Clues
Across
1. Retail guerrillas just can't be persuaded to buy new weapons? (5,10)
9. Sewn on, or at least spread on, all over Queen's head (9)
10. Some climbers - four, that is - point to the right (5)
11. Chopped basil placed on stumps (5)
12. Made less garish by using softer-coloured feathers (5,4)
13. Uncertain goals of African capital (5)
15. Terpsichore, perhaps, meets fellows for beverage, by the sound of it - what a laugh! (9)
17. Record, such as the Anglo-Saxons' (9)
19. Queen of the violent Near East (5)
21. Given time and a place to hide, sing about something that makes one sorrowful (9)
23. Surrenders in a defaced estate-car (5)
24. Come back again, and err badly about copper (5)
25. Paternal fraternal? (9)
26. Weighing the atom bomb against the chemical weaponry, it's a bit of a Mexican stand-off (7,2,6)
Down
1. Chaotic - indeed, false and confusing - "boil till cold" (9)
2. Slipping several times round the track with a gin cocktail (7)
3. She is upset, and recoils sharply (5)
4. What lava does in a crater up the volcano (5)
5. Get used to standing around a hollow - it's in the contract (9)
6. Falter, dear, right below top (5,4)
7. Rank and row seizing round a thousand (7)
8. Neil's broken awl (5)
14. Hand reins carelessly to Jewish council (9)
15. Get used to receiving a bill for the weather (9)
16. To be the man with the money is a pirate's motivation, right? (9)
18. Free thinker is a revolutionary, liar and cad (7)
20. Bob approaches the French in ancient city - they're all lumpy! (7)
21. Brush, with strength and vigour (5)
22. Rough patchwork rug, very loud! (5)
23. Hidden store of money, one hears (5)
