Times Cryptic #27169

2018-10-15

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Across

1a

Good girl we're told deciding it's an unfair obstacle (5,7)

9a

Greek festival inspires kingit's something in the atmosphere (5)

10a

Musical style it's rude to sing (9)

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11a

The cloth sample on skimpy garments (8)

12a

Leave the neighbouring housing compound (6)

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13a

Investigator on the booze (8)

15a

Heavy drinks bottles heading for tavern (6)

17a

Reduce by cooking in two months (6)

18a

Flatter, or fairly flat? (8)

20a

Prickly Scandinavian hero content to leave Norway (6)

21a

Sordid party game (8)

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24a

View short camera shot, in which a lot is crooked? (5,4)

25a

Fiddle one misplaced? There it is! (5)

26a

Christian book favouring giving up almost everything (12)

Down

1d

What may qualify school to provide set of rules (7)

2d

Front of chest in great pain, so could be this? (6,8)

3d

Passage south across the Atlantic (5)

4d

Got on vessel in eastern sea (8)

5d

Flamboyant old Law Lord entertains (4)

6d

New wig and thong, kinky bedroom gear (9)

7d

Invalid with a nature that's sickly? (14)

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8d

Get promoted in a post broadcasting (6)

14d

Trained to run race, his performance is telling (9)

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16d

They could hack off Conservative Brexiteers (8)

17d

Didn't like touring Croatia's capital, back in Split (6)

19d

Item for traveller knocking on mansion walls (7)

22d

Brief verse in French mostly useless (5)

23d

Demonstrate putting away hot alcoholic drink (4)