Standard No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A standard puzzle: 28 clues on a 11×11 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Fighting to get cab MOT sorted (6)
5. Beginning to lose church, becoming bitter (4)
8. Giant reserves put into the tin (5)
9. Unlikely control (6)
10. Tend to be thin (4)
11. Chances are strange, son (4)
13. Proprietor to admit hesitation (5)
14. Endless chatter from the teacher (5)
16. Time for stockings — the ones over there (5)
18. Five sail round for the medicine bottles (5)
19. Sort of print (4)
21. Heads of a local sports organisation, too (4)
23. Stir it up north (6)
24. Marsupial, one hiding in the kola nut (5)
25. Wicked, having to live in reverse (4)
26. Flowering shrub cultivated termly (6)

Down

1. Wheels, footwear and beer — where bargains are found (3,4,4)
2. An omen met at sea becomes a keepsake (7)
3. No treaty redrafted by the lawyer (8)
4. Drawn, we hear, by the tide (4)
5. A lass swings into the dance (5)
6. Single piece of Stone Age pottery (3)
7. Cultural rebirth developing from an insane scare (11)
12. Energy and style show in the approach to the house (8)
15. New Kent lab produces cover (7)
17. Steals up to the bar seat (5)
20. Friend with a thousand to conceal (4)
22. Some risk it to go downhill (3)

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