Across
1 … deductions processed? (10)
6 Quiet commercial for fish (4)
9 Try facial hair, leading to sorrows (10)
10 Insect which, when knocked back, leaves aftertaste (4)
11 Startled Finance with memo describing Director: that’s a little novel (2,4,3,3)
15 Wreathes unopened, rearranged for source of wood (3,4)
16 Flirtatious: like a pleasing crossword clue? (7)
17 Alert! Debt changing hands two out of three times (3,4)
19 Recorded match on the radio, leading to … beef? (3,4)
20 Get some scoff there, Cordelia – with no one knowing (3,3,6)
23 Buffoon’s regularly seen ‘ETs’ vehicles’ (4)
24 Absent-minded father of the bride might be this shocked (10)
25 Add powder. Remove powder (4)
26 Pop perhaps wanting a bit of waffle (6,4)
Down
1 Author often adjacent to Rice? (4)
2 Rise, being angry (audibly) (4)
3 Rebuilt hut, barefoot and panting (3,2,6)
4 Normally involving: capers; olives (if stoned); eggs – primarily? (7)
5 Perhaps lead with a small amount(7)
7 Patriarch and ma identified, in some measure, source of help (10)
8 Fruit coming at last, it seems, for romantic evenings (4,6)
12 Tattered, leathern and characteristic of bygone era (11)
13 Cold gâteau spread on a roll (10)
14 Healthy eating, eg fried onion rings and donuts, did you say? (5,5)
18 Collapse, having lost heart after second misgiving (7)
19 Rows – in a predecessor of tennis? (7)
21 Fictional Captain seeing augury ascending (4)
22 ‘Cast-off folksy Everyman’ – Editor (4)
Solution no. 3304
