No 13721, Saturday 26 Nov 2022, Bruno

ACROSS

1   Beliefs of Native American tribe's detractors lacking contents (6) CREEDS {CREE}{De...rS}

4   Put ring on love, love-bird! (6) HOOPOO {HOOP}{0}{0}

8   One that runs away from love keen to hide beginnings of emotional reawakening (7)  AVOIDER {AV{0}ID}{Em...l}{Re...g}

9   Second player knocked out of knockout rounds gets rewards (7) PAYOFFS PlAYOFFS

11 Online article's truly with spirit (10) ETHEREALLY {E}{THE}{REALLY}

12 Resounding ego controlling Republican monster? (4) OGRE {OG{R}E*}

13 Spa building separated from hospital made of stone (5) LITHO HOspITaL*

14 Hereditary unit regressing in group that's breaking promise (8) RENEGING {R{GENE<=}ING}

16 Obscure name: "Le'Dainian" framed and decorated (8) ENAMELED [T]

18 Injuries on end of skullcap displayed by homeless people (5)  BUMPS {BUM{s...aP}S}

20 Fish's tailfin hiding in rock (4) DACE  DAnCE

21 UN rationed supply for labour organization (5,5) TRADE UNION*

23 Wound up twin chasing action regularly for entertainment (7) CINEMAS {SAME<=}<=>{aCtIoN}

24 Country collapsing into sea (7) ESTONIA*

25 Talk of unknown matter lacking mass (6) YATTER {Y}{mATTER}

26 A stiff back (6) ASTERN {A}{STERN}

DOWN

1   Animal's surprisingly active after chopping head off (5) CIVET aCTIVE*

2   Famous poem in entire extract (7) EMINENT [T]

3   Stop the Spanish digging into earth for fossil fuel (6,3) DIESEL OIL {DIE}{S{EL}OIL}

5   Company sent off travelling voyager with egg (5) OVARY VOYAgeR*

6   Continue to give priest and rector tea - nothing's lost (7) PROLONG {P}{R}{OoLONG}

7   Gifts of iron bands (9) OFFERINGS {OF}{FE}{RINGS}

10 Red Scot's from American South (9) FLORIDIAN {FLORID}{IAN}

13 Being straight? In reality - it's strange (9) LINEARITY*

15 Royalty? No thanks... (9) NOBLESSES {NO}{BLESSES} 

17 Actress sat with me - and we got drunk (3,4) MAE WEST {SAT+ME+WE}*

19 A nervous handler starts visiting spy at a portal to the underworld? (7) MANHOLE {M{A}{Ne...s}{Ha...r}OLE}

21 One dodged abuse for business (5) TRADE TiRADE

22 Working with interest at functioning plant (5) ONION {ON}{I}{ON}

Reference List

Online = E, Republican = R, Mass = M, The in Spanish = EL, Company = GE, Priest = P, Rector = R