CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 County council, say, puts writer in place (5,9) 9 Good to frighten bandit (6) 10 Into real cooking with this cuisine? (8) 11 Annoyingly loud dentist fiddled with end of molar (8) 13 Opportunity for brief visit (4-2) 15 Measures in line for light study (6) 17 Nothing turned over in crazy dig, wasting time (6) 19 Refrain from kirsch or usquebaugh (6) 20 Indescribable sort of meal in Cape (8) 22 Extraordinary, a Roman dancing in British Library (8) 24 Formal ceremony involving union in trial run (6) 26 Old job centre left a boxer mad, round the bend with money (6,8)

DOWN

1 A Cuba polo shirt may create fear of confinement (14) 2 No heart in Murrayfield

meeting for froth (4) 3 Long in Ayr to pierce iron rim that projects (6) 4 Warbled hugging

husband, excited (8) 5 Smile — King George’s

at home (4) 7 German equivalents

to a sub manoeuvring (1-5) 8 Exchanging spacious cars for commercial zones (7,7) 12 Hinterland straddles Bury (5) 14 Meandering Loire seen in bay window (5) 16 Wool — her’s came all tangled (8) 18 Picked times to have flu injection for mass arrival (6) 21 Rash to swim between banks of Mersey — it’s boggy (6) 23 Orchestra leader probes honour for his colleague (4) 25 Sherman typically appears in Stan Kenton’s band (4)