CROSSWORD Puzzle No 1111

Clues across

1. Means to force opening for bird at pub (7) 5. Thus about to become impervious to suffering (5) 8. Managed (just) to have crazy ode composed (4,2) 9. Bow where all the real work is done? (5,3) 10. Barely disguised tax collectors here for a lark (5,4) 11. Comfort taken from 50% increase (4) 12. Lead America with that woman (5) 13. Imagine even I being upset about droop (8) 15. Superior to father, say, when priced at a premium (5,3) 18. Rare arrangement to restrain very uninhibited speaker (5) 20. Rate at sea by kilometre? Anything but (4) 21. Kept right inside and learnt a different skill (9) 23. Politician gets in, seated by mistake in the rush (8) 24. Maintain a part of the mountains is treacherous (6) 25. Fine young fellow so I hear (5) 26. Princess in south of France turns back chaperones (7)

Clues down

1. Container placed back in supermarket arcade (5) 2. Another arrangement made (in prayer) as it is in heaven (2,5) 3. Poor tabby stumbles into unexpected difficulty (5,4) Peter is treated with some time out (7) 5. Stuck around, so they say, being sober (5) 6. Shore up structure for a classical musician (7) 7. Flog darling as a sweetener (4,5) 12. Townies have train and bus travelling around east (9) 14. Recite poem about part of Indonesia (9) 16. You could make a mint after six with a nutritional essence (7) 17. Tree chopped to fit in study in make-over (7) 19. Game in heaven is ongoing (7) 21. Caribou turn up at the beginning of the year rather thin and wheezy (5) 22. Idlers’ skis regularly do as tables (5)