| Clues across |
| 8 | Sent round American coin as deposit (8) |
| 9 | Thought not to have charged particle (6) |
| 10 | Exercise holding air-vessel in dive (6) |
| 11 | Badly drench fifty-one and create issue (8) |
| 12 | Burden I’m to set in place (10) |
| 13 | Sung? No church, so it’s spoken (4) |
| 14 | Hint: magnetic ink could be changed into something for making a jumper (8-7) |
| 18 | Drop distorted poker (4) |
| 20 | Novelties I switched round in box (10) |
| 23 | Grannies working for wages (8) |
| 24 | West Indian’s broken fish-basket with nothing in it (6) |
| 25 | Snuggle down in home with the French (6) |
| 26 | Lear, next to stray outside (8) |
