No 14205, Wednesday 19 Jun 2024, Afterdark

Solution to 11A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

1   Go through parchment (6) SCROLL [DD]

4   When starting late, children should gain resistance against disease (6) RABIES (-b+r)RABIES

8   Laboured night shift to arrest criminal (7) HALTING {H{AL}TING*}

9   Perhaps, factory can get new equipment at the start with the help of railway (7) CANNERY {CA{N}N}{Eq...t}{RY}

11 Copied an article one published in issue (10) ?E?I?A?I?E (Addendum - DERIVATIVE [CD] - See comments)

12 Pavlov engaged to wrap a stove (4) OVEN [T]

13 Indiscriminate weeds in a plant (5) SWEDE*

14 Stops family getting a leather garment (8) SEALSKIN {SEALS}{KIN}

16 Measure, say cat's return track (8) FOOTSTEP {FOOT}{PETS<=} Track would be FOOTPRINT and not FOOTSTEP?

18 Southern gals in a funny way create jargon (5) SLANG {S}{GALS*} Error in fodder. Should have been Northern.

20 Leaders from South encourage agitators rabidly to burn (4) SEAR Acrostic

21 Broadcast his rant about jerk who could be a disbeliever (10) ANTICHRIST {HIS+RANT}* over {TIC}

23 Rewrite article on show (7) RECITAL*

24 Finance is from New Delhi perhaps (7) CAPITAL [DD]

25 Letters from advisor relates to a plant (6) SORREL [T]

26 Order to pay (6) SETTLE [DD]

DOWN

1   Cut is small to suffer (5) SHAVE {S}{HAVE}

2   Rope used in ship seen on sailor's counter with another cord (7) RATLINE {TAR<=}{LINE}

3   Male getting treated outside home by specialist of facial feature, say (9) LINEAMENT {L{IN}EAM*}{ENT}

5   Worried after a bishop becomes slow (5) ABATE {ATE}<=>{A}{B}

6   Broadcast of genius around middle of October pertains to fire (7) IGNEOUS {IGNE{octOber}US*}

7   Son's publishing without source and examining (9) SURVEYING {S}{pURVEYING}

10 Knocking off tips aside, it's lavish (9) DISSIPATE* 

13 In a way, seems OK to describe large space in the front as one without puffers (9) SMOKELESS {SEEMS+OK}* over {L} and {Sp..e}

15 Partner is a fool of course, initially kept setter worried (9) ASSOCIATE {ASS}{Of}{Co...e}{I}{ATE}

17 Bone for a month makes happier dog (7) TERRIER (-m+t)TERRIER

19 Look to stop transport (7) AIRLIFT {AIR}{LIFT}

21 Ask me anything unknown on electric shock (5) AMAZE {Ask}{Me}{An...g}{Z}{E} Letter pick indicator missing? Or is it an accepted abvn in internet slang?

22 Having meat in small eatery at the corner leads to stigma (5) SHAME {S}{HAM}{Ea...y}

Reference List

Resistance = R, Criminal = AL(Capone), New = N, Railway = RY, Small = S, Home = IN, Specialist = ENT, Bishop = B, Son = S, Large = L, Bone = T, Month = M, Unknown = Z, Electric = E