Daily Mail Cryptic #16263

2020-03-03

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Across

6a

Red card issued to departing troops? (8,6)

9a

Board recruits college physicist (6)

10a

Writer, for example, lives in English Street (8)

11a

Sack everyone including British bundle of energy (8)

13a

Payment to release Romans out of order (6)

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15a

Tiny orderly brings in 500 litres (6)

17a

SW resort tries to dispense with rubbish initially (2,4)

19a

Ejects two Americans tackling standard English (6)

20a

Sort of tirade involving one bishop? Could be (8)

22a

Lofty’s form of address? (8)

24a

Hard to see American quitting post in Depression (6)

26a

Put down story that should generate some interest (7,7)

Down

1d

Long tract? Illness meant it had to be amended (5,9)

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2d

Architect's flyer (4)

3d

Caught one throwing part of ballgame (6)

4d

Stays attached to this Cockney character one abandoned (8)

5d

Churn coloured back to front (4)

7d

Sewer that transmits sounds (6)

8d

Job inspires boy nervous about books (14)

12d

Church leader upset group of retired lecturers (5)

14d

Sailors turn up to rescue First Lady? No way (5)

16d

Record European tune from the south that's infectious (8)

18d

Postcodes, say, covering Black Sea port (6)

21d

Kidnap sailor on the tube (6)

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23d

Jump over ring such as this? (4)

25d

What Lions do to victim in loose scrum? (4)