CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Wipe out a hundred by waving lance (6)

8. Neither this nor reason to match it sound-wise? (5)

9. By which one is unaccompanied (7)

11. May be imprisoned in Nile dock (6,2)

12. Poetic lord depicted in a lullaby Ronsard wrote (5)

15. Make one cross river to Isle of France (4)

16. There’s a fool in every classroom (3)

17. This is the eye that will give one a wicked look (4)

19. Primarily, a duke is about right (5)

21. How did hip bar go wrong, according to early cinema? (8)

24. Is older form of a strip of toast (7)

25. In which a number may make up the full house (5)

26. Throughout the time of the French Wagner cycle (6)

Down

2. Any getting around of a negative will be displeasing to one (5)

3. The buyer who is always opposed to the left, they say (8)

4. An interval of quiet may soothe one (4)

5. It is applied to the slow-down (5)

6. Looked at the way they edited it, partly (4)

7. To be, if archaic, a runner perhaps (4)

10. One may be soundly aware of twelve-inch stairs (9)

12. Commit to the flames some water running in Scotland (4)

13. After a loss the rest may serve to jog one’s memory (8)

14. Such a machine as will accept one’s money (4)

18. Stable employee may be found waiting at the altar (5)

20. The wrong set joining the Navy, being all behind (5)

21. Infant got by, having taken in a rating (4)

22. Possesses things to wear that are topless (4)

23. Hang on to it and keep something back (4)