Across
1 Novel that’s winning (10)
6 So shut up (4)
9 Put out novel, Daisy’s Fist (10)
10 Spoken of the country? Not once (4)
12 Book where one more duty laid out? (11)
15 Primarily, some uncanny carnal creatures undertaking bedroom incursions? (7)
16 Twice king and I eat, on time for expedition (3-4)
17 Commissions whereby queen’s collecting money in S Africa (7)
19 Old desire with eagerness cut short (4-3)
20 Pope with explanatory note for piece of Apocrypha...? (5,6)
23 Headgear, uniform back-to-front in western state (4)
24 Set apart, gutted, they bypass study (2,3,5)
25 Some dilly-dallying reactionary peer (4)
26 Listen up: Everyman’s in peril, sad, quivering (4,2,4)
Dow n
1 Puts cushions in frogs’ homes (4)
2 Groomsmen regularly downed wine (4)
3 Going to disturb nun during nap (2,3,7)
4 Ferociously, ambitiously, a boy strangely wanting encouragement (7)
5 Ill – almost ill – it’s when there’s less activity (3-4)
7 Drunk chairman’s admitted love for noises in Dylan records (10)
8 Loins dimly aroused by position (5,3-2)
11 Unprincipled, odd, tiny and drawn out (4-3-5)
13 Since university, gets into reading? Typical (2,3,5)
14 20 to go on here? (10)
18 Cover that woman to keep warmth in (7)
19 Drained and percolated audibly (7)
21 Bit of tsarina’s dress (4)
22 Reportedly ‘breaks down stains’ (4)
