Fifteensquared

Sorry for delay - it finally reached me!  Nothing of great note here, but nothing to cause complaint either.
ACROSS

1.   MALADY  - (mala-d-y)
4.   BIOPIC- (b-i-o-pic -film based on a person’s life, usually an actor,a royal, or a politician)
8.   ELEANOR - (<hidden clue in ve-RONA ELE-vated)
9.   BOLOGNA - (< a nob, to include log )
11. ON THE SHELF - (*honest with he-l-f - more often females who are said to be on the shelf!)
12. IRIS -(the  even letters from ‘big ruins’)
13. TORSO -( t- or so )
14. CUPBOARD - c-upb-o-ard ( card often used to indicate an eccentric character ,*pub. first letter of order)
16. ODYSSEUS- (o-dy-sse-us - ‘Osse’ presumably from Tolkien’s works,the character who guards the  waters of Middle earth, first and last of dinghy, US to indicate country of Florida)
18. omitted
20. PYRE - (half of Pyrenees)
21. CHEAPSKATE -( * hates pack, with e)
23. SETBACK -(established defender in the game)
24. REDOUBT- (re-doubt - earthwork built within a permanent fortification)
25. ROTTER - r-otter
26. CYBELE - (Mother goddess of Phrygia and Asia Minor - cy-bel(L)le

DOWN

1  MELON. -(m-el-on - el in abbr.Monday)
2  LEATHER - (lea-the-r - Edward Lear, 19th century poet, famous for his nonsense poems)
3. DROP SCONE (*scorned  with op, as usual, for work)
5. IN-OFF -(hidden clue)
6. PROVISO - (prov-is-o - provo short for Provisional Irish Repulbican Army
7. CONCIERGE - (co *cringe around e)
10.LEICESTER- (l-e-ice-ester - ice for reserve, ester is a chemical compound)
13.TEDDY BEAR - (t-eddy-b-ear - tb is the illness, ear for attention)
15. PERIPHERY - (per-i-p-he-ry - one quiet male within perry, a drink made from pears.)
17. omitted
19. IRKSOME -( [K] -irk-some [ sound like sum])
21. CACHE- ( cache{T})
22. TABLE - dd (table as in ‘table an amendment’ as well as the furniture)