Standard No. 3 — cryptic crossword

A standard puzzle: 29 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. Best one, unknown, is a gem (5)
4. Fright, we hear, on Latin soil (5)
7. Snap ending gives a result decided by inches (5,6)
10. Rouge clumsily applied by a scoundrel (5)
11. Second beer at the clearance (4)
14. Offspring of the star, reportedly (4)
15. Holds out with the cobbler's forms (5)
17. Dog is at the rear end (4)
19. Leaders of every party in charge are magnificent (4)
22. Prospect of a street set in the Roman road (5)
23. What's left tangled in a nice hairnet (11)
25. Western snakes are stinging insects (5)
26. Cowshed, we hear, for the customer (5)

Down

1. Paste, spread out, makes sticky strips (5)
2. Roam, as an expert with a novice (5)
3. Some jazz oozes out of the animal park (3)
4. Craving a crumpled T-shirt (6)
5. Rule over a troubled Niger (5)
6. Yearn for a revolutionary (4)
8. Nose around nothing for a loop (5)
9. Small American greeting for Japanese food (5)
12. Performance without end produces a muscle protein (5)
13. English tile, broken, for the upper crust (5)
16. Warning bells for a learner with weapons (6)
18. Cinders when she is tucked in (5)
20. Little finger is rosy — why? (5)
21. Clare, when upset, is transparent (5)
22. Take in an opinion (4)
24. Club turned up for the bill (3)

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