March 2005 - Standard 15 x 15 Grid Cryptic

Clues - Across

1. Goddess keeping a group of musicians endlessly enthralled in
dance (8)
6. Cosmetic making inmate turn coloured (6)
9. Like singers in a Greek play, or in a stylish production (6)
10. 'They dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with
a *** spoon' (Lear) (8)
11. Shakespearean character, a poet leading the first of old
Lear's petty hecklers (8)
12. Feed leaders of school in lunch period (6)
13. Cricket follower? (12)
16. Harrowing tendency visible in trial (5-7)
19. Kelly, the painter of family groups (6)
21. Seedsmen revolutionise the estates (8)
23. Holiday present for an archbishop (8)
24. It's poetic to chase the sea nymph (6)
25. French leaders disappearing in the excitement? Me - I'll
digest things (6)
26. Type of calf could be a god (8)

Clues - Down

2. Animal remains at head of the retreat (6)
3. Little notice is taken about anger shown in public (5)
4. Non-stop commercial flight? (9)
5. He's a poor actor who accepts female support (7)
6. Goes boating for kicks (5)
7. Top beetle? (9)
8. Praise English record one established in employment (8)
13. Home invested in prematurely but with sincerity (9)
14. Flimsy reason, say, for a Wagnerian theme (9)
15. Set way to raise dough at length (8)
17. "Free to come out tonight?" Daughter's answer - get knotted!
(7)
18. Being in the Legionnaires, is trained to fight (6)
20. A girl one left on the rocks (5)
22. Hank goes to hide out East (5)