Across
- 3. Take on board again unfinished wine sailors eye (8)
- 8. Fame derived from imperial position by reshuffle at top (7)
- 15. See manager using spanner, note, prior to current workplace (10)
- 17. French rebuff lie about odd parts of their laissez-faire policy (3-12)
- 19. Indigenous people from area in eastern part of Honshu (4)
- 20. Following success in theatre turned up to watch very famous dancer (7)
- 22. Part-time physician losing a third set (4)
- 23. Abandon a book half-read after half one month or another (6)
- 24. Top religious school in East with missing head (6)
- 25. Our existing declaration limited cricket side – lose, in effect (4,3)
Down
- 1. Old-fashioned part of word that may be extracted by certain solvers (6,4)
- 2. Statesman presenting one unfortunate king's identity the wrong way (8)
- 4. Loose-limbed fellows lately losing heart, as extra medicine is taken (15)
- 5. Dutch settler caging cross dog (5)
- 6. Experienced judge required trip to holy place (4)
- 7. Cleaner worked – apart from four to nine – had job in office (7)
- 9. Stated amounts of liquid that can be found in minerals (6)
- 10. Seeking explanation for not just any old revolt (10)
- 11. Word used comparatively often before vote, short expression of appreciation (5)
- 12. Deny d*** constitutes an oath (7)
- 13. Organs recurring in a service vicar's organised (7)
- 14. Cricket side at Oval smoothly added to score (6)
- 16. Child's complaint over silly hat in particular? Just the reverse (8)
- 18. Go into hospital in stole – it gets attached to stretcher (10)
- 21. Assessed intelligence about part of army in foreign country (4)
- 26. Men committed to union securing new funds (8)
