Special, Sunday 18 Nov 2018, Avtaar

Three answers as usual till 6 PM. (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   Jerry and Tom abandon old English city (6)
4   Bird stealing cousin’s jacket (8)
9   Will I not get peace? (6)
10 Sexy star is dancing thus, starting to take off  (3,5)
11 Want to distribute drink bottles for an Illegal trader ?  (5,9)
13 Their fans follow their footsteps, maybe? (3,7)
14 Part of the Bible briefly reviewed in eight sections (4)
16 This is needed for cultivating rice and wheat, essentially (4)
18 Don’t switch off iPads-observe closely  (4,4,2)
21 Moved around, scribes virtually had to make excessive adjustments (14)
23 A church is razed in Baluchistan’s unsettled capital (8)
24 Desert wind is retreating with low sun on the Eastern border (6)
25 Truck driver in New York “Cha, sir? I will be going out” (8)
26 Some shrug and accept this state (6)

DOWN
1   Mao set limits for nearly everyone (4)
2   Boat’s observation point with small room on top (7)
3   Tyrant’s gold – two carats – was broken and removed (8)
5   Introduction dropped from our paper about self-esteem (5-6)
6   It is karma, not a silly mistake (6)
7   Reportedly inexperienced, curt doctors (7)
8   Extremely slim female? I want her any which way (5-4)
12 Ridiculously simple combination of speech, data entry and navigation devices (6-5)
13 Killer’s slip is revealed in empty threat (9)
15 Annoying, hard, fish-eating idiot (8)
17 Sloth in Eritrea shreds trimmed leaves after it gets up (7)
19 Record day in South Eastern settlement (3,4)
20 Vessel’s filled with ice-cream cakes (6)
22 Humming bird from China’s borders (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at AVTAAR 3

Enjoy.