| Across 7. A defect in vision (7) 8. Liverpool's home ground (7) 10. Exam once given to primary school students in England and Wales in their final year (6-4) 11. A small deer-like water buffalo, native to Sulawesi (4) 12. A dark yellow crystalline substance (8) 14. In ecclesiastical law, an advocate of a church benefice (6) 15. Captain of the Australian women's national cricket team (6,5) 19. Formal discussion (6) 20. Facial hair - can be raised (8) 22. Paul, actor who played the lead role in 1932 gangster film Scarface (4) 23. Striving to be perfect (10) 25. Get back (7) 26. One who supposes to be the case (7) | Down 1. To loosen or remove a brace holding things together (7) 2. Black marketeer (4) 3. The buffalo nut (6) 4. Informal phrase meaning 'agitated' or 'excited' (2,1,5) 5. EastEnders character played by Lucy Benjamin between 1998 and 2023 (4,6) 6. A person whose function or duty is the distribution of alms on behalf of an institution, a royal personage, a monastery, etc (7) 9. A line of English kings, ruling form the ascent of Henry II to the death of Richard III (11) 13. The site of a nuclear reprocessing plant in west Cumbria (10) 16. Particular (8) 17. Floods (7) 18. Expected (7) 21. Billie, Bad Guy US singer/songwriter (6) 24. Rebuff (4) |