CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Using any sails in storm may

result in breakdown (8) 6 Man — a Scottish isle?

Could be! (6) 9 Shady nook the French

set back by bay (6) 10 Great-aunt perhaps showing

delight after run (8) 11 Very lazy dizzy blonde,

English, one’s embraced (4-4) 12 Barked shrilly or deeply

when disturbed (6) 13 With hindsight, vet should

keep on time or about (2,10) 16 They brought mother and father

up well, presumably! (12) 19 Travel at speed and overheat (6) 21 Bad comedian is diabolical (8) 23 Like the weather, boiling up

but not cold inside (8) 24 Water nymphs in a sad novel (6) 25 Goes through customs

at university (4,2) 26 Declined to be escorted around

German city (8)

DOWN

2 You’ll find this admiral in the hold (6) 3 Nothing to do

at this end (5) 4 Drivers aren’t slow

to fall into it (5,4) 5 Snake dispatched, pierced

by monarch softly (7) 6 Excursion for everyone within the bounds of Surrey (5) 7 They run up volcano

with long striding gaits (9) 8 Italian city girl (8) 13 Idiot shows no end of charm after bottomless neglect (9) 14 Tom in suffering sent out

for soothing remedies (9) 15 Sunny spots? (8) 17 Thoroughgoing cad and liar needing to reform (7) 18 Feel composer’s final

part is twisted (6) 20 That man arranged to

go north, being excited (3,2) 22 This person’s gripped

by organ sound (5)