Alan Lee’s Cryptic Crossword: No. 877

Across

1 How to deal with lone nut. Escape (4,1,4,3,2) 10 Reserves oversized display of manuals (9) 11 Wine fills over 10 jars (5) 12 A slice of veal in gray sauce (5) 13 Cartoon technique. It leaves a copy (9) 14 Actors once hid director’s first name (5) 16 Silly person encourages poor scores (5,4) 17 Hostage takers controlled TV actress (9) 19 Other machines included a heating unit (5) 21 Many cheer reformation of Satan (9) 23 Actress took bow at birth (5) 24 Discover first water supply and live (5) 25 Big Herb is confused by chatter (9) 26 Lack of progress makes men end top novel (14)

Down

2 Sounds like an ease to confessions (7) 3 Undertake a trial (5) 4 Graduate with sickly heart is Swahili boss (5) 5 To sprawl. One bursts. They’re licked (9) 6 Heavens! Adamant last word ends project (9) 7 Top marsupial cheating (7) 8 Hat day payments regulated comfort sessions (3,3,8) 9 Boring, proud, aye! yet shattered by apology (1,3,4,6) 15 At twelve, swimmers began exercising. Alone (2-3,4) 16 Scrambled egg, ale & rye in Calgary casino (4,5) 18 Hypothetical proton makes non-clue solvable (7) 20 Avoidance of Peron’s particle (7) 22 Lad rejected smell from yokel (5) 23 Unguent in closed tube among stuff (5)