CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

6. Naughtier lads get fresh with my sons’ spouses (9-2-3)

9. I’d list altered to make gin

perhaps (6)

10. Head man in Warsaw’s a

tall thin person (8)

11. Celeb shoots sailor (4,4) 13. I finish securing central

section of simple loom (6) 15. Your old clothes and other things make you badtempered (6)

17. Fire tender hit after mov

ing right to the end (6)

19. Party that could be hard in

prison (6)

20. Suspect failed to spot

corrosion, so I hear (8)

22. Fan’s at home having left

field (8)

24. Discover deep sound (6) 26. It explains outcome of confusing protein with nitrate (14)

Down

1. Government isn’t involved

in commendation (14)

2. Expel judge who’s left

contest on horseback (4) 3. Talk about the French

Alpine house (6)

4. Writer, for example, lives

in English street (8)

5. Game arranged without

notice (4)

7. Get on European vessel

carrying doctor (6)

8. Exhausted girls went mad for contest with no holds barred (3-2,9)

12. Underground police run

out (5)

14. Childless person receives

fine game with stakes (5) 16. Dance on deck maybe,

using two instruments (8) 18. Before noon, peer disput

ed current measure (6) 21. Burn source of power

crossing river (6)

23. Rowing eight — and what they did after winning boat race? (4)

25. Post paper (4)