CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No. 16,233

ACROSS

6 Angry airport head confiscating member’s message (14) 9 Barrier surrounds Middle East cell (6) 10 Tense parents disrupted part of church (8) 11 Supporter did well to defend stylish back at first (8) 13 It’s getting warmer — 1°C each century principally, apparently (3,3) 15 Habit of stripping or vice versa (6) 17 Gym contains English books and large smooth stone (6) 19 Cast rally round about stars (6) 20 They’re seen in court disputing gripes about women’s group (8) 22 Salt fills empty shellfish (8) 24 Allow for each U.S. institute (6) 26 David covets ale when drunk — he likes stirring it (6,8)

DOWN

1 Pause to relax on entering swimming pool with Anglicans (9,5) 2 Woodcutter’s commercials on radio (4) 3 Settler in Cape brings in large old jacket (6) 4 Resident possessing, for instance, less than nothing (8) 5 Rising interest rates squeeze faculty (4) 7 European gathers up treasure (6) 8 Old man bags top-class genuine ground within a country (5,3,6) 12 Bill’s admitted to Northern Irish pits (5) 14 English bishop visits humble joint (5) 16 Blunder on leaving semicolons in the wrong positions (8) 18 Cast about to fill small person’s home (6) 21 Hawk perhaps unsettles parrot (6) 23 Crime genre’s somewhat histrionic on reflection (4) 25 Right propeller’s loud noise (4)