CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 7 Pig, our man decides to eat pig (8) 9 Cold and damp and spacious, we hear … (6) 10 … really kind of light (4) 11 United get trained working out (10) 12 Beer belly of a being consumed by drink (6) 14 Shocks from power cuts without resistance (8) 15 The French experiment is most recent (6) 17 Colour is fashionable till over (6) 20 Cutting edge round old empty cask causes closure (8) 22 Strong man about to reverse squat (6) 23 Hostility strangely against keeping on male (10) 24 Part inside tree’s heartwood initially (4) 25 Boot that is put on properly (6) 26 Church service still new, with good following (8)

DOWN 1 Move missing wingers in squad getting fit together (8) 2 Hope beam supports

stern of ship (4) 3 District’s hot south

of foreign capital (6) 4 Panic is appropriate

being trapped in bog (8) 5 Split pants are ruined, holding vulgar expression back (10) 6 This compiler’s strangely

deep and slow (6) 8 Internet company’s ruin,

accepting tick, oddly (6) 13 Evident single guy embraces

sweetheart after zero time (10) 16 Mature offspring adopting a child (8) 18 It’s part of lover to need suggestion (8) 19 Perhaps Game of Thrones

Queen upset formula (6) 21 Delay vessel taking

on gallons (6) 22 Bad actor surmounts hindrance

to get Shakespearean role (6) 24 Hard drink, lifting elbow (4)