Friday 12 June

Across

1 Detectives so worried about a former data-storage platform (13) 10 Set of wooden bars cut between axes and whetstone (9) 11 Stout or beer seen regularly (5) 12 Cat bound to scratch head (5) 13 Elaborate cycling honour and ring cyclist maybe accepts (9) 14 Hesitant setter would back lines on article (7) 16 Energetic daughter splitting (7) 18 Confound what could be seen as negative? (7) 20 Peeling away front, disclose broken bone (7) 21 Very famous cricket side totally gutted, eleven runs in 24 hours (9) 23 Summons Pope intermittently filled out? (5) 24 Literary genre evident in podcaster’s Athenian letters (3-2) 25 Naughty kid is turning into fool, collapsing inwards (9) 26 In one sense, food flipped in hot fat remains revolutionary number one (5,1,7)

Down

2 Harpo pitches books around north London borough (9) 3 Some steeplejack’s climbing record (5) 4 I’m here to host two kings separately for cuisine (7) 5 Fostering environment created by dame and duke supporting diocese (7) 6 Chiefly moot ‘science’, for the most part blurry? (9) 7 With time, perhaps dock material (5) 8 Shoe tongue, one that’s a bit stiff? (6,7) 9 Poor girl almost regrets son going back (13) 15 Fragrant plant, say, a linnet damaged (9) 17 Having ditched ‘Mike’, coming into new assumed identity (9) 19 Dispelling onset of ennui, inspires rising energy (7) 20 Half of African country welcomes retiring setter’s large source of games? (7) 22 Composer lowering final note causes trouble (5) 23 Dog muck held up by child (5)