Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 24/04/2013

Across

1 What to do with shoe mistakenly (3,4,4,2,2)

9 A sheep in story from American town the man came from (7)

10 Old empress puts rats in a stew (7)

11 It is at the heart of sinners (5)

12 Dot and Leslie South found it did not have any meaning (9)

13 Later go round and find one eyeing with intense satisfaction (7)

14 That very girl mother selfishly protected (7)

16 Disgraceful crumbling part of pivot (7)

19 Turns atlas up and finds spoon (7)

21 Transformation by saltwater? (3,6)

23 Painfully done (5)

24 Not a thin quality (7)

25 Unexpectedly subeditor is leaving fieldwork (7)

26 More of the courses of study are outside usual academic course (5-10)

Down

1 Getting away with playing a rash stroke (7,1,4,3)

2 Aware of rocky peak first in the city (7)

3 It is fractionally above the line (9)

4 Footballer who brushes aside his opponents? (7)

5 The world’s largest egg producer (7)

6 Form of art, it is characteristic (5)

7 Artlessness of leading athlete in event I rearranged (7)

8 Cries? These are funny (5,2,8)

15 Ecstatic, it’s to do with poems after harps had been playing (9)

17 Least profitable despite being steepest? (7)

18 Attention second person gives to expression qualifying previous statement (4,3)

19 One making many a cut on the farm (7)

20 One French drink perhaps that’s out of the ordinary (7)

22 Had an invitation for all starters at port (5)