No 2794, Sunday 08 Jun 2014

ACROSS
1   Particular house, inside warm and snug (6) CHOOSY {C{HO}OSY}
4   Approaching fast in mini, men crashed by front of tavern (8) IMMINENT {MINI+MEN}*{T}
10 Funny series on radio? Poor audition cost me dearly, ultimately (9,6) SITUATION COMEDY {SITUATION COMED}*{Y}
11 I am no tall fizzy party drink (11) AMONTILLADO {I+AM+NO+TALL}*{DO}
12 Section of curve in semicircular channel (3) ARC [T]
14 Old record with new inset showing pop group's manager (7) EPSTEIN {EP}{INSET*}
16 A disinclination to act in opening of Educating Rita, possibly (7) INERTIA {IN}{E}{RITA*}
17 Spots, while talking, a town on the Thames (7) STAINES (~stains)
19 Working with improved remit, deservedly so (2,5) ON MERIT {ON} {TIMER*}
21 Circuit friend recalled (3) LAP <=
22 Gradual damage caused by Durham river trade, staggering article covered (4,3,4) WEAR AND TEAR {WEAR} {AN}{D TEAR*}
24 Come out? Some who went here may have done so afterwards (9,6) FINISHING SCHOOL [CD]
25 Russell, perhaps - Russell, perhaps squeezing 'er tight, initially (8) BERTRAND {B{'ER}{T}RAND}
26 Charge exorbitantly for wool (6) FLEECE [DD]

DOWN
1   Spent LSD close to a Spanish region (5,3,3) COSTA DEL SOL*
2   Better in bloom, ahead of function (5) OUTDO {OUT}{DO}
3   Establish colony around a US port (7) SEATTLE {SE{A}TTLE}
5   Bureaucrat, and row about round fruit! (8,6) MANDARIN ORANGE {MANDARIN}{O}{RANGE}

6   A metal may be extracted from it - there's iridium and gold in one (4,3) IRON ORE {IR}{ON {OR}E}
7   Girl given support from then on, till the end of time (4,5) EVER AFTER {EVE}{R AFTER}
8   Dostoyevsky's play? (3) TOY [T]
9   Where juice may be obtained, satisfying Victoria in central London? (7,7) FILLING STATION {FILLING} {STATION}
13 Cultivated, hence taller mushroom (11) CHANTERELLE*

15 Being clearer about New England, one may make a point (9) SHARPENER {SHARPE{NE}R}
18 Still in ignorance, at the present time, over planned rise (2,5) NO WISER {NO W}{RISE*}
20 Examination claimed to be fixed (7) MEDICAL*
23 Call up? That's all right during the night before a festival (5) EVOKE {EV{OK}E}
24 Francs alumnus got out of pocket (3) FOB {F}{OB}