CRYPTIC 320

ACROSS

1 The cable says that he’s at war (6)

8 He gets to a way-out planet and finds a thickskinned inhabitant there (8)

9 What it cost me to employ Hale-Bopp and Company (6)

10 Materially speaking it’s for a party set (8)

11 He’s all at sea usually (6)

13 Concern that extra money may be forthcoming (8)

16 Opposed by the editor and his sister (8)

19 Dad sees a god in an Eastern temple (6)

22 Cooling and off to go dancing (8)

24 Such lines have nothing but hurt in them (6)

25 Able to respond to Vera and cite the result (8)

26 Method employed in busy stemcell research (6)

DOWN

2 Such a romantic fragrance with it (5)

3 How water holes are apt to grow in bulk (5)

4 Use more stricter measures to find how to confine them (8)

5 Look slyly in both directions (4)

6 A milder drink to pursue? (6)

7 Point to your nostrils and things that are catching (6)

12 I risk it for a single flower (4)

14 Pleads to become frogs of the future (8)

15 Therefore Her Majesty has to leave (4)

17 There are times when the queen will dispose of the unwanted (6)

18 Charge! (6)

20 Gee! Those snakes! Really catches one’s breath (5)

21 The doctor sees this one as a real B... (5)

23 Likely to be hammered (4)