CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,430

Across

7 Train routes are endlessly reorganised (8) 9 Catwalk streak interrupted by posh northern women (6) 10 Old French artist practically flipped (4) 11 Rogue Hollywood guy is relentless (10) 12 Bordeaux can’t lose at rugby, eliminating Toulouse initially (6) 14 Boozer in a hole, drunk before work (8) 15 Most sage in Kew is established (6) 17 Voyage on board takes off (6) 20 Following hostilities, blusters for sanctions (8) 22 Three quarters welcoming united nation (6) 23 Conduct dire matins when drunk (10) 24 Marseille, perhaps too French in retrospect (4) 25 Jail, or bird, ends with isolation ahead (6) 26 Excitedly greet men coming out (8)

Down

1 Pay off a humble abode (8) 2 Spy person taking on M’s successor (4)

3 Close second cheated, reportedly (6)

4 Nice touch of Gold Label isn’t half cut (8)

5 Turning against one, getting wind up (10)

6 Soprano is cold-blooded for the audience (6)

8 Beginning to perform in broadcast encore (6)

13 Taught again to accept school’s head being aloof (10)

16 Feeling excited? That is not heartless (8)

18 Ushering English Queen into do (8)

19 Plant taken by taste, oddly, for fly (6)

21 Passionate artist’s over depression (6)

22 Dishes out some appetiser vessels (6)

24 Call sweetheart after rift, upset (4)