Across
1 Ruling party millions elected at home on third of August (10)
6 Better, deleting the last letter in the last word (4)
9 Reproduction of sound in car with disc on (5)
10 Crooks ruined top firm (4-5)
12 Siren in stories, the French one (7)
13 Man sees slack in a body (2,5)
14 Cocktails and mixed gins at either side of Pearl, so drunk (9,6)
17 I’m Toby, cranky and eccentric, opposing local development (3,2,2,4,4)
20 Large pub in capital (7)
22 Three-pronged spear I’d found in English river (7)
23 Material girl (9)
24 Port of Omaha, if asked (5)
25 Travel free by Tube, ultimately (4)
26 Didn’t let on in park, kitted out (4,2,4)
Down
1 Unerring on square, batting with pride? (6,3)
2 Position for cricketer around Irish golf club (7)
3 Somewhat unattractive description of a watercolour? (2,3,8)
4 Awful riot described by boy in region (9)
5 Particularly suitable position of hotel in French resort (5)
7 Curse married girl (7)
8 Glass initially embedded in exposed elbow (5)
11 Film title shook me badly, I admitted (4,4,2,3)
15 Command performance (9)
16 Distract team on course (9)
18 Part of motel (for drivers) in a Shropshire town (7)
19 A maiden, girl in West Side Story song (7)
20 Row about golf and golfer? (5)
21 Fool about with saltpetre (5)
