CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,282

ACROSS

6 Fancy a tourist’s misdirected? That’s disappointing (14) 9 Successfully oppose conflict in odd parts of Tahiti (6) 10 Edwin had to change something unfavourable for sailors? (8) 11 Western man’s person with first of such softly spoken words (8) 13 Note fantastic timeless cricket side, a unique phenomenon (3-3) 15 Identifies foreign currency in the Bahamas (6) 17 Dark blue colour I like

among number (6) 19 Prohibit director in charge describing a poet? (6) 20 Two pages about a minute hotel and rental property in brochure (8) 22 Investigate group and circle around ordinary family (4,4) 24 Journey with no end of cost on holiday? It’s financial exploitation (3-3) 26 Delete a thing given by bank and choose a middle-of-theroad course (6,1,7)

DOWN

1 Spend lavishly to put bathhouse in a different state (4,3,4,3) 2 Man’s rival regularly in

large landmass (4) 3 Rodin’s work, perhaps, for all to see in country (6) 4 After leaving cold, a Moroccan chomped a light biscuit (8) 5 Remain in stifling atmosphere for dish cooked in liquid (4) 7 Second companion is beginning to minimise division between sections? (6) 8 Unseen effort of eccentric exhausted by overwork (3,3,4,4) 12 Bob is given rigid

fragment (5) 14 Some better IT here

in London suburb (5) 16 Alteration in recent ad for a glass container (8) 18 Self-assurance from old doctor supporting a place (6) 21 Chap holding rare book and hard building material (6) 23 Unite equipment around back of cabin (4) 25 Gamble to travel

along a river? (4)