CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,833

ACROSS

6 Salad plant, most of it under water (7,7)

9 Increase vineyard one’s acquired (6)

10 Institution where others need treatment, more or less (4,4)

11 Detective’s left absorbing earl’s unease (8)

13 At home, attempt to bring in a documentholder (2-4)

15 Top mixed doubles doesn’t start (6)

17 Aperitif for each retiring lecturer (6)

19 Alto trained to breathe in, say, smoothly (6)

20 Tutor’s time in Ecuador ruined (8)

22 Don’t use narrow track for specialised aircraft (3-5)

24 Pauline managed without a dress (4,2)

26 Product of Corsican greed? I’m taken in, ousting Charlie (9,5)

DOWN

1 Lap on white horse requires current safety device (7,7)

2 Expensive German article impresses American (4)

3 Arab enemy ruined island (6)

4 Struggling piper’s about to expel bodily fluid (8)

5 Long Italian church (4)

7 Turn round complicated tragedy, killing off duke (6)

8 Order rarely lifted about posh housing for astronauts (7,7)

12 Share just over half the estimated price (5)

14 Archipelago’s not given up Georgia (5)

16 A viola’s played to welcome king in state (8)

18 Withdraw what’s held by precedent (6)

21 Open one European section of canal (6)

23 Trojan king gutted first carriage (4)

25 Arrest group of civilians heading north (4)