Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
6 Don’t give up hope! Somehow Ireland ends up with money (3,11)
9 Lampoon odd characters in
stern party (4,2)
10 Universal wind complaint
tackled at hospital (8)
11 Contrary work by U.S. author
involving model (8)
13 Sort of flue around middle of
liner, new (6)
15 Small bomb crudely taped
over back of door (6)
17 Fires engulf large bags (6)
19 Depressed, I leave cold house
— what a surprise! (6)
20 Sun screen you brought to Marbella, sadly not Austria (8)
22 Celebrities’ joint enterprise?
(8)
24 Everyone mostly disappeared outside for a few pints (6)
26 Management isn’t unfortunately held in high regard (14)
DOWN
1 Wild deer put up with land round Ohio with few people around (14)
2 Student given food, housed,
ran away (4)
3 Ambiguous answers here given by group in Philadelphia (6)
4 Tense girl, mostly drunk, is
honest (8)
5 ‘In for a penny, in for a pound’
twice traps this dope (4)
7 What snooker players do is
appropriate (6)
8 Dive for all? It offers every sort
of turn (9,5)
12 Top posh Dublin politician occupies middle of room (5)
14 In Berlin, I checked corner of
market (5)
16 Non-stop, Rhys and Mitch
played with steady beat (8)
18 Yield was disturbing after
parts were swapped (6)
21 Carry over goods for vagrant
(6)
23 Storyteller raised bar (4)
25 Boy pinched current set (4)