The Herald Sunday crosswords
ACROSS
1 Young ladies primarily love fools (6)
5 Furniture pieces are centrally placed in minis, say (8) 9 Oddly lacking urgency, demand musical instrument (8)
10 Takes up post working with Bill (6) 11 Copier prints out recipe (12) 13 College returned mark (4) 14 Health professional to join in hiding spies (8)
17 Heckle singer, providing inspiration (8)
18 Honest man left murder victim (4) 20 Pretty sure gangster's keeping one secret (12)
23 Silver seen in mud? It's an illusion (6)
24 Corrupt country losing leader in revolution (8)
25 U-turn from Thatcher appears at last in show (8)
26 £500 or £1000 in cash (6)
DOWN
2 Old artist upset after losing son (4) 3 Way to subdue breaking news (4,5)
4 That's odd, England's somewhat drookit (6)
5 Auntie's boss ordering treacle for cooking (8-7)
6 Close to despondence, spies in China starve (8)
7 Try to take in old film (5) 8 Reasons to have food without beer (10)
12 Daft reason to get moving (10) 15 Fake tea upset part of South Africa (9)
16 Stupid guard? Not so much (8) 19 I see Trump's introduction in largely stupid proclamation (6) 21 Celebrity clothing left in burn (5) 22 Single fish (4)