Times Cryptic #28066

2021-08-26

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Across

1a

It's another place to peer, for example (5,2,7)

9a

Desperate stand by dump (4-5)

10a

Sponsor a northern set (5)

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11a

X marks this first in English, zero in the three Rs (5)

12a

Immaculate story about extremely lousy trifle (4-5)

13a

Kind acts somehow filling familiar role (8)

15a

Graduates collect ten grand for green fuel (6)

17a

Sign a posh wig should be returned by end of day (6)

19a

Time fitted in to brush each scented plant (5,3)

22a

Despicable type's excessively large growth capped (9)

23a

One's present part of course entertains Poles (5)

24a

Oxford college or one the Spanish added (5)

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25a

Staunch Arab, back installing a place for sweaters (5,4)

26a

Corpulent sags I reconstructed? (7,7)

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Down

1d

Smug head office tour in health resort (6-4-4)

2d

Release Blue Berets with roles on way north (7)

3d

It grows down river in Germany (5)

4d

Big boxer stumped believer in Murphy's Law? (8)

5d

Delayed using horse past its best? (2,4)

6d

Base trickery takes in husband for now (9)

7d

Annoying hack working, missing nothing (7)

8d

Attlee's and Mr Eden's revised appropriate appellation? (5,9)

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14d

Temperature aside, glass is protecting hot young flyer (9)

16d

What occupant of 25 does, with mixture in vessel (8)

18d

Baltic golf learners welcoming a bunch of spies (7)

20d

Two features in green type of camera (7)

21d

A snooty sort erected current plant (6)

23d

Perhaps watch sphere from the south (5)