CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Gamble on risk of cut of meat (7)

5. I leave chief to cook (4)

10. Excite forever, in part (3)

11. Tapir soon moves from rodent killer (3,6)

12. Acid on right is bitter (5)

13. Aussie opera singer Ms Melba is a nervous type? (6)

15. Dance to part of a record (6)

17. Part of the internet for trainee doctor (6)

18. Go wild on the French trip (3,3)

20. Seek answers holding up serpent (5)

23. Existing social order is to move out squats (6,3)

24. Remove top from rice and chill (3)

25. Looks to East, affirmative! (4) 26. He picks again, being hungry (7)

DOWN

2. Drive right to middle of waterway (5)

3. Drat, is a virus spread by famous violin maker (12)

4. Musician Sir John turns note on left (5)

6. Medical facility provides hot spice, no tea! (7)

7. Part of fish sounds Nordic! (4)

8. Call before court in a raring style (7)

9. Tumbling cattle on trains (7,5)

14. Took control of Anne the 10th and little Edward (7)

16. Finished, devoured and binged! (7)

19. Heard to peek at wound (5)

21. A young girl is wrong (5)

22. I’ll talk of Tasmania, for example (4)