CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Obligation to hold record for second-in-command (6) 4 Believed to be purchased (6)

9 Adult is awfully wrong to get out of bed (5-2) 10 Dishearten daughter and another relative (5) 11 Reportedly look for religious person (4)

12 Uplift by dancing veleta with energy (7) 14 In Copenhagen cyclists’ bureau (6)

16 Shrewd manipulation of statue (6)

19 Continue to make a scene (5,2)

21 Leader of pack handled contents (4)

23 Hood for a bird (5)

24 Being tested in the dock? (2,5)

25 Some slate the reporter’s restraint (6) 26 England’s flow of capital (6) DOWN 1 Investigates accommodation (4) 2 Biographical sketch favouring female going to island area in France (7)

3 Fish pong when head’s removed (5)

5 Not even the head exhibits eccentricity (7)

6 A dog wandering round university finds the cheese (5) 7 Staggered by river mammal Ted caught (8) 8 Caper superseded odd parts (5)

13 Taxi turns up with weight of diamonds for card game (8)

15 Japanese money invested in source of sugar and spice (7)

17 I probe planet, after docking, with minute element (7) 18 Join up in forlorn expectation (5)

20 Deny dug up potato (5)

21 King to score on boat (5)

22 Mel’s damaged trees (4)