Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1 Game with several directors

and things to play on 7 Seen, as is music 8 Exceptionally good one to

trade with 11 State allowed one servant 12 Meddle with one packing down 14 Times starts doing all your

stories 16 Implement to return ill

gotten gains 19 Constantly disturb endlessly

hard animal 22 Slope off with people from

eastern Europe 24 Crude gestures shown to

come from the body 25 Endlessly gratify entreaties 26 Send us up as first runner

somehow endlessly excelled

DOWN 1 False story of card with object inside 2 Present it your own part of essential nature 3 Was last to wreak doom on

a biblical city 4 Nothing evil about this fruit 5 Spin for a lively dance 6 Old sailor in universal trouble 9 Runs smartly to return a famous violin 10 All end running on initial parts pertaining to air 13 Trophy remaining after fire 15 Highly excited from a good

attempt inside 17 Roses I replace with willows 18 Learner relaxed and took

up rented property 20 Plasterboard plant is inside 21 Greek letter probably one in dominant position 22 It’s cheaper using some foreign country 23 Not so much and not all

essential in part