CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Though stationary, it may interfere with reception (6)

8. One is so upset by what one hears (5)

9. Cathedral church dignitary gets troops out around five (7)

11. Worthless stuff produced by two-thirds of 10 on the railway

(8)

12. Have a part of this index of trade on the Stock Exchange (5)

15. Girl hasn’t begun to show form (4)

16. Mole finishes his crop early (3)

17. If old-fashioned, we get backing afresh (4)

19. Deify in order to improve the mind of one (5)

21. Think it legally placed on football field and in credit (8)

24. Another showing of Ravel perhaps around six (7)

25. Duck one found in broken reed (5)

26. Different ones from sort he makes up (6)

DOWN

2. In Toc-H regulars began to see the light (5)

3. Ivor changes hats with comrade in Russia (8)

4. Those in play who behave like bellfounders (4)

5. Pithy saying from a model standing in the garden (5)

6. If it’s up to the French, they’ll produce a dossier (4)

7. Say one didn’t die: one would have to leave New York (4)

10. Swan — not the mute — might give one a blast (9)

12. Flatfish comes between one and the ground one walks on

(4)

13. Snack course between work and study (8)

14. Influence, for argument’s sake, around the West (4)

18. Joint episcopal dignity (5)

20. Faculty for nosing out sudden blaze, by the sound of it (5)

21. Musical symbol used in song-cycle frequently (4)

22. A swelling running ABCFGH? (4)

23. Embarrassed, having nothing to work at it again (4)