The Herald crosswords

ACROSS

5 Awareness of pipe and cornet playing (10)

7 Element of some jazz in clarinettist (4)

10 Caught in cloudburst, needing key to close up (7)

11 New kit, let’s knock down (7) 12 Elaborate Dior design in glowing coal (9)

14 Herb’s occasion, we hear (5) 15 Barely in time to craftily steal that record (2,3,4,6)

18 Changes point from which tide turns (5)

20 Time lost cultivating European plant (9)

22 Poles in error get letter for the Greeks (7)

23 In their turmoil get a bequest (7) 25 Maintain part of a castle (4) 26 Quiet allusion proves the better choice (10)

DOWN

1 Critical remark made by reliable type with racket (8)

2 Computer options, pieces for all to see (4)

3 Rod’s making trip to spar (8) 4 Victory attempt cold and frosty (6)

5 Ship’s area for dance, dance eked out (9,4)

6 Border flower material (5)

8 Men met, cheered about drink (5,2,6)

9 Big blow, one arrested by flawed hearing (8)

13 Lovers do wriggle when hyped! (8)

16 Marina danced with marine with upper limbs interlocked (3,2,3) 17 Speaking, speaking indistinctly, losing head (8)

19 Distributes thin papers with no heading (6)

21 Travel in winter with very strong boat (5)

24 Place rosemary, perhaps, in another basket (4)

ACROSS

1 Manufacture too many (11)

9 Cause a fuss (3,2) 10 Political leader (7) 11 Symbol of quantity (7) 12 Lamb’s parent (5)

13 Form of pacifism (3-10) 16 Saudi hadj city (5)

18 Bet win and place (4-3) 20 Different (7)

21 Vast water mass (5) 22 Fashion guru, style icon (11)

DOWN

2 Essential nutrient (7) 3 More mature (5) 4 Distasteful quality (13) 5 Recessed (eyes) (4-3) 6 Bell sound (5) 7 Ungrudging (11)

8 Predicting (11) 14 Avoidance (7) 15 Unplaced (7) 17 Single seat (5) 19 Cuff (5)