Cryptic Crossword May 2024

Across

1 Apostle’s joint doctrine (12)

8 Start where actors perform (5)

9 Rescue former lover and Conservative in strange attire (9)

11 Most gloomy Greek feature by the way (7)

12 Train me mending old clothes (7)

13 Lassie endlessly disentangled fibre (5)

14 Joseph’s fish go in afterwards (9)

17 European Calvin eg becoming Protestant (9)

  19 Identical items by one man or another (5) 

20 The foreign veto on the country (7)

  23 Form of Buddhism exercised by Sam and Liam (7)

  24 Regain control, say (9) 

25 Australian barley seed (5) 

26 Everybody having 24 hours including those who are virtuous at beginning of month (3,6,3)

Down

1 A spy spied confounded indigestion (9)

  2 Dame Edith to take her seat before spring (7)

  3 There is no distinction between such items (9) 

4 Both sides took in food afterwards (5) 

5 One who successfully commits this crime cannot be convicted (7)

  6 Picture one wise man (5)

  7 Zealous Puritan isn’t cool with reader of lesson in church (3,9) 

10 See head of it installed at it (12)

  15 Remember about prayer (9)

  16 Terence found one rocky height in large tract of land (9) 

18 Seeing about including second or first book (7)

  19 Supply group with something to put round one’s sleeve (7)

21 Fish from black stream (5)

  22 Mess revealed by Fiona, a fieldworker (5)