate (7)
7 Carried in the main (8)
13 Type of motor on loan to directors (8)
15 Brief journey by air corridor, say, after drink (5‑4)
17 This turns up and down (7)
18 And left that woman over trainer (7)
20 Tumbler crashing car and boat (7)
22 Anna chose some crispy snack (5)
23 Relieved from some disease, delighted (5)
ACROSS
1 Jam‑packed (11)
9 Speaks in a sing‑song way (5)
10 Cultured, polite (7)
11 Regains consciousness (5,2)
12 Badgers’ burrows (5)
13 Takes exams again (6)
15 Jacinda ___, former New Zealand PM (6)
18 Quick or stylish (5)
20 Mopped up with a swab (7)
22 Soothe (7)
23 Tissue attached to muscle (5)
24 Scoured, abraded (11)
DOWN
2 Large amounts or books (7)
3 Grates (5)
4 District (6)
5 Royal British castle (7)
6 Vote into power (5)
7 Devices based on the conducting of energy (11)
8 Going out of business (7,4)
14 Neck gland (7)
16 Niece of the King (7)
17 Additionally (2,4)
19 Peter ___, star of Easy Rider (5)
21 Fertile patch in a desert (5)