GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pudding where we’d expect to see tea, it’s said (6)
5 What some solicitors do on hearing a charge (6)
8 Lady from Lisbon hears no evil (7) 9 Most equable ladies regularly appearing in film (7)
11 Putting self-portrait on display, bashfully (7,4,4)
12 Skip university in pursuit of love (4) 13 Patriots withdrawing singular honour for Hollywood legend? (4,6) 17 French madame and monsieur have words before ceremony (10) 18 Boat from south Jersey or Guernsey? (4)
20 Gather where beaver’s seen and weather the storm (4,2,2,3,4) 23 Nurses treated current stabbing early in the day (7)
24 Sailor looking fatigued aboard, running back and forth (7) 25 Playwright once releasing book to be grabbed by males ready for casting? (6) 26 Judge from Spain comes across the wrong way (6)
DOWN
2 One furnishes capital home with more elaborate fencing (9)
3 Allude to trapping beast coming up from foreign parts (6)
4 Take out child, heading off after school on vacation (9) 5 Democrat moving in to make changes for promoters (5) 6 Merry monarch’s order for salad? (8) 7 Countryman to consider keeping wife and daughter apart (5) 8 Young peers happily sharing a mistress? (11)
10 Result of making mini bats for children’s game? (11)
14 Uneasy and unready to receive, getting out (3,2,4)
15 Careers madly round house for something to put shirt on? (9) 16 Breed of dog, one lean aggressive type (8)
19 Bird going up rubbish heap gets very little to eat (6)
21 Japanese art, complete with fine raised frame (5)
22 Eastern firm set up by an Indian, perhaps (5)