Across
8
Nothing accomplished, sweetheart (5,3)
9
Lotharios in capital thus repulsed (6)
10
Supporter also arranged invitation to form partnership (8)
11
Performing ultimate check for beginning family (6)
12
Awfully vain romantic, I’m embracing love – my credo? (4,6,5)
15
Organizers of striking wedding (5)
16
She traverses isle from sound, part of Hebrides (5)
20
Amused text about meat stuffed with chestnuts, we hear – see above (4,8,3)
21
Poet having sex with wayward girl (6)
23
At home, looked after future spouse (8)
25
Places for emotions and male skills combined in suit (6)
26
Translated by English, a certain gem (8)
Down
1
Kind of contract that’s behind? On the contrary (2-5)
2
European politician, in a recent upset, abstaining (10)
3
Courts using first of wedding rings, then second (4)
4
Not a single state for monarch I’d secure (7)
5
Medic initially got in a sensible person operating in theatre (10)
6
Overturned sentence and let out (4)
7
Libra in strange motion made visible by satellite (7)
13
I do zilch about ultimate destructive critic (10)
14
Confused state about old beauty and new chic (10)
17
Reasons it’s held up by positional changes (7)
18
20% of large delivery put in filthy place, not seeing straight (7)
19
Briskly scored a half-century, then left – for instance, run out (7)
22
Stabilizing influence in wild orgy (4)
24
In no-win situation, hitched (4)