FRIDAY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Cringe maybe as a cricketing failure (4)

3 Disorderly males in bus that cannot be overlooked (10)

9 Good antique? It’s very valuable (4)

10 Like relatively cheaper goods not considered (10)

11 Equipment carried by wicked English group (7)

13 Descended from mountain maybe and became depressed (3,4)

14 What’s patriot done wrong to become exile? (11)

18 Pilgrim’s passage, very short, a road so fouled up with oil (3,8)

21 Gem fairy’s presented to Dorothy (7)

22 Sword inflicted wound on girl (7)

23 Appealed to umpire – not out! – start of debate thereafter (10)

24 From what we hear, disease was airborne (4)

25 Over-scrupulous activity of school nurse? (3-7)

26 Children’s game is quiet before end of party (1-3)

Down

1 Menial worker torments organisation (8)

2 Manage to include everybody and one could be an inspiration for poets (8)

4 Uproar is interrupting one terribly (5)

5 Belonging to firm, idiot in journey is hiding identity (9)

6 Excluding from building in street, home with disease (8,3)

7 Cigarette end on bit of the mattress? (6)

8 Posting the first bit out and the last (6)

12 Succeed for the first time, having cried desperately for so long (11)

15 One wild young fellow easily made money (1,4,4)

16 Work set up on benches, drinks being provided (8)

17 Perish, taking a route south of col (4,4)

19 Possibility of non-parents taking caring role with a daughter not wanted (6)

20 A sort of hollow – pram is awkward going over it (6)

22 Cold meat must be hygienic (5)