Across
1 Affording great opportunities, musical wealthy businessmen produced (3,4)
5 . . . we also back cowboy film (7)
9 Talk about conclusion to bizarre con (5)
10 Dark planet that is seen around noon (9)
11 Play a ragtime piece (3,11)
13 Female film stars bringing agents (7)
15 Distinguished conductor from Rome sat nervously (7)
16 Reportedly catch a bacterial disease (7)
18 Article used in part exchange rated badly at one’s place of businesses (5-2)
20 A second teaches differently, perhaps, depending on the particular circumstances (2,3,4,3,2)
23 Strip of land shot in pale sun (9)
24 Not together in a district (5)
25 Actress, after having stitch in side, returned (3,4)
26 Land in Preston I acquired (7)
Down
1 View of expert opposite (4,2,4)
2 Article on extremely miserable topic (5)
3 Against carrying on – old Shakespearean merchant (7)
4 Where money may be held in cliffhanging tale? (8,7)
5 And the enemy bombed seaport sooner than expected (4,4,2,5)
6 Short game fish (7)
7 Repent wildly about glacier where maximum damage may occur (9)
8 Born and died in poverty (4)
12 House plant in a pot I set out (10)
14 Is working within to copy enamelware (9)
17 Add to first of eggs? Hen can, conceivably (7)
19 Stinging insect moving many in painting (4,3)
21 Long story about last in clubhouse (5)
22 Brought up plans for junk mail (4)
