Across
8
Arguably an excess of emotion when cataloguing bug? (8)
10
Beautiful message by 22 down – for her character (4,7)
11
Roman copper coin, a rare fake featuring head of Balbinus (10)
12
22 down character remains attached to English lord in senselessly joining club (6,8)
14
Game pie calls for dried fruit (8)
15
Comedic theatre where amusing hosts made merry (7)
17
Foot carrying cut, very anxious (7)
20
On the rack – in italics? (8)
22
One that’s correct, though not entirely sharp (6)
23
LS’s extra dining room? (6,4)
24
Drunkard, sweating, dropping time and time again in London area (4)
25
Greenfly for example with love for green stuff (5)
26
Mesmerising guru, one accompanying Scandinavian lass (8)
Down
1
Part of fish, large on threshing shark (8)
2
Mark eyed in first year (4)
3
Seller of food that’s less appetising, we hear? (6)
5
22 down character personifies a despicable pleb loather (8,6)
6
For example, Fitzgerald’s behind sacrifice, 22 down character (5,5)
7
22 down’s Mr. Collins, say, cut from poem and caught (6)
13
Book contains three-fifths of tales untold (10)
18
In speech, 22 down character’s noble (8)
19
Bad day punctuating a creative work (7)
22
Author, ‘X’ from Oz? (6)
24
Long narrative, a talk written up (4)