CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Closed envelope? Then WALK perhaps (6)

8. Craft one may need to engage in commerce (5)

9. Red sticks of it, the crowd murmur (7)

11. Multiplied threefold about a thousand, and shook (8)

12. The Right Reverend, out in a Cornish cathedral (5)

15. In the old days you had a grand, in short (4)

16. Hit the ball high into the vault of heaven (3)

17. Madame Callas didn’t start to sing it (4)

19. How to proceed on 21 Down for a month (5)

21. Right out of lentigo the South is helpless (8)

24. Shaped like a cigar fish (7)

25. The pick of old sailors under punishment (5)

26. Curses, but promises to be true (6)

DOWN

2. It may put one out of there (5)

3. Decorative tree to set fire to in alum compound (8)

4. Swiftly go to the river (4)

5. What is left by amputation to floor one (5)

6. Become in love with a season in America (4)

7. Sheeplike, go with it (4)

10. Early meal that will disintegrate quickly (9)

12. Drinks of spirit for the littl’uns (4)

13. The gall, celebrating it on a May day! (3-5)

14. Symptom of disease of the foolhardy (4)

18. Old love still burning hot? (5)

20. Drink for which endless credit is needed (5)

21. It is a measure of the infantry (4)

22. What you can’t keep and also consume, they say (4)

23. Propitiatory gifts that one soaks up (4)