Tuesday 12 May

Across

1 Row about newspaper backing Panama? (6) 4 Silly positions must be rejected – I would (6) 9 Exploit flyer with imperfect tenses to get personal benefit (7,4,4) 10 Bowler may be here to give evidence (6) 11 Proprietor with joiner in funny comeback (8) 12 Nightcap on vacation during jovial preparatory celebration (3,5) 14 John is one outwardly for hire (6) 15 First couple of letters dispatched, so not here (6) 18 Sounds like Bath perhaps being in short supply (8) 21 Settle where stated in Oxford or Derby (8) 22 Learnt to play the horn (6) 24 Best in everything for big Brits (3,3,2,3,4) 25 Ease with which judge accepts falsehood (6) 26 Stick poster, but not over there! (6)

Down

1 From Goethe, a tremendous play enacted here (7) 2/5 I then took odds on twenty in order to get hitched (2,3,3,4) 3 One chooses shock treatment in role reversal (7) 6 Palestine suffering sanctions (9) 7 Want to start eating potato (7) 8 Disparate motel with a twist in the tail? End of story! (6) 13 Fill up ten forms, that’s more than enough (9) 16 Relative souper? (7) 17 Prepared letters of support (7) 18 First and last to arrive can generate conflict (6) 19 Embarrassed to display university degree in an outhouse (7) 20 Cute name that is for a youngster (7) 23 Finally enrol in crash diet mañana, got that, but not tomorrow (5)