CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flower festival not starting (5) 4 I miss putting egg on first – it’s wasteful (8) 8 Enduring not having a date? (8) 9 Give William printed sheet (8) 11 Rubbish in entrance, it’s enough to take one’s breath away (7) 13 Thief left with fire-raiser, reportedly (9) 15 Cook maybe prospered thus and enjoyed a long life (3,1,4,7) 18 Share beer and philosophy (9) 21 Square fellow (7) 22 Backing bridge partners when one’s in action (8) 24 Greek character returned racing around without concern (8) 25 Incomplete sentence? Labour can be limited this way (4-4) 26 Sound of bird, small, in dry surroundings (5)

DOWN

1 23 in every respect (10) 2 Tropical tree supplying river in Devon’s source (8) 3 Triangle to be redrawn with reference (8) 4 Top-class post office shut up (4) 5 Potter in bundle, upset and led astray (6) 6 Ruby, perhaps, and I following popular heavenly duo (6) 7 Three students welcoming university break (4) 10 Row right after broadcast – it gets many people up in the air (8) 12 Strange doodle artist’s framed in fabulous place (8) 14 Match steps required in trial for 10? (4,6) 16 TV programme from novel’s supported by actors (8) 17 Hooter goes before dodgy club go into decline (8) 19 Note curdled milk on the turn (6) 20 Choose not to take part in work with solicitor (3,3) 22 Call for similar cards (4) 23 One discovered coming from dune? (4)