CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Compiled offers seen in cards date hands out (7,5)

9 Traditional institution that’s taken in the PM (4,3)

10 Condemn daughter and Romeo getting admission to elope at sea (7)

11 Seen in drink, swimmer in distress (5,2)

12 Present for each group of

students … (7) 13 … some students possessing nothing, with yen to make cash (5)

14 Speech from minister before one goes to the dispatch box? (4,5)

16 Actors’ private parts (9)

19 Part of building left to enter flipping opposite part of building! (5)

21 Survive old pirate’s sword with edges eroded by time (7)

23 Manic crashes involving one second-class vehicle (7)

24 What stops listener or two keeping quiet? (7)

25 Man maybe missing son after joining army, so warlike (7)

26 Display with seals clapping should follow these (4-8)

DOWN

1 Cut by this person good plait is botched – as this (7)

2 Hack meets the French outsiders in Romandy – it’s usual to dine with them (7)

3 Nearly all clap ape surprisingly singing like this? (1,8)

4 Turn out object, getting promoted (3,2)

5 Leader of rising theatre in European city (7)

6 One watches Waterloo KO Uttoxeter, missing part of it (7)

7 One gives inside info of Cockney three-piece on phone (7-6)

8 Say, Fagin and Artful appearing in not so successful musical (3,10)

15 Small sides in vessel (9)

17 Regularly avoided coast’s air or

she would get kind of cold (7)

18 Bird’s down (7)

19 Delicacy that’s unlimited if in Essex (7)

20 Beautiful things Tolkien characters must carry concealed (7)

22 Strained, pickled, sealed (5)