CLUES ACROSS
1. If it holds water, kick it and die (6)
4. Will drive very fast, i.e have a burn-up (6)
9. Salt Una put out with the dried fruit (7)
10. Stand in contention with one of Sheridan's characters
(5)
11. X is, to a Greek, repeatedly pretentious (3)
12. Burgeoned out with spread after a loss (8)
14. It clings on to a little devil, if allowed to get round
it (6)
15. The first motorway to go west in 24 hours, when half the
distance there (6)
18. It gives one a taste of the cannon I'm putting out (8)
20. Petrol that starts gushing and spilling (3)
23. It's the last thing that could give me a go at it (5)
24. A let-up for Peter is possible (7)
25. It follows that it has seen us at variance (6)
26. Would prefer to have a change of heart, right? (6)
CLUES DOWN
1. Is in a taxi that comes up, plain and simple (5)
2. An element of calm one gets with copper (7)
3. The impetuosity in the language is French (4)
5. Phenol used as a possible bar in abdominal trouble (8)
6. Will firmly fix plate to plate, say (5)
7. Had oily sort of look in the vacation (7)
8. Tea up for blending is brownish grey (5)
13. See a trap set out and cease to live together (8)
14. Milk-sugar to be put in a different scale (7)
16. Amusing sort of gig Shaw arranged (7)
17. Woo one, and it may give one a hearing (5)
19. One doesn't have the necessities (5)
21. It has its head in advance of the attack (5)
22. Parts of Burma, Siam and a lot of other countries (4)