1 across. Cheers one who’d expect to be paid to be an MP? 6 letters.
5 across. Light material suffering more snags if not new. 8 letters.
9 across. Safe getting hot as Venus in the Louvre. 8 letters.
10 across. Official Aussie pick-up counter. 6 letters.
11 across. Putting two lots of uranium into affected corpuscles is dim! 12 letters.
13 across. Marine fish in abandoned clay. 4 letters.
14 across. Oval’s pitch initially breaking up till ice melted. 8 letters.
17 across. Opera section with city situation. 8 letters.
18 across. Frame in which beauty pageant winner appears? 4 letters.
20 across. A fibre carpet used to make flatpack kit, say. 12 letters.
23 across. Wow, performing with a cigar! 6 letters.
24 across. Very into fancy lingerie but right off sweet-talk. 8 letters.
25 across. Expert: ‘Nessie is mostly brass’. 8 letters.
26 across. Cat circling a rocking lead vocalist’s equipment. 6 letters.
