CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Period after holiday, showing result of getting smashed (8)

5 Trade in copper — order placed by good man (6) 9

A daughter gets choice in child-rearing arrangement (8) 10 Get into bar tipsily with no end of uproar (6)

11 Portrait of idiot with crack (3,4)

12 Brazen curse-word putting out small worker (7)

13 Surprisingly ranked rapid transport system (4-3-4)

16 Supporting case, say (3,8) 21 Biro duo misplaced in private room (7)

22 Fortune rejected by family around English novelist (7)

23 Send earrings in part to get valued (6)

24 Start trouble after beginning of business run illegally? (4,4)

25 Child longing to return for some offal (6)

26 Vessel covering river showing flag in the wind (8)

DOWN

1 Support on royal ship for composer (6) 2 Adequate time for lunch overturned?

I’m horrified! (6)

3 Relish plan to eject son out of bed (7)

4 One whose contribution to life lacks recognition? (5,6)

6 Dress down at college bar untidily — I would (7)

7 Note a sailing haunt banning new liqueur (3,5)

8 Minute on street regarding line to see old musician (8) 12 Stint bursar arranged for set of experts (6,5)

14 Old fines reportedly stop car making delivery (3,5)

15 Fundamentally instructed to be confined to one’s room (8)

17 Recent arrival working to be accepted by a teen that’s spoilt (7)

18 Solar phenomenon in east twice encircling docks (7)

19 Win over duke is supported by half of fleet (6)

20 One seeking haul from bank? (6)