CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Sharing role with similar spirit (9,2) 9 Be advised through tough times (5) 10 Starting eating a meal around one (9) 11 Stretch between termini changed (7) 12 Mr. Short captures a Red Planet alien (7) 13 Partly consumed chicken, admitting a large achievement (4-5) 16 Fencer at first lubricates swords (5) 17 Calls for sheets (5) 18 Typos I run in Ms. (9) 20 Free rent again (7) 22 Covering outside of heel, fall (7) 24 Grim couple accepting small, sad state (9) 25 War god acquiring 100 plots of land (5) 26 Actor from L.A. can be wild when drunk (4,7)

DOWN 1 Ritzy houses or one rather shabby (7) 2 Correct ceremony recited (5) 3 Awfully rotten, say lawyers (9) 4 Religion I severely criticize (5) 5 Squashes split by fellow gluttons (9) 6 Resort on the Riviera mid-April is more pleasant (5) 7 Dee and I sight rift (8) 8 A chap’s representatives (6) 14 Brief speech in shelter about storms (8) 15 Peter met a stranger mild in manner (9) 16 Scotch woods and everything (9) 17 Pole involved in bear mockery (6) 19 Relative spent so carelessly (7) 21 Convertible near a sports venue (5) 22 Baby bed holds a resident of the Antilles (5) 23 A trainer’s last fight pointer (5)