CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Snout reported in prison public

fully recognises (5,6,3)

9 Racing vehicle in church, a fun

event (7)

10 For all to see in message,

father’s blunder (4,3)

11 Vessel heading off later (4)

12 Scientific tool that’s rewritten

comic prose (10)

14 Injure head in smacking roughly

against article (6)

15 Execute bishop, second person

snared by queen, maybe (5,3)

17 Woolly garment’s stain turned

water hazy (8)

18 Male in the morning penning antelope in oversize container (6)

21 Clerics a Yankee has converted

on coral island (10)

22 Following cross, where ball

would be for goal? (4)

24 Drugs work, I answer group in

review (7)

25 Fine ale around that is gift (7)

26 Hostility if elder nuns sin all

over the place (14)

DOWN

1 Maybe footballers close to promotion skipped in underwear (7)

2 Virtual assistant: 60 secs

engaged in speech test (4,11)

3 Overturning alcoholic drink is

mistake (4)

4 Bonehead in IT withholds

screens (6)

5 Vile reason an earl regularly

stripped (8) 6 Horse-rider requests trial, one

totally unlimited (10)

7 No-one can rule pub out, it’s

impossible to say (15)

8 Yield when discharged (6)

13 Exhibitionist who’s

tailored hat (10)

16 City’s chapter gathering both

sides in part of church (8)

17 Kelvin casual, playing horn (6)

19 Relatives married, not me (7)

20 Irritated chap cut short FBI

agent (6)

23 Rogue content in spiked

headwear (4)