CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Go off to get married in ceremony (4)

3 Blunder, tucking into regional cheese after the Spanish fruity wine? (10)

9 Some food’s outside (4) 10 Make too few runs, maybe creating stress (10) 11 Rotten decorator for cakes in general? (7)

13 Fought the French – dust’s settling around (7)

14 Fall for something old wives claim, talking butterfly (11) 18 Not admitted into church, as lacking foundation (11) 21 Design of paper or magazine cutting I twice rejected (7) 22 What health inspector seeks in hospital, eyeing rubbish (7) 23 Italian artist’s belt – coil it for sculpting (10) 24 Something for the home that’s welcome if retiring (2-2) 25 With Frenchman backing US soldier, chorus is electrifying (10)

26 Paste menu’s logo evenly over displays (4)

DOWN

1 Marine creature with compact power or elegance (8)

2 Won a farm for conversion and boat (3-2-3)

4 Solitary type of bank worker on the phone? (5) 5 Possible outcome of reading English with OK tutor (9) 6 Number one footballer being transferred? (11) 7 Character keeps climbing to ferret about (6)

8 Bond returns and admits defeat (6)

12 Devious computing (11) 15 Idiosyncrasy in variety of cakes wins (9)

16 Royal crimper, I also cut equally high and low (8) 17 Admitted to a seedy club, that chap’s 26 (8)

19 Repair shoe’s lump underfoot? (6)

20 Part of body being stroked occasionally (3,3) 22 Unveiled, she lent beauty to mythology (5)