Cryptic Crossword 2 Answers

Answers to Cryptic Crossword 2 below the break.

ACROSS

1. Deface a mark of justice (5)
    Anagram (a mark)

4. Loud cook ("Abe") cooked at site of many walls? (8)
    [Loud = f] + [anagram: cook ("Abe")]

9. Patriotic shades studied undead creature and gasped aloud (3,5,3,4)
    Homophone (read wight and blew)

10. Water settles around Curt (5)
    Container (Water settles)

11. Expert left her point of origin, an agency half abandoned--children live there (9)
    [Expert left = orp] + h + an + [agency half = age]

12. Satisfied, a pedestrian ate vegetables (8)
    a + p(peas)ed

14. Scrunch up your brow and think back without anguish at last (4)
    [Think back = kniht] - h

16. Referee disagreeing about mouthpiece (4)
    Container (Referee disagreeing)

17. Criticize commercial management head on his error (8)
    ad + m + on + [anagram: his]

21. Fundamentally film reel almost scores, but takes unfair advantage (9)
    f + ree + loads

22. Pack animal was all mother ordered (5)
    Anagram (all ma)

24. “‘Weight’ around?” nags Geen; he’d fixed tale about trying new things (5,4,3,3)
    Gr([anagram: nags Geen; he'd])am

25. Bad mood came from rotten Hellenistic blood or phlegm, for example (3,5)
    ill + humor

26. Back and forth, sends radio waves! (5)
    Palindrome

DOWN

1. Duchess Middleton masters Egyptian sun god’s fighting technique (6)
    Ka(Ra)te

2. “Eliminator” without a bit of disguise is just a guy on a horse (5)
    ridder - d

3. Go-getter invested in hibachi, everyone (8)
    Container (hibachi, everyone)

4. Note to us: surrounding university was stupid (7)
    [Note = fa] + t(U)ous

5. Having limited space, compact disc stores 1,000 articles per strenuous, exhausting second (7)
    C([anagram: m + [articles = as] + per - s)D

6. Rabid lamb, full of energy and a bone-enhancing vitamin, causes chaos (6)
    [anagram: lamb] + e + d

7. Substances used by Renoir got pianist Lo high (3,6)
    Anagram (pianist Lo)

8. Regarding Penny not long ago (6)
    re + cent

13. In many parts of Maine and Alabama, after fruit-filled dessert, coffee limits are adopted (9)
    pie + [coffee limits = ce] + ME + AL

15. Quick quip by late night’s Jay raised restraint worries (3-5)
    [late night's Jay raised = oneL] + [anagram: rein]

16. Refuse to trade gung-ho principal for subpar leader’s safety (6)
    refuse - s + g

17. Warm pail, e.g., calms, evens mixture (7)
    Even letters

18. Sure I’m upset about supervisor, primarily a person who employs something incorrectly (7)
    [anagram: Sure I'm] + s

19. Pale and lifeless, having swallowed nitrogen and carbon (6)
    bla(N + C)h

20. Taken from afar, mermaid is someone who raises fish (6)
    Container (afar, mermaid)

23. Hurt, Guevara hid in the year of our Lord (5)
    A(Che)D