Across
1 Keen on board to win lottery (10)
6 Work in shop, usefully (4)
9 Tear in top worker’s trousers (5,5)
11 Very nearly, or very wellbehaved? (2,4,2,4)
15 A Conservative declaration gets praise (7)
16 Nursed a poorly ballerina’s partner (7)
17 Warning card (7)
19 A bridge hand easy to play? No, a pal and I suspect (7)
20 Something more noticeable smeared on garage exit (12)
23 Become a member of nightclub, briefly (4)
24 Director coming from Japan’s capital via Mysore, possibly (5,5)
25 Ring gang (4)
26 Singer in study accepting a short drink (4,6)
|
Down
1 Rifle fire (4)
2 Face of estate agent’s watch (4)
3 Careful, father at home betting (11)
4 Small restaurant with rent the reverse of low (3,4)
5 Girl starts to delve into digest used for cricket (7)
7 Start to pillory female on about flipping Captain Marvel? (10)
8 Shriek catching a boy dressing (5,5)
12 As a con man it worked, in a city near LA (5,6)
13 Axe 14 in severe reduction (7,3)
14 Calling for the seizure and control of a foreign territory (10)
18 Sporting rare tan, recount events (7)
19 Glib talk by northern model (7)
21 Did battle, reportedly, in citadel (4)
22 Girl from Brooklyn neighbourhood (4)
|