Clues
Across
1. Academic arbiter examines fish, perhaps (6,9)
9. Retimed exercise earns a black mark (7)
10. Placed urn in newly-rebuilt dome and lamented for the dead (7)
11. The French set about mill-races (5)
12. Severe critic takes twisting stair to vault (9)
13. War poet much admired by SAS and so on (7)
14. Politician meets the French outside, Sir - it's much easier (7)
16. Fires singe it badly (7)
19. Pigeon will not succeed in catching industrious little insect (7)
21. Just make it and dissect it, okay? (3,2,4)
23. Traditional destination of 2 Down (5)
24. Pressing one, and not returning gin cocktail (7)
25. Moderate loses a disagreement and downgrades a colleague (7)
26. Mooting rascally preparations in the name of haute cuisine (15)
Down
1. Simple decorative needlework used for tacking tack? (6,9)
2. Pounds with mallets and harms me badly (7)
3. One component of scent is rot or … or decomposition (5,4)
4. Where Tom and Huck split up? (2,5)
5. Tips total . . . it's in the document (7)
6. Rejoice at being late - last, in fact (5)
7. Clinging vine twines around red lint (7)
8. Trebled her worry about unripe blueberry (3,12)
15. Is it a chemical? Is it univalent? It's Action Mom, in action! (9)
17. Ian's not about to see the States (7)
18. One tiny piece among scraps mid general chaos (7)
19. Roughly formed out of string - what a liberty! (7)
20. Up against it at first, nevertheless not quite tall enough (7)
22. Last of the lot that is in limousine is a peer sitting in judgement on a peer (5)
